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The business of women : marriage, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia 1901-51 / by Buddle, Melanie, 1971-

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Upper Perené Arawak narratives of history, landscape, and ritual / by Mihas, Elena

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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Louis Exposition (1904) -- Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905) -- Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905) -- The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists -- The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909) -- Anti-colonial education? …”
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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age /

Table of Contents: “…Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World : 1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society -- 2. …”
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Strange Science : Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age /

Table of Contents: “…Strange Plants: New Frontiers in the Natural World : 1. Victorian Orchids and the Forms of Ecological Society -- 2. …”
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Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Table of Contents: “…Andes-Amazonia interactions -- Clarifications: 'Andes' and 'Amazonia', geography and culture -- The broader context to this interdisciplinary project -- Structure of this book -- Chapter summaries -- Part 1. Crossing frontiers: Perspectives from the various disciplines -- Part 2. …”
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Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Table of Contents: “…Andes-Amazonia interactions -- Clarifications: 'Andes' and 'Amazonia', geography and culture -- The broader context to this interdisciplinary project -- Structure of this book -- Chapter summaries -- Part 1. Crossing frontiers: Perspectives from the various disciplines -- Part 2. …”
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Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle /

Table of Contents: “…Norman -- Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri -- Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko -- How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin -- Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet -- Frontiers of civil resistance -- Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes -- Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot -- Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen -- Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle /

Table of Contents: “…Norman -- Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri -- Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko -- How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin -- Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet -- Frontiers of civil resistance -- Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes -- Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot -- Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen -- Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand -- Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Against their will the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Poli͡an, P. M.

Table of Contents: “…Forced migrations within the USSR -- Forced migrations before the Second World War (1919-1939) -- First Soviet deportations and resettlements in 1919-1929 -- Dekulakization and kulak exile in 1930-1931 -- Kulak exile and famine repercussions in 1932-1934 -- Frontier zone cleansing and other forced migrations in 1934-1939 -- Forced migrations during and after the Second World War (1939-1953) -- Selective deportations from the annexed territories of Poland, Baltic Republics and Romania in 1939-1941 -- Total preventive deportation of Soviet Germans, Finns and Greeks in 1941-1942 -- Retributive total deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and Crimea in 1943-1944 -- Preventive forced deportations from the Transcaucasia, and other deportations during the last stage of the war in 1944-1945 -- Compensatory forced migrations in 1941-1946 -- Ethnic and other deportations after the Second World War, 1949-1953 -- Patterns of deported peoples settlement, and rehabilitation process -- Patterns of deported peoples settlement at the destinations -- Rehabilitation and internal repatriation of Kalmyks and peoples of the North Caucasus -- Rehabilitation of Germans -- Rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars -- Rehabilitation of Meshketian Turks -- Repressed peoples and ethnic conflicts on the territory of the USSR in the 1990s -- Part II. …”
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The French in Texas history, migration, culture /

Table of Contents: “…Eugenie Lavender, nee Aubanel: A Romantic on the Frontier -- MARTHA UTTERBACK -- 192 --15. Building Utopia in the Promised Land: -- Icarians and Fourierists in Texas -- JONATHAN BEECHER -- 197 --16. …”
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Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Brett Hill -- El Morro Valley as crossroads, El Morro Valley as gathering place : understanding the social landscape of the eastern Cibola region through the archaeological and historical record / Gregson Schachner -- Social identity and memory : interactions between Apaches and Mormons on a frontier landscape / Lauren Jelinek -- Landscape use at San Agustín / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- Ephemeral sites and inertia along el Camino Real de Tierra Adentro : evidence from twelve years of archaeological research / Edward Staski -- Investigating differential persistence of Pueblo populations : a landscape approach / Ann F. …”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Images and stereotypes: Baltic Region -- Missionary theatre on the Baltic frontier : negotiating the imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Sarit Cofman-Simhon -- Advocating, converting, and torturing : images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti altarpiece / Elina Räsänen -- The Teutonic knights and their attitude about Muslims : Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Shlomo Lotan -- The image of the infidelis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : a comparison of the trends in the creation of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim stereotypes / Jurgita Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė -- Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.…”
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Archaeological perspectives on the Southern Appalachians : a multiscalar approach /

Table of Contents: “…Chamblee and Mark Williams -- The Role of the Southern Appalachian Mississippian Frontier in the Creation and Maintenance of Chiefly Power / Maureen S. …”
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Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Brett Hill -- El Morro Valley as crossroads, El Morro Valley as gathering place : understanding the social landscape of the eastern Cibola region through the archaeological and historical record / Gregson Schachner -- Social identity and memory : interactions between Apaches and Mormons on a frontier landscape / Lauren Jelinek -- Landscape use at San Agustín / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- Ephemeral sites and inertia along el Camino Real de Tierra Adentro : evidence from twelve years of archaeological research / Edward Staski -- Investigating differential persistence of Pueblo populations : a landscape approach / Ann F. …”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Images and stereotypes: Baltic Region -- Missionary theatre on the Baltic frontier : negotiating the imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum / Sarit Cofman-Simhon -- Advocating, converting, and torturing : images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti altarpiece / Elina Räsänen -- The Teutonic knights and their attitude about Muslims : Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region / Shlomo Lotan -- The image of the infidelis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : a comparison of the trends in the creation of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim stereotypes / Jurgita Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė -- Infidel Turks and schismatic Russians in late medieval Livonia / Madis Maasing -- Index nominum -- Index locorum.…”
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Archaeological perspectives on the Southern Appalachians : a multiscalar approach /

Table of Contents: “…Chamblee and Mark Williams -- The Role of the Southern Appalachian Mississippian Frontier in the Creation and Maintenance of Chiefly Power / Maureen S. …”
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African American urban history since World War II

Table of Contents: “…Gregory -- Blacks, latinos, and the new racial frontier in American cities of color: California's emerging minority-majority cities / Albert M. …”
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