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A history of book publishing in contemporary Latin America / by Sorá, Gustavo, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War in Latin American culture in the sixties -- Part 3. …”
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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Jaffe, Steven H.

Table of Contents: “…: The Young Lords and Puerto Rican Activism -- From Civil Rights to Black Power -- Asian American Activism -- Urban Crisis and Revival: 1973-2011 -- Chapter Fifteen "Don't Move! …”
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The practice of U.S. women's history narratives, intersections, and dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…Macleitch -- From daughters of liberty to women of the republic : American women in the era of the American Revolution / Susan Branson -- Southern women of color and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 / Betty Wood -- From dawn to dusk : women's work in the Antebellum Era / Inge Dornan and Jay Kleinberg -- To bind up the nation's wounds : women and the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- Turner's ghost : a personal retrospective on western women's history / Susan Armitage -- Gender and U.S. imperialism in U.S. women's history / Laura Briggs -- Chinese American women in U.S. history : explaining representations of exotic others, passive objects, and active subjects / Shirley Hune -- Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women in the United States / Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. …”
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Desert visions and the making of Phoenix, 1860-2009 by VanderMeer, Philip R., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The first desert vision : an American Eden: Civilizing the desert : the initial phase ; Building the modern city : physical form and function ; Shaping the modern American city : social construction -- pt. 2. …”
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A concise history of Bolivia by Klein, Herbert S.

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Political writings by Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…-- From "A Conversation: Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos" -- PART 4: 1938-1945 -- Historical Commentary -- War Is a Racket -- Equity Between Nations -- American Democracy Against Fascism -- Loyalist Spain: July 1938 -- Statement on Anti-Semitism -- The Dawn Is in the East -- From "Civilization: Where? …”
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Other pasts, different presents, alternative futures / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

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Mississippi : a history / by Busbee, Westley F.

Table of Contents: “…Mississippi : the name and the place -- Two worlds collide : Spanish explorers and American indians -- French colonies -- The British period, 1763-1781 -- Spanish rule, 1781-1798 -- The territorial period, 1798-1817 -- The new state, 1817-1832 -- Antebellum politics -- Antebellum life -- Mounting sectional strife -- Secession and Civil War -- Reconstruction in Mississippi -- Bourbons and populists -- Into the twentieth century : economic and social trends -- Progressive "rednecks" -- A new era, the 1920s -- The Depression years -- A rich cultural heritage -- The World War II era -- The fifties -- Religious life -- The second Reconstruction -- Times of transition -- The social environment -- Recent political trends -- Tumultuous trends in education -- Recent economic trends -- Into the twenty-first century -- Living in the twenty-first century -- Appendix I: European rulers with relation to Mississippi during the colonial and territorial periods -- Appendix II: Members of the U.S. …”
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Ohio and the World, 1753-2053 : Essays Toward a New History of Ohio /

Table of Contents: “…Cayton -- A german chocolate cake, with white coconut icing : Ohio and the native American world / R. David Edmunds -- Race and region : Ohio, America's middle ground / James Oliver Horton -- Ohio and the world : the civil war era / Eric Foner -- Ohio 1903 : heartland of progressive reform / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Ohio : problems and prospects, 1940s-1980s / James T. …”
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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /

Table of Contents: “…Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. …”
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The right to play oneself looking back on documentary film / by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes -- Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984) -- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975) -- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American Popular Front (1990) -- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990) -- Beyond Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977) -- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08) -- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984) -- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period (1997) -- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990) -- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).…”
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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…King -- Ideological cleavage, political competition, and policy making in the American states / by Charles J. Barrilleaux -- The civil state: trust, polarization, and the quality of state government / by Eric M. …”
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Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…: Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. …”
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The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization : A History of Entanglements /

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Cultural policy, work and identity the creation, renewal and negotiation of professional subjectivities /

Table of Contents: “…Theories of professional identity : bringing cultural policy in perspective / Jonathan Paquette -- Cultural policy and the promotion of World War I heritage sites in France : emerging professions and hybrid practices / Anne Hertzog -- Cultural democracy and the creation of new professional subjectivities : the case of cultural mediation / Jonathan Paquette -- Technology, cultural policy and the public service broadcasting tradition : professional practices at BBC news in the social media era / Valérie Bélair-Gagnon -- Curators and the state, a question of interdependencies : the case of France / Frédéric Poulard -- Policy rationale and agency : the notion of civil society organizations in Swedish cultural policy / Tobias Harding -- Museum volunteers : between precarious labour and democratic knowledge community / Susan Ashley -- The transcendental fan : navigating the producer-consumer dichotomy and cultural policy in the digital age / Devin Beauregard -- American cultural policy and the rise of arts management program : the invention of a new professional subjectivity / Eleonora Redaelli -- Becoming a cultural entrepreneur : creative industries, culture-led regeneration and identity work / Jennifer Hinves -- Cultural policy and agency in a cultural minority context : artistic creation and cultural management in northern Ontario / Aurélie Lacassagne -- Being part of the "supercreative core" : artists and the experience of local policy in the creative era / Caroline Agnew.…”
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Arming slaves from classical times to the modern age /

Table of Contents: “…Civil War / Joseph P. Reidy -- Armed slaves and anticolonial insurgency in late nineteenth-century Cuba / Ada Ferrer -- The arming of slaves in comparative perspective / Christopher Leslie Brown.…”
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Corruption, global security, and world order

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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

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Vampires and a Reasonable Dictionary / by Radaković, Žarko, Abbott, Scott, 1962-

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Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor /

Table of Contents: “…Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank -- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg -- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. …”
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