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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Table of Contents: “…In a world for Jim and a morning for Jimmy / Michelle Kelley -- 'A touch of the Orient': negotiating Japanese American identity in the challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett -- 'I have my choice': behind every good man and the black queer subject in American nontheatrical film / Noah Tsika -- Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick -- 'A new sense of black awareness?' …”
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Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne / by Söderqvist, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351.…”
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Rethinking Value Chains : Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism by Palpacuer, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Making the TSD chapters subject to the same dispute settlement as other parts of the agreement -- Addressing enforcement -- Addressing the negative distributional effects of trade within FTAs -- Preferential access: the Generalized System of Preferences regime -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy -- five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains -- Introduction -- CORE: a civil society coalition pushing for corporate responsibility…”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…6 At the Margins of Citizenship: Oil, Poverty, and Race in Esmeraldas, EcuadorFor the People, Revolution; Public Infrastructure; Income Supplements; The Margins of the State; The Revolution Is Here; 15 de Marzo; Tabete; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation; Settler-Mapping and Counter-Mapping Indigenous Difference; Dinetah: Navajo Homeland; Carbon's Contradictions: Grandma Alice and the Everyday Life of Coal; Romanticism as a Form of Settler Racism: Reconsidering the Subject of Resistance…”
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Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne / by Söderqvist, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351.…”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…6 At the Margins of Citizenship: Oil, Poverty, and Race in Esmeraldas, EcuadorFor the People, Revolution; Public Infrastructure; Income Supplements; The Margins of the State; The Revolution Is Here; 15 de Marzo; Tabete; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation; Settler-Mapping and Counter-Mapping Indigenous Difference; Dinetah: Navajo Homeland; Carbon's Contradictions: Grandma Alice and the Everyday Life of Coal; Romanticism as a Form of Settler Racism: Reconsidering the Subject of Resistance…”
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Rethinking Value Chains : Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism by Palpacuer, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Making the TSD chapters subject to the same dispute settlement as other parts of the agreement -- Addressing enforcement -- Addressing the negative distributional effects of trade within FTAs -- Preferential access: the Generalized System of Preferences regime -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy -- five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains -- Introduction -- CORE: a civil society coalition pushing for corporate responsibility…”
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The librarian's book of lists

Table of Contents: “…Dewey" used to say -- The Seattle book examiner's top 20 things librarians in public libraries wish patrons knew or did -- The Swiss Army librarian's top 10 pet peeves about patrons -- 10 commandments for borrowers of books -- 6 birds that make library-related sounds -- Larry Nix's top 10 libraries on postage stamps -- 15 favorite library postcards -- Top 10 library blogs -- Top 16 book blogs -- Top 60 subject blogs and news sources -- Norman Stevens's 10 best children's picture books that feature libraries and librarians -- 10 librarians in adult fiction -- 25 offbeat book titles -- Martha Spear's top 10 reasons to be a librarian -- Scott Douglas's 10 reasons to be (and not to be) a librarian -- Top 10 ways to make sure potential applicants for your library job are turned off by your ad -- 10 recruitment vows for librarians -- Roy Tennant's top 10 things library administrators should know about technology -- Leigh Anne Vrabel's 10 things to do when you are a library director -- Jenny Levine's mindset list for library school students -- Sean Fitzpatrick's 7 cool tools that librarians should know about -- Key dates in American library history -- 5 movies with the worst librarian stereotypes -- 5 movies with librarian role models -- 3 TV shows with librarians -- 12 librarians who came back to haunt -- Top 15 books about real librarians -- 12 librarians who were poets -- 14 ways public libraries are good for the country -- Ranganathan's 5 laws of library science (updated) -- Michael Gorman's revised laws of library science -- John Cotton Dana's 12 rules for reading -- Top 25 largest libraries in North America -- Ten unusual rare-book genres -- 10 book curses -- 10 intriguing paper defects -- Stephen Leary's top 10 ways to exit a library -- Booklist editors' best American fiction, 1980-2005 -- Top 10 challenged books, 1990-2000 -- Other challenged books, 2001-2009 -- Top 12 silly reasons to ban a book -- 10 most popular ALA celebrity READ posters -- What to do when the media calls -- How to say "where is the library?" …”
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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cigdem Kagitcibasi and Pia Rebello Britto -- Linking peacebuilding and child development : a basic framework / Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Ilham Nasser -- The power of media in peacebuilding / Lucy Nusseibeh -- Creating effective programs and policies to reduce violence and promote peace -- Pia rebello britto, rima salah, mohammed abu-nimer, jacqueline bhabha, anwarul k. chowdhury, gary r. gunderson, cigdem kagitcibasi, lucy nusseibeh, olayinka omigbodun, mikiko otani, and geraldine smyth -- Bibliography -- Subject index.…”
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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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The librarian's book of lists

