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Liberation historiography African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 / by Ernest, John

Table of Contents: “…The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.…”
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Liberal beginnings making a republic for the moderns / by Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- The rhetoric of the market : Adam Smith on recognition, speech, and exchange -- Agonistic liberalism : Adam Ferguson on modern commercial society and the limits of classical republicanism -- After the king : Thomas Paine's and James Madison's institutional liberalism -- Embracing liberalism : Germaine de Staël's farewell to republicanism -- On the liberty of the moderns : Benjamin Constant and the discovery of an immanent liberalism -- After republicanism : a coda.…”
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Spectral nationality passages of freedom from Kant to postcolonial literatures of liberation / by Cheah, Pheng

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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the formation of a liberal republicanism in England by Sullivan, Vickie B.

Table of Contents: “…Machiavelli's Republicanism -- Hobbes on peace, the passions, and politics -- Marchamont Nedham and the beginnings of a liberal republicanism -- The distinctive modern republicanism of James Harrington -- Henry Neville's proposal for a republic under the form of monarchy -- Algernon Sidney as anticipator of Locke and secret admirer of Machiavelli -- Cato's thought as the reconciliation of Machiavellian Republicanism and Lockean Liberalism.…”
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The Jews and the nation revolution, emancipation, state formation, and the liberal paradigm in America and France / by Jaher, Frederic Cople

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The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 tradition and change in a liberal society / by Endelman, Todd M.

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Liberty & equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 by Helg, Aline, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Frontiers -- Countryside -- Cities -- The first independence -- Equality and freedom under the republic -- The pardo and liberal challenges to Bolívar's project -- Conclusion: an all-American perspective.…”
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The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / by Watts, Steven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist -- 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego.…”
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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / by Kitromilides, Paschalis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.…”
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Interrogating Orientalism : Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices /

Table of Contents: “…Haddad -- Colonial counterflow : from orientalism to Buddhism / Mark Lussier -- Homoerotics and orientalism in William Beckford's Vathek: liberalism and the problem of pederasty / Jeffrey Cass -- Orientalism in Disraeli's Alroy / Sheila A. …”
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Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty / by Mee, Jon

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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

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