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The deadliest outlaws the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch / by Burton, Jeffrey, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Dead to rights --16. Points of law -- 17. Atkins saddles the ocean -- 18. An anniversary for George Scarborough -- 19. …”
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Angel Island immigrant gateway to America / by Lee, Erika

Table of Contents: “…"One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws": Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 3. …”
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Religion und Politik im Mittelalter Deutschland und England im Vergleich = Religion and politics in the Middle Ages : Germany and England by comparison /

Table of Contents: “…Jahrhundert / Dominik Wassenhoven -- Individual and collective sinning in tenth- and eleventh-century England : penance, piety and the law / Catherine Cubitt -- A view from afar : English perspectives on religion and politics in the investiture conflict / Stuart Airlie -- Der Investiturstreit und das Verhaltnis von Religion und Politik im Frühmittelalter / Ludger Körntgen -- Karl der Grosse ± ein "politischer Heiliger" im 12. …”
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Early Bourbon Spanish America politics and society in a forgotten era (1700-1759) /

Table of Contents: “…Eissa-Barroso -- From Peru to the Jacobite court: the multiple spaces of social mobility during the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon rule / Nuria Sala i Vila -- The global politics of the transatlantic slave trade during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715 / Aaron Alejandro Olivas -- Jorge de Villalonga's entourage: political networking and administrative reform in Santa Fe (1717-1723) / Ainara Vazquez Varela -- Trade control, law and flexibility: merchants and crown interests in Panama, 1700-1750 / Silvia Espelt Bombin -- "The Indians long for change": the secularization of regular parishes in New Spain, 1749-1755 / Christoph Rosenmuller.…”
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Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- "It's a girl" -- You don't start out as chief justice -- Into the twentieth century as a lawyer legislator -- A new associate justice -- An unrelenting judicial warrior in south carolina's video poker wars -- Toal on torts (1987-2014) -- Abbeville county school district v. state : changing south carolinar -- Bringing the courts into the twenty-first century -- Family, friends, and community -- The sisterhood of the ladder : the impact of chief justice toal on the rise in participation of women in the legal profession in south carolina -- Personal reflections collected by amelia waring walker -- The lady's a leader -- The hoefer girls -- Observations of chief justice jean hoefer toal -- From my vantage point -- Destined for the records book -- My first glimpse -- An amazing lady -- Reflections of a law clerk -- National leader -- Heeding the call -- Quintessential south carolinian.…”
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Brazil a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio Garcia, Moacir Palmeira -- Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer -- Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer -- Culture and society / Renato Ortiz -- From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira -- Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço -- The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque -- When the future arrives / Celso Furtado -- The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas -- Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim -- Quo Vadis, Brazil? …”
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Citizenship and identity in a multinational commonwealth Poland-Lithuania in context, 1550-1772 /

Table of Contents: “…Monarch, citizens, and the law under Stefan Batory : the legal reform of 1578 / Felicia Roșu -- Citizenship in the periphery : royal Prussia and the Union of Lublin 1569 / Karin Friedrich -- The practice of citizenship among the Lithuanian nobility, ca. 1580-1630 / Artūras Vasiliauskas -- Civic resilience and cohesion in the face of Muscovite occupation / Barbara M. …”
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Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / by Moore, Leonard N. (Leonard Nathaniel)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape -- Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City -- Or does it explode?…”
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Killing for land in early California Indian blood at Round Valley : founding the Nome Cult Indian Farm / by Baumgardner, Frank H.

Table of Contents: “…Kibbe's "expedition" or Trinity County, Hoopa Valley, and on the Klamath River, 1858-59, or, The War with the Win-toons, 1858-1859 -- Vengeance and taking the land--Eden and round valleys, 1859-1860 -- The woes of the settlers and ranchers -- The employees' depositions -- Depositions of the soldiers -- Journalism of the period and Round Valley in the 1860s -- The rejected majority report, 1860 -- "Arrant fabrications" : the 1860 congressional debate and kidnapping Native-American children -- Native Americans retaliate -- Tension mounts between Native Americans and settlers -- Company F occupies Round Valley and declares martial law, August 1862-Spring 1863 -- Further injustice, 1863-1864 -- Conclusion: "Justifiable conquest"?.…”
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The deadliest outlaws the Ketchum gang and the Wild Bunch / by Burton, Jeffrey, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Dead to rights --16. Points of law -- 17. Atkins saddles the ocean -- 18. An anniversary for George Scarborough -- 19. …”
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Angel Island immigrant gateway to America / by Lee, Erika

