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The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Overview of the southern plantation -- From old south to new south plantation -- The demise of the plantation -- Mechanization of the plantation -- The world of plantation blacks -- Mobilization -- Confrontation -- The war on poverty -- School desegregation -- The right to vote : an illusive black power -- New settlement patterns -- Quest for a nonagrarian economy -- Epilogue.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Universal education, culture wars, and national identity -- The disciple, by Paul Bourget : a dangerous experiment in education -- The novel of national energy, by Maurice Barres : Maurice Barres proto-fascist? …”
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España y el imperio de Maximiliano : finanzas, diplomacia, cultura e inmigración /
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Los dilemas de la organización autónoma : Zacatecas 1808-1832 /
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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Admiral Louis Guillouet, Comte d'Orvilliers (1710-92): a style of command in the age of the American War /…”
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; The origins of the idea of humanitarian intervention : just war and against tyranny ; Eurocentrism, 'civilization' and the 'barbarians' ; International law and humanitarian intervention ; Intervention and non-intervention in international political theory -- Practice. …”
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Proofs of Genius : Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…America collecting itself : national identity and intellectual property in the Early Republic -- Dickinson's remains -- Whitman's shrines -- Cold War editing and the rise of the "American literature industry" -- The death of the author has been greatly exaggerated.…”
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Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company : The Opening of Western New York
Published 1970Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The great survey -- Many applicants, few buyers -- Reluctant politician -- The big family -- Roads and the unhappy taxpayer -- Problems of an expanding population -- The War of 1812 -- The Barik of Niagara -- The Grand Canal -- "Give in your demission yourself."…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard : Illinoi, 1870-1917 /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Illinois militia revival in the 1870s -- Manhood and citizenship on display -- Confused missions: the first twenty years of strike duty, 1870-90 -- New training practices, drill competitions, and the rise of sharpshooting -- Death, manhood, and service in the Spanish American war -- Lessons learned: the ING and strike duty, 1894-1916 -- The pursuit of state and federal support.…”
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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A faithful account of colonial racial politics -- Belonging to an empire : race and rights -- Suspicious affinities : loyal subjectivity and the paternalist public -- The will to freedom : Spanish allegiances in the Ten Years' War -- Publicizing loyalty : race and the post-Zanjón public sphere -- "Long live Spain! …”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ties are out -- The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Dark places : late-Victorian adventure and film noir -- Veterans of noir : rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. …”
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Claiming Freedom : Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Cover; CLAIMING FREEDOM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Claiming Freedom in the Lowcountry; 1 THE SLAVEâ#x80;#x99;S DREAM; 2 WAR AND FREEDOM; 3 â#x80;#x9C;FULL AND FAIR COMPENSATIONâ#x80;#x9D;; 4 THE STATE OF FREEDOM IS THE STATE OF SELF-RELIANCE; CONCLUSION; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…: gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.…”
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Soul Liberty : The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia /
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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