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Black soldiers of the queen the Natal native contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War / by Thompson, P. S. (Paul Singer)

Table of Contents: “…The coming of war -- Mobilization : the first regiment, pioneers and mounted troops -- Mobilization (continued) : the second and third regiments -- The third regiment in the Zulu country -- Disaster at Isandlwana -- Escape from the Zulu country -- Disbanding of the third regiment -- The second regiment to Eshowe and back -- Remodelling of the contingent -- The relief of Eshowe -- War in the thorns -- War on the plain -- War in the hills -- In the Zulu heartland -- Victory at Ulundi -- The king chase -- The return of peace.…”
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Public war, private conscience the ethics of political violence / by Fiala, Andrew G. (Andrew Gordon), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The sublime grind of Ares -- The war of public and private -- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream -- Democratic control and professional ethics -- The military establishment -- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad -- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war -- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism -- Sliding scales and the mischief of war -- Waterboarding, torture, and violence -- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition -- Public myths and private protest.…”
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Russia, 1762-1825 military power, the state, and the people / by Hartley, Janet M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Russia at war, 1762-1825 -- The military estate: size and deployment -- The lower ranks: conscription and community -- The officer corps: service and challenge to the state -- The cost: expenditure and income -- The cost: agriculture, industry, and trade -- The impact: conflict with civilians in peace and war -- The state: administration, law, and magic -- The expansion of the state: conflict, assimilation, and identity -- Rulers and armies: warfare, image, culture, and identity -- The military colonies -- Conclusion: militarization and modernization?…”
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Juggernaut how emerging markets are reshaping globalization / by Dadush, Uri B.

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America's challenge engaging a rising China in the twenty-first century / by Swaine, Michael D.

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Savage century back to barbarism / by Delpech, Thérèse

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Ending autocracy, enabling democracy the tribulations of southern Africa, 1960-2000 / by Rotberg, Robert I.

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Demystifying Kashmir by Behera, Navnita Chadha

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Cultivar la paz conflicto y colaboración en el manejo de los recursos naturales /

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Oral and written narratives and cultural identity interdisciplinary approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis' testimonial novel Till we have faces / Alison Searle -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall : the many faces of Snow White / Sandra Beckett -- Peace stories and peacebuilding : bringing narrative thinking to school improvement for peace in northern Ireland / Ron Smith and June Neill.…”
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Glory and agony Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative / by Feldman, Yael S., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…: the Isaac generation, 1967-1973 -- Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995 -- Afterword : a state of exception: a view from the present.…”
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Making marriage work a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States / by Celello, Kristin

Table of Contents: “…Keeping women on the marital job in war and peace -- They learned to love again : marriage saving in the 1950s -- Radical feminists, liberated housewives, and total women : searching for the future of marriage, 1963-1980 -- Super marital sex and the second shift : new work for wives in the 1980s and 1990s -- Epilogue: still working.…”
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India and Pakistan continued conflict or cooperation? / by Wolpert, Stanley A., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Historic roots of the problem -- The first Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir -- The second Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir -- The third Indo-Pakistani war and the birth of Bangladesh -- The Indo-Pakistani Simla summit and Zia's coup -- Afghanistan's impact on Indo-Pakistani relations -- Pakistan's proxy war and Kashmir's Azaadi revolution -- Recent attempts to resolve escalating Indo-Pakistani conflicts -- The stalled Indo-Pakistani peace process -- Potential solutions to the Kashmir conflict.…”
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Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves / by Garon, Sheldon M.

Table of Contents: “…The origins of saving in the Western world -- Organizing thrift in the age of nation-states -- America the exceptional -- Japanese traditions of diligence and thrift -- Saving for the new Japan -- Mobilizing for the Great War -- Save now, buy later : World War II and beyond -- "Luxury is the enemy" : Japan in peace and war -- Postwar Japan's national salvation -- Exporting thrift, or the myth of "Asian values" -- "There is money. …”
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The nation's nature how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / by Drake, James David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high.…”
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Quaker brotherhood interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / by Austin, Allan W.

Table of Contents: “…Friendly principle of brotherhood -- Let's do away with walls: the AFSC's Interracial Section and race work in the United States, 1924-1929 -- Bridging race and peace: the AFSC in good times and bad, 1927-1931 -- Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood: Quakers, social science, and the AFSC's interracial activism in the 1930s -- Refugees from abroad and at home: the hostel method and victims of war -- From race relations to community relations -- Race and reconciliation at mid-century.…”
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Commentary on the law of prize and booty by Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645

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Reykjavik revisited steps toward a world free of nuclear weapons : complete report of the 2007 Hoover Institution conference /

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Reroute the preschool juggernaut by Finn, Chester E., Jr., 1944-

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John Hume and the revision of Irish nationalism by McLoughlin, P. J. (Peter John)

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