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A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / by Kimble, Lionel, Jr., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.…”
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Counterterror offensives for the ghost war world the rudiments of counterterrorism policy / by Chasdi, Richard J., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to counterterror concepts and methods -- The contours of counterterror practices : approaches and actions, what is known and gaps in knowledge, a functional typology of counterterror events -- Theoretical conceptualizations and methodology -- The case of counterterror in Western style liberal democracies : basic contours of the counterterror practices of four nation-states -- The case of counterterror in authoritarian democracies and an authoritarian regime : basic contours of the counterterror practices of three nation-states -- Analysis of the effects of two structural explanatory factors on counterterror event outcomes -- Conclusions.…”
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Russia's foreign policy change and continuity in national identity / by Tsygankov, Andrei P., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of key foreign policy events, 1985-2009 -- Understanding change and continuity in Russia's foreign policy -- The Cold War crisis and the Soviet new thinking -- The post-Cold War euphoria and Russia's liberal Westernism -- The new security challenges and great power balancing -- The world after September 11 and great power pragmatism -- The U.S. regime change strategy and a new face of great power pragmatism -- The post-Western world and Russia's search for a new direction -- Conclusions and lessons.…”
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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War' / by Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction. Resistance and the liberal peace: A missing link -- 1. Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states -- 2. …”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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The Affinities and Medieval Transposition / by Pesce, Dolores

Table of Contents: “…Hucbald's De harmonica institutione ; Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis ; Dialogus de musica ; Berno's Prologus in tonarium ; Micrologus and Epistola by Guido of Arezzo -- The eleventh and twelfth-century commentators : transposition and transformation. Liber argumentorum and liber specierum ; Musica by Hermannus Contractus ; Musica by Wilhelm of Hirsau ; De musica by Aribo ; Commentarius anonymus in Micrologum Guidonis Aretini ; The Leipzig treatise ; The Leipzig tonary ; Quaestiones in musica ; Anonymous Wolf ; De musica by John ; The Cistercian treatises -- Hexachords : seats of the modes. …”
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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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Wayward Christian soldiers freeing the Gospel from political captivity / by Marsh, Charles, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theology matters : including a brief history of modern Christianity in which the reader learns why the Christian right are theological liberals -- Keepers of the mystery : the Christian tradition speaks (carefully) -- Learning to be quiet in a noisy nation (and in a nation of noisy believers) -- Passing the international test : the call of global Christianity -- Faith as making space for God's truth in the world.…”
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Atheist delusions the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / by Hart, David Bentley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present -- The gospel of unbelief -- The age of freedom -- The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past -- Faith and reason -- The night of reason -- The destruction of the past -- The death and rebirth of science -- Intolerance and persecution -- Intolerance and war -- An age of darkness -- Revolution : the Christian invention of the human -- The great rebellion -- A glorious sadness -- A liberating message -- The face of the faceless -- The death and birth of worlds -- Divine humanity -- Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human -- Secularism and its victims -- Sorcerers and saints.…”
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown / by McMahon, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod.…”
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Fighting the devil in Dixie how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / by Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Willie's first day -- The legacy of Willie Edwards -- Klan on trial -- Hound-dog determined -- "Fight everything segregated" -- The making of a segregationist -- The pair from Howard -- "Segregation forever!" -- Education of a liberal -- Country boy lawyer -- The Alabama story -- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson -- Don Quixote of the South -- The southern courier -- The rise of John Hulett -- Southern Poverty Law Center -- The people's attorney general -- Breaking the Klan -- "Forgive me, for I have sinned' -- "Like a mighty stream".…”
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Becoming right how campuses shape young conservatives / by Binder, Amy J., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sponsored conservatism: the landscape of national conservative organizations -- How conservatives think about campus: the effects of college reputations, social scenes, and academics on student experience -- Provoking liberals and campaigning for republicans: two conservative styles at the Western public universities -- Civilized discourse, highbrow provocation, and a fuller embrace of campaigning: three conservative styles at Eastern elite university -- Conservative femininity -- The theory behind the findings: how studying college conservatives extends our understanding of higher education, politics, and culture.…”
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Dutch scholarship in the age of empire and beyond : KITLV- the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011 / by Kuitenbrouwer, M.

Table of Contents: “…The KITLV under conservative and liberal administration (1851-1870) -- Imperialism, orientalism and ethics (1870-1914) -- The late-colonial rise of indology (1914-1940) -- Decolonization and internationalization (1940-1975) -- Postcolonial academic practice (1975-2001) -- Appendix I: Honorary members, presidents and secretary/directors KITLV -- Appendix II: KITLV membership figures, 1853-2000 -- Appendix III: KITLV publications, 1852-2010 -- Epilogue / Harry A. …”
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Chinese legal culture and constitutional order / by Hua, Shiping, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : issues and questions -- Law and culture: theory and method -- Law in the Chinese cultural tradition -- The late Qing constitutional reform : modernization first, democracy second -- The Republic of China constitutional reform : the Anglo-American model modified -- The early PRC constitutional reform : the Soviet model at a different stage -- The Maoist constitutional reform : governance without laws -- The Dengist constitutional reform : the 1954 constitution modified -- The four amendments : liberalization with limits -- The epilogue : recent events and interpreting China's strive for a constitutional order.…”
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A Fatal Drifting Apart : Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform / by Westhoff, Laura M.

Table of Contents: “…"He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue.…”
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Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order /

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Confucianism's relationship to global capitalism : some philosophical reflections for a Confucian critique of global capitalism / Sor-hoon TAN -- Confucianism as an antidote for the liberal self-centeredness : a dialogue between Confucianism and liberalism / LEE Seunghwan -- Toward religious harmony : a Confucian contribution / Peter Y.J. …”
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Nigeria in global politics twentieth century and beyond : essays in honor of Professor Olajide Aluko /

Table of Contents: “…Akinsanya -- The dividends of democracy : the Nigeria experience / Mojubàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- Peacekeepers abroad, trouble-makers at home : the Nigerian army, national politics and sub-regional policies in the 1990s / Abiodun Alao -- International constraints on foreign policy formulation : a case of Nigeria and regional security in West Africa / Aderemi Ajibewa -- Restoring democracy in Sierra Leone : Nigeria's hegemonic foreign policy in West Africa, 1993-1998 / Adebayo Oyebade -- Nigeria and southern African liberation struggle / Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe -- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Nigeria's foundation of a non-neutralist foreign policy / Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani -- An elusive friendship : Nigerian-Soviet/Russian relations, 1960-2000 / Maxim Matusevich -- Nigeria and Israel : change and continuity in diplomatic relations / Olufolajimi Adejokun -- Nigeria and the European Union : the Lome years and beyond / Victor A.O. …”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Becoming unforgettable : leveraging law for labor in struggles for employment security / Christena Turner -- Suing for redress : Japanese consumer organizations and the courts / Patricia L. …”
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A history of feminist and gender economics / by Becchio, Giandomenica

Table of Contents: “…I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and Fabianism I.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during Victorianism I.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and Guildism I.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economy I.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economists I.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economists I.2.3 Early feminism and political economy in Germany. …”
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