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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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Faith in empire religion, politics, and colonial rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 /

Table of Contents: “…To mock a nun : religion and politics in Senegal's communes, 1882-1890 -- Rivalry in translation : Catholicism, Islam, and French rule of the North-West Sereer, 1890-1900 -- "The storm approaches" : laïcité and West Africa, 1901-1910 -- Proving patriotism : Catholic missionaries and the First World War in Senegal -- An ambiguous monument : Dakar's colonial cathedral of the Souvenir Africain -- Civilization, custom, and controversy : Catholic conversion and French rule in Senegal -- Conclusion : the limits of civilizing, 1936-1940.…”
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Feeding the world in the 21st century : a historical analysis of agriculture and society / by Smedshaug, Christian Anton

Table of Contents: “…-- The role of agriculture in development -- The role of development in agriculture -- Increased yields in Africa's agriculture -- International trade agreements after the Second World War -- Agricultural policies for the 21st century -- The challenge of the 21st century.…”
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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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The American Far West in the twentieth century by Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…The West in 1901 -- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers -- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales -- New forms of economic growth -- Economic growth from the 1940s -- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities -- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War -- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases -- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation -- Western politics -- Expanding electorates -- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.…”
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A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / by Edwards, Paul N.

Table of Contents: “…Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Réseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather prediction -- The infinite forecast -- Making global data -- The first WWW -- Making data global -- Data wars -- Reanalysis : the do-over -- Parametrics and the limits of knowledge -- Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960-1992 -- Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.…”
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Pan-Asianism a documentary history. Volume 2, 1920-present /

Table of Contents: “…Pan-Asianism and the quest for empire and a "new order" in Asia, 1937-1940 -- pt. 4. Pan-Asianism and World War II, 1940-1945 -- pt. 5. Pan-Asianism during the Cold War, 1945-1989 -- pt. 6. …”
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Rome's most faithful daughter the Catholic Church and independent Poland, 1914-1939 / by Pease, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Polonia restituta : the Catholic Church and the revival of Poland -- Il Papa Polacco : the making of Pius XI, 1918-1922 -- From constitution to concordat, 1921-1925 -- Papal blessing : church and state in the Piłsudski era, 1926-1935 -- The friends and enemies of Catholic Poland -- Vilna and Lwów : the Catholic minorities of Eastern Poland -- Poland, the Orthodox, and the conversion of Russia -- Post mortem : Piłsudski lies uneasy in the grave -- Oratio pro pace : Pius XII and the coming of the Second World War.…”
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Death blow to Jim Crow the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / by Gellman, Erik S.

Table of Contents: “…: the Congress splits in Washington -- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War -- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism -- Conclusion : gone with what wind?.…”
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Networks in tropical medicine internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 /

Table of Contents: “…Building networks in tropical medicine -- Creating the cadre : teachers, students, and the culture of tropical medicine -- From training to practice : medical experts and public health in Duala and Brazzaville -- Contagions and camps : the sleeping sickness campaigns, 1900-1910 -- Sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa -- Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections : sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1903-1914 -- A legacy of embitterment : World War I and its impact on transnational tropical medicine.…”
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Cinema and community : progressivism, exhibition, and film culture in Chicago, 1907-1917 / by Luckett, Moya

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Progressivism, modernity, and transitional cinema -- From crowds to communities: Progressive Era spectatorship theories -- Progressivism and early feature films: textuality, oversight, uplift -- Celebrity, self-awareness, and the consciousness of self -- Private pleasures and public space: community culture and the dominance of neighborhood theaters -- Oversight and regulation: film censorship, local government, and social reform -- Citizenship and black cinema -- Patriotism and patronage: regional and national identity in Chicago's theaters during World War I -- Conclusion.…”
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Death rays and the popular media, 1876-1939 : a study of directed energy weapons in fact, fiction and film / by Fanning, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The historical death ray -- An idea is born: harnessing directed energy -- As a weapon, 1876-1918 -- The catalyst years, 1919-1924 -- The death-ray craze, 1924-1939 -- Death rays and their connection to the Second World War -- Part II. The death ray in fiction and popular culture -- Early death-ray novels and short stories -- Death-ray novels and short stories of the interwar years -- Death rays in other media: movies, theater, pulps, radio and humor -- Conclusion.…”
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The American Far West in the twentieth century by Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…The West in 1901 -- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers -- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales -- New forms of economic growth -- Economic growth from the 1940s -- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities -- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War -- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases -- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation -- Western politics -- Expanding electorates -- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.…”
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A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / by Edwards, Paul N.

Table of Contents: “…Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Réseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather prediction -- The infinite forecast -- Making global data -- The first WWW -- Making data global -- Data wars -- Reanalysis : the do-over -- Parametrics and the limits of knowledge -- Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960-1992 -- Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.…”
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Pan-Asianism a documentary history. Volume 2, 1920-present /

Table of Contents: “…Pan-Asianism and the quest for empire and a "new order" in Asia, 1937-1940 -- pt. 4. Pan-Asianism and World War II, 1940-1945 -- pt. 5. Pan-Asianism during the Cold War, 1945-1989 -- pt. 6. …”
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Rome's most faithful daughter the Catholic Church and independent Poland, 1914-1939 / by Pease, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Polonia restituta : the Catholic Church and the revival of Poland -- Il Papa Polacco : the making of Pius XI, 1918-1922 -- From constitution to concordat, 1921-1925 -- Papal blessing : church and state in the Piłsudski era, 1926-1935 -- The friends and enemies of Catholic Poland -- Vilna and Lwów : the Catholic minorities of Eastern Poland -- Poland, the Orthodox, and the conversion of Russia -- Post mortem : Piłsudski lies uneasy in the grave -- Oratio pro pace : Pius XII and the coming of the Second World War.…”
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