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Parental kidnapping in America an historical and cultural analysis / by Dabbagh, Maureen, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Parental abduction: a timeless tradition -- The progressive era and the family -- Culture, blood and borders -- The military, war, and parental kidnapping -- Religion: motivation for abduction -- Heroes and outlaws -- Nationalism and the Hague -- Domestic violence, child abuse, and alienation -- Law enforcement and parental kidnapping -- Reunification -- Prevention -- Politics of abduction -- Evolution of an epidemic.…”
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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Witness testimony and literary production in the later Middle Ages -- The face of a saint and the seal of a king -- Silence, testimony, and the case of Susanna -- Neighbors, witnesses, and outlaws in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Piers Plowman, book, and the testimonial body -- Witnessing, presence, and Lollard communities -- Coda : Witnessing the Middle Ages.…”
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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Witness testimony and literary production in the later Middle Ages -- The face of a saint and the seal of a king -- Silence, testimony, and the case of Susanna -- Neighbors, witnesses, and outlaws in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Piers Plowman, book, and the testimonial body -- Witnessing, presence, and Lollard communities -- Coda : Witnessing the Middle Ages.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Prophet singer the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie / by Jackson, Mark Allan

Table of Contents: “…: revisioning "this land is your land" -- Busted, disgusted, down and out : documenting the stories of America's agricultural workers -- The poor, hard-working man blues ; documenting the troubles of other American workers -- Skin trouble : documenting race and redemption -- Stepping outside the law : class consciousness in Guthrie's outlaw songs -- The union feeling : tracing a vision of a better world.…”
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Triangulations narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / by Vázquez, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity -- Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness -- Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw -- Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality -- I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez -- New millennial triangulations.…”
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Triangulations narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / by Vázquez, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity -- Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness -- Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw -- Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality -- I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez -- New millennial triangulations.…”
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Prophet singer the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie / by Jackson, Mark Allan

Table of Contents: “…: revisioning "this land is your land" -- Busted, disgusted, down and out : documenting the stories of America's agricultural workers -- The poor, hard-working man blues ; documenting the troubles of other American workers -- Skin trouble : documenting race and redemption -- Stepping outside the law : class consciousness in Guthrie's outlaw songs -- The union feeling : tracing a vision of a better world.…”
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Mark Twain and the American West by Coulombe, Joseph L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings -- Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it -- Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain -- Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.…”
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Mark Twain and the American West by Coulombe, Joseph L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Go east, young man : class conflict and degenerate manhood in Mark Twain's early writings -- Mark Twain as western outlaw : masculine language, violence, and success in Roughing it -- Moneyed ruffians : the new American hero in Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain's Native Americans and the repeated racial pattern in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The eco-criticized Huck Finn : another look at nature in the works of Mark Twain -- Mark Twain's influence on Willa Cather's West.…”
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Paisanos : A Folklore Miscellany

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Family upheaval generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / by Rytter, Mikkel

Table of Contents: “…Afflictions -- In-laws and outlaws : suspicions of local and transnational sorcery -- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life -- Conclusion: Family upheaval -- Glossary.…”
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Family upheaval generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / by Rytter, Mikkel

Table of Contents: “…Afflictions -- In-laws and outlaws : suspicions of local and transnational sorcery -- Demonic migrations : the re-enchantment of middle-class life -- Conclusion: Family upheaval -- Glossary.…”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. …”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. …”
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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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