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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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"The game as it is played" : essays on Theodore Dreiser / by Pizer, Donald

Table of Contents: “…American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser; Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness; American Literary Naturalism in Its "Perfected" State: An American Tragedy and The Age of Innocence; The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Dreiser's Sister Carrie; Late Nineteenth Century American Literary Naturalism: A Re-Introduction -- Dreiser's Works: Theodore Dreiser's "Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic; Toward Sister Carrie: The Sources and Nature of Dreiser's Narrative Method; Introduction to New Essays on "Sister Carrie"; An Evolutionary Reading of Sister Carrie; The Text of Sister Carrie; Introduction to Jennie Gerhardt; Otto Weininger and the Sexual Dynamics of Theodore Dreiser's The "Genius"; Crime and Punishment in Dreiser's An American Tragedy: The Legal Debate.…”
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Letters to Alice birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / by Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932

Table of Contents: “…Prologue, 1853-1883 -- A desert empire -- Princess of the Wild Horse Desert -- A young lawyer establishes himself -- Tragedy strikes -- A friendship deepens -- The love letters, 1884-1887 -- My dear little heart -- My little darling -- My little pet -- My darling little wife -- Epilogue, 1887-2011 -- The children of Robert and Alice -- The dynasty -- The empire continues.…”
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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Liberalism and slave emancipation -- The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution -- Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.…”
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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Liberalism and slave emancipation -- The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution -- Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.…”
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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Freud and the scene of trauma by Fletcher, John, 1948 January 2-

Table of Contents: “…Charcot's hysteria : trauma and the hysterical attack -- Freud's hysteria : "scenes of passionate movement" -- The afterwardsness of trauma and the theory of seduction -- Memory and the key of fantasy -- The scenography of trauma : Oedipus as tragedy and complex -- Leonardo's screen memory -- Flying and painting : Leonardo's rival sublimations -- The transference and its prototypes -- The wolf man I : constructing the primal scene -- The wolf man II : interpreting the primal scene -- Trauma and the genealogy of the death drive -- Uncanny repetitions : Freud, Hoffmann, and the death-work.…”
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Freud and the scene of trauma by Fletcher, John, 1948 January 2-

Table of Contents: “…Charcot's hysteria : trauma and the hysterical attack -- Freud's hysteria : "scenes of passionate movement" -- The afterwardsness of trauma and the theory of seduction -- Memory and the key of fantasy -- The scenography of trauma : Oedipus as tragedy and complex -- Leonardo's screen memory -- Flying and painting : Leonardo's rival sublimations -- The transference and its prototypes -- The wolf man I : constructing the primal scene -- The wolf man II : interpreting the primal scene -- Trauma and the genealogy of the death drive -- Uncanny repetitions : Freud, Hoffmann, and the death-work.…”
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Race and remembrance a memoir / by Johnson, Arthur L., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Early years -- Dear old Morehouse -- Detroit NAACP -- Detroit public schools -- Two tragedies, 1967-1968 -- Wayne State University -- President of Detroit NAACP -- Friendship with Damon -- Death of three sons -- Searching for the good life -- Eulogies -- Joseph Hudson new Detroit letter -- William Patrick new Detroit letter -- A commitment to the NAACP -- "Buy Detroit" campaign -- Third term as Detroit NAACP president -- Rodney King verdict and twelve-point plan.…”
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A short history of medical genetics by Harper, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.…”
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Idealism and existentialism Hegel and nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy / by Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley)

Table of Contents: “…Hegel and the myth of reason -- Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit as a systematic fragment -- The architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Points of contact in the philosophy of religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard's criticism of the absence of ethics in Hegel's system -- Kierkegaard's criticism of abstraction and his proposed solution: appropriation -- Kierkegaard's recurring criticism of Hegel's The good and conscience -- Hegel and Nietzsche on the death of tragedy and Greek ethical life -- Existentialist ethics -- Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartre's theory of freedom -- Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on consciousness and bad faith.…”
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Roman republican theatre by Manuwald, Gesine

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Grand theater regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / by Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Chernykh -- "My friend, I've hit rock bottom" : politics and friendship -- A tragedy : the terror -- Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941 -- "Stop this petty tyranny" : letters and the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941 -- Proprietary professionalism : mine by right, 1938-1941.…”
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Individualism the cultural logic of modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer -- A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski -- Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner -- "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan -- Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise -- Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical self�a / Joanne Myers -- The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong -- Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph -- The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni -- Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein -- Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny -- Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann -- The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno -- On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin -- The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall -- The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook -- The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck -- Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.…”
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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. …”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Along Navajo Trails Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 / by Evans, Will, b. 1877

Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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