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The empire of lies the truth about China in the twenty-first century / by Sorman, Guy

Table of Contents: “…The Mystics -- 4. The Dispossessed -- 5. The Downtrodden -- 6. Skewed Development -- 7. …”
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The jewel-hinged jaw notes on the language of science fiction / by Delany, Samuel R.

Table of Contents: “…Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney -- About 5,750 words -- Critical methods/speculative fiction -- Quarks -- Thickening the plot -- Faust and Archimedes -- Alyx -- Prisoners' sleep -- Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction" -- To read The dispossessed -- A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.…”
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Faulkner and the Great Depression aesthetics, ideology, and cultural politics / by Atkinson, Ted, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Placement and perspective: Faulkner and the Great Depression -- History and culture : Faulkner in political context -- Decadence and dispossession : Faulkner and the "literary class war" -- Power by design : Faulkner and the specter of fascism -- Revolution and restraint : Faulkner's ambivalent agrarianism -- Destruction and Reconstruction: Faulkner's Civil War and the politics of recovery.…”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “…Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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In the shadow of slavery Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / by Carney, Judith Ann

Table of Contents: “…Food and the African past -- African plants on the move -- African food crops and the Guinea trade -- African food and the Atlantic crossing -- Maroon subsistence strategies -- The Africanization of plantation food systems -- Botanical gardens of the dispossessed -- Guinea's plants and European empire -- African animals and grasses in the New World tropics -- Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy.…”
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Another place an ecocritical study of selected western American poets / by Elkins, Andrew, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Sand, wind, and buttes: Peggy Pond Church's lifetime love affair with the desert Southwest -- Hootin' and hollerin' in the Rocky Mountain West: cowboy poetry, the land, and the modern reader -- A terrible beauty: the Alaskan wilderness and the poetry of John Haines -- Dispossessed: the poetic inferno of Adrian Louis -- Surf, rivers, and salmon: the Northwest in the poetry of Richard Hugo -- California as the world in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield.…”
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The testing grounds of modern empire the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s / by Strobel, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans : a comparative overview of the pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Ohio country and the Eastern Cape -- Conquest, civilization, and dispossession : the transformation of the Ohio country -- Humantiarians, settlers, and the state : the transformation of the Eastern Cape -- The Ohio Indians revolution : a struggle for sovereignty and independence -- This land is our land : Africans in the Eastern Cape and their struggle for independence and sovereignty.…”
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Virtuous Waters : Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico / by Walsh, Casey

Table of Contents: “…Waters / Cultures -- Bathing and domination in the early modern Atlantic world -- Policing waters and baths in eighteenth century Mexico City -- Enlightenment science of mineral springs -- Groundwater and hydraulic opulence in the late nineteenth century -- Chemistry, biology and the heterogeneity of modern waters -- Dispossession and bottling after the revolution -- Spa tourism in twentieth century Mexico -- Virtuous waters in the twenty first century.…”
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Family life in Native America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.…”
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Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land /

Table of Contents: “…Dwyer -- Indirect dispossession : domestic power imbalances and foreign access to land in mozambique / Madeleine Fairbairn -- Competition over authority and access : international land deals in madagascar / Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana -- Regimes of dispossession : from steel towns to special economic zones / Michael Levien -- The political construction of wasteland : governmentality, land acquisition and social inequality in south india / Jennifer Baka -- Chinese land-based interventions in senegal / Lila Buckley -- Identity, territory and land conflict in brazil / LaShandra Sullivan.…”
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Royals and the Reich the princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany / by Petropoulos, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The interconnectedness of the nobility: strategies to preserve privilege through the Great War -- The Princes Von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: tribulations, the high life, and Fascist flirtations -- Nazi high society: making Hitler "Salonfähig" and helping the Nazis to power -- A place in the Reich: princely careers in the Nazi state -- Roles in an increasingly radical regime -- Miscalculation and misfortune -- Postwar justice: denazification and (partial) dispossession -- Rebuilding a life: Schloss Fasanerie, financial viability, and burdens of the past -- Understanding German princes in the twentieth century.…”
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King Hussein of Jordan a political life / by Ashton, Nigel John

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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Mishra -- The micropolitics of borders : the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi -- Nodes of control in a South(east) Asian borderland / Nicholas Farrelly -- Histories of belonging(s) : narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons -- Geographies and identities : subaltern partition stories along Bengal's southern frontier / Annu Jalais -- Afterword: Making the most of "sensitive" borders / Willem van Schendel.…”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Ethnographies of Power : Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart /

Table of Contents: “…/ Derick Fay -- When Custom Divides 'Community': Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province / Sonwabile Mnwana -- Chiefs, Mines and the State in the Platinum Belt: The Bapo-ba-Mogale Traditional Community and Lonmin / Gavin Capps -- Mining, Graves and Dispossession in Mpumalanga / Dineo Skosana -- The Abuse of Interdicts by Traditional Leaders in South Africa / Joanna Pickering and Ayesha Motala -- Resisting the Imposition of Ubukhosi: Contested Authority-Making in the Former Ciskei / Thiyane Duda and Janine Ubink -- Black Landlords, Their Tenants and the Native Administration Act of 1927 / Khumisho Moguerane -- Customary Law and Landownership in the Eastern Cape / Rosalie Kingwill -- A History of Communal Property Associations in South Africa / Tara Weinberg -- 'This is Business Land': The Hlolweni Land Claim, 1983-2016 / Raphael Chaskalson -- Restitution and Land Rights in the Eastern Cape: The Hlolweni, Mgungundlovu and Xolobeni Cases / William Beinart.…”
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Land between waters environmental histories of modern Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…López -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. …”
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Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /

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Knowledge for Justice : Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships /

Table of Contents: “…New public management as a mechanism of accumulation by dispossession : the case of a public bulk water provider in South Africa / Carina van Rooyen -- 5. …”
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East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Section 1 The social life of things -- 1.Prize possession: the `silver coffer' of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family / Cam Sharp Jones -- 2.Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house / Helen Clifford -- 3.Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house / Kate Smith -- 4.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

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