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Not white enough, not black enough racial identity in the South African coloured community / by Adhikari, Mohamed

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and context : an overview of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa -- History from the margins : changing perceptions of its past within the coloured community -- The predicament of marginality : case studies from the earlier period of white rule -- The hegemony of race : coloured identity within the radical movement during the mid-twentieth century -- The emperor's new clothes : coloured rejectionism during the latter phases of the apartheid era -- New responses to old dilemmas : coloured identity in a transforming South Africa.…”
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Fat China : how expanding waistlines are changing a nation / by French, Paul, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…China gets on the scales -- China's fat class -- Fat city-obesity and urbanisation -- Mega - wok - China's diet from cabbage to cuisine -- Shelves of fat - food retailing -- Fast fat - the impact of fast - food in china -- Selling fat - promoting fat in china -- Little fat emperors - obesity among china's children -- The fat and the thin - china's body image -- China's fat clinic - the impact of obesity on china's healthcare system -- The future of fat china - victims of their own success?…”
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Flowers that kill : communicative opacity in political spaces / by Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : opacity, misrecognition, and other complexities of symbolic communication -- Japanese cherry blossoms : from the beauty of life to the sublimity of sacrificial death -- European roses : from 'bread and roses' to the aestheticization of murderers -- The subversive monkey in Japanese culture : from scapegoat to clown -- Rice and the Japanese collective self : the purity of exclusion -- The collective self and cultural/political nationalisms : cross-cultural perspectives -- The invisible and inaudible Japanese emperor -- (Non-)externalization of religious and political authority and power : a cross-cultural perspective.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation / by Porter, Edgar A., Porter, Ran Ying

Table of Contents: “…The War Expands and the People Mobilize; Farmers and Fishermen; Guarding the Emperor; Empty Urns.…”
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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation / by Porter, Edgar A., Porter, Ran Ying

Table of Contents: “…The War Expands and the People Mobilize; Farmers and Fishermen; Guarding the Emperor; Empty Urns.…”
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Malory's Originality : A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur /

Table of Contents: “…Wright -- The tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius: the rise of Lancelot / Mary E. Dichmann -- The tale of Lancelot: prelude to adultery / R. .M. …”
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Malory's Originality : A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur /

Table of Contents: “…Wright -- The tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius: the rise of Lancelot / Mary E. Dichmann -- The tale of Lancelot: prelude to adultery / R. .M. …”
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Not working Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform / by Marchevsky, Alejandra

Table of Contents: “…County: the failure of welfare-to-work -- The myth of welfare dependency: caught between welfare and work -- "It's not what you choose, but where they send you": inside personal responsibility -- Conclusion: The emperor's new welfare: reassessing the "success" of welfare reform.…”
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Tiananmen moon inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / by Cunningham, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…I: New moon -- In search of the real China -- The new May fourth spirit -- Ten thousand bicycles -- II: Waxing moon -- Hunger strike -- Laying claim to the square -- Looking for Gorbachev -- Working-class heroes -- Rising tide of rebellion -- Everyone an emperor -- Breaking the fast -- III: Waning moon -- Martial law -- Provincial vagabonds -- Egg on the face of Mao -- Tiananmen headquarters -- Radical camp -- Last will and testament -- Clandestine interview -- Going underground -- Midnight rendezvous -- IV: No moon -- Troops are coming -- Of tanks and men -- Eve of destruction -- The sky is crying.…”
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Tiananmen moon inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / by Cunningham, Philip J.

Table of Contents: “…I: New moon -- In search of the real China -- The new May fourth spirit -- Ten thousand bicycles -- II: Waxing moon -- Hunger strike -- Laying claim to the square -- Looking for Gorbachev -- Working-class heroes -- Rising tide of rebellion -- Everyone an emperor -- Breaking the fast -- III: Waning moon -- Martial law -- Provincial vagabonds -- Egg on the face of Mao -- Tiananmen headquarters -- Radical camp -- Last will and testament -- Clandestine interview -- Going underground -- Midnight rendezvous -- IV: No moon -- Troops are coming -- Of tanks and men -- Eve of destruction -- The sky is crying.…”
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Not working Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform / by Marchevsky, Alejandra

Table of Contents: “…County: the failure of welfare-to-work -- The myth of welfare dependency: caught between welfare and work -- "It's not what you choose, but where they send you": inside personal responsibility -- Conclusion: The emperor's new welfare: reassessing the "success" of welfare reform.…”
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Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature / by Manzella, Abigail G. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.…”
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Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature / by Manzella, Abigail G. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.…”
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Contemporary Japanese thought

Table of Contents: “…The politics of teasing ; A feminist view of Maruyama Masao's modernity / Ehara Yumiko -- The imaginary geography of a nation and denationalized narrative ; The discovery of the "Orient" and Orientalism / Kang Sangjung -- Overcoming modernity ; Sōseki's diversity: on Kokoro / Karatani Kōjin -- The wonderland of "immortality" / Nishitani Osamu -- Two negations: the fear of being excluded and the logic of self-esteem / Naoki Sakai -- Japanese neo-nationalism: a critique of Katō Norihiro's "After the defeat" discourse ; From the Hinomaru and Kimagayo to the symbolic emperor system / Takahashi Tetsuya -- In the feminine guise: a trap of reverse Orientanlism ; Collapse of "Japanese mothers" / Ueno Chizuko -- Colonialism and modernity ; Reflections beyond the flag: Why is the Hinomaru flag "auspicious/foolish"? …”
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Contemporary Japanese thought

Table of Contents: “…The politics of teasing ; A feminist view of Maruyama Masao's modernity / Ehara Yumiko -- The imaginary geography of a nation and denationalized narrative ; The discovery of the "Orient" and Orientalism / Kang Sangjung -- Overcoming modernity ; Sōseki's diversity: on Kokoro / Karatani Kōjin -- The wonderland of "immortality" / Nishitani Osamu -- Two negations: the fear of being excluded and the logic of self-esteem / Naoki Sakai -- Japanese neo-nationalism: a critique of Katō Norihiro's "After the defeat" discourse ; From the Hinomaru and Kimagayo to the symbolic emperor system / Takahashi Tetsuya -- In the feminine guise: a trap of reverse Orientanlism ; Collapse of "Japanese mothers" / Ueno Chizuko -- Colonialism and modernity ; Reflections beyond the flag: Why is the Hinomaru flag "auspicious/foolish"? …”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.…”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.…”
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Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Women in Byzantium -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach -- Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity -- Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world -- "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women -- The imperial feminine in Byzantium -- Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802) -- Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople -- The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants) -- Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess -- Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems -- The icon corner in medieval Byzantium -- Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft -- Index.…”
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