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Anne McCaffrey a life with dragons / by Roberts, Robin, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…An Irish family heritage -- Adolescence and a time of war -- College days and marriage -- Annie and Virginia -- Emigration and a best-seller -- Struggling with success -- Being a fairy godmother -- The grand master.…”
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The other Black Bostonians West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950 / by Johnson, Violet Showers

Table of Contents: “…Origins of migration : British West Indian economy, society, and the lure of emigration -- Work and housing in "freedom's birthplace" -- Identity, culture, and community -- Militant immigrants and relentless ex-colonials? …”
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The other Black Bostonians West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950 / by Johnson, Violet Showers

Table of Contents: “…Origins of migration : British West Indian economy, society, and the lure of emigration -- Work and housing in "freedom's birthplace" -- Identity, culture, and community -- Militant immigrants and relentless ex-colonials? …”
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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Lalo, Alexei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques -- Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence -- Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov -- Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age -- Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing -- Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel -- Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry -- Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.…”
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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Lalo, Alexei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques -- Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence -- Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov -- Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age -- Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing -- Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel -- Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry -- Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.…”
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Creek paths and federal roads Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / by Hudson, Angela Pulley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : old paths, new paths -- Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country -- Settling boundaries and negotiating access -- Opening roads through Creek country -- War comes to the Creeks -- A new wave of emigration -- Remapping Creek country.…”
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Creek paths and federal roads Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / by Hudson, Angela Pulley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : old paths, new paths -- Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country -- Settling boundaries and negotiating access -- Opening roads through Creek country -- War comes to the Creeks -- A new wave of emigration -- Remapping Creek country.…”
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Reading the Irish Woman : Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714–1960 / by Meaney, Gerardine, 1962-, Whelan, Bernadette, O'Dowd, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Enlightenment; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Emigration; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Modernism; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Reading the Irish Woman : Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714–1960 / by Meaney, Gerardine, 1962-, Whelan, Bernadette, O'Dowd, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Enlightenment; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Emigration; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Modernism; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Raising freedom's child Black children and visions of the future after slavery / by Mitchell, Mary Niall

Table of Contents: “…Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. …”
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Raising freedom's child Black children and visions of the future after slavery / by Mitchell, Mary Niall

Table of Contents: “…Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. …”
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Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history / by Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Table of Contents: “…The subject-citizen: a colonial anomaly -- Legal citizenship and the long shadow of the partition -- Aspirational citizenship: migrants and emigrants -- Pedagogies of duty, protestations of rights -- The unsocial compact -- Social citizenship in neo-liberal times -- Genealogies of mediated citizenship -- Passages from backwardness to citizenship -- The future of the civic community.…”
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Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history / by Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Table of Contents: “…The subject-citizen: a colonial anomaly -- Legal citizenship and the long shadow of the partition -- Aspirational citizenship: migrants and emigrants -- Pedagogies of duty, protestations of rights -- The unsocial compact -- Social citizenship in neo-liberal times -- Genealogies of mediated citizenship -- Passages from backwardness to citizenship -- The future of the civic community.…”
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Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connected lives and legends / by Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010

Table of Contents: “…Robert Burns : a brief biography -- Burns' poetry comes to America -- The Lincoln-Burns connection -- Scottish émigrés and Scottish ideas in Lincoln's world -- Burns and Lincoln in historical memory -- Epilogue : the dilemmas of democratic fame -- Appendix A : selected Burns verses -- Appendix B : selected Lincoln documents.…”
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Memoirs red and white : Poland, the war, and after / by Dembowski, Peter F. (Peter Florian), 1925-

Table of Contents: “…"Red" : The Old Country and War -- Family -- Life before September 1939 -- The War Years -- Liberation and Emigration -- Part Two. "White" : The New Country -- Canada -- Paris, Marriage, London -- Back to Canada -- Back to School -- University of Toronto -- Bernard Weinberg and His University -- Les Eboulements.…”
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Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connected lives and legends / by Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010

Table of Contents: “…Robert Burns : a brief biography -- Burns' poetry comes to America -- The Lincoln-Burns connection -- Scottish émigrés and Scottish ideas in Lincoln's world -- Burns and Lincoln in historical memory -- Epilogue : the dilemmas of democratic fame -- Appendix A : selected Burns verses -- Appendix B : selected Lincoln documents.…”
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Memoirs red and white : Poland, the war, and after / by Dembowski, Peter F. (Peter Florian), 1925-

Table of Contents: “…"Red" : The Old Country and War -- Family -- Life before September 1939 -- The War Years -- Liberation and Emigration -- Part Two. "White" : The New Country -- Canada -- Paris, Marriage, London -- Back to Canada -- Back to School -- University of Toronto -- Bernard Weinberg and His University -- Les Eboulements.…”
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From Kabbalah to class struggle expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / by Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…-- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.…”
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From Kabbalah to class struggle expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / by Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…-- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.…”
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Distorted mirrors Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Russia -- "Soviet Sam" and the émigrés -- The boys from Riga -- Assignment in Utopia -- Honeymooners -- Chums -- Mr. …”
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