The medieval landscape, as traditionally viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women - aside from the occasional dazzling queen or mistress, strong-willed abbess, or exotic mystic. This picture has been dramatically altered by the scholarship of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, as women have been restored to the medieval scene. However, to date, young unmarried women or maidens have attracted little academic attention.

Recent events—the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others—have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels. From corporate spending on city governments in the 1920s to business support for public universities in the postwar period, and from business opposition to the Vietnam War to the corporate embrace of civil rights, the contributors reveal an often surprising portrait of the nation's economic elite. Contrary to popular mythology, business leaders have not always been libertarian or rigidly devoted to market fundamentalism. Before, during, and after the New Deal, important parts of the business world sought instead to try to shape what the state could accomplish and to make sure that government grew in ways that were favorable to them. Appealing to historians working in the fields of business history, political history, and the history of capitalism, these essays highlight the causes, character, and consequences of business activism and underscore the centrality of business to any full understanding of the politics of the twentieth century—and today. Contributors: Daniel Amsterdam, Brent Cebul, Jennifer Delton, Tami Friedman, Eric Hintz, Richard R. John, Pamela Walker Laird, Kim Phillips-Fein, Laura Phillips Sawyer, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Eric Smith, Jason Scott Smith, Mark R. Wilson.

Recent events-the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others-have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels. From corporate spending on city governments in the 1920s to business support for public universities in the postwar period, and from business opposition to the Vietnam War to the corporate embrace of civil rights, the contributors reveal an often surprising portrait of the nation's economic elite. Contrary to popular mythology, business leaders have not always been libertarian or rigidly devoted to market fundamentalism. Before, during, and after the New Deal, important parts of the business world sought instead to try to shape what the state could accomplish and to make sure that government grew in ways that were favorable to them. Appealing to historians working in the fields of business history, political history, and the history of capitalism, these essays highlight the causes, character, and consequences of business activism and underscore the centrality of business to any full understanding of the politics of the twentieth century-and today. Contributors: Daniel Amsterdam, Brent Cebul, Jennifer Delton, Tami Friedman, Eric Hintz, Richard R. John, Pamela Walker Laird, Kim Phillips-Fein, Laura Phillips Sawyer, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Eric Smith, Jason Scott Smith, Mark R. Wilson.

YOU ARE ONE WORD AWAY FROM POSSESSING YOUR DESIRED SUCCESS Do you realize that every word you say is either taking you closer to or further away from your destiny? Many people use their words to describe their current situations as opposed to using them to design their destiny. This book will teach you how to navigate through the vicissitudes of life as you re-program yourself and arrive at your desired destination. Each affirmation has been carefully crafted with wisdom keys intricately interwoven in its fabric. You literally have the power to voice-activate your victory and rewrite your life's resume by applying the 15 principles in the introduction section as you affirm your way to success. There is a winner on the inside of you and properly applying the affirmations in this book can unleash it REMEMBER: IT'S YOUR TIME TO WIN -Acclaim for Say It Until You Seize It Kim Phillips is right on point with the value and importance of positive words and affirmations. I've watched her in person speak words of life into others and witnessed the immediate transformation in that person's being. Kimberly Phillips is a Diamond of all Diamonds and truly a blessing to us all. -Emmanuel Bernstein, Million Dollar Producer This book will deliver the magic to create all your desires if you honestly want to make a change in your life and empower yourself. Not only is Kim Phillips thoroughly educated in psychology, understands how the mind works and has great people skills, she also walks her talk. I am so honored to be her friend. -Marianne Noad, Wholistic Health Practitioner & Diamond Producer This book is one of the greatest pieces of work Kim Phillips could have ever given to society to help them manifest into their lives the things they have always wanted. It is also a great collection of words that will produce the pictures and emotions you need to manifest your desires. I am so blessed to have made her acquaintance and I am so glad she calls me her brother. -Rod Smith, NFL Super Bowl Champion & Multi-Millionaire Affirmations have played the biggest role in my success because I understand the power of words and how they create everything in our lives. Everything you want to accomplish in your life is 1 word away from you. I have been speaking affirmations for the last 7 years of my life. Consequently, everything I have drawn into my life, I actually spoke it into existence (e.g. mentors, finances, opportunities, etc). I believe that this book will give you a lot of choices as to what you can affirm to access your desired results. I also believe that if you apply the principles Kimberly is teaching you in this book, you may possibly be able to accomplish your desired results in a shorter period of time. David Imonitie, Multi-Million Dollar Producer Kimberly Phillips is not a person who just writes about or talks about affirmations. She is someone who lives what she has written. It is an absolute treat to have this great book in print Thank you Ms. Phillips for sharing your knowledge Edwin Haynes, Author & Million Dollar Producer

This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy and government institutions, as well as electoral outcomes, for decades. Rather than assuming that business influence is inevitable, the chapters explore the complex evolution of this relationship in a wide range of different arenas-from attempts to create a corporate-friendly tax policy and regulations that would work in the interests of particular industries, to local boosterism as a weapon against New Deal liberalism, to the nexus between evangelical Christianity and the oil industry, to the frustrations that business people felt in struggles with public interest groups. The history that emerges show business actors organizing themselves to affect government in myriad ways, sometimes successfully but other times with outcomes far different than they hoped for. The result in an image of American politics that is more complex and contested than it is often thought to be. The essays represent a new trend in scholarship on political economy, one that seeks to break down the barriers that once separated old subfields to offer a vision of the economy as shaped by politics and political life influenced by economic relationships.

Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views. These nearly unknown, larger-than-life, and sometimes eccentric personalities--such as GE's zealous, silver-tongued Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and the self-described "revolutionary" Jasper Crane of DuPont--make for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of American history.

The winner of a prestigious academic award for her original research on this book, Kim Phillips-Fein is already being heralded as an important new young American historian. Her meticulous research and narrative gifts reveal the dramatic story of a pragmatic, step-by-step, check-by-check campaign to promote an ideological revolution--one that ultimately helped propel conservative ideas to electoral triumph.