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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan -- Gender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy -- A refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anti-circumcision paradigms / L. …”
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Creativity and change in Nigerian Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Asaju -- Reinhard Boonke's Crusades in Nigeria / Ezekiel Ajanai -- Youths and Pentecostalism / Essien Offiong -- Women and the politics of change / Dorcas O. …”
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Creativity and change in Nigerian Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Asaju -- Reinhard Boonke's Crusades in Nigeria / Ezekiel Ajanai -- Youths and Pentecostalism / Essien Offiong -- Women and the politics of change / Dorcas O. …”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan -- Gender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy -- A refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anti-circumcision paradigms / L. …”
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Persecution, polemic, and dialogue essays in Jewish-Christian relations / by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Anti-Semitism : an overview -- The Middle Ages. From Crusades to blood libels to expulsions : some new approaches to medieval anti-Semitism -- A generation fo scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the medieval world -- Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages -- Introduction to The Jewish-Christian debate in the high Middle Ages : a critical edition of the Nizzahon vetus with an introduction, translation, and commentary -- On the image and destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic polemical literature -- On the uses of history in medieval Jewish polemic against Christianity : the quest for the historical Jesus -- Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud : a fourteenth-century Jewish response to the attack on rabbinic Judaism -- Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the high Middle Ages -- The Barcelona disputation : review essay -- Christian heresy and Jewish polemic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben : a study in the transmission of medieval polemic -- The attitude of St. …”
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Persecution, polemic, and dialogue essays in Jewish-Christian relations / by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Anti-Semitism : an overview -- The Middle Ages. From Crusades to blood libels to expulsions : some new approaches to medieval anti-Semitism -- A generation fo scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the medieval world -- Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages -- Introduction to The Jewish-Christian debate in the high Middle Ages : a critical edition of the Nizzahon vetus with an introduction, translation, and commentary -- On the image and destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic polemical literature -- On the uses of history in medieval Jewish polemic against Christianity : the quest for the historical Jesus -- Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud : a fourteenth-century Jewish response to the attack on rabbinic Judaism -- Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the high Middle Ages -- The Barcelona disputation : review essay -- Christian heresy and Jewish polemic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben : a study in the transmission of medieval polemic -- The attitude of St. …”
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

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This mighty scourge perspectives on the Civil War / by McPherson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…: Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign ; The last rebel : Jesse James ; Long-legged Yankee lies : the lost cause textbook crusade -- Architects of victory. "We stand by each other always" : Grant and Sherman ; The hard hand of war : Unvexed to the sea : Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg campaign -- Home front and battle front. …”
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This mighty scourge perspectives on the Civil War / by McPherson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…: Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign ; The last rebel : Jesse James ; Long-legged Yankee lies : the lost cause textbook crusade -- Architects of victory. "We stand by each other always" : Grant and Sherman ; The hard hand of war : Unvexed to the sea : Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg campaign -- Home front and battle front. …”
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Between worlds the age of the Jagiellonians /

Table of Contents: “…. / Johannes Preiser Kapeller -- Crusading at the time of the Hungarian royal elections of 1490 : -- Between Matthias Corvinus' succession and John Albert's Moldavian campaign / Alexandru Simon -- Catastrophe or consolidation : Sigismund's response to defeat after the crusade of Nicopolis (1396) / Mark Whelan.…”
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Between worlds the age of the Jagiellonians /

Table of Contents: “…. / Johannes Preiser Kapeller -- Crusading at the time of the Hungarian royal elections of 1490 : -- Between Matthias Corvinus' succession and John Albert's Moldavian campaign / Alexandru Simon -- Catastrophe or consolidation : Sigismund's response to defeat after the crusade of Nicopolis (1396) / Mark Whelan.…”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

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Cross, crescent and conversion studies on medieval Spain and christendom in memory of Richard Fletcher /

Table of Contents: “…Reilly -- Principes et populus : civil society and the first crusade / Christopher Tyerman -- Islam and the West : a view from twelfth-century Leon / Simon Barton -- The tomb of St. …”
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Peripheral visions : politics, society, and the challenges of modernity in Yucatan /

Table of Contents: “…Eiss -- Removing the yoke of tradition : Yucatan's revolutionary women, revolutionary reforms / Stephanie J. Smith -- The crusade of the Mayab : Cardenista modernization and contestation in Yucatan, 1935-1940 / Ben W. …”
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Cross, crescent and conversion studies on medieval Spain and christendom in memory of Richard Fletcher /

Table of Contents: “…Reilly -- Principes et populus : civil society and the first crusade / Christopher Tyerman -- Islam and the West : a view from twelfth-century Leon / Simon Barton -- The tomb of St. …”
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Peripheral visions : politics, society, and the challenges of modernity in Yucatan /

Table of Contents: “…Eiss -- Removing the yoke of tradition : Yucatan's revolutionary women, revolutionary reforms / Stephanie J. Smith -- The crusade of the Mayab : Cardenista modernization and contestation in Yucatan, 1935-1940 / Ben W. …”
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