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1781
Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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1782
From home guards to heroes the 87th Pennsylvania and its Civil War community /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Smith -- South-central Pennsylvania and race -- Winter camp, the Overland Campaign, and Petersburg -- Monocacy -- Final days of war -- Postwar politics and reunions -- Epilogue: Two tales of closure.…”
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1783
Gateway to the northern plains railroads and the birth of Fargo and Moorhead /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…At the crossing : the incorporation of Fargo and Moorhead -- Booster dreams : Henry Bruns and Moorhead's collapse -- Boomtown on the prairie : Fargo becomes a gateway city -- Old and new Americans : the people of Fargo and Moorhead -- Domestic virtues : middle-class moral order -- Vagabonds, workers, and purveyors of vice -- Building a better community : the politics of good government.…”
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1784
Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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1785
Pictorial Victorians the inscription of values in word and image /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture -- Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations -- Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson -- Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady -- Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting -- Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's In memoriam -- Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.…”
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1786
Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. …”
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1787
The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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1788
Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. …”
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1789
The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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1790
Pictorial Victorians the inscription of values in word and image /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture -- Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations -- Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson -- Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady -- Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting -- Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's In memoriam -- Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.…”
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1791
Southern prohibition race, reform, and public life in middle Florida, 1821-1920 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…"To remain dram drinkers and tipplers": taverns, temperance, and political culture in Territorial Florida -- "We have got no billiard saloon": temperance in Antebellum Florida -- "Drinking and gamboling": alcohol, temperance, and the Civil War -- "In close communion with John Barleycorn": race, reform, and reconstruction -- "Kill the beast and save the boys": local option in Leon County -- "Good order": local option in Franklin County.…”
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1792
Southern prohibition race, reform, and public life in middle Florida, 1821-1920 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…"To remain dram drinkers and tipplers": taverns, temperance, and political culture in Territorial Florida -- "We have got no billiard saloon": temperance in Antebellum Florida -- "Drinking and gamboling": alcohol, temperance, and the Civil War -- "In close communion with John Barleycorn": race, reform, and reconstruction -- "Kill the beast and save the boys": local option in Leon County -- "Good order": local option in Franklin County.…”
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1793
Restoring order the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? …”
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1794
Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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1795
Regional fictions culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes -- Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.…”
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1796
Restoring order the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? …”
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1797
Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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1798
Regional fictions culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes -- Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.…”
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1799
Global dawn the cultural foundation of American internationalism, 1865-1890 /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Culture and causality -- A global civilization -- Culture, commerce, and diplomacy : creating an international identity -- Europe I : republican mirages -- Europe II : barbarian survivals -- The one and the many : race, culture, and civilization -- The promise of local equality : assimilating African- Americans, Chinese, and Native Americans -- Beyond Orientalism : explaining other worlds -- Empire and civilization -- International politics -- The future of international relations -- Conclusion: Culture as capability.…”
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Global dawn the cultural foundation of American internationalism, 1865-1890 /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Culture and causality -- A global civilization -- Culture, commerce, and diplomacy : creating an international identity -- Europe I : republican mirages -- Europe II : barbarian survivals -- The one and the many : race, culture, and civilization -- The promise of local equality : assimilating African- Americans, Chinese, and Native Americans -- Beyond Orientalism : explaining other worlds -- Empire and civilization -- International politics -- The future of international relations -- Conclusion: Culture as capability.…”
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