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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

Table of Contents: “…death to autonomy!" Liberalism and slave emancipation -- The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution -- Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.…”
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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / by Sanders, James E., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: American republican modernity -- Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande -- "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence -- The San Patricio Battalion -- Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity -- Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination -- David Peña and black liberalism -- The collapse of American republican modernity -- Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us."…”
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Myanmar’s Education Reforms : A pathway to social justice? / by Lall, M. C. (Marie-Carine)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The state of education, pre-reform -- Education reform and effects on basic education -- The alternative : monastic education -- Higher education : towards international standards in a neo-liberal world -- Teacher education and training : is changing practice possible? …”
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Culture of corruption Obama and his team of tax cheats, crooks, and cronies / by Malkin, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…-- ONWS : Obama nominee withdrawal syndrome -- Bitter half : first crony Michelle Obama -- Vetting the veep : the myth of "average Joe" Biden -- Meet the mess : inside the crooked cabinet -- Backroom buddies : dancing with the czars -- Money men : lifestyles of the rich and liberal -- SEIU : look for the union label -- Obamacorn : a community of organized racketeers nationwide -- The Clintons : two for the price of one -- Birds of a feather.…”
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Public war, private conscience the ethics of political violence / by Fiala, Andrew G. (Andrew Gordon), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The sublime grind of Ares -- The war of public and private -- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream -- Democratic control and professional ethics -- The military establishment -- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad -- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war -- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism -- Sliding scales and the mischief of war -- Waterboarding, torture, and violence -- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition -- Public myths and private protest.…”
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An elusive unity urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America / by Connolly, James J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the problem of pluralism in antebellum American politics -- Explaining Tweed : the limits of consensual politics -- Inventing the machine : liberal reform and the social analysis of urban politics -- Labor's republic lost : the workingmen's insurgency and class politics in the Gilded Age city -- The feminine challenge : clubwomen and urban politics -- In defense of professional politics -- Progressivism and pluralism -- The problem with the public : Lincoln Steffens and municipal reform -- Epilogue : The last hurrah and the vindication of machine politics.…”
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Secular morality and international security American and British decisions about war / by Fanis, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a theory of national interest and national identity formation -- In defense of the British empire : Great Britain's national identity of loyal patriotism and the War of 1812 -- In defense of the American republic : the American national identity of neo-Jeffersonian republicanism and liberal commerce -- The American national identity of romantic evangelicalism and the pacific resolution of the Oregon crisis -- Great Britain's national identity of evangelical free trade and the pacific resolution of the Oregon dispute.…”
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Labor and the American left an analytical history / by Elteren, Mel van

Table of Contents: “…The U.S. political system and institutional constraints on labor-based politics -- Organized labor, socialist parties, and early efforts to establish a labor party -- Labor and the left during the New Deal and the onset of the Cold War -- Corporate assaults on the labor left and the limits of post-war liberalism -- Labor renewal and the issues of immigration, globalized production and erosion of workers' rights -- The legacy of U.S. labor politics and challenges facing the left.…”
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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Media power and hegemony in South Africa : the myth of independence / by Ngwenya, Blessed, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thought, Word and Deed -- Foundations of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) in South Africa -- The Early Transition of the SABC From State Broadcaster to Post-Apartheid Broadcaster: Global Designs Local Histories -- Citizen and Consumer -- The ANC and the Hazards of Neo-Liberal Midwifery: Implications for SABC Independence -- Controversies and Challenges to Contemporary Broadcasting: A Possible Epistemic Dis-Obedience? …”
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Seeking truth from facts a retrospective on Chinese military studies in the post-Mao era /

Table of Contents: “…Compensating for deficiencies: doctrinal evolution in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1978-1999 -- 5. Commentary on doctrine -- 6. …”
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Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Wingfield and Maria Bucur -- Challenging gender roles/restoring order -- "Female generals" and "Siberian angels" : aristocratic nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW relief / Alon Rachamimov -- Civilizing the soldier in postwar Austria / Maureen Healy -- Between Red Army and White Guard : women in Budapest, 1919 / Eliza Ablovatski -- Gendered collaborating and resisting -- Dumplings and domesticity : women, collaboration, and resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Melissa Feinberg -- Denouncers and fraternizers : gender, collaboration, and retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and after / Benjamin Frommer -- Family, gender, and ideology in World War II Latvia / Mara Lazda -- Remembering war : gendered bodies, gendered stories -- Kosovo maiden(s) : Serbian women commemorate the wars of national liberation, 1912-1918 / Melissa Bokovoy -- Women's stories as sites of memory : gender and remembering Romania's world wars / Maria Bucur -- The nation's pain and women's shame : Polish women and wartime violence / Katherine R. …”
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Women and the contested state religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? …”
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Crisis, politics and critical sociology

