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Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa /

Table of Contents: “…An interpreter will arise : resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe's diplomatic and evangelical contributions as cultural intermediary on South Africa's eastern Cape frontier, 1816-1818 / Roger S. Levine -- Interpreting colonial power in French Guinea : The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot affair of 1905 / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Interpretation and interpolation : Shepstone as native interpreter / Thomas McClendon -- Petitioners, "bush lawyers," and letter writers : court access in British-occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 / Benjamin N. …”
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Folklore in all of us, in all we do /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. …”
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The forced removal of American Indians from the northeast a history of territorial cessions and relocations, 1620-1854 / by Miller, David W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Kingdom of Saguenay (1497-1543) -- Iroquois conquests (1580-1653) -- Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay -- Destruction of the Pequot -- Next were the Narragansetts -- King Philip's War -- The fur trade and struggles between the French, English, and Indians (1641-1753) -- Pennsylvania (1681-1754) -- Iroquois route to the south -- Who owns land in the Ohio River watershed -- French and Indian War (1755-1763) -- War's aftermath in the north (Pontiac's War 1763-1764) -- Proclamation of 1763, lawlessness, and the British 1764 offensives -- Frontiersmen out of control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix -- Land schemes -- Dunmore's War -- Early Kentucky settlements -- A new force emerges -- The northern frontier during the war years -- Indians betrayed -- Kentucke (1782-1792) -- Defining Indian boundaries in the Six Nations and north of the Ohio -- Chaos in the northwest -- The Ohio Company -- Negotiating for an Indian boundary for the northern tribes -- Washington's first offensive in the west flounders -- Another failure -- Mad Anthony prepares (1792-1793) -- Mad Anthony prevails : Treaty of Greenville (1794-1795) -- Taking over the Northwest Territory (1801-1819) -- More Indiana land ceded and the War of 1812 -- Mopping up in the lower Northwest Territory (1817-1847) -- Lead mines and the Black Hawk War -- Michigan and Wisconsin through the years 1807-1854.…”
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At the heart of work and family engaging the ideas of Arlie Hochschild /

Table of Contents: “…Pugh -- Interracial intimacy on the commodity frontier / Kimberly McClain DaCosta -- The globalization-family nexus : families as mediating structures of globalization / Nazli Kibria -- Homeland visits : transnational magnified moments among low-wage immigrant men / Hung Cam Thai -- Childbirth at the global crossroads / Arlie Russell Hochschild.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…The Empire -- The empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan -- Apollo in arms : Nero at the frontier / David Braund -- Domus Neroniana : The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero / Michael J. …”
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Folklore in all of us, in all we do /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. …”
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The forced removal of American Indians from the northeast a history of territorial cessions and relocations, 1620-1854 / by Miller, David W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Kingdom of Saguenay (1497-1543) -- Iroquois conquests (1580-1653) -- Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay -- Destruction of the Pequot -- Next were the Narragansetts -- King Philip's War -- The fur trade and struggles between the French, English, and Indians (1641-1753) -- Pennsylvania (1681-1754) -- Iroquois route to the south -- Who owns land in the Ohio River watershed -- French and Indian War (1755-1763) -- War's aftermath in the north (Pontiac's War 1763-1764) -- Proclamation of 1763, lawlessness, and the British 1764 offensives -- Frontiersmen out of control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix -- Land schemes -- Dunmore's War -- Early Kentucky settlements -- A new force emerges -- The northern frontier during the war years -- Indians betrayed -- Kentucke (1782-1792) -- Defining Indian boundaries in the Six Nations and north of the Ohio -- Chaos in the northwest -- The Ohio Company -- Negotiating for an Indian boundary for the northern tribes -- Washington's first offensive in the west flounders -- Another failure -- Mad Anthony prepares (1792-1793) -- Mad Anthony prevails : Treaty of Greenville (1794-1795) -- Taking over the Northwest Territory (1801-1819) -- More Indiana land ceded and the War of 1812 -- Mopping up in the lower Northwest Territory (1817-1847) -- Lead mines and the Black Hawk War -- Michigan and Wisconsin through the years 1807-1854.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

At the heart of work and family engaging the ideas of Arlie Hochschild /

Table of Contents: “…Pugh -- Interracial intimacy on the commodity frontier / Kimberly McClain DaCosta -- The globalization-family nexus : families as mediating structures of globalization / Nazli Kibria -- Homeland visits : transnational magnified moments among low-wage immigrant men / Hung Cam Thai -- Childbirth at the global crossroads / Arlie Russell Hochschild.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…The Empire -- The empire in the age of Nero / Myles Lavan -- Apollo in arms : Nero at the frontier / David Braund -- Domus Neroniana : The Imperial Household in the Age of Nero / Michael J. …”
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Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond experiences since the middle ages /

