Search Results - "Elections"

A faraway, familiar place an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea / by Smith, Michael French

Table of Contents: “…-- Ancestors on paper -- Meetings and magic -- Preferential ballots and primeval brothers -- A clean election and its messy aftermath -- Life goes on -- God the father, the son, his mom, and the holy spirit -- No two ways about it -- The long good-bye -- One more look.…”
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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / by Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…What kept abolition alive in Boston? -- The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 and Boston's upper class -- Booker T. …”
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Invisible activists women of the Louisiana NAACP and the struggle for civil rights, 1915-1945 / by Sartain, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Weapons of the utmost value : NAACP organizational history, 1909-1945 -- The sympathy of women : Black women's involvement in Louisiana civil rights up to 1920 -- Destined to bring splendid results : NAACP women's auxiliaries and networks, 1921-1945 -- God's valiant minority : teachers and civil rights -- Leaders who persevere : elected officials -- We are but Americans : Miss Georgia M. …”
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Without precedent the life of Susie Marshall Sharp / by Hayes, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…Family -- Formative years -- University of North Carolina School of Law -- False start -- Sharp & Sharp -- Politics and public life -- Appointment to Superior Court -- Judge Sharp, presiding -- Ambition -- Theory and practice -- The road to the Supreme Court -- Taking the veil -- Opinions -- Federal job proposals -- Out of court -- Chief justice election -- Chief justice -- Equal rights amendment -- Stepping off the stage.…”
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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / by Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…What kept abolition alive in Boston? -- The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 and Boston's upper class -- Booker T. …”
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Environmental policy analysis and practice by Greenberg, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…The reaction of elected officials and staff criterion : the brownfields redevelopment policy -- The reaction of nongovernment stakeholder groups criterion : environmental cancer and cancer clusters -- Scientist stakeholder criterion : gasoline additives -- Economic criterion : costs of environmental management -- Ethics criterion : international trade in pesticides and genetically modified crops -- Time and flexibility criterion : nuclear power revisited -- Policy measurement and assessment tools -- Decision-making and communication tools.…”
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Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / by McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.…”
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Environmental policy analysis and practice by Greenberg, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…The reaction of elected officials and staff criterion : the brownfields redevelopment policy -- The reaction of nongovernment stakeholder groups criterion : environmental cancer and cancer clusters -- Scientist stakeholder criterion : gasoline additives -- Economic criterion : costs of environmental management -- Ethics criterion : international trade in pesticides and genetically modified crops -- Time and flexibility criterion : nuclear power revisited -- Policy measurement and assessment tools -- Decision-making and communication tools.…”
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Print technology in Scotland and America, 1740-1800 / by McAuley, Louis Kirk, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America -- To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm -- The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian -- Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800 -- "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.…”
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The saddest country on assignment in Colombia / by Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Blood Canyon : Barrancabermeja -- Down the Magdalena River : Puerto Wilches, San Pablo, Simití, Santa Rosa -- Old Colombia : Mompox, El Banco, Cartagena, and Old Providence -- Banana country : Turbo, Apartadó, San José, Chigorodó, and Pavarandó -- Returning to Darién : the Cuenca del Cacarica -- Quibdó, the Medio Atrato, and the Pacific Coast -- In the fields of the drug lords -- Despatches from the Colombian elections : July 1997 to August 1998 -- To the Llanos : Villavicencio, Puerto Inírida, and El Tuparro -- The Royal Ways, the Nevados, and Armero -- Putumayo : coke is it -- Bogotá -- News of a kidnapping -- Lunch with Lucía -- Just another day at the office.…”
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Inequality and instability a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / by Galbraith, James K.

Table of Contents: “…The physics and ethics of inequality -- The need for new inequality measures -- Pay inequality and world development -- Estimating the inequality of household incomes -- Economic inequality and political regimes -- The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 -- State-level income inequality and American elections -- Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels -- European wages and the flexibility thesis -- Globalization and inequality in China -- Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil -- Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse -- Economic inequality and the world crisis.…”
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Religious rhetoric and American politics the endurance of civil religion in electoral campaigns / by Chapp, Christopher B., 1979-

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Inequality and instability a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / by Galbraith, James K.

Table of Contents: “…The physics and ethics of inequality -- The need for new inequality measures -- Pay inequality and world development -- Estimating the inequality of household incomes -- Economic inequality and political regimes -- The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 -- State-level income inequality and American elections -- Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels -- European wages and the flexibility thesis -- Globalization and inequality in China -- Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil -- Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse -- Economic inequality and the world crisis.…”
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Religious rhetoric and American politics the endurance of civil religion in electoral campaigns / by Chapp, Christopher B., 1979-

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The Obama presidency promise and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Paulson -- Recalibrating the Obama presidency : the off-year elections and their consequences / Maureen F. Moakley -- Principles and pragmatism in the Obama presidency / William Crotty.…”
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The saddest country on assignment in Colombia / by Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Blood Canyon : Barrancabermeja -- Down the Magdalena River : Puerto Wilches, San Pablo, Simití, Santa Rosa -- Old Colombia : Mompox, El Banco, Cartagena, and Old Providence -- Banana country : Turbo, Apartadó, San José, Chigorodó, and Pavarandó -- Returning to Darién : the Cuenca del Cacarica -- Quibdó, the Medio Atrato, and the Pacific Coast -- In the fields of the drug lords -- Despatches from the Colombian elections : July 1997 to August 1998 -- To the Llanos : Villavicencio, Puerto Inírida, and El Tuparro -- The Royal Ways, the Nevados, and Armero -- Putumayo : coke is it -- Bogotá -- News of a kidnapping -- Lunch with Lucía -- Just another day at the office.…”
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The Obama presidency promise and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Paulson -- Recalibrating the Obama presidency : the off-year elections and their consequences / Maureen F. Moakley -- Principles and pragmatism in the Obama presidency / William Crotty.…”
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A political nation new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history /

Table of Contents: “…Freehling; Where was Henry Clay? president-elect Abraham Lincoln and the crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 / William J. …”
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A political nation new directions in mid-nineteenth-century American political history /

Table of Contents: “…Freehling; Where was Henry Clay? president-elect Abraham Lincoln and the crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 / William J. …”
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists : FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 / by Charles, Douglas M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background -- Beginnings : war, phony war, and election, 1939-40 -- Intensification : the lend-lease debate, America First, and its allies, December 1940 to summer 1941 -- Focus : from great debate stalemate to wartime probe, mid-1941 to summer 1942 -- Retribution : the FBI and the Victory Program leak, 4 December 1941 to mid-1942 -- Blossoming of the domestic security state, November 1941 to March 1942 -- Conclusion.…”
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