Table of Contents: “…/ Graham Cassano -- Reflections on the sociology liberation movement of 1968 / Robert J.S. Ross -- Scholarship from a critical perspective / David Fasenfest and Rhonda F. …”
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Across the wall narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history /

Table of Contents: “…Palisad: Palestinian and Israeli academics in dialogue / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé -- Politics and identity: a critical analysis of Israeli historiography and political thought / Ehud Adiv -- Oriental othering and national identity: a review of early Israeli anthropological studies of Palestinians / Dan Rabinowitz -- The Shoah on trial: aspects of the Holocaust in Israeli political culture / Moshe Zuckermann -- Jerusalem 1948: the phantom city / Salim Tamari --"Dis/Solving" the Palestinian refugee problem: Israeli "resettlement" plans in the first decade of the State (1948-1958) / Nur Mashala -- Fear, victimhood, self and other: on the road to reconciliation / lan Pappé -- Reflections on contemporary Palestinian history / Jamil Hilal -- Palestinian nationalism: the difficulties of narrating an ambivalent identity / Issam Nahar -- Gender, Nakba and Nation: Palestinian women's presence and absence in the narration of 1948 memories / Rema Hammami -- "Ethnocracy": the politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel -- Democracy ... and the the experience of national liberation: the Palestinian case / Musa Budeiri -- The derailment of peace: Rabin's assassination, democracy and post-conflict agendas / Lev Grinberg -- Naming the colonizer in geographical Palestine: conceptual and political double binds and their possible solution / Uri Davis -- One-state Palestine: past, present and future / Ilan Pappé -- After Gaza / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé.…”
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The freedom schools : student activists in the Mississippi civil rights movement / by Hale, Jon N.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "The pathway from slavery to freedom" : the origins of education and the ideology of liberation in Mississippi -- "There was something happening" : the early education and politicization of the freedom school students -- "The student as a force for social change" : the politics and organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools -- "We will walk in the light of freedom" : attending and teaching in the freedom schools -- "I can't leave" : educational activism and reconceptualizing freedom after the summer campaign -- Carrying forth the struggle : freedom schools and contemporary educational policy -- Epilogue: Remembering the freedom schools during the contemporary civil rights movement.…”
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Rewriting Germany from the margins "other" German literature of the 1980s and 1990s / by Fachinger, Petra, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Writing back to Keller and Goethe: Franco Biondi and Akif Pirinçci -- (Post)colonial picaresque: Kerstin Jentzsch and Thomas Brussig -- Re-placing language: the poetry of Zehra Çirak and José Oliver -- Rewriting home: the border writing of Barbara Honigmann and Renan Demirkan -- Rewriting autobiography: Lea Fleischmann and Richard Chaim Schneider -- Rewriting Turkey: Barbara Frischmuth and Hanne Mede-Flock -- Writing back to liberal discourse: Feridun Zaimoglu's grotesque realism.…”
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Financial stability, economic growth, and the role of law by Arner, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…Finance and the international financial architecture -- Law, finance and development -- Law, financial stability and the international financial architecture -- Foundations of finance -- Preconditions for and institutional underpinnings of finance -- Central banking and financial policy -- Financial infrastructure -- Financial regulation and supervision -- Banking: regulation, supervision and development -- Nonbank finance: securities, insurance, pensions and microfinance -- Financial liberalization, financial conglomerates and financial regulatory structure -- Looking forward -- The international financial architecture -- Reforming financial systems.…”
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The constitution as treaty the international legal constructionalist approach to the U.S. Constitution / by Martin, Francisco Forrest

Table of Contents: “…Final judicial review authority of federal and other international courts -- The fallacy of federal judicial activism in light of international law's non liquet prohibition principle -- The positive law of nations and its interpretive principles -- The natural law of nations -- Article III, international legal interpretation -- Extra-Article III, international legal interpretation -- The general liberal construction rule : extending Lynham to other Article III and Extra-Article III international law.…”
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Transformation & trouble crime, justice, and participation in democratic South Africa / by Gordon, Diana R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : two paradigms and a program -- Pre-apartheid justice : versatile instrument of repression -- Apartheid justice : a contradiction in terms -- Bitter fruit from poison seeds -- Elements of liberal justice in a new democracy -- Protection, integrity, and rights : South Africa's achievements -- Public-empowering justice : resource for a new democracy -- Participation thwarted : South African failures -- Wielding the big stick -- Democratic justice and the competent citizen.…”
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