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The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets / by Wanner, Adrian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion…”
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Norman Thomas the great dissenter / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The Thomas and Mattoon families -- Working in the slum areas of New York City -- Pacifism and socialism -- Civil liberties in time of war -- Running for elective office -- Running for President -- The Depression years -- The 1932 presidential election and the New Deal -- Arkansas sharecroppers -- The sharecropper problem and the Roosevelt administration -- The decline of the Socialist Party -- Between elections -- Opposing a United States President and a New Jersey mayor -- Fascism, communism and pacifism -- Opposing United States' entry into World War II -- The internment of Japanese-Americans and other wartime civil rights violations -- Taking stock -- The final run for the presidency -- Opposing nuclear testing, supporting disarmament -- Reevaluating socialism -- Confronting racism, the Vietnam War, and injustice -- The great dissenter -- Declining health -- Summing up.…”
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Tungsten in peace and war, 1918-1946 / by Limbaugh, Ronald H.

Table of Contents: “…Steel alloys and the rise of modern industry -- Tungsten in World War I -- From Pacific Tungsten to Nevada-Massachusetts -- Tungsten and the Great Depression -- Mining and marketing during the New Deal -- Strategic metals at the start of World War II -- American wartime metal policy and practice -- Nevada-Massachusetts in World War II -- Epilogue.…”
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The road to war presidential commitments honored and betrayed / by Kalb, Marvin L.

Table of Contents: “…Truman's war in Korea -- The hatching of an American "commitment" -- Eisenhower: "My God, we must not lose Asia!" …”
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The Pinochet file : a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability / by Kornbluh, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Project FUBELT : "formula for chaos" -- Destabilizing democracy : the United States and the Allende government -- Pinochet in power : building a regime of repression -- Consolidating dictatorship : the United States and the Pinochet regime -- American casualties -- Operation Condor : state-sponsored international terrorism -- Denouement of the dictator : from terrorism to transition -- Atrocity and accountability : the long epilogue of the Pinochet case.…”
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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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Perils of dominance imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam / by Porter, Gareth, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The imbalance of power, 1953-1965 -- The Soviets and Chinese appease the United States -- Eisenhower and Dulles exploit U.S. dominance in Vietnam -- North Vietnamese policy under the American threat -- Kennedy's struggle with the national security bureaucracy -- Johnson, McNamara and the Tonkin Gulf crisis -- Bureaucratic pressures and the decisions for war -- Dominoes, bandwagons and the road to war.…”
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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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God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War / by Stevens, Jason W., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The mass culture critique's implications for American religion -- Jeremiads on the American arcade and its consumption ethic -- Pt. 4. …”
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Gendered passages French-Canadian migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920 / by Takai, Yukari, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…To the wrong side of the border -- Lowell after paternalism -- The transnational mobility and family networks of French Canadians -- American or ethnic workers? : work, family and masculinity of French-Canadian men -- "You gotta keep going" : paid work performed by French-Canadian women -- More than a defence of the traditional family : the unpaid work of French-Canadian women.…”
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A Jewish feminine mystique? Jewish women in postwar America /

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith -- The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson -- Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman -- We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler -- Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz.…”
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Producing fashion commerce, culture, and consumers /

Table of Contents: “…The wiener werkstatte and the reform impulse / Heather Hess -- Chapter 7. American fashions for American women : The rise and fall of fashion nationalism / Marlis Schweitzer -- Chapter 8. …”
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Red states, blue states and the coming sharecropper society by Cummings, Stephen D., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…America today -- The great American divide : red states versus blue states -- Red state, blue state demographics -- Implications of a red-state dominated America -- The Democratic Party and the advocacy of a blue-state culture -- Democrats in the 1920s -- William Jennings Bryan and his red-state legacy -- Toward a twenty-first century new deal.…”
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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Tipton -- Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller -- Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie -- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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The Sino-Soviet split Cold War in the communist world / by Luthi, Lorenz M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Historical background, 1921-1955 -- The collapse of socialist unity, 1956-1957 -- Mao's challenges, 1958 -- Visible cracks, 1959 -- World revolution and the collapse of economic relations, 1960 -- Ambiguous truce, 1961-1962 -- Mao resurgent, 1962-1963 -- The American factor, 1962-1963 -- Khrushchev's fall and the collapse of party relations, 1963-1966 -- Vietnam and the collapse of the military alliance, 1964-1966.…”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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Prophets and protons new religious movements and science in late twentieth-century America / by Zeller, Benjamin E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Section I: Science and the Unification Church -- Introduction to Section I -- Science and the foundation of unificationism -- Science and the American Unification Church -- Section II: Science and the Hare Krishna Movement -- Introduction to Section II -- Science and the foundation of the Hare Krishnas -- Science and the expansion of Iskcon -- Section III: Science and Heaven's Gate -- Introduction to Section III -- Science and the foundation of Heaven's Gate -- Science and the end of Heaven's Gate.…”
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Thomas Mann's War : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the German envoy to America -- The teacher of Germany -- The greatest living man of letters -- Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt -- The first citizen of the international republic of letters -- Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar -- Hitler's most intimate enemy -- Interlude III: the tables of the law -- A blooming flower -- Interlude IV: Joseph the provider -- The loyal American subject -- Interlude V: Doctor Faustus -- The isolated world citizen.…”
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Thomas Mann's War : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the German envoy to America -- The teacher of Germany -- The greatest living man of letters -- Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt -- The first citizen of the international republic of letters -- Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar -- Hitler's most intimate enemy -- Interlude III: the tables of the law -- A blooming flower -- Interlude IV: Joseph the provider -- The loyal American subject -- Interlude V: Doctor Faustus -- The isolated world citizen.…”
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Theodor W. Adorno one last genius / by Claussen, Detlev

Table of Contents: “…Adorno : "out of the firing-line" -- Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother -- Fritz Lang, the American friend -- Frankfurt transfer -- Adorno as "identical" man -- The palimpsest of life.…”
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