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New demons : rethinking power and evil today / by Forti, Simona

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Southern civil religions imagining the good society in the post-Reconstruction Era / by Remillard, Arthur

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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Sea la luz the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 / by Martínez, Juan Francisco, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"Planting the institutions of freedom" -- Protestant attitudes toward the conquest of the Southwest -- "Unfit for the duties and privileges of citizens" -- Anglo American Protestant attitudes toward the Mexicans of the Southwest -- "Making good citizens out of the Mexicans" -- Motivations for Protestant mission work among Mexican Americans -- "Yet many do not declare themselves for fear" -- Protestant mission efforts prior to the Civil War -- "Teaching them to be law-abiding, industrious and thrifty citizens" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Texas -- "A slumbering people" -- Mexican American Protestantism in the territory of New Mexico -- "Doing what he could" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Colorado, the territory of Arizona, and California -- "A power for the uplifting of the Mexican race" -- Characteristics of the nineteenth-century Mexican American Protestant community -- Conclusion : beginnings of a new subculture.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

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American sympathy men, friendship, and literature in the new nation / by Crain, Caleb

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Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life /

Table of Contents: “…Good and intimate filth /…”
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Raising freedom's child Black children and visions of the future after slavery / by Mitchell, Mary Niall

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Food and the novel in nineteenth-century America by McWilliams, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conflicting tastes -- Old food in a new land -- Wholesome food for a wholesome people -- Revolution in the kitchen -- Good women bake good biscuits -- Dining out in the novel -- Eating nostalgia -- Afterword: food and the novel in America.…”
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Slow print literary radicalism and late Victorian print culture / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…No news is good news : William Morris's utopian print -- The black and white veil : Shaw, mass print culture, and the antinovel turn -- Living language : print drama, live drama, and the socialist theatrical turn -- Measured revolution : poetry and the late Victorian radical press -- Enlightenment beyond reason : theosophical socialism and radical print culture -- Free love, free print : sex radicalism, censorship, and the biopolitical turn.…”
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Power, plain English, and the rise of modern poetry by Rosen, David, 1971-

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Gateway to the northern plains railroads and the birth of Fargo and Moorhead / by Engelhardt, Carroll L.

Table 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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Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 / by Tan, Ying Jia, 1978-

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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / by Reitz, Caroline

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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

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The Sangamo frontier history and archaeology in the shadow of Lincoln / by Mazrim, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The making of an American frontier -- The arrival of archaeology and the shadow of Lincoln -- Before the Americans -- The Americans -- At home, 1800-1840 -- Under the house, behind the house -- Goods in the forests -- The hole in the map -- A new frontier -- Overlooking wilderness : excavations at Elkhart Hill -- Earthenware at Cotton Hill : the Ebey-Brunk Kiln site -- The origins of a state capital : the Iles Store site -- Moses's Sangamo : relocating a lost town -- Exploring Moses's Sangamo : excavations at Sangamo town -- Lincoln's New Salem : history and archaeology -- Behind Lincoln's New Salem : archaeology and revisionism -- The end of the trail.…”
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What hath God wrought the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / by Howe, Daniel Walker

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The defeat of the past -- The continental setting -- From the jaws of defeat -- An era of good and bad feelings -- The world that cotton made -- Awakenings of religion -- Overthrowing the tyranny of distance -- The improvers -- Pursuing the millennium -- Andrew Jackson and his age -- Battles over sovereignty -- Jacksonian democracy and the rule of law -- Reason and revelation -- Jackson's third term -- The new economy -- The Whigs and their age -- American renaissance -- Texas, Tyler, and the telegraph -- Westward the star of empire -- The war against Mexico -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Finale: A vision of the future.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The lehrejahre -- How the true world finally became a fable -- Rationality ex post facto -- New millennium homes -- The prejudices of philosophers and historians -- Peoples and nations -- The stillest hour -- The land of education -- Part II. …”
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