A hanging in Nacogdoches murder, race, politics, and polemics in Texas's oldest town, 1870-1916 / by Borders, Gary B.

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Militant women of a fragile nation by Abisaab, Malek Hassan

Table of Contents: “…From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon -- Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times -- At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946 -- Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980 -- Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997 -- "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.…”
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Contesting neoliberalism urban frontiers /

Table of Contents: “…Theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / William Sites -- Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Joel Wainwright -- Articulating neoliberalism: diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Adrian Smith -- Modes of governance, modes of resistance: contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Byron Miller -- Closed borders, open markets: immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Nik Theodore -- Space patrols--the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits: contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? …”
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