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    Writers of the Spanish Civil War the testimony of their auto/biographies /

    Published 2011
    “…Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Participation, American.…”
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    River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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    Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity / by Cox, John David

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Representing America : the American as traveler in the work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.…”
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    Asian American studies now a critical reader /

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. …”
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