Table of Contents: “…"One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws": Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 3. …”
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Religion und Politik im Mittelalter Deutschland und England im Vergleich = Religion and politics in the Middle Ages : Germany and England by comparison /

Table of Contents: “…Jahrhundert / Dominik Wassenhoven -- Individual and collective sinning in tenth- and eleventh-century England : penance, piety and the law / Catherine Cubitt -- A view from afar : English perspectives on religion and politics in the investiture conflict / Stuart Airlie -- Der Investiturstreit und das Verhaltnis von Religion und Politik im Frühmittelalter / Ludger Körntgen -- Karl der Grosse ± ein "politischer Heiliger" im 12. …”
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Early Bourbon Spanish America politics and society in a forgotten era (1700-1759) /

Table of Contents: “…Eissa-Barroso -- From Peru to the Jacobite court: the multiple spaces of social mobility during the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon rule / Nuria Sala i Vila -- The global politics of the transatlantic slave trade during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715 / Aaron Alejandro Olivas -- Jorge de Villalonga's entourage: political networking and administrative reform in Santa Fe (1717-1723) / Ainara Vazquez Varela -- Trade control, law and flexibility: merchants and crown interests in Panama, 1700-1750 / Silvia Espelt Bombin -- "The Indians long for change": the secularization of regular parishes in New Spain, 1749-1755 / Christoph Rosenmuller.…”
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Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- "It's a girl" -- You don't start out as chief justice -- Into the twentieth century as a lawyer legislator -- A new associate justice -- An unrelenting judicial warrior in south carolina's video poker wars -- Toal on torts (1987-2014) -- Abbeville county school district v. state : changing south carolinar -- Bringing the courts into the twenty-first century -- Family, friends, and community -- The sisterhood of the ladder : the impact of chief justice toal on the rise in participation of women in the legal profession in south carolina -- Personal reflections collected by amelia waring walker -- The lady's a leader -- The hoefer girls -- Observations of chief justice jean hoefer toal -- From my vantage point -- Destined for the records book -- My first glimpse -- An amazing lady -- Reflections of a law clerk -- National leader -- Heeding the call -- Quintessential south carolinian.…”
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Race and human rights /

Table of Contents: “…: September 11 expansion of law enforcement and intelligence powers / Natsu Taylor Saito -- The Pinkerton Detective Agency : prefiguring the FBI / Ward Churchill -- Between hegemony and empire : Africa and the U.S. global war against terrorism / Darryl C. …”
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Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rina Knoeff -- The Man Who Erased Himself / Willem Jacob -- Ad Maas ̀The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth' Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Kees de Pater -- Low Country Opticks The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch Ǹewtonianism' / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Defining the Supernatural The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Rienk Vermij -- Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment The teaching of ̀philosophy' from Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.…”
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Community-Led Regeneration : A Toolkit for Residents and Planners / by Sendra, Pablo, Fitzpatrick, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Policies for community participation in regeneration -- 11. Using the law and challenging redevelopment through the courts -- 12. …”
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Premises and Problems : Essays on World Literature and Cinema /

Table of Contents: “…In search of universal laws : Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics / Tarek Shamma -- Lost in transliteration : Morisco travel writing and the Coplas del hijante de Puey Monçón / Benjamin Liu -- Modern Hebrew literature as "world literature" : the political theology of Dov Sadan / Hannan Hever -- Islam in the theory and practice of world literature : translating Adab in the Middle Eastern novel / Karim Mattar -- Selective invisibility : Elizabeth Bishop, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and world literature / Luiza Franco Moreira -- Latin America and the world : Borges, Bolaño, and the inconceivable universal / Patrick Dove -- Analysis of the socio-culture in the study of the modern world-system / Richard E. …”
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Hearst over Hollywood power, passion, and propaganda in the movies / by Pizzitola, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Industry, 1925-1929 -- 14. Above the Law, 1929-1934 -- 15. Remote Control, 1934-1940 -- 16. …”
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Democratic policing in transitional and developing countries

Table of Contents: “…-funded domestic violence training : a step toward democratic policing / Edward Snajdr -- The role of the police in promoting the rule of law / Heath Grant, Jane Grabias, and Roy Godson.…”
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