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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Bending Opinion Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain /

Table of Contents: “…Deliberation, free speech and the marketplace of ideas / Ineke Sluiter -- Rhetoric, classicism and democracy: the conveyance of moral and political values in late antique rhetorical education / Manfred Kraus -- Melody and rhythm in ancient political discourse. …”
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