"Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains shows how women and mothers constructed citizens, and how public health entities usurped that

Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around

A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignor

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Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what