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    Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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    Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

    Published 2007
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    Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

    Published 2016
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