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Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present / by Wetters, Kirk

Table of Contents: “…The unhappy endings of morphology : Oswald Spengler's demonic history --…”
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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 / by Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.…”
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Lake Effects : A History of Urban Policy Making in Cleveland, 1825-1929 / by Weiner, Ronald R.

Subjects: “…Politique urbaine Ohio Cleveland Histoire 19e siecle. 148575…”
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Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 /

Subjects: “…Masculinite États-Unis Histoire 19e siecle. 145593…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Subjects: “…Social history. fast (OCoLC)fst01122498…”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

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Lost Causes : Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature / by Jones, Jason B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: historicisms : old, new, and discontented -- Chaos and Carlyle -- The ghosts of causality -- Causation and interpretation in Shirley -- George Eliot's crises of consequence.…”
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Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America / by Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-

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Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / by Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…American gynecology and black lives -- The birth of American gynecology -- Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine -- Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine -- Irish immigrant women and American gynecology -- Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze -- Afterword.…”
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Recuento de una batalla inconclusa : la educación mexicana de Iturbide a Juárez / by Staples, Anne

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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /

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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

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Reinventing Liberty / by Price, Fiona L.

Table of Contents: “…Ancient liberties -- The labours of history -- Uneasy alliance : liberty and the nation -- Conserving histories : chivalry, science and liberty -- The end of history? …”
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Building a National Literature : The Case of Germany, 1830–1870 / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

Table of Contents: “…The institutionalization of literary history -- 8. Education, schools, and social structure -- 9. …”
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American Iron, 1607-1900 / by Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-

Subjects: “…Usines siderurgiques Amerique du Nord Histoire 18e siecle. 161216…”
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Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / by Wall, Barbra Mann

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Para mexicanizar el segundo imperio : el imaginario político de los imperialistas / by Pani, Erika

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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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