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    Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 /

    Published 2017
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    The Viennese caf�e and fin-de-si�ecle culture

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Charlotte Ashby -- The cafes of Vienna: space and sociability / Charlotte Ashby -- Time and space in the Cafes Griensteidl and the Cafes Central / Gilbert Carr -- 'The Jew belongs in the coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and modernity / Steven Beller -- Coffeehouse orientalism / Tag Gronberg -- Between 'the house of study' and the Kaffeehaus: the Central European cafes as a site for Hebrew and Yiddish modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Michalik's cafes in Krakow: cafes and caricature as media of modernity / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- The coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: similarities and differences with the Viennese coffeehouse / Ines Sabotic -- Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: reception, reinvention, reproduction / Mary Costello -- Graphic and interior design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900 : experience and identity / Jeremy Aynsley -- The cliche of the Viennese cafes as an extended living-room: formal - parallels and differences / Richard Kurdiovsky -- Coffeehouses and tea parties: conversational spaces as a stimulus to creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London / Edward Timms.…”
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    The United States and the end of British colonial rule in Africa, 1941-1968 by Hubbard, James P. (James Patrick), 1945-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…The United States and colonies, 1941-1945: Roosevelt seizes the high moral ground -- Churchill, Britain, and empire, 1941-1945: hands off the British empire -- The Truman administration, 1945-1952: global power and colonies -- Great Britain, the United States and colonial issues in the United Nations, 1946-1952: in the middle of the road -- Colonial reform in London, 1946-1952: fresh ideas -- Colonial reform in West Africa, 1946-1952: a good beginning -- Colonial reform in East and Central Africa, 1946-1952: rural revolt and federation -- Egypt, Britain, the United States, and the Sudan, 1946-1954: a bargaining chip -- The Eisenhower administration and British Africa, 1953-1960: at arm's length -- Colonialism in the United Nations during the Eisenhower years, 1953-1960: still in the middle -- Colonial policy under the conservatives, 1952-1959: foot dragging -- Anglo-American sponsored development: a road not taken -- West Africa and the Sudan, 1953-1960: final steps -- East Africa, 1953-1959: political transformations -- Central Africa, 1953-1959: hopes unfulfilled -- British colonial policy, 1959-1960: Macleod accelerates the pace -- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1959-1960: rough waters -- Kennedy, Macmillan, and Africa, 1961-1963: a new style -- West and East Africa, 1961-1963: carrying on regardless -- Central Africa, 1961-1963: end of federation -- Johnson and British colonial Africa, 1963-1968: no rescue.…”
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    Infant mortality a continuing social problem /

    Published 2006
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    Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity /

    Published 2020
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