Table of Contents: “…Moya -- The medieval and early modern experience -- Mamluk and Ottoman political households : an alternative model of "kinship" and 'family' / Gabriel Piterberg -- From local signori to European high nobility : the Gonzaga family networks in the fifteenth century / Christina Antenhofer -- Property regimes and migration of patrician families in western Europe around 1500 / Simon Teuscher -- Trans-dynasticism at the dawn of the modern era : kinship dynamics among ruling families / Michaela Hohkamp -- Marriage, commercial capital, and business agency : transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) families in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mediterranean / Francesca Trivellato -- Those in between : princely families on the margins of the great powers : the Franco-German frontier, 1477-1830 / Jonathan Spangler -- Spiritual kinship : the Moravians as an international fellowship of brothers and sisters (1730s-1830s) / Gisele Mettele -- Modernity -- Families of empires and nations : Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the world around it (1669-1856) / Christine Philliou -- Into the world : kinship and nation-building in France, 1750-1885 / Christopher H. …”
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Folklore : In All of Us, In All We Do /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. …”
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Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt, Harper's Weekly, and racial caricature in postbellum, pre-Harlem America / Peter Caster -- "So I decided to quit it and try something else for a while" : reading agency in Nat Love / Simone Drake -- Cowboys, porters, and the mythic West : satire and frontier masculinity in The life and adventures of Nat Love / Charity Fox -- From Haiti to Harpers Ferry : the insurrectionary tradition in American literature / Colleen C. …”
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Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa /

Table of Contents: “…An interpreter will arise : resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe's diplomatic and evangelical contributions as cultural intermediary on South Africa's eastern Cape frontier, 1816-1818 / Roger S. Levine -- Interpreting colonial power in French Guinea : The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot affair of 1905 / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Interpretation and interpolation : Shepstone as native interpreter / Thomas McClendon -- Petitioners, "bush lawyers," and letter writers : court access in British-occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 / Benjamin N. …”
Table of contents only
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond experiences since the middle ages /

Table of Contents: “…Moya -- The medieval and early modern experience -- Mamluk and Ottoman political households : an alternative model of "kinship" and 'family' / Gabriel Piterberg -- From local signori to European high nobility : the Gonzaga family networks in the fifteenth century / Christina Antenhofer -- Property regimes and migration of patrician families in western Europe around 1500 / Simon Teuscher -- Trans-dynasticism at the dawn of the modern era : kinship dynamics among ruling families / Michaela Hohkamp -- Marriage, commercial capital, and business agency : transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) families in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mediterranean / Francesca Trivellato -- Those in between : princely families on the margins of the great powers : the Franco-German frontier, 1477-1830 / Jonathan Spangler -- Spiritual kinship : the Moravians as an international fellowship of brothers and sisters (1730s-1830s) / Gisele Mettele -- Modernity -- Families of empires and nations : Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the world around it (1669-1856) / Christine Philliou -- Into the world : kinship and nation-building in France, 1750-1885 / Christopher H. …”
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Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt, Harper's Weekly, and racial caricature in postbellum, pre-Harlem America / Peter Caster -- "So I decided to quit it and try something else for a while" : reading agency in Nat Love / Simone Drake -- Cowboys, porters, and the mythic West : satire and frontier masculinity in The life and adventures of Nat Love / Charity Fox -- From Haiti to Harpers Ferry : the insurrectionary tradition in American literature / Colleen C. …”
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Folklore : In All of Us, In All We Do /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. …”
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Silver economy in the Viking age

Table of Contents: “…Regions around the North Sea with a monetised economy in the pre-Viking and Viking ages / D M Metcalf -- South Scandinavian coinage in the ninth century / Brita Malmer -- Hedeby and its hinterland : a local numismatic region / Ralf Wiechmann -- The evidence of pecking on coins from the Cuerdale Hoard : summary version / Marion M Archibald -- Gold in England during the 'age of silver' (eighth-eleventh centuries) / Mark Blackburn -- A survey of coin production and currency in Normandy, 864-945 / Jens Christian Moesgaard -- Viking economies : evidence from the silver hoards / Märit Gaimster -- Oriental-Scandinavian contacts on the Volga, as manifested by silver rings and weight systems / Birgitta Hårdh -- The form and structure of Viking-age silver hoards : the evidence from Ireland / John Sheehan -- Trade and exchange across frontiers / Susan E Kruse -- Kingship, Christianity and coinage : monetary and political perspectives on silver economy in the Viking age / Gareth Williams -- Reflections on 'silver economy in the Viking age' / James Graham-Campbell.…”
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The 1970s a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / by Borstelmann, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising.…”
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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / by Dabove, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).…”
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