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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War by Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.…”
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North Korea the struggle against American power / by Beal, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Fulcrum of geography, anvil of history: DPRK in historical perspective -- The roots of modern Korea: from Tangun to liberation -- Years of struggle, years of hope: Korean War to first nuclear crisis -- Creation of the Agreed Framework and the flowering of dätente -- Crisis reignited: economic reform, regional accord, Washington discord -- Part II: The pillars of confrontation -- The human rights record: complexities, causes, solutions -- Drugs and generals -- The nuclear confrontation -- On the precipice: options, positions and dangers at the start of the second Bush administration.…”
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North Korea the struggle against American power / by Beal, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Fulcrum of geography, anvil of history: DPRK in historical perspective -- The roots of modern Korea: from Tangun to liberation -- Years of struggle, years of hope: Korean War to first nuclear crisis -- Creation of the Agreed Framework and the flowering of dätente -- Crisis reignited: economic reform, regional accord, Washington discord -- Part II: The pillars of confrontation -- The human rights record: complexities, causes, solutions -- Drugs and generals -- The nuclear confrontation -- On the precipice: options, positions and dangers at the start of the second Bush administration.…”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The politics of the past : the city's transformation -- The impermanence syndrome -- Propaganda as necessity -- Mythicizing history -- Cleansing memory -- The pillars of an imagined tradition -- Old town, new contexts -- pt. 3. …”
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Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / by Thum, Gregor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The politics of the past : the city's transformation -- The impermanence syndrome -- Propaganda as necessity -- Mythicizing history -- Cleansing memory -- The pillars of an imagined tradition -- Old town, new contexts -- pt. 3. …”
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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / by Booysen, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.…”
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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / by Booysen, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.…”
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Displacement, asylum, migration the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Part one : human rights -- Finding a proper place for human rights / Bhikhu Parekh ; response by Bhikhu Parekh -- Against an ideology of human rights / Slavoj Zizek ; response by Michael Ignatieff -- Strangers in our midst : insearch of seven pillars of wisdon / Ali A. Mazrui ; response by Iftikhar H. …”
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To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Displacement, asylum, migration the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Part one : human rights -- Finding a proper place for human rights / Bhikhu Parekh ; response by Bhikhu Parekh -- Against an ideology of human rights / Slavoj Zizek ; response by Michael Ignatieff -- Strangers in our midst : insearch of seven pillars of wisdon / Ali A. Mazrui ; response by Iftikhar H. …”
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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / by Hoffer, Williamjames

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".…”
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Sisters at Sinai new tales of biblical women / by Hammer, Jill

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Income inequality economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries /

Table of Contents: “…Smeeding and Serge Allegrezza -- The joint distribution of income and wealth / Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska and Philippe Van Kerm -- The fourth retirement pillar in rich countries / Bruce Bradbury -- Public pension entitlements and the distribution of wealth / Joachim R. …”
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Income inequality economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries /

Table of Contents: “…Smeeding and Serge Allegrezza -- The joint distribution of income and wealth / Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska and Philippe Van Kerm -- The fourth retirement pillar in rich countries / Bruce Bradbury -- Public pension entitlements and the distribution of wealth / Joachim R. …”
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Sisters at Sinai new tales of biblical women / by Hammer, Jill

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