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Dislocalism : The Crisis fo Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism / by Chandra, Sarika, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Management fictions -- (Im)migration and the new nationalist literatures -- American sojourns -- The global palate -- Conclusion. The "turn to fiction"--and "fictional capital"--revisited.…”
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Colonial Latin American literature a very short introduction / by Adorno, Rolena

Table of Contents: “…First encounters, first doubts -- Oviedo and Las Casas -- The polemics of possession -- The conquest of Mexico -- A North American sojourn -- Epic accomplishments -- Urban baroque -- Baroque plenitude -- On to independence.…”
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Colonial Latin American literature a very short introduction / by Adorno, Rolena

Table of Contents: “…First encounters, first doubts -- Oviedo and Las Casas -- The polemics of possession -- The conquest of Mexico -- A North American sojourn -- Epic accomplishments -- Urban baroque -- Baroque plenitude -- On to independence.…”
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Without a map a memoir / by Hall, Meredith, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The lonely hunter -- Waiting -- Stronghold -- The uprising -- Again -- Drawing the line -- Without a map -- A river of light -- Double vision -- Killing chickens -- Threshold -- Propitiation -- Chimeras -- Reckonings -- The river of forgetting -- Sojourn -- Outport shadows.…”
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Alabama afternoons profiles and conversations / by Hoffman, Roy, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Different windows on Dixie -- pt. 7. Personal sojourns.…”
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Without a map a memoir / by Hall, Meredith, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The lonely hunter -- Waiting -- Stronghold -- The uprising -- Again -- Drawing the line -- Without a map -- A river of light -- Double vision -- Killing chickens -- Threshold -- Propitiation -- Chimeras -- Reckonings -- The river of forgetting -- Sojourn -- Outport shadows.…”
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Alabama afternoons profiles and conversations / by Hoffman, Roy, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Different windows on Dixie -- pt. 7. Personal sojourns.…”
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So far from Allah, so close to Mexico Middle Eastern immigrants in modern Mexico / by Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Amplifying mexicanidad -- Locating Middle Easterners in national and transnational histories -- Turco sojourners come to Porfirian Mexico -- Borderland merchants in revolutionary Mexico -- Middle Eastern immigrants and foreigners in post-revolutionary Mexico -- Peddling, positioning, and prosperity -- Conclusion : meanings of multiculturalism.…”
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So far from Allah, so close to Mexico Middle Eastern immigrants in modern Mexico / by Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Amplifying mexicanidad -- Locating Middle Easterners in national and transnational histories -- Turco sojourners come to Porfirian Mexico -- Borderland merchants in revolutionary Mexico -- Middle Eastern immigrants and foreigners in post-revolutionary Mexico -- Peddling, positioning, and prosperity -- Conclusion : meanings of multiculturalism.…”
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The river we have wrought a history of the upper Mississippi / by Anfinson, John O.

Table of Contents: “…Innumerable -- This splendid juggernaut -- The bounty of providence -- Making the Mississippi over again -- Highway of empire -- So nearly perfected by nature -- Cradle, home, and place of sojourn -- A marooned interior -- Straining at the chains -- An inland empire's need -- This noble river -- Epilogue : fourth river.…”
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The river we have wrought a history of the upper Mississippi / by Anfinson, John O.

Table of Contents: “…Innumerable -- This splendid juggernaut -- The bounty of providence -- Making the Mississippi over again -- Highway of empire -- So nearly perfected by nature -- Cradle, home, and place of sojourn -- A marooned interior -- Straining at the chains -- An inland empire's need -- This noble river -- Epilogue : fourth river.…”
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Augustine and the Jews a Christian defense of Jews and Judaism : with a new postscript / by Fredriksen, Paula

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of Alexander -- Gods and their humans -- Gods and the one God -- Paideia : pagan, Jewish, Christian -- Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Mediterranean City -- The Prodigal Son -- The heretic -- The sojourner -- The convert -- The biblical theologian -- God and Israel -- The war of words -- The redemption of the flesh -- The mark of Cain -- "Slay them not ... ."…”
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Augustine and the Jews a Christian defense of Jews and Judaism : with a new postscript / by Fredriksen, Paula

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of Alexander -- Gods and their humans -- Gods and the one God -- Paideia : pagan, Jewish, Christian -- Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Mediterranean City -- The Prodigal Son -- The heretic -- The sojourner -- The convert -- The biblical theologian -- God and Israel -- The war of words -- The redemption of the flesh -- The mark of Cain -- "Slay them not ... ."…”
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Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood / by Santamarina, Xiomara

Table of Contents: “…Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.…”
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Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood / by Santamarina, Xiomara

Table of Contents: “…Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.…”
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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.…”
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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.…”
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Visits with Lincoln abolitionists meet the president at the White House / by White, Barbara A.

Table of Contents: “…Timeline of the Civil War -- Jessie benton Fr�emont, September 1861 -- Carl Schurz, spring and fall 1862 -- Beecher family, December 1862 and February 1865 -- Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 -- Anna Dickinson, January and spring 1864 -- William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 -- Sojourner Truth, October 1864 -- Conclusion : Lincoln and his visitors.…”
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Visits with Lincoln abolitionists meet the president at the White House / by White, Barbara A.

Table of Contents: “…Timeline of the Civil War -- Jessie benton Fr�emont, September 1861 -- Carl Schurz, spring and fall 1862 -- Beecher family, December 1862 and February 1865 -- Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 -- Anna Dickinson, January and spring 1864 -- William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 -- Sojourner Truth, October 1864 -- Conclusion : Lincoln and his visitors.…”
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Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / by Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.…”
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