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Baseball in blue and gray : the national pastime during the Civil War / by Kirsch, George B.

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Colonial culture in France since the revolution /

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Ladies and gentlemen on display planter society at the Virginia springs, 1790-1860 / by Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Healing waters -- pt. 3. Community and competition.…”
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Novel Professions : Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel / by Ruth, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Between labor and capital : Charlotte Brontë's The professor -- Becoming professional : time in David Copperfield -- The professional paradox : competitive examinations and Anthony Trollope's The three clerks -- Deprofessionalized critics in the twenty-first century.…”
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Promised land Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's colonization contracts / by Morgenthaler, George J.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- France meets Texas -- The colonization contracts -- Shifting diplomatic winds -- The nobles and the pilgrims -- France sours, Germany ponders -- Setbacks and preparations -- Solms -- The journey -- Welcome to Texas -- West to San Antonio -- Competition -- Missed connections -- Priorities -- The founders depart -- The tides turn -- The outcome -- Aftermath.…”
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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic by Cox, Thomas H.

Table of Contents: “…Steam power and patent law development in the Eighteenth Century -- Origins of the Fulton-Livingston monopoly -- Corporate negotiations -- Defending the monopoly -- Interstate competition -- Personal rivalries and lawsuits -- The road to the U.S. …”
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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard : Illinoi, 1870-1917 / by Hannah, Eleanor L.

Table of Contents: “…Illinois militia revival in the 1870s -- Manhood and citizenship on display -- Confused missions: the first twenty years of strike duty, 1870-90 -- New training practices, drill competitions, and the rise of sharpshooting -- Death, manhood, and service in the Spanish American war -- Lessons learned: the ING and strike duty, 1894-1916 -- The pursuit of state and federal support.…”
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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism by Barrish, Phillip

Table of Contents: “…Conflicting manners: high realism and social competition; 5. 'Democracy in literature'? Literary regionalism; 6. …”
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The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America / by Thomson, Keith Stewart

Table of Contents: “…Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? …”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285)…”
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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

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