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States of credit size, power, and the development of European polities / by Stasavage, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The evolution and importance of public credit -- Representative assemblies in Europe, 1250-1750 -- Representation and credit in a broad sample of states -- Origins of city-states -- Three city-state experiences -- Three territorial state experiences -- Implications for state formation and development.…”
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An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / by Chen, Lung-chu

Table of Contents: “…International law in a policy-oriented perspective -- Nation-states -- International governmental organizations -- Nongovernmental organizations and associations -- The individual -- Minimum order and optimum order -- Establishment of and access to arenas of authority -- Control over territory -- Control and use of the sea -- Control and use of other resources -- Control of people : nationality and movement -- Protection of people : from alien rights to human rights -- Vertical allocation of authority -- Horizontal allocation of authority -- The diplomatic instrument -- International agreements -- The ideological instrument -- The economic instrument -- The military instrument -- The intelligence function -- The promoting function -- The prescribing (lawmaking) function -- The invoking function -- The applying function -- The terminating function -- The appraising function -- Succession of states -- Responsibility of states -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Toward a world community of human dignity.…”

Deleuze's way essays in transverse ethics and aesthetics / by Bogue, Ronald, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the transverse way : Du côté de chez Deleuze -- Immanent ethics -- Minority, territory, music -- Violence in three shades of metal : death, doom, and black -- Search, swim, and see : Deleuze's apprenticeship in signs and pedagogy of images -- Tragedy, sight, and sound : the birth of Godard's Prénom Carmen from the Nietzschean spirit of music -- Bergsonian fabulation and the people to come -- Re-viewing Deleuze's Sacher-Masoch -- Apology for nomadology -- Nomadism, globalism and cultural studies -- Nomadology's trial by proxy.…”
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State of play contemporary "high-end" TV drama / by Nelson, Robin, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints -- Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries -- Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless -- State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game -- Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle -- Techniques, technologies and cultural form -- Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz -- "Quality TV" in context -- Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.…”
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Crusoes and other castaways in modern French literature solitary adventures / by Acquisto, Joseph, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…: the popular Robinsonnade in the nineteenth century -- Toward the inner solitary adventure: reading, adventure, solitude -- Turning inward: the Robinson of the poets -- Adventure in new territory: the solitary adventure novel 1921-1972 -- Children of Tournier: the late twentieth century and beyond.…”
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A short history of Wisconsin by Janik, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Geography of place -- Fortunes made of fur -- From territory to statehood -- Calling Wisconsin home -- Lead and lumber -- Social and moral improvement -- Civil War Wisconsin -- Becoming America's dairyland -- Manufacturing the future -- The sporting life -- Progressive politics -- World War I -- Changing habits of consumption -- Depression -- World War II -- Culture of fear -- Migration and civil rights -- Vietnam -- Greening Wisconsin -- The changing face of immigration -- Indian treaty rights -- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution -- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.…”
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State of play contemporary "high-end" TV drama / by Nelson, Robin, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints -- Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries -- Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless -- State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game -- Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle -- Techniques, technologies and cultural form -- Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz -- "Quality TV" in context -- Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.…”
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Crusoes and other castaways in modern French literature solitary adventures / by Acquisto, Joseph, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…: the popular Robinsonnade in the nineteenth century -- Toward the inner solitary adventure: reading, adventure, solitude -- Turning inward: the Robinson of the poets -- Adventure in new territory: the solitary adventure novel 1921-1972 -- Children of Tournier: the late twentieth century and beyond.…”
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A short history of Wisconsin by Janik, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Geography of place -- Fortunes made of fur -- From territory to statehood -- Calling Wisconsin home -- Lead and lumber -- Social and moral improvement -- Civil War Wisconsin -- Becoming America's dairyland -- Manufacturing the future -- The sporting life -- Progressive politics -- World War I -- Changing habits of consumption -- Depression -- World War II -- Culture of fear -- Migration and civil rights -- Vietnam -- Greening Wisconsin -- The changing face of immigration -- Indian treaty rights -- Postwar politics and the conservative revolution -- Conclusion: Creating Wisconsin.…”
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An introduction to contemporary international law : a policy-oriented perspective / by Chen, Lung-chu

Table of Contents: “…International law in a policy-oriented perspective -- Nation-states -- International governmental organizations -- Nongovernmental organizations and associations -- The individual -- Minimum order and optimum order -- Establishment of and access to arenas of authority -- Control over territory -- Control and use of the sea -- Control and use of other resources -- Control of people : nationality and movement -- Protection of people : from alien rights to human rights -- Vertical allocation of authority -- Horizontal allocation of authority -- The diplomatic instrument -- International agreements -- The ideological instrument -- The economic instrument -- The military instrument -- The intelligence function -- The promoting function -- The prescribing (lawmaking) function -- The invoking function -- The applying function -- The terminating function -- The appraising function -- Succession of states -- Responsibility of states -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Toward a world community of human dignity.…”

