Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
History / Europe / Great Britain
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Cultivating Victory
The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement
By Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
Water and the Making of the Modern City
By John Broich
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts, and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. In London: Water and the Making of the Modern City, John Broich follows the politically charged and arduous task of bringing a municipal water supply to one of the world's most complex urban environments.
Social Welfare in Transition
Selected English Documents, 1834-1909
Edited By Roy Lubove
An analysis of three monumental documents in British social history, dating from 1834 through 1909, that views changing conceptions of poverty, the organization of welfare institutions, and the role of the state.
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History of the Urban Environment
Social Science / Women's Studies
History / United States / 20th Century
History / General
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply
Social Science / Sociology / General
John Broich
Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Roy Lubove
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