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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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Punishment and political order by McBride, Keally D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Strange brew - punishment and political ideals -- The whip of utopia : on punishment and political vision -- "Man's life is but a prison" : human reason, secular political order, and the punishments of God -- Earthly divinity : punishment and the requirements of sovereignty -- Severing the sanguinary empire : punishment and early American democratic idealism -- Punishment in liberal regimes -- Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship -- Punishment and the spiral of disorder.…”
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Restoring order the Ecole des chartes and the organization of archives and libraries in France, 1820-1870 / by Moore, Lara Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? …”
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The International Commission of Jurists global advocates for human rights / by Tolley, Howard

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. 1952-1955 : human rights NGOs, world politics, and international law -- pt. 2. 1956-1963 : liberal idealists for the rule of law -- pt. 3. 1963-1970 : NGO pioneers for international human rights -- pt. 4. 1970-1990 : elite advocates for economic and social justice -- pt. 5. 1990-1993 : third world leadership for a new order.…”
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Romantic writing and the empire of signs periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship / by Fang, Karen Y.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing -- China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex -- "But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style -- Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal -- Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.…”
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With what persuasion an essay on Shakespeare and the ethics of rhetoric / by Crider, Scott F. (Scott Forrest)

Table of Contents: “…-- One scene comes near the circumstance: Hamlet, mimesis, and ethics -- The power of rhetorical care -- Our boundary stones: comic torture in All's well that ends well -- Iago's sophistry and the tragedy of careless rhetoric -- Eros and accidental rhetoric in Measure for measure -- A romance of rhetoric: the animate influence of The winter's tale -- Epilogue: liberal multiculturalism and Shakespeare's ethics of rhetoric.…”
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The life informatic newsmaking in the digital era / by Boyer, Dominic

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : news journalism today -- The craft of slotting : screenwork, attentional practices and news value at an international news agency -- Click and spin : time, feedback and expertise at an online news portal -- Countdown : professionalism, publicity and political culture in 24/7 news radio -- The news informatic : five reflections on journalism in the era of digital liberalism -- Epilogue : informatic unconscious : on the evolution of digital reason in anthropology.…”
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Feudal America Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society / by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.…”
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Feudal America : Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society / by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.…”
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Punishment and Political Order / by McBride, Keally D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Strange brew - punishment and political ideals -- The whip of utopia : on punishment and political vision -- "Man's life is but a prison" : human reason, secular political order, and the punishments of God -- Earthly divinity : punishment and the requirements of sovereignty -- Severing the sanguinary empire : punishment and early American democratic idealism -- Punishment in liberal regimes -- Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship -- Punishment and the spiral of disorder.…”
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Rhetorics of Belonging : Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine / by Bernard, Anna, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Reading for the Nation -- 2. Exile and Liberation: Edward Said's 'Out of Place' -- 3. 'Who Would Dare to Make It Into an Abstraction': Mourid Barghouti's 'I Saw Ramallah' -- 4. …”
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Halakhah in a Theological Perspective / by Novak, David

Table of Contents: “…-- The Conflict Between Halakhah and Ethics: The Case of Mamzerut -- Annulment in Lieu of Divorce in Jewish Law -- Divorce and Conversion: Is a Traditional-Liberal Modus Vivendi Possible? -- Women in the Rabbinate? …”
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The WTO and sustainable development by Sampson, Gary P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and overview -- Institutional considerations -- Trade liberalization, market access, and sustainable development -- Discrimination, WTO rules and sustainable development -- WTO agreements and standards -- MEAs, the WTO, and sustainable development -- Biotechnology, sustainable development, and the WTO -- Trade in services and sustainable development -- Special and differential treatment and sustainable economic development : substance and process -- Changing importance and perceptions of the WTO -- World trade and environment organizations -- Coherence and sustainable development.…”
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What ever happened to the faculty? drift and decision in higher education / by Burgan, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.…”
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Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age by Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west -- Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home -- Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity -- Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill -- Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause -- Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse -- Mark Twain's grief : the final years.…”
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The paradox of love by Bruckner, Pascal

Table of Contents: “…A great dream of redemption -- Liberating the human heart -- Seduction as a market -- I love you : weakness and capture -- Idyll and discord -- The noble challenge of marriage for love -- Fluctuating loyalties -- The pleasures and servitudes of living together -- The carnal wonder -- Is there a sexual revolution? …”
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A higher education Baylor and the vocation of a Christian university /

Table of Contents: “…Brody -- The challenges and opportunities for liberal education in a faith-based university / Lee S. …”
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At the roots of Italian identity / by Barsotti, Edoardo Marcello

Table of Contents: “…Archaeology, Linguistics, and Racial Types in the Restoration Age -- The 'Lombard Question': Catholic Liberal Intelligentsia and the Racialization of the Romano-Germanic Encounter -- On the Complexities of the Ethnogenesis: Giandomenico Romagnosi and Carlo Cattaneo on National 'Stocks' and Racial 'Types' -- Reconsidering Primacy and National Genealogies: 'Nation' and 'Race' in the Debate among Moderates, 1843-1846 -- The 'Science of Nations.'…”
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Global economic crisis as social hieroglyphic : genesis, constitution and regressive progress / by Memos, Christos, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Capitalism in Permanent Crisis 1920s-1930s -- Political Crisis and The Crisis of Modernity: Eastern Europe (1953-1968) -- The Crisis of Keynesianism, The Transformation of Liberal Oligarchies and The Critique of Politics -- The Crisis of Critique, The Eclipse of Subversive Reason and The Question of Social Constitution -- The Crisis and Metamorphoses of The Bourgeois Individual: On Negative Anthropology -- Capitalism as Social Regression: Destructive Tendencies and New Forms of Barbarism -- The 2008 Economic Crisis as an Alienated Critique of Capitalism.…”
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The Distinction of Peace : A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding / by Goetze, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Narratives of Intervention: Leadership, Liberalism, and Social Justice -- 7. The Nomos of the Field: The Fatalism of Saving Lives -- Conclusion.…”
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