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Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / by Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction A : focusing the problem -- Introduction B : contextualizing the problem in the author's research background -- Christopher Hitchens and how religion poisons everything -- Eli Berman, religious terrorism, and the innocent economist -- International relations and religion's return from exile -- Scott M. Thomas, religion resurging, and international relations -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd : the politics of secularism in international relations -- Where the author stands : a question of commitment.…”
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Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / by Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction A : focusing the problem -- Introduction B : contextualizing the problem in the author's research background -- Christopher Hitchens and how religion poisons everything -- Eli Berman, religious terrorism, and the innocent economist -- International relations and religion's return from exile -- Scott M. Thomas, religion resurging, and international relations -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd : the politics of secularism in international relations -- Where the author stands : a question of commitment.…”
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / by Biehler, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.…”
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Green gold : Alabama's forests and forest industries / by Fickle, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Alabama's early forests and people, pioneer settlers, and the age of the early sawmillers and naval stores producers -- The age of "cut out and get out" -- Changing patterns of technology and work in the Alabama forest products industries -- The rise of forestry -- Rising from the ashes: the restoration of the forests and the early resurgence of the lumber industry -- The rise of the pulp and paper industry -- The golden age of the forest products industry? …”
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Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / by Biehler, Dawn

Table of Contents: “…History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.…”
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Green gold : Alabama's forests and forest industries / by Fickle, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Alabama's early forests and people, pioneer settlers, and the age of the early sawmillers and naval stores producers -- The age of "cut out and get out" -- Changing patterns of technology and work in the Alabama forest products industries -- The rise of forestry -- Rising from the ashes: the restoration of the forests and the early resurgence of the lumber industry -- The rise of the pulp and paper industry -- The golden age of the forest products industry? …”
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Return to the center culture, public space, and city building in a global era / by Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur)

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Culture, public space, and cities -- The city and public space in Spain -- Modernity and public space in crisis: contemporary Madrid -- "City of architects": public space and the resurgence of Barcelona -- Spain meets Mesoamerica: the city and public space in Mexico -- Revitalizing historic centers in urban Mexico: politics and public space -- The globalization of urban form: transcultural public spaces along the Mexico-United States international border -- Return to the center? …”
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Religion and conflict in modern South Asia by Gould, William, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.…”
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Return to the center culture, public space, and city building in a global era / by Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur)

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Culture, public space, and cities -- The city and public space in Spain -- Modernity and public space in crisis: contemporary Madrid -- "City of architects": public space and the resurgence of Barcelona -- Spain meets Mesoamerica: the city and public space in Mexico -- Revitalizing historic centers in urban Mexico: politics and public space -- The globalization of urban form: transcultural public spaces along the Mexico-United States international border -- Return to the center? …”
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Religion and conflict in modern South Asia by Gould, William, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.…”
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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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Collateral damage Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance / by Khoo, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…China's cold war alliance with Vietnam : historical and theoretical significance -- Breaking the ring of encirclement : Sino-Soviet alliance termination and the Chinese communists' Vietnam policy, 1964-1968 -- A war on two fronts : the Sino-Soviet conflict during the Vietnam War and the betrayal thesis, 1968-1973 -- The politics of victory : Sino-Soviet relations and the road to Vietnamese unification, 1973-1975 -- The end of an "indestructible friendship" : Soviet resurgence and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979 -- When allies become enemies.…”
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Collateral damage Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance / by Khoo, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…China's cold war alliance with Vietnam : historical and theoretical significance -- Breaking the ring of encirclement : Sino-Soviet alliance termination and the Chinese communists' Vietnam policy, 1964-1968 -- A war on two fronts : the Sino-Soviet conflict during the Vietnam War and the betrayal thesis, 1968-1973 -- The politics of victory : Sino-Soviet relations and the road to Vietnamese unification, 1973-1975 -- The end of an "indestructible friendship" : Soviet resurgence and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, 1975-1979 -- When allies become enemies.…”
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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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The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / by Blake, Linnie

Table of Contents: “…'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11 -- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. …”
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The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / by Blake, Linnie

Table of Contents: “…'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11 -- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. …”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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The United States and China a history from the eighteenth century to the present / by Wang, Dong, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- The United States and China in the era of world wars and revolutions, 1912-1970 -- Revolutions, nationalism, and internationalization -- The Pacific War and Red China -- Facing east and west: agents of encounter -- Deterrence and negotiation: American-chinese relations during the Cold War -- Rapprochement, the default superpower, and China resurgent, 1970-present -- Renewing the bilateral relationship, 1970-1989 -- The China market and the allure of the United States -- Clashes and cooperation -- China's catch-up: a game-changer for America?.…”
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The United States and China a history from the eighteenth century to the present / by Wang, Dong, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- The United States and China in the era of world wars and revolutions, 1912-1970 -- Revolutions, nationalism, and internationalization -- The Pacific War and Red China -- Facing east and west: agents of encounter -- Deterrence and negotiation: American-chinese relations during the Cold War -- Rapprochement, the default superpower, and China resurgent, 1970-present -- Renewing the bilateral relationship, 1970-1989 -- The China market and the allure of the United States -- Clashes and cooperation -- China's catch-up: a game-changer for America?.…”
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