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Unvarnishing Reality : Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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Unvarnishing Reality : Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763–1789 / by Coleman, Kenneth

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The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763–1789 / by Coleman, Kenneth

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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion: Representing the poor and forestalling abjection.…”
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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion: Representing the poor and forestalling abjection.…”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination / by Lurie, Peter, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination / by Lurie, Peter, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / by Achenbaum, W. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. …”
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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / by Achenbaum, W. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. …”
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