Table of Contents: “…Dewey" used to say -- The Seattle book examiner's top 20 things librarians in public libraries wish patrons knew or did -- The Swiss Army librarian's top 10 pet peeves about patrons -- 10 commandments for borrowers of books -- 6 birds that make library-related sounds -- Larry Nix's top 10 libraries on postage stamps -- 15 favorite library postcards -- Top 10 library blogs -- Top 16 book blogs -- Top 60 subject blogs and news sources -- Norman Stevens's 10 best children's picture books that feature libraries and librarians -- 10 librarians in adult fiction -- 25 offbeat book titles -- Martha Spear's top 10 reasons to be a librarian -- Scott Douglas's 10 reasons to be (and not to be) a librarian -- Top 10 ways to make sure potential applicants for your library job are turned off by your ad -- 10 recruitment vows for librarians -- Roy Tennant's top 10 things library administrators should know about technology -- Leigh Anne Vrabel's 10 things to do when you are a library director -- Jenny Levine's mindset list for library school students -- Sean Fitzpatrick's 7 cool tools that librarians should know about -- Key dates in American library history -- 5 movies with the worst librarian stereotypes -- 5 movies with librarian role models -- 3 TV shows with librarians -- 12 librarians who came back to haunt -- Top 15 books about real librarians -- 12 librarians who were poets -- 14 ways public libraries are good for the country -- Ranganathan's 5 laws of library science (updated) -- Michael Gorman's revised laws of library science -- John Cotton Dana's 12 rules for reading -- Top 25 largest libraries in North America -- Ten unusual rare-book genres -- 10 book curses -- 10 intriguing paper defects -- Stephen Leary's top 10 ways to exit a library -- Booklist editors' best American fiction, 1980-2005 -- Top 10 challenged books, 1990-2000 -- Other challenged books, 2001-2009 -- Top 12 silly reasons to ban a book -- 10 most popular ALA celebrity READ posters -- What to do when the media calls -- How to say "where is the library?" …”
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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cigdem Kagitcibasi and Pia Rebello Britto -- Linking peacebuilding and child development : a basic framework / Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Ilham Nasser -- The power of media in peacebuilding / Lucy Nusseibeh -- Creating effective programs and policies to reduce violence and promote peace -- Pia rebello britto, rima salah, mohammed abu-nimer, jacqueline bhabha, anwarul k. chowdhury, gary r. gunderson, cigdem kagitcibasi, lucy nusseibeh, olayinka omigbodun, mikiko otani, and geraldine smyth -- Bibliography -- Subject index.…”
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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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Too Much is Not Enough : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Ellero and Paula Sullenger – Resolved, every librarian a subject librarian: implementing subject librarianship across a research library / Steven E. …”
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Too Much is Not Enough : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Ellero and Paula Sullenger – Resolved, every librarian a subject librarian: implementing subject librarianship across a research library / Steven E. …”
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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- "Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism" (1980) / Annette Kolodny -- "What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (1981) / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Aesthetics" from How to suppress women's writing (1983) / Joanna Russ -- "Caste, class, and canon" (1981/1987) / Paul Lauter -- "A criticism of our own : autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory" (1989) / Elaine Showalter -- "Introduction" from Gender in African women's writing : identity, sexuality, difference (1997) / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Introduction : on the politics of literature" from The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction (1978) / Judith Fetterley -- "The father's seduction" from The daughter's seduction: feminism and psychoanalysis (1982) / Jane Gallop -- "Constructing the subject : deconstructing the text (1985) / Catherine Belsey -- "Introduction" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Gender assymetry and erotic triangles" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Apostrophe, animation, and abortion" (1986) / Barbara Johnson -- "Feminist politics : what's home got to do with it?" …”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- "Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism" (1980) / Annette Kolodny -- "What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (1981) / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Aesthetics" from How to suppress women's writing (1983) / Joanna Russ -- "Caste, class, and canon" (1981/1987) / Paul Lauter -- "A criticism of our own : autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory" (1989) / Elaine Showalter -- "Introduction" from Gender in African women's writing : identity, sexuality, difference (1997) / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Introduction : on the politics of literature" from The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction (1978) / Judith Fetterley -- "The father's seduction" from The daughter's seduction: feminism and psychoanalysis (1982) / Jane Gallop -- "Constructing the subject : deconstructing the text (1985) / Catherine Belsey -- "Introduction" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Gender assymetry and erotic triangles" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Apostrophe, animation, and abortion" (1986) / Barbara Johnson -- "Feminist politics : what's home got to do with it?" …”
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Regulating Content on Social Media : Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features / by Tan, Corinne

Table of Contents: “…Subsistence: works and other subject matter protected by copyrightB. Subsistence: originality; C. …”
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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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