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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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The history of Greece by Thomopoulos, Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Timeline of historic events -- The land and its people -- From prehistoric man to the golden age of classical Greece -- The Hellenistic age and the Roman Empire -- The Byzantine Empire and rule by the Ottomans -- Fighting for independence -- Establishing an independent nation -- Immigration, wars, and the great catastrophe -- World War II and the occupation, 1940-1944 -- Civil war, 1944-1949 -- Recovery after the wars -- Democracy returns to Greece -- Notable people in the history of Greece.…”
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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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The history of Greece by Thomopoulos, Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Timeline of historic events -- The land and its people -- From prehistoric man to the golden age of classical Greece -- The Hellenistic age and the Roman Empire -- The Byzantine Empire and rule by the Ottomans -- Fighting for independence -- Establishing an independent nation -- Immigration, wars, and the great catastrophe -- World War II and the occupation, 1940-1944 -- Civil war, 1944-1949 -- Recovery after the wars -- Democracy returns to Greece -- Notable people in the history of Greece.…”
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The end of empire in French West Africa France's successful decolonization? / by Chafer, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to decolonization : the Popular Front and the Second World War -- New political context, 1944-6 -- Decolonization through assimilation : the struggle for emancipation, 1946-50 -- Building the nationalist movement, 1950-6 : the trade union, student and youth movements -- Policy and politics, 1950-6 -- The Loi-cadre and the 'Balkanization' of French West Africa, 1956-60 -- Nationalist politics and the campaign for independence, 1957-60 -- Conclusion : decolonization and the French colonial legacy.…”
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Super-history comic book superheroes and American society, 1938 to the present / by Johnson, Jeffrey K., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…We need a hero: New Deal social avengers and vigilantes (1938-1940) -- World War II and super-patriots (1941-1945) -- The nuclear era (1945-1989) -- The postwar 1940s and 1950s: supernormal (1946-1959) -- Counterculture heroes (1960-1969) -- The American malaise (1970-1979) -- Super-conservatives and neo-cowboys (1980-1989) -- Searching for a new direction (1990-1999) -- Decade of fear (2000-2009).…”
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In search of Polin chasing Jewish ghosts in today's Poland / by Schiff, Gary S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Refuge and opportunity: the rise of the Jewish community of Poland -- Cracow and Lublin, Auschwitz and Majdanek: medieval heights and modern depths -- From deluge to partition: the decline of Polish Jewry -- The Jews in partitioned Poland's divergent development, 1795-World War I -- Lodz: 19th century boom, 20th century bust -- Hometown homecoming: from Ostroveh to Treblinka -- Warsaw: capital catastrophe.…”
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The end of empire in French West Africa France's successful decolonization? / by Chafer, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to decolonization : the Popular Front and the Second World War -- New political context, 1944-6 -- Decolonization through assimilation : the struggle for emancipation, 1946-50 -- Building the nationalist movement, 1950-6 : the trade union, student and youth movements -- Policy and politics, 1950-6 -- The Loi-cadre and the 'Balkanization' of French West Africa, 1956-60 -- Nationalist politics and the campaign for independence, 1957-60 -- Conclusion : decolonization and the French colonial legacy.…”
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Super-history comic book superheroes and American society, 1938 to the present / by Johnson, Jeffrey K., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…We need a hero: New Deal social avengers and vigilantes (1938-1940) -- World War II and super-patriots (1941-1945) -- The nuclear era (1945-1989) -- The postwar 1940s and 1950s: supernormal (1946-1959) -- Counterculture heroes (1960-1969) -- The American malaise (1970-1979) -- Super-conservatives and neo-cowboys (1980-1989) -- Searching for a new direction (1990-1999) -- Decade of fear (2000-2009).…”
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In search of Polin chasing Jewish ghosts in today's Poland / by Schiff, Gary S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Refuge and opportunity: the rise of the Jewish community of Poland -- Cracow and Lublin, Auschwitz and Majdanek: medieval heights and modern depths -- From deluge to partition: the decline of Polish Jewry -- The Jews in partitioned Poland's divergent development, 1795-World War I -- Lodz: 19th century boom, 20th century bust -- Hometown homecoming: from Ostroveh to Treblinka -- Warsaw: capital catastrophe.…”
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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Table of Contents: “…Hearing order -- Occupied listeners : the legacies of interwar radio for France during World War II / Derek W. Vaillant -- An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. …”
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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Table of Contents: “…Hearing order -- Occupied listeners : the legacies of interwar radio for France during World War II / Derek W. Vaillant -- An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. …”
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A History of Spanish Piano Music / by Powell, Linton

