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The elusiveness of the ordinary studies in the possibility of philosophy / by Rosen, Stanley, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Politics and nature in Montesquieu -- Husserl's conception of the life-world -- Kant and Heidegger: transcendental alternatives to Aristotle -- Wittgenstein, Strauss, and the possibility of philosophy -- Moore on common sense -- Austin and ordinary language -- What do we talk about? …”
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Mutual othering Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / by Idrissi Alami, Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.…”
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Mutual othering Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / by Idrissi Alami, Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.…”
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Bookwomen creating an empire in children's book publishing, 1919-1939 / by Eddy, Jacalyn

Table of Contents: “…Troublesome womanhood and new childhood -- Protecting books : Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the public library -- Selling books : bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahony -- Making books : children's book publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman -- Becoming experts and friends -- Building professional culture -- Triumph and transition.…”
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Bookwomen creating an empire in children's book publishing, 1919-1939 / by Eddy, Jacalyn

Table of Contents: “…Troublesome womanhood and new childhood -- Protecting books : Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the public library -- Selling books : bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahony -- Making books : children's book publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman -- Becoming experts and friends -- Building professional culture -- Triumph and transition.…”
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The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry by Howarth, Peter, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. …”
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The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry by Howarth, Peter, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. …”
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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.…”
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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.…”
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Modest fashion : styling bodies, mediating faith /

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City of islands : Caribbean intellectuals in New York / by Brown, Tammy L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: an autobiography of the biographer -- The personal is political : An introduction -- Caribbean New York -- Ethelred Brown and the Character of New Negro leadership -- Richard B. Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.…”
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City of islands : Caribbean intellectuals in New York / by Brown, Tammy L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: an autobiography of the biographer -- The personal is political : An introduction -- Caribbean New York -- Ethelred Brown and the Character of New Negro leadership -- Richard B. Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.…”
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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich / by Baer, Elizabeth Roberts

Table of Contents: “…The African Gaze of Resistance in Hendrik Witbooi and Others -- The Genocidal Gaze in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa -- Uwe Timm's Critique of the Genocidal Gaze in Morenga and In My Brother's Shadow -- William Kentridg's Black Box / Chambre Noire: The Gaze on /in Herero Genocide, the Holocaust and Apartheid -- Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy: The African Gaze of Resistance Today.…”
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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich / by Baer, Elizabeth Roberts

Table of Contents: “…The African Gaze of Resistance in Hendrik Witbooi and Others -- The Genocidal Gaze in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa -- Uwe Timm's Critique of the Genocidal Gaze in Morenga and In My Brother's Shadow -- William Kentridg's Black Box / Chambre Noire: The Gaze on /in Herero Genocide, the Holocaust and Apartheid -- Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy: The African Gaze of Resistance Today.…”
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The Dispossessed State : Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

Table of Contents: “…Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.…”
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The Dispossessed State : Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

Table of Contents: “…Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership -- The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property -- English property, Irish ownership and the British state -- The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels -- At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.…”
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Main Street public library community places and reading spaces in the rural heartland, 1876-1956 / by Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : information, reading, place -- Pride of a century : the Bryant Library of Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- A credit to the place : the Sage Library of Osage, Iowa -- Tourist attraction : the Charles H. Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas : the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library : Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue : agent of social harmony.…”
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Main Street public library community places and reading spaces in the rural heartland, 1876-1956 / by Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : information, reading, place -- Pride of a century : the Bryant Library of Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- A credit to the place : the Sage Library of Osage, Iowa -- Tourist attraction : the Charles H. Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas : the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library : Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue : agent of social harmony.…”
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Ars Americana, ars politica partisan expression in contemporary American literature and culture / by Swirski, Peter, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…O'Rourke's Parliament of whores -- 1990s: That dirty word, socialism: Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- 2000s: Truth or dare? Michael Moore's Stupid white men ... and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! …”
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