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Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume 111 : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Page, Willie F., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Hunt Davis, Jr. -- v. 5. Independent Africa (1960-present) / R. Hunt Davis, Jr.…”

Encyclopedia of African history and culture. volume IV : from conguest to colonization (1500 to 1850) / by Davis, R. Hunt

Table of Contents: “…Hunt Davis, Jr. -- v. 5. Independent Africa (1960-present) / R. Hunt Davis, Jr.…”

The battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema / by Davis, Blair, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking -- The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses -- The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s -- Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie -- Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies -- Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films -- Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.…”
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John Sayles by Shumway, David R.

Table of Contents: “…John Sayles: critical realist -- John Sayles: independent -- John Sayles: realist -- Beginnings: return of the Secaucus seven -- Establishing a career -- Lianna and Baby it's you -- The brother from another planet and Springsteen videos -- Matewan -- Men out -- Place and melodrama: city of hope and passion fish -- Stories -- Lone star -- Men with guns -- Limbo -- Millennial sayles -- Casa de los babys -- Silver city -- Honeydripper.…”
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The battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema / by Davis, Blair, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking -- The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses -- The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s -- Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie -- Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies -- Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films -- Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.…”
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John Sayles by Shumway, David R.

Table of Contents: “…John Sayles: critical realist -- John Sayles: independent -- John Sayles: realist -- Beginnings: return of the Secaucus seven -- Establishing a career -- Lianna and Baby it's you -- The brother from another planet and Springsteen videos -- Matewan -- Men out -- Place and melodrama: city of hope and passion fish -- Stories -- Lone star -- Men with guns -- Limbo -- Millennial sayles -- Casa de los babys -- Silver city -- Honeydripper.…”
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The decline of life old age in eighteenth-century England / by Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- The activities of the "helmsman" : self-reliance, work, and community expectations of the elderly -- "The comforts of a private fire-side" -- Independent but not alone : family ties for the elderly -- Community assistance to the aged under the Old Poor Law -- Continuity and change in community assistance to the elderly over the eighteenth century -- Within workhouse walls : indoor relief for the elderly -- Conclusion : old age as a useful category of historical analysis.…”
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Medical statistics a guide to data analysis and critical appraisal / by Peat, Jennifer K.

Table of Contents: “…Data management: preparing to analyse the data -- Continuous variables: descriptive statistics -- Continuous variables: comparing two independent samples -- Continuous variables: paired and one-sample t-tests -- Continuous variables: analysis of variance -- Continuous data analyses: correlation and regression -- Categorical variables: rates and proportions -- Categorical variables: risk statistics -- Categorical and continuous variables: tests of agreement -- Categorical and continuous variables: diagnostic statistics -- Categorical and continuous variables: survival analyses.…”
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Colonial legacies economic and social development in East and Southeast Asia / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The myth of the night watchman -- State -- International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940 -- Growth and diversification of the market economy -- Changing living standards and human development -- The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945 -- The transition to independent states -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Warriors into workers the Civil War and the formation of urban-industrial society in a northern city / by Johnson, Russell L. (Russell Lee), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The key city : Dubuque before the Civil War -- "Volunteer while you may" : mobilization for the war -- Independent soldiers and soldier-sons : the social origins of enlistees -- "The boys all stood to the work manfully" : the army as an industrial workplace -- Ten thousand men in shebangs : the army as an urban working-class environment -- "A duty of the hour" : the home front in Dubuque -- The Civil War generation : military service and social mobility -- Conclusion : Hawkeyes in blue.…”
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The topography of modernity Karl Philipp Moritz and the space of autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic / by Uribe Urán, Victor

Table of Contents: “…: Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico -- The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture -- Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain -- God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions -- Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada -- The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic -- Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.…”
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Colonial legacies economic and social development in East and Southeast Asia / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The myth of the night watchman -- State -- International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940 -- Growth and diversification of the market economy -- Changing living standards and human development -- The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945 -- The transition to independent states -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Warriors into workers the Civil War and the formation of urban-industrial society in a northern city / by Johnson, Russell L. (Russell Lee), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The key city : Dubuque before the Civil War -- "Volunteer while you may" : mobilization for the war -- Independent soldiers and soldier-sons : the social origins of enlistees -- "The boys all stood to the work manfully" : the army as an industrial workplace -- Ten thousand men in shebangs : the army as an urban working-class environment -- "A duty of the hour" : the home front in Dubuque -- The Civil War generation : military service and social mobility -- Conclusion : Hawkeyes in blue.…”
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The topography of modernity Karl Philipp Moritz and the space of autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic / by Uribe Urán, Victor

Table of Contents: “…: Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico -- The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture -- Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain -- God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions -- Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada -- The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic -- Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.…”
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Colonial Legacies : Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The myth of the night watchman -- State -- International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940 -- Growth and diversification of the market economy -- Changing living standards and human development -- The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945 -- The transition to independent states -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Building The Goodly Fellowship Of Faith : A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996 / by Quinn, Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Otis Charles and the independent diocese -- George E. Bates, the bishop who sold the hospital -- Building the "goodly fellowship" : the summing up.…”
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The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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The decline of life old age in eighteenth-century England / by Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- The activities of the "helmsman" : self-reliance, work, and community expectations of the elderly -- "The comforts of a private fire-side" -- Independent but not alone : family ties for the elderly -- Community assistance to the aged under the Old Poor Law -- Continuity and change in community assistance to the elderly over the eighteenth century -- Within workhouse walls : indoor relief for the elderly -- Conclusion : old age as a useful category of historical analysis.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view