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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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Contesting trade in Central America : market reform and resistance / by Spalding, Rose J.

Table of Contents: “…The march to market reform in Central America -- Rule makers and rule takers: negotiating CAFTA -- Resistance: competing voices -- Ratification politics: in the chamber and in the street -- After CAFTA: antimining movements, investment disputes, and new organizational territory -- Electoral challenges and transitions -- Post-neoliberalism and alternative approaches to change.…”
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Contesting trade in Central America : market reform and resistance / by Spalding, Rose J.

Table of Contents: “…The march to market reform in Central America -- Rule makers and rule takers: negotiating CAFTA -- Resistance: competing voices -- Ratification politics: in the chamber and in the street -- After CAFTA: antimining movements, investment disputes, and new organizational territory -- Electoral challenges and transitions -- Post-neoliberalism and alternative approaches to change.…”
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Southscapes geographies of race, region, and literature / by Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. A map of the territory -- Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation -- Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi -- Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies -- Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit -- Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space -- Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.…”
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Southscapes geographies of race, region, and literature / by Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. A map of the territory -- Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation -- Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi -- Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies -- Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit -- Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space -- Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.…”
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The price of honor the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. / by Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings, 1865-895 -- The Halls of Congress, 1895-903 -- The initiation, 1903-904 -- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905 -- Disputed territory, 1906 -- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907 -- A rightful claim, 1908 -- Racing to the wire, 1909 -- Into oblivion, 1910-928 -- Elder statesman, 1929-940 --.…”
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The price of honor the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. / by Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings, 1865-895 -- The Halls of Congress, 1895-903 -- The initiation, 1903-904 -- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905 -- Disputed territory, 1906 -- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907 -- A rightful claim, 1908 -- Racing to the wire, 1909 -- Into oblivion, 1910-928 -- Elder statesman, 1929-940 --.…”
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The challenge of slums global report on human settlements, 2003 /

Table of Contents: “…Developing context and the millennium agenda -- Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums -- Cities and slums within globalizing economies -- Social dimensions -- Territoriality and spatial forms -- Economic dynamics -- New policy developments at the national and global levels -- Civil society in action -- Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities.…”
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Women, epic, and transition in British romanticism by Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Affective historiography in poetry: women and time in romantic epic -- Feminizing the epic tradition: romantic echoes of Spenser and Milton -- Medieval minstrelsy and the female curse on history -- Mary Russell Mitford on Lord Byron's new and old world territories -- Oriental mysticism and human forms divine: psyche's erotic revolution.…”
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Women, epic, and transition in British romanticism by Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Affective historiography in poetry: women and time in romantic epic -- Feminizing the epic tradition: romantic echoes of Spenser and Milton -- Medieval minstrelsy and the female curse on history -- Mary Russell Mitford on Lord Byron's new and old world territories -- Oriental mysticism and human forms divine: psyche's erotic revolution.…”
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The challenge of slums global report on human settlements, 2003 /

Table of Contents: “…Developing context and the millennium agenda -- Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums -- Cities and slums within globalizing economies -- Social dimensions -- Territoriality and spatial forms -- Economic dynamics -- New policy developments at the national and global levels -- Civil society in action -- Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities.…”
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Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds /

Table of Contents: “…The rights of man and the rights of the other / Emmanuel Levinas -- Extra-territoriality: outside the state, outside the subject / Robert Bernasconi -- The world inhospitable to Levinas / Zygmunt Bauman -- Authentic thinking and phenomenological method / Steven Galt Crowell -- Beyond human rights / Giorgio Agamben -- Islands : the geography of extraterritoriality / Anselm Franke, Eyal Weizman & Ines Weizman -- Outside territory / Stuart Elden -- Where has all the (xeno)money gone? …”
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Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds /

Table of Contents: “…The rights of man and the rights of the other / Emmanuel Levinas -- Extra-territoriality: outside the state, outside the subject / Robert Bernasconi -- The world inhospitable to Levinas / Zygmunt Bauman -- Authentic thinking and phenomenological method / Steven Galt Crowell -- Beyond human rights / Giorgio Agamben -- Islands : the geography of extraterritoriality / Anselm Franke, Eyal Weizman & Ines Weizman -- Outside territory / Stuart Elden -- Where has all the (xeno)money gone? …”
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Footsteps on the ice the Antarctic diaries of Stuart D. Paine, second Byrd Expedition / by Paine, Stuart D. L.

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The blackstone of military law Colonel William Winthrop / by Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. …”
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The Indian history of an American institution Native Americans and Dartmouth / by Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a school in the heart of the Indian country -- Eleazar Wheelock and the Indian Charity School, 1743-69 -- Samson Occom and the Indian money, 1765-75 -- Dartmouth, Indians, and the American Revolution, 1775-1800 -- Dartmouth men in Indian country, 1775-1820 -- Dartmouth in the age of Indian removal, 1820-50 -- Students from Indian territory, 1850-85 -- Charles Eastman, 1858-1939 -- Indian symbols and some Indian students, 1900-1969 -- The return of the Natives, 1970-2010 -- Conclusion : Eleazar Wheelock meets Luther Standing Bear.…”
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The blackstone of military law Colonel William Winthrop / by Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. …”
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The Indian history of an American institution Native Americans and Dartmouth / by Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a school in the heart of the Indian country -- Eleazar Wheelock and the Indian Charity School, 1743-69 -- Samson Occom and the Indian money, 1765-75 -- Dartmouth, Indians, and the American Revolution, 1775-1800 -- Dartmouth men in Indian country, 1775-1820 -- Dartmouth in the age of Indian removal, 1820-50 -- Students from Indian territory, 1850-85 -- Charles Eastman, 1858-1939 -- Indian symbols and some Indian students, 1900-1969 -- The return of the Natives, 1970-2010 -- Conclusion : Eleazar Wheelock meets Luther Standing Bear.…”
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