Search Results - "The Shadow"

Refuge denied the St. Louis passengers and the Holocaust / by Ogilvie, Sarah A.

Table of Contents: “…A mystery beckons -- Fateful voyage -- Kaddish -- Archives, answers, and anomalies -- The first Israeli survivor -- A total American -- It depends what you mean by survived -- Reluctant witness -- Shadows -- Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson -- Graveyards -- Cruel calculus -- Washington Heights portrait : the fortunate -- Washington Heights portrait : exile in America -- Sowing in tears -- States of insecurity -- Displaced persons -- Kew Gardens portrait : a song at Auschwitz -- The missing.…”
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Refuge denied the St. Louis passengers and the Holocaust / by Ogilvie, Sarah A.

Table of Contents: “…A mystery beckons -- Fateful voyage -- Kaddish -- Archives, answers, and anomalies -- The first Israeli survivor -- A total American -- It depends what you mean by survived -- Reluctant witness -- Shadows -- Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson -- Graveyards -- Cruel calculus -- Washington Heights portrait : the fortunate -- Washington Heights portrait : exile in America -- Sowing in tears -- States of insecurity -- Displaced persons -- Kew Gardens portrait : a song at Auschwitz -- The missing.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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Being Jewish in the new Germany by Peck, Jeffrey M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A new Jewish life in Germany : from "why" to "how" -- Shadows of the Holocaust in Germany and the United States -- Russian immigration and the revitalization of German Jewry -- Representing Jews in Germany today -- Jews and Turks : discourses of the "other" -- Creating a continental identity : Jews, Germans, Europe and the "new" anti-semitism -- The United States and Israel : super-powering German Jewish identities -- Toward a new German Jewish diaspora in an age of globalization.…”
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The accidental slaveowner revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family / by Auslander, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The myth of Kitty -- Distant kin : slavery and cultural intimacy in a Georgia community -- "The tenderest solicitude for her welfare" : founding texts of the Andrew-Kitty narrative -- "As free as I am" : retelling the narrative -- "The other side of paradise" : mythos and memory in the cemetery -- "The most interesting building in Georgia" : the strange career of Kitty's cottage -- Enigmas of kinship : Miss Kitty and her family -- "Out of the shadows" : the Andrew family slaves -- Saying something now.…”
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Piercing the bamboo curtain tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years / by Lumbers, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy's China policy, 1961-63 -- Holes in the dam : French recognition and the Chinese nuclear test, 1963-64 -- In Vietnam's shadow : the reaffirmation of US China policy, 1964-65 -- The irony of Vietnam : the emergence of a two-pronged China policy, 1965-66 - Bridge-building in limbo : the impact of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-67 -- Testing the waters : an aborted policy review and closing moves, 1968-69.…”
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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / by Kitromilides, Paschalis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.…”
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The accidental slaveowner revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family / by Auslander, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The myth of Kitty -- Distant kin : slavery and cultural intimacy in a Georgia community -- "The tenderest solicitude for her welfare" : founding texts of the Andrew-Kitty narrative -- "As free as I am" : retelling the narrative -- "The other side of paradise" : mythos and memory in the cemetery -- "The most interesting building in Georgia" : the strange career of Kitty's cottage -- Enigmas of kinship : Miss Kitty and her family -- "Out of the shadows" : the Andrew family slaves -- Saying something now.…”
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Piercing the bamboo curtain tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years / by Lumbers, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy's China policy, 1961-63 -- Holes in the dam : French recognition and the Chinese nuclear test, 1963-64 -- In Vietnam's shadow : the reaffirmation of US China policy, 1964-65 -- The irony of Vietnam : the emergence of a two-pronged China policy, 1965-66 - Bridge-building in limbo : the impact of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-67 -- Testing the waters : an aborted policy review and closing moves, 1968-69.…”
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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / by Kitromilides, Paschalis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Being Jewish in the new Germany by Peck, Jeffrey M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A new Jewish life in Germany : from "why" to "how" -- Shadows of the Holocaust in Germany and the United States -- Russian immigration and the revitalization of German Jewry -- Representing Jews in Germany today -- Jews and Turks : discourses of the "other" -- Creating a continental identity : Jews, Germans, Europe and the "new" anti-semitism -- The United States and Israel : super-powering German Jewish identities -- Toward a new German Jewish diaspora in an age of globalization.…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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The better to eat you with fear in the animal world / by Berger, Joel

Table of Contents: “…-- The shy giant of the forest -- A tropical primate in Alaska -- Emissaries of a dying epoch -- Subarctic shadows -- To know thy enemy -- Among the naive -- A tiger east of the sun -- A continent of virgins and recent ghosts -- On being caribou and musk ox -- Islands of ice and innocence -- Changing the rules of engagement -- Nomads of the Gobi -- The silent cats of Patagonia -- A cedibility conundrum -- Different sides of the Darwinian divide -- Of fear and culture.…”
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The better to eat you with fear in the animal world / by Berger, Joel

Table of Contents: “…-- The shy giant of the forest -- A tropical primate in Alaska -- Emissaries of a dying epoch -- Subarctic shadows -- To know thy enemy -- Among the naive -- A tiger east of the sun -- A continent of virgins and recent ghosts -- On being caribou and musk ox -- Islands of ice and innocence -- Changing the rules of engagement -- Nomads of the Gobi -- The silent cats of Patagonia -- A cedibility conundrum -- Different sides of the Darwinian divide -- Of fear and culture.…”
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Strategic arena switching in international trade negotiations

Table of Contents: “…: South Africa's regional trade policy / Gottfried Wellmer -- Turkey : WTO negotiations in the shadow of the European Union / Gaye Yilmaz -- Conclusions : Doha Round and forum-switching / Joachim Becker and Wolfgang Blaas.…”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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The end all around us apocalyptic texts and popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…/ Keith Kahn-Harris -- Babylon's burning : reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge -- Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss -- 'The days are numbered' : the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby -- Making things new : regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick -- Selling faith without selling out : reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman -- 'The shadow of the end' : the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- An end times virtual 'Ekklesia' : ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard -- Index.…”
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Credit between cultures farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / by Shipton, Parker MacDonald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology -- Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment -- In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition -- Wildfire : tobacco contract farming -- Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee -- Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury -- Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.…”
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