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    Independent immigrants a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / by Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Hanoverian background -- Settling in Missouri and starting farms -- Founding churches and using the law -- The Civil War and disaster in western Missouri -- Postwar growth and development -- Appendix : Letters of F.J. and Marie Biltz.…”
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    Europe (in Theory) / by Dainotto, Roberto M. (Roberto Maria), 1962-

    Published 2007
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    Confederate generals in the Trans-Mississippi

    Published 2013
    “…Western theater in the Civil War.…”
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    A history of the modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020 / by Elleman, Bruce A., 1959-

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Preface : Four Periods of modern Chinese naval development -- Introduction : China's modern navy in historical perspective : the importance of coastal defense strategies -- The origins of the "modern" navy under the Qing dynasty -- The first opium war and Chinese naval modernization -- The Chinese navy in the second opium war, in Okinawa, and in Annam -- China's navy and the sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 -- The Chinese navy's incomplete modernization and westernization -- The "new army" reforms and the Chinese navy's impact of the Xinhai revolution -- The nationalist navy from 1922 through 1938 -- The post-world war II nationalist navy through the Chinese civil war -- Founding the PRC and the early history of the PLAN -- The Chongqing mutiny and the creation of the PLAN -- PLAN's coastal defense and the nationalist navy's use of the off-shore Islands to blockade China -- The sino-Soviet alliance and the growth of the PLAN -- The nationalist navy and China's PLAN as an emerging regional navy -- Sino-Soviet conflict and the PRC decision to open relations with the United States -- Modernization, westernization, and geographic responsibilities of the PLAN -- China's historical and regional constraints and the future of the PLAN -- Conclusions.…”
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    The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton / by Turner, James, 1946-

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The New England Clerisy -- Shady Hill, 1786-1842 -- Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1849 -- The World, 1849-1851 -- A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855 -- Adrift, 1855-1857 -- A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861 -- Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865 -- The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868 -- Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872 -- Interlude -- Beginning Again, 1873-1878 -- Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882 -- Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886 -- Years That Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891 -- To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895 -- The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898 -- Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908 -- The Published Writings of Charles Eliot Norton.…”
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