Search Results - "Preluders"

Lincoln and the election of 1860 by Green, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to a turning point -- Tasting a candidacy -- Everybody's second choice -- From candidate to leader -- The making of the president, 1860.…”
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Army of shadows Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 / by Cohen, Hillel

Table of Contents: “…-- We, the collaborators -- Old collaborators, new traitors -- Unity ends -- The "traitors" counterattack -- World war, local calm -- Prelude to war -- Treason and defeat: the 1948 War.…”
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The World Refugees Made : Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy / by Ballinger, Pamela, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : mobile histories -- Intermezzo : empire as prelude -- Wartime repatriations and the beginnings of decolonization -- Italy's long decolonization in the era of intergovernmentalism -- Displaced persons and the boundaries of citizenship -- Reclaiming fascism, housing the nation -- Conclusion : we will return.…”
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Europe in search of political order an institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift and the co-existence of orders / by Olsen, Johan P.

Table of Contents: “…The possibility of political order -- The legacy : nationalization of political life -- 'Europeanization' : a fashionable and contested term -- A prelude to an institutional account -- What role for Euro-citizens? …”
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Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / by Halbrook, Stephen P.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Nazi seizure of power -- Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg -- Defining enemies of the state -- From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws -- The Gestapo -- Hitler's gun control act -- October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners -- Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom -- Jewish victims speak -- Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?…”
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Lloyd George at war, 1916-1918 by Cassar, George H.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- The home front: The search for a manpower policy ; The challenge of labor ; Controlling shipping and food -- Strategy and the war: The first attempt at a unified command ; Facing the submarine menace ; Prelude to catastrophe ; The horror of Passchendaele ; The peripheral war ; The quest for a negotiated peace ; The creation of the Supreme War Council ; The plans for 1918 ; Before the storm ; Crisis on the western front ; The Maurice Affair ; The origins of intervention in Russia ; The German advance halted ; The turn of the tide ; The road to the armistice -- Conclusion.…”
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New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / by Germany, Kent B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-- A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city -- Establishing the early war on poverty -- Building community action -- Challenging the establishment and the color line -- Making better and happier citizens -- Defusing the southern powder keg -- Making workers and jobs -- Making groceries -- Making a model New Orleans -- The thugs united and the politics of manhood -- Women, welfare, and political mobilization -- Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971 -- Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism -- Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.…”
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The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…The Clash of Two Black Americas -- Black Political Entrepreneurship, 21st Century Style : The Theory of Elite Displacement -- Prelude : The Rise of Cory Booker -- Losing : The 2002 Mayoral Election -- pt. 2. …”
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Scars of war, wounds of peace the Israeli-Arab tragedy / by Ben-Ami, Shlomo

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