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Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jasperse, Jitske

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : material culture and performance of power -- Staging the bride and her treasure -- Small items making big impressions : coins and seals -- Devotion and dynasty on parchment -- Trappings vested with power -- Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.…”
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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / by Mucher, Christen

Table of Contents: “…Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.…”
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Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations /

Table of Contents: “…- Part II: Measurement of Damages -- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience -- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience -- Epilogue.…”
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Transfer pricing in international business a management tool for adding value / by Turner, Geoff

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The international organization -- The theory of transfer pricing -- External influences on transfer pricing -- Changes in the business model -- A transfer pricing model for the changing times -- A practical example -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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James Madison, the South, and the trans-Appalachian West, 1783-1803 / by Zemler, Jeffery Allen, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- A nationalist viewpoint -- The West and the new constitution -- The fight for the Potomac -- A western perspective -- An unhappy West -- And slavery -- Western anxieties and the military debate -- A change in emphasis -- Epilogue: looking East.…”
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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / by Mucher, Christen

Table of Contents: “…Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.…”
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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: mapping marriage -- Why marriage mattered then -- Comparing rights, comparing stories -- Making room for coquettes and fallen women -- A postcolonial heroine "writes back" -- Bungling bundling -- Epilogue: why marriage matters now.…”
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The Making of Détente : Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam / by Nelson, Keith L.

Table of Contents: “…The developing confrontation -- The breakdown of old arrangements -- New military parity and the decline of bipolarity -- Seeking America's escape from Vietnam -- Finding America's way to detente -- Brezhnev and squaring the circle -- Epilogue : from detente to the Gorbachev revolution.…”
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Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jasperse, Jitske

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : material culture and performance of power -- Staging the bride and her treasure -- Small items making big impressions : coins and seals -- Devotion and dynasty on parchment -- Trappings vested with power -- Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.…”
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American dictators : Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson, and the perfection of the urban political machine / by Hart, Steven, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The One Who Got Away, and the One Who Didn't -- In the Court of the Emerald King -- Lines of Power -- Boom Times -- Hard Times -- Public Works -- A Choice of Enemies -- Decline and Fall -- Epilogue: The Machines That Didn't Stopages.…”
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American dictators : Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson, and the perfection of the urban political machine / by Hart, Steven, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The One Who Got Away, and the One Who Didn't -- In the Court of the Emerald King -- Lines of Power -- Boom Times -- Hard Times -- Public Works -- A Choice of Enemies -- Decline and Fall -- Epilogue: The Machines That Didn't Stopages.…”
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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

Table of Contents: “…The end of the romance -- The Negro novel and the limits of realism -- Epilogue.…”
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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

Table of Contents: “…The end of the romance -- The Negro novel and the limits of realism -- Epilogue.…”
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The Column of Marcus Aurelius the genesis & meaning of a Roman imperial monument / by Beckmann, Martin

Table of Contents: “…The date and purpose of the column -- The dust of northern warfare : choice of location -- Form & function -- Planning & construction -- The frieze : concept & draft -- Carving the frieze -- The frieze as history -- The frieze as art -- Viewing the column -- Epilogue : the columns of Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Arcadius.…”
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Ruins, revolution, and manifest destiny : John Lloyd Stephens creates the Maya / by Lenz, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: In the footsteps of John Lloyd Stephens -- Personal identity, national mythology -- Reading reviews, reading cultural values -- Appropriating the Maya -- Reading is believing -- Seeing the Maya in the parlor -- Reading Catherwood's views -- Epilogue: The footsteps form a circle.…”
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The Column of Marcus Aurelius the genesis & meaning of a Roman imperial monument / by Beckmann, Martin

Table of Contents: “…The date and purpose of the column -- The dust of northern warfare : choice of location -- Form & function -- Planning & construction -- The frieze : concept & draft -- Carving the frieze -- The frieze as history -- The frieze as art -- Viewing the column -- Epilogue : the columns of Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Arcadius.…”
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Ruins, revolution, and manifest destiny : John Lloyd Stephens creates the Maya / by Lenz, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: In the footsteps of John Lloyd Stephens -- Personal identity, national mythology -- Reading reviews, reading cultural values -- Appropriating the Maya -- Reading is believing -- Seeing the Maya in the parlor -- Reading Catherwood's views -- Epilogue: The footsteps form a circle.…”
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The Great Debate on Banking Reform : Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed / by Wicker, Elmus

Table of Contents: “…The great debate : an overview -- Recent literature revisited -- The quest for an asset-based currency, 1894-1908 -- The Aldrich-Vreeland Act -- Jekyll Island and the Aldrich Bill -- The Glass Bill -- The Aldrich and Glass-Owen Bills compared -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Epilogue.…”
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This Was Not Our War : Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace / by Hunt, Swanee

Table of Contents: “…To heal history -- Challenges -- Women transforming -- The road to reconciliation -- Epilogue: The courage to hope -- Profiles -- Closing thoughts.…”
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The Great Debate on Banking Reform : Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed / by Wicker, Elmus

Table of Contents: “…The great debate : an overview -- Recent literature revisited -- The quest for an asset-based currency, 1894-1908 -- The Aldrich-Vreeland Act -- Jekyll Island and the Aldrich Bill -- The Glass Bill -- The Aldrich and Glass-Owen Bills compared -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Epilogue.…”
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