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Culture in chaos an anthropology of the social condition in war / by Lubkemann, Stephen C., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "ordering of violent things" : war and displacement -- Contending with colonialism : migration and resistance -- Other struggles : migration and the transformation of social relations -- Imposing the new Mozambique : sowing the seeds of postcolonial disillusion -- Society and the state : mutual misrecognition at the gathering of war -- Prosecuting life by other means : the social logic of violence in a fragmented war -- Terrains of displacement : war-time mobility and immobility -- Tambem aqui fazemos amor : living in war -- Postconflict displacements : the social problematics of refugee return -- Transnational contentions : the moral economy of postconflict migration -- Where to be an ancestor? …”
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Virginia at war, 1862

Table of Contents: “…Frye -- Diary of a Southern refugee during the war, January-July 1862 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire ; edited by James I. …”
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Transit Migration in Europe /

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Virginia at war, 1861

Table of Contents: “…Stuart McGehee -- Diary of a Southern refugee during the War, 1861 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire.…”
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The Post-Conflict Environment : Investigation and Critique /

Table of Contents: “…The post-conflict environment : a genealogy / Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy -- Statebuilding in a vacuum : Sierra Leone and the missing international political economy of civil wars / Catherine Goetze -- The performance and politics of trauma in northern Iraq / Sarah Keeler -- Algeria and the violence of national reconciliation / Jacob Mundy -- The work of exile : protracted refugee situations and the new Palestinian normal / Romola Sanyal -- Constructing reconstruction : building Kosovo's post-conflict environment / Andrew Herscher -- International finance and the reconstruction of Beirut : war by other means? …”
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Migration in the Southern Balkans From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States /

Table of Contents: “…The Balkan gurbet: Traditional patterns and new trends: Petko Hristov -- 3. Refugees as tools of irredentist policies: Raymond Detrez -- 4. …”
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Caught in the Middle East U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1945-1961 /

Table of Contents: “…I: Genesis: the Palestine conflict to 1945 -- Security and politics: the context of U.S. policy toward Palestine after 1945 -- Ambivalence: Truman's policy toward Palestine, 1945-1947 -- Diplomacy and conflict: the creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war of 1948-1949 -- II: Security commitments: U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East, 1949-1953 -- Presidential passivity: Truman and the peace process, 1949-1953 -- Repatriation versus resettlement: the Palestinian refugee crisis, 1949-1953 -- Holy places: the question of Jerusalem, 1949-1953 -- Tangled web: the U.S. failure to solve multiple controversies, 1949-1953 -- The impact of conflict: U.S. relations with Israel and the Arab states, 1949-1953 -- III: Cold War framework: U.S. perspectives on the Middle East, 1953-1957 -- Border wars: Eisenhower, Dulles, and Arab-Israeli frontiers, 1953-1955 -- Cornucopia of conflict: water, Jerusalem, refugees, and trade, 1953-1955 -- Stillborn: the U.S. peace process and the resumption of war, 1955-1956 -- Desperation diplomacy: U.S. policy during the Suez-Sinai war of 1956 -- Persistent conflict: the aftermath of the Suez-Sinai war -- IV: Security affirmed: U.S. regional considerations in the Middle East after the Suez-Sinai war -- Containing conflict: U.S. efforts to avert Arab-Israeli clashes, 1957-1961 -- Selective activism: U.S. efforts to solve Arab-Israeli disputes, 1957-1961 -- Cost of conflict: U.S. relations with Israel and the Arab states, 1953-1961 -- Caught in the Middle East.…”
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Angel Island immigrant gateway to America / by Lee, Erika

Table of Contents: “…"Seeking Freedom and a Good Living": Russian Immigrants and Refugees on Angel Island -- Chapter 7. "El Norte": Mexican Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 8. …”
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Diversity in diaspora Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…The American experience of the Hmong : a historical review / by Kou Yang -- Hmong Americans : a demographic portrait / by Mark Pfeifer -- An analysis of poverty in Hmong American communities / by Yang Sao Xiong -- Civic values and political engagement in two Hmong American communities / by Carolyn Wong -- Electoral participation in the Hmong American community : an initial analysis / by Stephen Doherty -- Great expectations : the struggles of Hmong American high school boys / by Bic Ngo and Pa Nhia Lor -- Women in the Hmong diaspora / by Dia Cha -- Hmong Americans : the conceptualization and experience of aging in the United States / by Linda Gerdner -- The double diaspora : China and Laos in the folklore of Hmong American refugees / by Jeremy Hein -- "Reharmonizing" the generations : rap, poetry, and Hmong oral tradition / by Nick Poss -- Haunting and inhabitation in Yang's Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir / by Monica Chiu -- Hmong American studies : a bibliographic essay / by Mark Pfeifer.…”
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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Beyond Borders : Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma / by Chang, Wen-Chin, 1964-

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Transitional justice

Table of Contents: “…/ Gopal Sreenivasan -- When more may be less : transitional justice in East Timor / David Cohen and Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb -- Reconciliation, refugee returns, and the impact of international criminal justice : the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Monika Nalepa.…”
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Architects after architecture : alternative pathways for practice /

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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. …”
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Tania El Khoury's Live Art : Collaborative Knowledge Production /

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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Postgrowth Imaginaries : New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain / by Pradanos, Luis I.

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Sacral grooves, limbo gateways : travels in deep Southern time, Circum-Caribean space, Afro-Creole authority / by Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Les Invisibles -- Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans -- Making Faces at the Sublime : Momentum from within Creole City -- Part Three. …”
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To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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California Mennonites by Froese, Brian, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Going to California: the Mennonite migration -- Alone in the garden: boosters, migrants, and refugees -- Urban dystopia and divine nature: the early Mennonite colonies -- Outsiders from within: defining California Mennonite identity -- New neighbors: confronting racial and religious pluralism -- From sewing circles to missionary societies: the public roles of women in the church -- Peaceful patriots: California Mennonites during World War II -- Socially active Mennonitism and mental health: the origins of Kings View Homes -- Feeding the hungry: a story of piety and professionalization -- Protect and assimilate: evangelical education in California -- Labor tensions: Mennonite growers, the UFW, and the farm labor problem -- From digging gold to saving souls: the transformation of California Mennonite identity -- Epilogue. a new breed of Mennonites.…”
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