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Native speakers Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the poetics of culture / by Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the study of the folk in Texas -- Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination -- "All my relatives are noble" : recovering the feminine on Waterlily -- "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist tradition -- Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration -- Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.…”
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Becoming good ancestors how we balance nature, community, and technology / by Ehrenfeld, David

Table of Contents: “…Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration.…”
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Disunion! the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 / by Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…: the crisis of 1850 -- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas -- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans -- War to the knife : images of the coming fight -- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?…”
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A morning in June defending Outpost Harry / by Evans, James W. (James William), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…5th Regimental Combat Team : Korea with incoming artillery -- Lieutenant Evans : preparations for infantry combat -- Punch Bowl rim : North Korea People's Army -- Shower relief : MASH for treatment -- Christmas 1952 : winter combat on the mountain -- R & R : seven days rest, then return to Korea -- Relocating to the Chorwon Valley : finding the doors of hell -- Morning of 12 June : the siege starts -- Outpost Harry : destruction beyond comprehension -- Occupying the hill : with only twelve hours to rebuild and defend -- Chinese attack : hand-to-hand combat is the essence of an infantryman -- Relief from hell : three days before Operation Ranger -- Coming home : the trauma of returning to civilian life -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: reports on the defense of Outpost Harry -- Appendix B: awards and decorations earned for the defense of Outpost Harry.…”
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An elusive unity urban democracy and machine politics in industrializing America / by Connolly, James J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the problem of pluralism in antebellum American politics -- Explaining Tweed : the limits of consensual politics -- Inventing the machine : liberal reform and the social analysis of urban politics -- Labor's republic lost : the workingmen's insurgency and class politics in the Gilded Age city -- The feminine challenge : clubwomen and urban politics -- In defense of professional politics -- Progressivism and pluralism -- The problem with the public : Lincoln Steffens and municipal reform -- Epilogue : The last hurrah and the vindication of machine politics.…”
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To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / by Wheeler, Rachel M.

Table of Contents: “…Persecution: The dying chief and the accidental missionary ; Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Conclusion: Irony and identity ; The cooper and the sachem ; Epilogue : real and ideal Indians.…”
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The won cause black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic / by Gannon, Barbara A.

Table of Contents: “…The only association where black men and white men mingle on a foot of equality -- Comradeship tried : the GAR in the South -- The African American post -- The black GAR circle -- Heirs of these dead heroes : African Americans and the battle for memory -- Memorial Day in black and white -- Where separate Grand Army posts are unknown, as colored and white are united : the integrated post -- Community, memory, and the integrated post -- Comrades bound by memories many -- And if spared and growing older -- Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable : what they remembered they won -- The won cause at century's end -- A story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom : the won cause in the twentieth century -- Epilogue: all one that day if never again : the final days of the GAR -- Appendix 1: African American posts -- Appendix 2: Integrated posts.…”
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Bulgaria and Europe shifting identities /

Table of Contents: “…/ Marietta Stankova -- Bulgarian Turks during the transition period / Iskra Baeva and Evgenia Kalinova -- Women's identity and social policy in Bulgaria before and after 1989 / Tatyana Kotzeva -- Legal status and migrant economic performance : the case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece / Eugenia Markova -- Bulgaria's path to EU membership--and beyond / Dimitar Bechev -- Accession to the Euro-Atlantic institutions : effects on Bulgaria's Balkan policy(-ies) / Stefanos Katsikas -- Mirroring gazes : Europe, nationalism, and change in the field of Bulgarian art and culture / Elitza Ranova -- The emergence of regional policy in Bulgaria and the role of the EU / Vassilis Monastiriotis -- Epilogue / Stefanos Katsikas.…”
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The Battle of Midway by Symonds, Craig L.

Table of Contents: “….) -- The Japanese counterstrike (11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) -- Dénouement -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: American and Japanese aircraft carriers -- Appendix B: American and Japanese aircraft -- Appendix C: American order of battle -- Appendix D: Japanese order of battle -- Appendix E: How much did the U.S. know of Japanese plans? …”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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No concessions the life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian human rights lawyer / by Lev, Daniel S.

