Jerome M Packard (6 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class. Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- Victoria's Daughters examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and passed over entirely when their brother Bertie ascended to the throne. Packard, an experienced biographer whose last book chronicled Victoria's final days, provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as scions of Europe's most influential dynasty, and daughters of their own very troubled times. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class. Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- Victoria's Daughters examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and passed over entirely when their brother Bertie ascended to the throne. Packard, an experienced biographer whose last book chronicled Victoria's final days, provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as scions of Europe's most influential dynasty, and daughters of their own very troubled times. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 79 No. 1. 186 p. + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Restructuring Isolation: Hospital Architecture, Medicine, and Disease Prevention, by Jeanne Kisacky; The Drug Industry and Clinical Research in Interwar America: Three Types of Physician Collaborator, by Nicolas Rasmussen; Please Include This in Your book: Readers Respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves, by Wendy Kline; Henry Sigerist and the History of Medicine in Latin America: His Correspondence with Juan R. Beltran, by Miguel de Asua.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 78 No. 3. Pages xiii, 540-766 + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: Venerate the Lancet: Benjamin Rush's Yellow Fever Therapy in Context, by Paul E. Kopperman; Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, by Paul Hackett; A Duty to Kill? A Duty to Die? Rethinking the Euthanasia Controversy of 1906, by Jacob M. Appel; Patterns of Municipal Health Expenditure in Interwar England and Wales, by Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, and John Stewart.…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. Volume 79 No. 4. Pages 628-877 + advertising. 23 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Includes: The Field H. Garrison Lecture: The Great American Medicine Show Revisited, by Nancy Tomes; Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America, by Carla Bittel; Personalizing Illness and Modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, Literary Women, and Neurasthenia, 1870-1914, by David G. Schuster; The Recognition of Silicosis: Labor Unions and Physicians in the Chilean Copper Industry, 1930s-1960s, by Angela Vergara; Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension, by Jeremy A. Greene.…