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Adapting Shahrazad's odyssey : the female wanderer and storyteller in Victorian and contemporary Middle Eastern literature / by Dedebas Dundar, Eda

“…American university studies. General literature ;…”
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The clarinet in the classical period by Rice, Albert R.

Table of Contents: “…General design and construction characteristics -- Historical development -- Playing techniques -- Music for the classical clarinet -- The clarinet in performing groups.…”
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Beleaguered Winchester a Virginia community at war, 1861-1865 / by Duncan, Richard R.

Table of Contents: “…The brewing storm -- The taste of humiliation -- Redemption, destruction, and occupation -- The brute : General Robert Milroy -- The chess game -- "Whirling through Winchester" -- Epilogue.…”
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From torpedoes to aviation Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / by Stein, Stephen K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Naval Academy -- Early cruises -- The Greely relief expedition -- The Nicaraguan survey -- The Office of Naval Intelligence -- The New York Navy Yard -- The Petrel and the Atlanta -- The Naval War College -- The Minneapolis and the Bureau of Ordnance -- Policing an empire -- Torpedoes, dreadnoughts, and the General Board -- The Caribbean and the Bureau of Ordnance -- The beginnings of naval aviation -- Building naval aviation -- Retired.…”
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William Blake on his poetry and painting a study of A descriptive catalogue, other prose writings, and Jerusalem / by Adams, Hazard, 1926-

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Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / by Silkenat, David

Table of Contents: “…By his own hand : suicide -- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south -- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War -- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought -- To loosen the bands of society : divorce -- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white -- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce -- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south -- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt -- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina -- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War -- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south -- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.…”
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Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / by Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

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The enemy within fears of corruption in the Civil War North / by Smith, Michael Thomas, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Fears and Fantasies -- pt. 2. Power-hungry generals -- pt. 3. Traitors and trollops.…”
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Chicago's Irish Legion the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War / by Swan, James B.

Table of Contents: “…The raising of the Irish Legion -- Attention from two generals -- Life on one cracker a day -- The father of waters unvexed -- The march to Chattanooga -- The Battle of Chattanooga -- The winter of their discontent -- The Atlanta Campaign: approach to Atlanta -- The Atlanta Campaign: battles around Atlanta -- Hazen's summer camp and a stern chase -- An armed picnic -- The handsomest thing I have seen in this war -- Rocking the cradle of secession -- Hail Columbia, happy land -- Leaving the cradle -- Touring tarheel country -- Like the lords of the world -- Epilogue.…”
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Forced marches soldiers and military caciques in modern Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Eulogio Ortíz : the army and the antipolitics of postrevolutionary state formation, 1920-1935 / Ben Fallaw -- Revolutionary citizenship against institutional inertia : Cardenismo and the Mexican Army, 1934-1940 / Thomas Rath -- Military caciquismo in the Priísta state : general Mange's command in Veracruz / Paul Gillingham -- Conclusion : reflections on state theory through the lens of the Mexican military / David Nugent.…”
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Marrow of tragedy the health crisis of the American Civil War / by Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Civil War medicine -- Women, war, and medicine -- Infectious disease in the civil war -- Connecting home to hospital and camp : the work of the USSC -- The Sanitary Commission and its critics -- The Union's general hospital -- Medicine for a new nation -- Confederate medicine : disease, wounds, and shortages -- Mitigating the horrors of war -- A public health legacy -- Medicine in postwar America.…”
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American anarchism / by Shone, Steve J.

Table of Contents: “…/ Voltairine de Cleyre -- On the lives of the poor : an alternative democracy / Lucy Parsons -- Just community / Peter Kropotkin -- Forlorn chartist at Haymarket / Samuel Fielden -- Generally a straight shooter / Alexander Berkman -- Is anarchism dead? …”
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The Civil War in the Jackson Purchase, 1861-1862 : the pro-Confederate struggle and defeat in southwest Kentucky / by Lee, Dan, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The secession crisis (November 1860-August 1861) -- The Federals and the Confederates make their opening moves (April-August 1861) -- Stalemate (August-September 1861) -- Invasions (September 1861) -- Columbus (September-October 1861) -- The Battle of Columbus-Belmont (November 1861) -- With General C.F. Smith in Paducah (November-December 1861) -- Grant and Polk after the Battle of Columbus-Belmont (November-December 1861) -- The Federal expedition (January 1862) -- The attack on Fort Henry and Fort Heiman (February 1862) -- Between two battles (February 1862) -- The Battle of Fort Donelson (February 1862) -- The surrender of Fort Donelson (February 1862) -- Reconnoiters and evacuations (February-March 1862) -- Island Number Ten (March-April 1862) -- Rebel incursions and yankee injustices (1862-1865).…”
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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

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DISABILITY AND TOURISM IN NINETEENTH- ANDTWENTIETH-CENTURY ITALY by Maffi, Luciano, Fagnani, Martino Lorenzo, 1989-

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Oscar Wilde Revalued : An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research / by Small, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Bibliographies -- 10. General Bibliography.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

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Surprised by Shame : Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Explorers / by Martinsen, Deborah A.

Table of Contents: “…Surprised by shame -- Something about lying -- Shame's legacy -- General Ivolgin -- Confessional moments -- Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky -- Divided selves -- Lukian Lebedev -- Metaliterary identity -- Captain Lebiadkin -- Father and son.…”
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A World of Fiction : Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History / by Bode, Katherine

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Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 / by Laurie, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…The forging of working-class cultures, 1820-1837 -- Revivalists: the militias of Christ -- Traditionalists: "the boys of pleasure" -- Radicals: Thomas Paine's progeny -- "We are all day laborers": the General Trades' Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1833-1837 -- Part three. …”
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