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When fate summons : a biography of General Richard Butler, 1743-1791 / by Ward, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “…New frontiers -- Indian agent -- Saratoga -- Monmouth and light infantry -- Stony Point -- Mutiny -- Virginia -- Yorktown -- Mutiny II -- Fort Stanwix Treaty -- Fort McIntosh Treaty -- Fort Finney Treaty -- Superintendent of Indian Affairs -- Fort Harmar treaties -- Road to hell -- Massacre -- Postscript to tragedy.…”
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Return on learning training for high performance at Accenture /

Table of Contents: “…High performance through learning -- A vision for learning and business impact -- Proving the ROI in learning -- The leadership to succeed -- Phenomenal learning -- Running learning like a business -- Using technology to create a high-performance learning organization -- At the frontiers of learning and knowledge sharing -- Learning and value creation.…”
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Taxidermic signs reconstructing aboriginality / by Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Reading the Banff Park Museum : time, affect, and the production of frontier nostalgia -- Celluloid salvage : Edward S. …”
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Raising cane in the 'glades the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida / by Hollander, Gail M.

Table of Contents: “…-- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades.…”
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Raising cane in the 'glades the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida / by Hollander, Gail M.

Table of Contents: “…-- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades.…”
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Taxidermic signs reconstructing aboriginality / by Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Reading the Banff Park Museum : time, affect, and the production of frontier nostalgia -- Celluloid salvage : Edward S. …”
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Creek country the Creek Indians and their world / by Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Hawkins in Creek country -- The beginnings of Creek country: a historical overview -- The landscape of Creek country -- The heart of Creek country -- The people of Creek country -- The hinterlands -- Creek farmers -- Creek ranchers -- Entrepreneurs, wage laborers, thieves, and the Creek frontier exchange economy -- The selling of Creek country -- The closing of Creek country.…”
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"Evil" Arabs in American popular film orientalist fear / by Semmerling, Tim Jon, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The exorcist : assault on American confidence (1973) -- Rollover : assault on the American economy (1981) -- Black Sunday: the loss of frontier heroism (1976) -- Three kings : assault on victory culture (1999) -- Rules of engagement : attack from the multicultural front (2000) -- CNN's America remembers : the "real" attack (2002) -- The South Park lesson and orientalist fear.…”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / by Quigley, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers.…”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / by Quigley, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers.…”
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Creek country the Creek Indians and their world / by Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Hawkins in Creek country -- The beginnings of Creek country: a historical overview -- The landscape of Creek country -- The heart of Creek country -- The people of Creek country -- The hinterlands -- Creek farmers -- Creek ranchers -- Entrepreneurs, wage laborers, thieves, and the Creek frontier exchange economy -- The selling of Creek country -- The closing of Creek country.…”
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"Evil" Arabs in American popular film orientalist fear / by Semmerling, Tim Jon, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The exorcist : assault on American confidence (1973) -- Rollover : assault on the American economy (1981) -- Black Sunday: the loss of frontier heroism (1976) -- Three kings : assault on victory culture (1999) -- Rules of engagement : attack from the multicultural front (2000) -- CNN's America remembers : the "real" attack (2002) -- The South Park lesson and orientalist fear.…”
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194X architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / by Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: planning the postwar architect -- The culture of planning: the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation -- Old cities, new frontiers: mature economy theory and the language of renewal -- Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere: architects and consumer culture -- The end of planning: the building boom and the invention of normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: wartime advertising campaigns.…”
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194X architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American home front / by Shanken, Andrew Michael, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: planning the postwar architect -- The culture of planning: the rhetoric and imagery of home front anticipation -- Old cities, new frontiers: mature economy theory and the language of renewal -- Advertising nothing, anticipating nowhere: architects and consumer culture -- The end of planning: the building boom and the invention of normalcy -- Afterword -- Appendix: wartime advertising campaigns.…”
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Engineering nature water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / by Teisch, Jessica B.

Table of Contents: “…Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments.…”
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Engineering nature water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / by Teisch, Jessica B.

Table of Contents: “…Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments.…”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers culture and politics of the early Cold War / by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.…”
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God and karate on the Southside bridging differences, building American communities / by Yi, Joseph, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The nature of the problem: diversity and indifference -- Many-stranded theory of liberal democracy -- God bridging: Chicago (international) Church of Christ -- Framing religion: limits of Christian engagement -- Karate bridging: Fitzpatrick's Tang Soo Do -- Framing karate: frontiers of engagement -- Religious participation and race relations: general social survey -- Renewing democracy in America.…”
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