William Seale: 3 books

Book cover of The Imperial Season

The Imperial Season

America's Capital in the Time of the First Ambassadors, 1893-1918

by William Seale
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the international scene is populated with presidents, foreign diplomats, civil servants, architects, artists, and influential hosts and hostesses who were enamored of the idea of world power but had little idea of the responsibilities involved. Between...
Book cover of The Garden Club of America

The Garden Club of America

One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy

by William Seale
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United...
Book cover of Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall

Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa

by Susan Booysen, Gillian Godsell, Rekgotsofetse Chikane
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...
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