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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
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Texas takes wing : a century of flight in the Lone Star State / by Ganson, Barbara Anne, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Flying Takes Off in Texas -- The Stinson Flying Family of San Antonio and Texas Aviators in the Great War -- Between the World Wars : Barnstormers--Owners and Operators of Flying Services -- Record Setters and Air Racers -- Creating a More Connected World -- Flight Training -- Texas Air Power during the Second World War -- Aircraft Designers and Manufacturers -- Red, White, and Blue All Over : Texas Air Power in the Cold War and the Space Age -- Epilogue: Aeronautical Achievements, Education, and the Future of Air and Space Travel -- Appendices.…”
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The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages : an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza / by Cohen, Mark R., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction -- Basic themes -- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction -- The foreign poor -- Indigent captives and refugees -- Debt and poll tax -- Women and poverty -- Letters regarding public charity -- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists -- Donor lists -- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.…”
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Mountain of paradise : reflections on the emergence of greater California as a world civilization / by Chytry, Josef

Table of Contents: “…: the California fifties as watershed -- California political economy : the emotional environments of Walt Disney -- Metaglobal California : California irredenta -- Epilogue : California and the Paradiso.…”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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A perilous progress : economists and public purpose in twentieth-century America / by Bernstein, Michael A. (Michael Alan), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Statecraft and Its Discontents -- Epilogue. Being Ignored (Reprise) -- Notes -- Bibliography and Reference Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”
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The greening of Asia : the business case for solving Asia's environmental emergency / by Clifford, Mark, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: green shoots under soot-stained skies -- Introduction: energy: sun, wind and the end of coal -- The sun kings -- Blowin' in the wind -- Introduction: our human world: cities, buildings, wheels -- Cities in a garden -- Buildings for a greener Asia -- Asia on the move: cars and trains -- Introduction: nature : forests, farms and water -- "Water is more important than oil" -- The tropical challenge : saving Asia's lungs -- Epilogue: "adhere and prosper" : from black coal to green power -- Conclusion -- Appendix: companies to watch -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Forging a multinational state : state making in imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War / by Deák, John (John David)

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of Austrian governance, 1780-1848 -- The madness of Count Stadion, or, Austria between revolution and reaction -- The reforging of the Habsburg state, 1849-1859 -- State building on a new track : Austria in the 1860s -- The years of procedure, 1868-1900 -- Bureaucracy and democracy in the final decades of the monarchy, 1890-1914 -- Epilogue : the state of exception : Austria's descent into the twentieth century.…”
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Building the golden gate bridge / by Schwartz, Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Slim Lambert: Survivor -- Al Zampa: Legend -- Mary Zita Felciano and Patricia Deweese: Nurses -- Walter Vestnys and Joyce "Big J" Harris: Maintenance ironworkers -- Epilogue.…”
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Enduring conviction / by Bannai, Lorraine K.

Table of Contents: “…-- Correcting the record -- A symbol in the continuing search for justice -- Epilogue.…”
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The odyssey of China's imperial art treasures / by Elliott, Jeannette Shambaugh, 1912-1996, Shambaugh, David L.

Table of Contents: “…China's Imperial art treasures from early times to the twelfth century -- Imperial treasures under the Ming and Qing dynasties -- From private to public treasures: the early Republican era, 1911-1930 -- The treasures through times of war, 1931-1947 -- Relocating and rebuilding the Palace Museum on Taiwan -- The Gugong in Beijing: national treasure and political object -- Epilogue: the politics of China's Imperial art.…”
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The case for U.S. nuclear weapons in the 21st century / by Roberts, Brad

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of U.S. nuclear policy and posture since the end of the Cold War -- The first new problem : nuclear-armed regional challengers -- The new regional deterrence strategy -- The second new problem : relations with Putin's Russia -- The evolving relationship with China -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Europe -- Extended deterrence and strategic stability in Northeast Asia -- The broader nuclear assurance agenda -- Conclusions -- Epilogue : implications for future strategy, policy, and posture reviews.…”
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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War / by Winch, Julie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "On liberty's borderlands -- Property or persons: black freedom in colonial America, 1513-1770 -- In liberty's cause: black freedom in revolutionary America, 1770-1790 -- Race, liberty and citizenship in the new nation, 1790-1820 -- "We will have our rights": redefining black freedom, 1820-1850 -- "No rights which the white man was bound to respect": black freedom and black citizenship, 1850-1861 -- Epilogue : black freedom, white freedom.…”
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St. Louis and empire : 250 years of imperial quest and urban crisis / by Berger, Henry W.

Table of Contents: “…Louis in the new age of globalism, 1946-2012 -- Epilogue: St. Louis in the world.…”
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Capital and the common good : how innovative finance is tackling the world's most urgent problems / by Keohane, Georgia Levenson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: innovative finance and the visible hand -- Climate change: REDD forests, green bonds, and the price of climate finance -- Health care: medicine for market failure -- Financial inclusion and access to capital -- Redefining risk, response, and resilience towards a new disaster finance -- US community and economic development -- Conclusion: financing the future: innovative finance and the ties that bind -- Epilogue: the road ahead.…”
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The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 / by Woyshner, Christine A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the national PTA, race, and civic engagement -- "No hats to be worn" : organizing the National Congress of Mothers -- "To work more effectively and gain better leadership experience" : the founding of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers -- "For convenience of a better education and training for my people" : organizational growth and stability -- Making America "strong from within" : school lunches, civics, and intergroup relations -- Diminishing as it advanced : the unification of the PTA -- Epilogue : civil society and public education.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 / by Laurie, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…Years of discord, 1845-1850 -- Workers at bay -- Varieties of radicalism -- Part five. Epilogue -- Radicalism united and divided.…”
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