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Benjamin V. Cohen architect of the New Deal / by Lasser, William

Table of Contents: “…Origins -- Zionist attorney -- Lawyer and investor -- Newcomer to Washington : the Securities Act of 1933 -- Into the maelstrom : the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 -- The Public Utilities Holding Company Act -- At the center of power -- The court-packing plan -- Domestic politics, 1937-1938 -- Waiting for the war -- Destroyers for bases -- London -- World War II -- Diplomat -- Elder statesman -- Benjamin V. …”
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Petrostate Putin, power, and the new Russia / by Goldman, Marshall I.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Russia, once again an energy superpower -- Russia as an early energy superpower -- World War II to 1987 : Russia looks inward and outward -- Pirates unleashed : privatization in the post-Soviet era -- Post-1998 recovery : the petroleum export bonanza -- Putin takes over : the return of the czar -- Natural gas : Russia's new secret weapon -- Russia : the unrestrained super energy power.…”
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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / by Bates, A.W.H

Table of Contents: “…State control, bureaucracy, and the national interest from the Second World War to the 1960s -- Conclusion.…”
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The Oil Wars Myth : Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict / by Meierding, Emily

Table of Contents: “…From Value to Violence : Connecting Oil and War -- Explaining the Oil Wars Myth : Mad Max and El Dorado -- Why Classic Oil Wars Don't Pay -- Searching for Classic Oil Wars -- Red Herrings : The Chaco and Iran-Iraq Wars -- Oil Spats : The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute -- Oil Campaigns : World War II -- Oil Gambit : Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait…”
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Closed minds? politics and ideology in American universities / by Smith, Bruce L. R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Higher education and the "culture wars" -- Emergence of the U.S. research university -- Transformations of academic culture after World War II -- Political attitudes of American professors: results of a 2007 national survey -- The politics of politics in the classroom -- Conservative activism in higher education: the Pennsylvania hearings on academic freedom -- Much ado about little: student perspectives on classroom bias -- Do universities discriminate in hiring? …”
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Argentina and the United States an alliance contained / by Sheinin, David

Table of Contents: “…Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880 -- Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923 -- Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946 -- Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961 -- The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties -- Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983 -- The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999 -- Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.…”
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Plane queer labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants / by Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Closed minds? politics and ideology in American universities / by Smith, Bruce L. R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Higher education and the "culture wars" -- Emergence of the U.S. research university -- Transformations of academic culture after World War II -- Political attitudes of American professors: results of a 2007 national survey -- The politics of politics in the classroom -- Conservative activism in higher education: the Pennsylvania hearings on academic freedom -- Much ado about little: student perspectives on classroom bias -- Do universities discriminate in hiring? …”
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Argentina and the United States an alliance contained / by Sheinin, David

Table of Contents: “…Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880 -- Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923 -- Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946 -- Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961 -- The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties -- Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983 -- The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999 -- Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.…”
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Plane queer labor, sexuality, and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants / by Tiemeyer, Philip James, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pre-World War II "gay" flight attendant -- The Cold War gender order -- "Homosexual panic" and the steward's demise -- Flight attendants and queer civil rights -- Flight attendants, women's liberation, and gay liberation -- Flight attendants and the origins of an epidemic -- The traynor legacy versus the "patient zero" myth -- Queer equality in the age of neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Visualizing Fascism : The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right /

Table of Contents: “…Barclay -- Nazism, everydayness, and spectacle : the mass form in metropolitan modernity / Geoff Eley -- Five faces of fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Facetime with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick -- Seeing through whiteness : late 1930s settler photography in Namibia under South African rule / Lorena Rizzo -- Revolution by redefinition : Japan's war without pictures / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Fascisms seen and unseen : the Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the relationalities of imperial crisis / Ethan Mark -- Youth movements, nazism, and war : photography and the making of a Slovak future in World War II (1939-1944) // Bertrand Metton -- From antifascism to humanism : the legacies of Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War photography / Nadya Bair -- Heedless oblivion : curating architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman -- Conclusion.…”
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Visualizing Fascism : The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right /

