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An uncommon cape researching the histories and mysteries of a property / by Brackbill, Eleanor Phillips

Subjects: “…Brackbill, Eleanor Phillips Homes and haunts New York (State) Mamaroneck.…”
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Pachakutik indigenous movements and electoral politics in Ecuador / by Becker, Marc

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Power and identity in archaeological theory and practice case studies from ancient Mesoamerica /

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Juan Dom�inguez de Mendoza soldier and frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693 /

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Race, power, and political emergence in Memphis by Wright, Sharon D.

Table of Contents: “…The role of race in local electoral politics -- ch. 2. Black politics and race relations in Memphis during reconstruction -- ch. 3. …”
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Captured peace : elites and peacebuilding in El Salvador / by Wade, Christine J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Peacebuilding, Elites, and the Problem of Capture -- Elites and the Salvadoran State -- Making the Captured Peace -- Electoral Politics in the Postwar Era : Parties, Polarization, and Participation -- El Salvador in the Neoliberal Era -- The Politics of Exclusion : Migration, Crime, and Society in the Postwar Era -- Reclaiming the Captured Peace.…”
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The American Far West in the twentieth century by Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…The West in 1901 -- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers -- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales -- New forms of economic growth -- Economic growth from the 1940s -- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities -- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War -- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases -- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation -- Western politics -- Expanding electorates -- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.…”
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New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / by Germany, Kent B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-- A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city -- Establishing the early war on poverty -- Building community action -- Challenging the establishment and the color line -- Making better and happier citizens -- Defusing the southern powder keg -- Making workers and jobs -- Making groceries -- Making a model New Orleans -- The thugs united and the politics of manhood -- Women, welfare, and political mobilization -- Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971 -- Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism -- Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.…”
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The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…It's Not Easy Being Elite : Governing Challenges in Post Racial Black America -- Winning : The 2006 Election -- Policy Is Politics -- Perception Is Reality : Judging Cory Booker -- The Politics of Perception : Cory Booker in Local and State Affairs -- 2010 : Electoral Politics Revisited -- Joshua, Esther and Uncle Julius : Black Political Entrepreneurs and the Future of Black Politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Methodological Notes -- Appendix B: List of Interviewees.…”
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Sobral Pinto, "the conscience of Brazil" leading the attack against Vargas (1930-1945) / by Dulles, John W. F.

Table of Contents: “…Declining to run for congress and explaining Vargas' fall (October 1945) -- pt. 12. Shocked by the electorate's message (December 1945).…”
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Ritual, violence, and the fall of the classic Maya kings /

Table of Contents: “…Schwake -- Cross-cultural perspectives on the scapegoat king: the anatomy of a model / Gyles Iannone -- Killing the "Kings of Stone": the defacement of classic Maya monuments / Eleanor Harrison-Buck -- Concepts of legitimacy and social dynamics: termination ritual and the last king of Aguateca, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata -- The life and afterlife of the classic period Piedras Negras Kingdom / Charles Golden, Andrew K. …”
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The Silverado squatters by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

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The Whole history of Grandfather's chair or True stories from New England History, 1620-1808 / by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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