The imagined underworld sex, crime, and vice in porfirian Mexico City / by Garza, James Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Charting the imagined city -- The terror of Peralvillo, "El Chalequero" -- Love, betrayal, and death in the underworld -- Organized crime and the porfirian state -- Disease, decay, and the strange case of Federico Abrego and María Barrera -- Politics, corruption, and the Arnulfo Arroyo affair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The imagined underworld sex, crime, and vice in porfirian Mexico City / by Garza, James Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Charting the imagined city -- The terror of Peralvillo, "El Chalequero" -- Love, betrayal, and death in the underworld -- Organized crime and the porfirian state -- Disease, decay, and the strange case of Federico Abrego and María Barrera -- Politics, corruption, and the Arnulfo Arroyo affair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Refusing the favor the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 / by González, Deena J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880 -- 4. The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History.…”
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The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / by Lerner, Paul Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.…”
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Refusing the favor the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 / by González, Deena J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880 -- 4. The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History.…”
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The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / by Lerner, Paul Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.…”
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Reforming urban labor routes to the city, roots in the country / by Polasky, Janet L.

Table of Contents: “…A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals -- "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers -- "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains -- "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs -- "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.…”
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Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Millward, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860 -- Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion. …”
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Reforming urban labor routes to the city, roots in the country / by Polasky, Janet L.

Table of Contents: “…A "sprawling" city of "outcast masses" : overcrowded capitals -- "Give men homes, and they will have soft and homely notions" : reformers' schemes for rehousing urban workers -- "Network of iron rails" : workmen's trains -- "Le cottage" : pastoral villages and tidy suburbs -- "Charged by the workingmen, pelted, and charged again!" : the politics of reform -- "With morality brimming forth" : rooted workers and their families -- "To live like everyone else" : commuting labor, 1918-2010.…”
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Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Millward, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860 -- Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion. …”
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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. …”
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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. …”
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A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / by Foos, Paul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor: Service and Servitude 13 -- 2 Citizens' Militias in the United States 31 -- 3 Volunteer Excitement among the Masses 45 -- 4 Forced to Volunteer: The Politics of Compulsion 61 -- 5 Discipline and Desertion in Mexico 83 -- 6 Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny 113 -- 7 Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy 139 -- 8 Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier 155.…”
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A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / by Foos, Paul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor: Service and Servitude 13 -- 2 Citizens' Militias in the United States 31 -- 3 Volunteer Excitement among the Masses 45 -- 4 Forced to Volunteer: The Politics of Compulsion 61 -- 5 Discipline and Desertion in Mexico 83 -- 6 Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny 113 -- 7 Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy 139 -- 8 Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier 155.…”
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The folly of Jim Crow rethinking the segregated South /

Table of Contents: “…Ring -- "Nature is the author of such restrictions": science, ethnological medicine, and Jim Crow / Melissa Stein -- From the "ladies' car" to the "colored car": black female travelers in the segregated South / Mia Bay -- Is marriage a civil right? the politics of intimacy in the Jim Crow era / Jane Dailey.…”
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The folly of Jim Crow rethinking the segregated South /

Table of Contents: “…Ring -- "Nature is the author of such restrictions": science, ethnological medicine, and Jim Crow / Melissa Stein -- From the "ladies' car" to the "colored car": black female travelers in the segregated South / Mia Bay -- Is marriage a civil right? the politics of intimacy in the Jim Crow era / Jane Dailey.…”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Victims' State : War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 / by Hsia, Ke-Chin

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Victims' State : War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 / by Hsia, Ke-Chin

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