Table of Contents: “…Barclay -- Nazism, everydayness, and spectacle : the mass form in metropolitan modernity / Geoff Eley -- Five faces of fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Facetime with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick -- Seeing through whiteness : late 1930s settler photography in Namibia under South African rule / Lorena Rizzo -- Revolution by redefinition : Japan's war without pictures / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Fascisms seen and unseen : the Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the relationalities of imperial crisis / Ethan Mark -- Youth movements, nazism, and war : photography and the making of a Slovak future in World War II (1939-1944) // Bertrand Metton -- From antifascism to humanism : the legacies of Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War photography / Nadya Bair -- Heedless oblivion : curating architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman -- Conclusion.…”
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Invented Edens techno-cities of the twentieth century / by Kargon, Robert Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The arc of utopias -- Neotechnics in the garden : the marriage of country and town -- Planning for national regeneration : techno-cities in the interwar years -- Techno-città : technology and urban design in fascist Italy -- The techno-city goes to war : America in World War II and after -- Utopia revived : from industrial modernism to community -- The city of disciplines : utopia denied, utopia restored -- Techno-nostalgia and the new urbanism -- Conclusion: The fate of the industrial Eden.…”
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A brief history of Christianity by Lindberg, Carter, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity -- "The law of praying is the law of believing" -- Sibling rivalry : heresy, orthodoxy, and the ecumenical councils -- The heavenly city : the Augustinian synthesis of biblical religion and Hellenism -- The development of the Medieval papacy -- Faith in search of understanding : Anselm, Abelard, and the beginnings of scholasticism -- The Medieval church -- The Reformations of the sixteenth century -- Pietism and the Enlightenment -- Challenge and response : the church in the nineteenth century -- The Christian churches since World War I.…”
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The Cuban connection drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / by Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…U.S. prohibition and smuggling from Cuba -- Drug trafficking and political anarchy during the 1930s -- The Chinese and opium consumption in Cuba -- Corruption and drug trafficking in Cuba during the Second World War and the early postwar years -- Lucky Luciano in Cuba -- The Prío Socarrás government and drug trafficking -- Gambling in Cuba -- The Andean connection -- Contacts in France -- The Batista dictatorship and drug trafficking -- Revolution -- The diplomacy of drug trafficking at the beginning of the Revolution.…”
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Ben Love my life in Texas Commerce / by Love, Benton F., 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in Paris -- Coming of age during World War II -- Growing old over Europe -- Back to the real world -- From business to banking -- Downtown to Texas Commerce -- Solidifying the base, 1968-72 -- The glory years, 1972-84 -- A new home for Texas Commerce -- The economic downturn and merging with Chemical Bank, 1983-89 -- Striking a balance : investing in politics and the community -- The lessons of a life.…”
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The tejano diaspora Mexican Americanism and ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin / by Rodriguez, Marc S., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Post-World War II Mexican Americanism in Crystal City, Texas -- Inclusion and Mexican Americanism : high school acculturation and ethnic politics in Crystal City -- Activism across the diaspora : the tejano farmworker movement in Wisconsin -- Making a migrant village in the city : tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee -- Circular activist flows and the rise of La Raza Unida Party in Texas -- Conclusion : of diaspora, political economy, and the politics of Mexican America.…”
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American iconographic National Geographic, global culture, and the visual imagination / by Hawkins, Stephanie L., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…National geographic : the icon and its readers -- Training the "I" to see : progressive education, visual literacy, and National Geographic membership -- Savage visions : ethnography, photography, and local-color fiction in National geographic -- Fracturing the global family romance : National geographic, World War I, and fascism -- Jungle housekeeping : globalization, domesticity, and performing the "primitive" in National geographic -- National geographic's romance in ruins : from the catastrophic sublime to camp.…”
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Ben Love my life in Texas Commerce / by Love, Benton F., 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in Paris -- Coming of age during World War II -- Growing old over Europe -- Back to the real world -- From business to banking -- Downtown to Texas Commerce -- Solidifying the base, 1968-72 -- The glory years, 1972-84 -- A new home for Texas Commerce -- The economic downturn and merging with Chemical Bank, 1983-89 -- Striking a balance : investing in politics and the community -- The lessons of a life.…”
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The tejano diaspora Mexican Americanism and ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin / by Rodriguez, Marc S., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Post-World War II Mexican Americanism in Crystal City, Texas -- Inclusion and Mexican Americanism : high school acculturation and ethnic politics in Crystal City -- Activism across the diaspora : the tejano farmworker movement in Wisconsin -- Making a migrant village in the city : tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee -- Circular activist flows and the rise of La Raza Unida Party in Texas -- Conclusion : of diaspora, political economy, and the politics of Mexican America.…”
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