Deleuze's way essays in transverse ethics and aesthetics / by Bogue, Ronald, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the transverse way : Du côté de chez Deleuze -- Immanent ethics -- Minority, territory, music -- Violence in three shades of metal : death, doom, and black -- Search, swim, and see : Deleuze's apprenticeship in signs and pedagogy of images -- Tragedy, sight, and sound : the birth of Godard's Prénom Carmen from the Nietzschean spirit of music -- Bergsonian fabulation and the people to come -- Re-viewing Deleuze's Sacher-Masoch -- Apology for nomadology -- Nomadism, globalism and cultural studies -- Nomadology's trial by proxy.…”
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Overcoming fragmentation in Southeast Europe spatial development trends and integration potential /

Table of Contents: “…/ Thanassis Kalogeressis and Lois Labrianidis -- Development planning and territorial integration prospects in South Eastern Europe : a foresight exercise in the region of central Macedonia / Dimitris Foutakis and Elisavet Thoidou -- Southeast Europe within changing European geographies : tracing socio-economic disparities and potentials of integration / Peter Schoen and Petra Pelster -- The new generation of European sustainable development documents and strategic development schemes of Serbia and Montenegro : the problem of correspondence / Miodrag Vujosevic -- Settlement patterns in Europe : elements and comparative typology / Alma Zavodnik-Lamovsek -- Transport infrastructure priorities and territorial cohesion prospects in SE Europe / Magda Pitsiava -- Territorial governance, institutional structures and trans-frontier cooperation prospects in South-Eastern Europe / Panayiotis Getimis and Leeda Demetropoulou.…”
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Overcoming fragmentation in Southeast Europe spatial development trends and integration potential /

Table of Contents: “…/ Thanassis Kalogeressis and Lois Labrianidis -- Development planning and territorial integration prospects in South Eastern Europe : a foresight exercise in the region of central Macedonia / Dimitris Foutakis and Elisavet Thoidou -- Southeast Europe within changing European geographies : tracing socio-economic disparities and potentials of integration / Peter Schoen and Petra Pelster -- The new generation of European sustainable development documents and strategic development schemes of Serbia and Montenegro : the problem of correspondence / Miodrag Vujosevic -- Settlement patterns in Europe : elements and comparative typology / Alma Zavodnik-Lamovsek -- Transport infrastructure priorities and territorial cohesion prospects in SE Europe / Magda Pitsiava -- Territorial governance, institutional structures and trans-frontier cooperation prospects in South-Eastern Europe / Panayiotis Getimis and Leeda Demetropoulou.…”
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Who controls the Internet? illusions of a borderless world / by Goldsmith, Jack L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Visions of a post-territorial order -- The god of the Internet -- Why geography matters -- How governments rule the Net -- China -- The filesharing movement -- Virtues and vices of government control -- Consequences of borders -- Global laws -- Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion.…”
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Who controls the Internet? illusions of a borderless world / by Goldsmith, Jack L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Visions of a post-territorial order -- The god of the Internet -- Why geography matters -- How governments rule the Net -- China -- The filesharing movement -- Virtues and vices of government control -- Consequences of borders -- Global laws -- Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion.…”
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The European Convention on Human Rights collected essays / by Loukaidēs, Loukēs G.

Table of Contents: “…Turkey -- The protection of the right to property in occupied territories -- Freedom of expression and the right to reputation -- Environmental protection through the jurisprudence of the European convention on human rights -- Questions of fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights -- The right of access to a court and the doctrine of political acts -- The right of return.…”
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The European Convention on Human Rights collected essays / by Loukaidēs, Loukēs G.

Table of Contents: “…Turkey -- The protection of the right to property in occupied territories -- Freedom of expression and the right to reputation -- Environmental protection through the jurisprudence of the European convention on human rights -- Questions of fair trial under the European Convention on Human Rights -- The right of access to a court and the doctrine of political acts -- The right of return.…”
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A second home Missouri's early schools / by Thomas, Sue, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : children on the frontier -- The first schools in upper Louisiana -- The Missouri Territory -- A new state -- The rural schoolhouse -- The rural schoolteacher -- The scholars' day -- Tools of learning -- The slow progress of common schools -- Rebuilding Missouri's school system "without regard to color" -- A gathering place.…”
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The empire's new clothes cultural particularism and universal value in China's quest for global status / by Paltiel, Jeremy T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The ins and outs of sovereignty -- Sovereignty in the discourse of the Chinese Communist Party -- National rights, human rights, and the rule of law -- Human rights and membership in international society -- China and the world trading system : the WTO and beyond -- Taiwan and the concept of territorial sovereignty -- Conclusion: China and international society.…”
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American tropics articulating Filipino America / by Isaac, Allan Punzalan

Table of Contents: “…American tropics -- Disappearing clauses : reconstituting America in the unincorporated territories -- Moral sentences : Boy Scouts and novel encounters with empire -- Imperial romance : framing manifest destiny in the Pacific -- Reconstituting American subjects : proximate masculinities -- Reconstituting American predicates : troping the American tour d'horizon.…”
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