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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
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Playing smart New York women writers and modern magazine culture / by Keyser, Catherine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion.…”
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Playing smart New York women writers and modern magazine culture / by Keyser, Catherine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion.…”
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Transforming Women's Education : Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries / by Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Transforming Women's Education : Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries / by Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The politics of public housing Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Williams, Rhonda Y.

Table of Contents: “…Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.…”
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Envisioning Ireland W.B. Yeats's occult nationalism / by Nally, Claire, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "a secret mystical propaganda": the castle of heroes -- "In a time of civil war": Anglo-Irish identity, national conflict and a vision -- Forging and forgery: the "Giraldus" portrait in a vision -- Imperial politics, Leo Africanus and discarnate states -- The "secret society" of theatre: Yeats's middle plays -- Yeats's "fanatic heart": the Golden Dawn, secrecy and anti-semitism.…”
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Envisioning Ireland W.B. Yeats's occult nationalism / by Nally, Claire, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "a secret mystical propaganda": the castle of heroes -- "In a time of civil war": Anglo-Irish identity, national conflict and a vision -- Forging and forgery: the "Giraldus" portrait in a vision -- Imperial politics, Leo Africanus and discarnate states -- The "secret society" of theatre: Yeats's middle plays -- Yeats's "fanatic heart": the Golden Dawn, secrecy and anti-semitism.…”
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Quest and Response : Minority Rights and the Truman Administration / by McCoy, Donald R., Ruetten, Richard T., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…The state of minorities before the Truman years -- A new man in the White House -- Tension and strife -- Where they stood -- A year of relaxation, or preparation -- OF promises made and delayed -- Vindication of a commitment -- A new day dawns? -- Deadlock in Congress -- Of patronage, housing, and law -- Integrating the military -- Equal employment opportunity -- Defeat in Congress -- A final stand -- Assessment.…”
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The politics of public housing Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Williams, Rhonda Y.

Table of Contents: “…Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.…”
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Quest and Response : Minority Rights and the Truman Administration / by McCoy, Donald R., Ruetten, Richard T., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…The state of minorities before the Truman years -- A new man in the White House -- Tension and strife -- Where they stood -- A year of relaxation, or preparation -- OF promises made and delayed -- Vindication of a commitment -- A new day dawns? -- Deadlock in Congress -- Of patronage, housing, and law -- Integrating the military -- Equal employment opportunity -- Defeat in Congress -- A final stand -- Assessment.…”
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Wittgenstein and value the quest for meaning / by Litwack, Eric B.

Table of Contents: “…Watson and the denial of the soul ; Attitudes towards other minds and forms of life ; The soul and the face ; Aspect-blindness and dawning ; Conclusion -- Particularism, rule-following, and evaluations. …”
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Wittgenstein and value the quest for meaning / by Litwack, Eric B.

Table of Contents: “…Watson and the denial of the soul ; Attitudes towards other minds and forms of life ; The soul and the face ; Aspect-blindness and dawning ; Conclusion -- Particularism, rule-following, and evaluations. …”
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The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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And fortune fled David Lloyd George, the first democratic statesman, 1916-1922 / by Fry, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…-- The thief in the night: the new dawn -- Paris: the transcendent man I -- Paris: the transcendent man II -- A relationship not so special -- Director of Europe (Frances Stevenson) -- Beyond a cold war -- Genoa and after -- From Cairo to Constantinople -- Chanak.…”
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America at the mall the cultural role of a retail utopia / by Scharoun, Lisa, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the mall -- Suburbia and the american dream -- The decline of downtown -- The mall and religion -- Main street -- Teens and the mall -- Senior citizens and the mall -- The mall as "public" space -- The mall and the environment -- Dawn of the dead mall -- The rise of the big boxes -- Regional mall case studies -- Case studies: super-regional malls, lifestyle centers -- And hybrids -- New urbanism and the death of the urban mall -- The future of public space in America.…”
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The family a world history / by Maynes, Mary Jo

Table of Contents: “…Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions and cosmologies -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Family dynamics in a global frame (1400-1750) -- Families in global markets (1600-1850) -- Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920) -- Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).…”
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