Table of Contents: “…[Part] I : Early Spanish piano music, 1740-1840 -- Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, and the Escorial -- Seville and the Basque Region -- Montserrat, Barcelona, and Related Posts -- [Part] II : The piano music of Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, their immediate predecessors, and their contemporaries -- Immediate Predecessors and Contemporaries -- Isaac Albeniz -- Enrique Granados -- [Part] III : Falla, Turina, Mompou, and their contemporaries -- Manuel de Falla -- Joaquin Turina -- Federico Mompou -- The Grupo de los Ocho -- Others from Madrid -- Cataluña -- Valencia and the Levante -- The Basque Region and Navarra -- León and Old Castile -- Other Contemporaries -- [Part] IV : The influence of the guitar on Spanish keyboard music -- [Part] V : Spanish piano music since World War II -- Barcelona : The Manuel de Falla Circle -- Others Associated with Barcelona -- Madrid : The Grupo Nueva Masica Others Associated with Madrid -- Seville and Other Regions -- Two Spanish Composers of North America -- Appendix I : Anthologies and Modern Editions of Early Spanish Piano Music -- Appendix II : Spanish Piano Music since World War II : A Selective List with Publishers.…”
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A History of Spanish Piano Music / by Powell, Linton

Table of Contents: “…[Part] I : Early Spanish piano music, 1740-1840 -- Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, and the Escorial -- Seville and the Basque Region -- Montserrat, Barcelona, and Related Posts -- [Part] II : The piano music of Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, their immediate predecessors, and their contemporaries -- Immediate Predecessors and Contemporaries -- Isaac Albeniz -- Enrique Granados -- [Part] III : Falla, Turina, Mompou, and their contemporaries -- Manuel de Falla -- Joaquin Turina -- Federico Mompou -- The Grupo de los Ocho -- Others from Madrid -- Cataluña -- Valencia and the Levante -- The Basque Region and Navarra -- León and Old Castile -- Other Contemporaries -- [Part] IV : The influence of the guitar on Spanish keyboard music -- [Part] V : Spanish piano music since World War II -- Barcelona : The Manuel de Falla Circle -- Others Associated with Barcelona -- Madrid : The Grupo Nueva Masica Others Associated with Madrid -- Seville and Other Regions -- Two Spanish Composers of North America -- Appendix I : Anthologies and Modern Editions of Early Spanish Piano Music -- Appendix II : Spanish Piano Music since World War II : A Selective List with Publishers.…”
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Door County's emerald treasure a history of Peninsula State Park / by Tishler, William H.

Table of Contents: “…Patterns of the park's landscape -- The Native Americans -- Early residents : the park's pioneers -- Weborg Point -- Eagle Bluff Lighthouse : guardian of the Green Bay Passage -- Thomas Reynolds, John Nolen, and legislation to establish the park -- Naming the park and purchasing the land -- The Doolittle years -- Camp Meenahga -- The golf course : one of Wisconsin's finest -- Potawatomi : Peninsula's sister park -- Camp Peninsular and the CCC -- The CCC controversy -- Winter sports -- World War II and beyond at the park.…”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars / by Tirman, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves / by Garon, Sheldon M.

Table of Contents: “…The origins of saving in the Western world -- Organizing thrift in the age of nation-states -- America the exceptional -- Japanese traditions of diligence and thrift -- Saving for the new Japan -- Mobilizing for the Great War -- Save now, buy later : World War II and beyond -- "Luxury is the enemy" : Japan in peace and war -- Postwar Japan's national salvation -- Exporting thrift, or the myth of "Asian values" -- "There is money. …”
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Helping humanity American policy and genocide rescue / by Pomakoy, Keith

Table of Contents: “…-- American philanthropy -- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain -- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy -- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine -- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II -- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War -- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.…”
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