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In the Presence of Audience : The Self in Diaries and Fiction / by Martinson, Deborah, 1946-

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Colonial culture in France since the revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Spreading the word : the Agence générale des colonies (1920-1931) /…”
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Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Wingfield and Maria Bucur -- Challenging gender roles/restoring order -- "Female generals" and "Siberian angels" : aristocratic nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW relief / Alon Rachamimov -- Civilizing the soldier in postwar Austria / Maureen Healy -- Between Red Army and White Guard : women in Budapest, 1919 / Eliza Ablovatski -- Gendered collaborating and resisting -- Dumplings and domesticity : women, collaboration, and resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Melissa Feinberg -- Denouncers and fraternizers : gender, collaboration, and retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and after / Benjamin Frommer -- Family, gender, and ideology in World War II Latvia / Mara Lazda -- Remembering war : gendered bodies, gendered stories -- Kosovo maiden(s) : Serbian women commemorate the wars of national liberation, 1912-1918 / Melissa Bokovoy -- Women's stories as sites of memory : gender and remembering Romania's world wars / Maria Bucur -- The nation's pain and women's shame : Polish women and wartime violence / Katherine R. …”
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Style in African literature essays on literary stylistics and narrative styles /

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. General perspectives -- pt. II. Perspectives on fiction -- pt. …”
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Logos and máthema studies in the philosophy of mathematics and history of logic / by Murawski, Roman

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy of mathematics (in general) --- pt. 2. Hilbert's program vs. incompleteness phenomenon -- pt. 3. …”
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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont unlikely champion of women's rights / by Hoffert, Sylvia D.

Table of Contents: “…An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.…”
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After Wallace the 1986 contest for governor and political change in Alabama / by Cotter, Patrick R.

Table of Contents: “…The dominance of George Wallace -- Wallace's final exit -- The Wallace legacy -- The 1986 primary election -- Runoff -- Challenge -- Democratic aftermath -- The general election -- Consequences -- Explanations -- Appendix A: Survey methodology -- Appendix B: Election results.…”
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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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Subjects and objects art, essentialism, and abstraction / by Strayer, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…On subjects and objects and works of art : general considerations and basic points of relevance to essentialist abstraction -- pt. 3. …”
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The Delirium of praise Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski / by Kaufman, Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Noli me legere (Don't read me) -- Chattering silences : Bataille and Blanchot on Louis-René des Forêt's Le Bavard -- "Oh my friends, there is no friend" : Blanchot, Foucault, and Derrida -- Madness and repetition : the absence of work in Deleuze, Foucault, and Jacques Martin -- Bodies, sickness, and disjunction : Deleuze, Klossowski, and the revocation of Nietzsche -- Objects, reserve, and the general economy : Klossowski, Bataille, and Sade -- Conclusion : intellectual hospitality.…”
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The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II

Table of Contents: “…Who's afraid of Marcel Proust? the failure of general education in the American university / John Guillory -- Demography and curriculum : the humanities in American higher education from the 1950s through the 1980s / Roger L. …”
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Defining the peace World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / by Brooks, Jennifer E.

Table of Contents: “…union veterans and the politics of labor -- We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government, veterans and the politics of modernization -- Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the General Assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress.…”
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To know her own history : writing at the woman's college, 1943-1963 / by Ritter, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…Her history matters: the United States normal school and the roots of women's public education -- In her own words: the yearling and first-year writing, 1948-51 -- Revisionist history: general education reform from Harvard University to the woman's college, 1943-56 -- The double-helix of creative/composition: Randall Jarrell, May Bush, and the politics of writing programs, 1947-63 -- What's in a name? …”
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The prestige of violence American fiction, 1962-2007 / by Bachner, Sally, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The prestige of violence: American fiction, 1962-2007 -- Zembla in The New York Times: Pale fire's historical violence -- Monks and "The mind of Watts": Vietnam in The crying of Lot 49 -- Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's The armies of the night -- Veterans of sex: feminist fiction and the rise of PTSD -- "Words generally only spoil things": fantasy, testimony, and trauma in the work of Philip Roth -- "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the violent politics of language -- After the aftermath: American fiction since 2007.…”
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Fighting the devil in Dixie how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / by Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…-- Education of a liberal -- Country boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The southern courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream".…”
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Just past? the making of Israeli archaeology / by Kletter, Raz

Table of Contents: “…Archaeology and the 1948 war -- Abandoned places, new places -- Foreign aid -- Frozen funds -- A battalion of guards -- Relief work -- Man robs his land : "agreement" with General Dayan -- "Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon" : 3,000 shekels -- The building beyond the border : the PAM, 1948-67 -- A building of dreams : a home for the IDAM and the origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem -- A dead man on the council : the story of the supreme archaeological body in Israel -- "But trust comes from the heart" : travels with the Government Tourist Corporation -- "Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent to a synagogue, or under a synagogue" : the Safad affair -- The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations -- Myths and conclusions.…”
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Trends and issues in African philosophy by Ochieng'-Odhiambo, F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The historical phase -- Western discourse on Africa -- Egyptology : an African response -- Afrocentricity -- Conclusion -- African philosophy as ethnophilosophy -- Tempels on Bantu philosophy -- African religions and philosophy -- Horton on African and western thought systems -- Other ethnophilsophers and general critiques -- The professional approach -- Ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy -- Myth and reality of African philosophy -- Traditional thought and modern philosophy in Africa -- Wiredu's truth as opinion -- A case against the professional school -- Philosophic sagacity --Sage philosophy and philosophic sagacity -- Relevance of sagacious reasoning -- Keita's objections -- Three ways of approaching philosophic sagacity -- Masolo on philosophic sagacity -- Odera Oruka's mission in African philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy and ethnophilosophy -- Consciencism -- Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism -- African socialism and federalism in post-colonial Africa -- African philosophical hermeneutics -- Universalism and particularism -- Hermeneutical orientation in African philosophy.…”
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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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Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”
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The star, the cross, and the crescent religions and conflicts in Francophone literature from the Arab world / by Bourget, Carine

Table of Contents: “…The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Amin Maalouf's Les Croisades vues par les Arabes and Les échelles du Levant, Myriam Antaki's Les versets du pardon -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict beyond the Middle East: Albert Memmi, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Farid Boudjellal, and Karin Albou -- The Lebanese Civil War: Andrée Chédid's La maison sans racines and Evelyne Accad's L'excisée -- The Algerian Civil War: Rachid Boudjedra's Le FIS de la haine, Rachid Mimouni's De la barbarie en général et de l'intégrisme en particulier, and Une enfance algérienne -- Islam and the French Republic: the affair of the Muslim headscarf in works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Amin Maalouf, Albert Memmi, Leïla Sebbar, and Yamina Benguigui -- Portrait of a terrorist: Slimane Benaïssa and Salim Bachi's 9/11 novels -- Conclusion: the politics of translation: Francophone literature from the Arab World in the U.S.…”
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