Table of Contents: “…Aceh -- Java -- Batavia -- From Sukabumi to Leiden -- Jakarta -- Hazardous waters -- At sea in peranakan politics -- The Baperki wars -- Out of the ethnic cage -- Into New Order Indonesia -- Early New Order battlefields -- Reform frontiers -- Law as politics : a sidetrip to detention -- Epilogue : a steady course / Arlene O. Lev -- Postscript : New Order landmark cases / Sebastiaan Pompe and Ibrahim Assegaf -- Appendix : defense summation in Asep Suryaman trial / Yap Thiam Hien.…”
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The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…It's Not Easy Being Elite : Governing Challenges in Post Racial Black America -- Winning : The 2006 Election -- Policy Is Politics -- Perception Is Reality : Judging Cory Booker -- The Politics of Perception : Cory Booker in Local and State Affairs -- 2010 : Electoral Politics Revisited -- Joshua, Esther and Uncle Julius : Black Political Entrepreneurs and the Future of Black Politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Methodological Notes -- Appendix B: List of Interviewees.…”
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National monuments and nationalism in 19th century Germany by Pohlsander, Hans A., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…-- German nationalism in the 19th century from the beginnings to Ernst Moritz Arndt -- German nationalism in the 19th century from Heinrich von Kleist to "Die Wacht am Rhein" -- The repression of German nationalism -- Monuments to German culture -- Ludwig I of Bavaria , the Walhalla, the Befreiungshalle, and related monuments -- Monuments to German arms -- From Prussia to Germany -- "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz" -- The Iron Chancellor -- Historicizing painting of the 19th century -- Epilogue.…”
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Roots & reflections South Asians in the Pacific Northwest / by Bhatt, Amy Pradip

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Situating Stories : An Introduction to South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- "Finding Traces of Our Existence Here" : Pre-World War Two South Asian Migrations -- Routes and Roots : Stories of Departure and Arrival -- Creating Professional Classes : Education and Training -- All in a Day's Work : Employment, Migration, and Identity -- Falling from the Tree : Family, Gender, and Generational Differences -- Seeds Take Root : Growing South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- Epilogue: Meditations on Methodologies -- Appendix I: Interviews in the South Asian Oral History Project -- Appendix II: Narrator Biographies.…”
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Their blood runs cold adventures with reptiles and amphibians / by Gibbons, Whit, 1939-

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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Achieve the honorable : a Missouri congressman's journey from Warm Springs to Washington / by Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013

Table of Contents: “…Truman; Gallery of Illustrations #1; Memorable Courtroom Moments; Back into Politics; Building a More Effective Military; Missouri and the Military; Into a New World; Gallery of Illustrations #2; Attack on America; Chairman; Tuesday Tsunami of 2010; One Last Veterans Day Salute; Into the Future; Epilogue; Appendixes - Index.…”
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The La Follettes of Wisconsin : love and politics in progressive America / by Weisberger, Bernard A., 1922-

Table of Contents: “…The Succession That Wasn't (1925-1941) -- Epilogue: The War and After.…”
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Heresy and the politics of community : the Jews of the Fatimid caliphate / by Rustow, Marina

Table of Contents: “…The tripartite community -- Jewish book culture in the tenth century -- The limits of communal autonomy -- Qaraites and the politics of powerlessness -- "Nothing but kindness, benefit, and loyalty" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Baghdad -- "Under the authority of God and all Israel" : Qaraites and the ge'onim of Jerusalem -- "Glory of the two parties" : petitions to Qaraite courtiers -- The affair of the ban of excommunication in 1029 -- Rabbanite-Qaraite marriages -- In the courts : legal reciprocity -- Avignon in Ramla : the schism of 1038-42 -- The tripartite community and the First Crusade -- Epilogue : toward a history of Jewish heresy.…”
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