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The vulnerability of cities natural disasters and social resilience / by Pelling, Mark, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Patrimonial Regimes and the Maintenance of a Constructive Civil Society: Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic -- Sect. III. Towards Safer Cities -- 8. Action for Safer Cities.…”
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Citizens or Papists? the politics of anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821 / by Duncan, Jason K.

Table of Contents: “…"The hand of popery in this hellish conspiracy" : the legacy of Anti-Catholicism in Colonial New York -- "The encouragement popery had met with" : Catholics and religious liberty in Revolutionary New York -- "No foreign ecclesiastical authority" : Catholics and Republican citizenship -- "Federalists and tories carrying everything with a high hand" : Catholics and the politics of the 1790s -- "In all countries such distinctions are odious : in none more so than this" : political equality in the early republic -- "A middle party?" : Catholics and Republican Nationalism -- "The great chain of national union" : Catholics and the Republican triumph -- Conclusion -- "A most Democratic and Republican class.…”
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Bringing the World Home : Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China / by Huters, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…Late Qing novels -- Wu Jianren: engaging the world -- Melding East and West: Wu Jianren's New story of the stone -- Impossible representations: visions of China and the West in Flower in a sea of retribution. -- pt. 3. The new republic -- The contest over universal values -- Swimming against the tide: the Shanghai of Zhu Shouju -- Lu Xun and the crisis of figuration.…”
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Guide to business information on Central and Eastern Europe by Konn, Tania

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Guinea poverty reduction strategy paper.

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Commercial opportunities in space

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Commercial opportunities in space

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Guide to business information on Central and Eastern Europe by Konn, Tania

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Religious pluralism in America the contentious history of a founding ideal / by Hutchison, William R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religious pluralism as a work in progress -- Here are no disputes : reputation and realities in the new republic -- Just behave yourself : pluralism as selective tolerance -- Marching to Zion : the Protestant establishment as a unifying force -- Repentance for our social sins : adjustments within the establishment -- In (partway) from the margins : pluralism as inclusion -- Surviving a while longer : the establishment under stress in the early twentieth century -- Don't change your name : early assaults on the melting pot ideal -- Protestant-Catholic-Jew : new mainstream, gropings toward a new pluralism -- Whose America is it anyway? …”
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Observing America the commentary of British visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 / by Frankel, Robert Perry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Wells, and Roosevelt's America versus Stalin's Russia -- The businessman's America : Harold Laski's view of the United States in the 1940s -- Conclusion : lost republic, lost tradition.…”
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Rebellion now and forever Mayas, Hispanics, and caste war violence in Yucatán, 1800-1880 / by Rugeley, Terry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the caste war uncrossed -- Men newly powerful : how Pueblo politics became a caste war -- The extremes of death or triumph : a society goes to war, 1847-1851 -- Nothing more than a new conquest : a world catches its breath -- The roar of a terrible tempest : liberal reform and the civil wars, 1855-1863 -- The empire comes to Mayab -- A world (mostly) restored : the paradoxes of the republic -- Peace, Porfirian-style : East meets West, and a people contort the past -- Conclusion : violence and the ghost of Santiago Imán.…”
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Law and democracy in the empire of force

Table of Contents: “…Cathleen Kaveny -- Ennobling politics / Robin West -- An oresteia for Argentina : between fraternity and the rule of law / Martin Böhmer -- Moral disagreement in a culture of certainty / Howard Lesnick -- The resilience of law / Joseph Vining -- Justice Jackson's republic and ours / Barry Sullivan -- Privacy's end / Jed Rubenfeld -- Anti-social behaviour orders in the United Kingdom / A.W. …”
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Cairo histories of a city / by AlSayyad, Nezar

Table of Contents: “…Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past.…”
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A laboratory of liberty the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Lerner, Marc H.

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft -- On the ideological origins of the revolution in Switzerland -- Ambivalent revolutionaries : the Helvetic Republic in revolutionary Europe -- pt. 2. Regeneration of a constructed past : continuities and discontinuities in the struggle between old and new visions of Switzerland and Europe -- The right to self-rule : the debate over legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern relationship -- Two visions of political society in inner Switzerland, 1829-33 -- Popular sovereignty in the Zuriputsch -- pt. 3. …”
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Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / by Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social change, crime, and the law -- Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile -- Bound for Maryland -- Arrival in the New World -- Servants and masters -- Escape -- Going home and staying on -- Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue -- Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women -- Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations -- Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615 -- Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718 -- Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776 -- Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Rebellion now and forever Mayas, Hispanics, and caste war violence in Yucatán, 1800-1880 / by Rugeley, Terry, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the caste war uncrossed -- Men newly powerful : how Pueblo politics became a caste war -- The extremes of death or triumph : a society goes to war, 1847-1851 -- Nothing more than a new conquest : a world catches its breath -- The roar of a terrible tempest : liberal reform and the civil wars, 1855-1863 -- The empire comes to Mayab -- A world (mostly) restored : the paradoxes of the republic -- Peace, Porfirian-style : East meets West, and a people contort the past -- Conclusion : violence and the ghost of Santiago Imán.…”
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Law and democracy in the empire of force

Table of Contents: “…Cathleen Kaveny -- Ennobling politics / Robin West -- An oresteia for Argentina : between fraternity and the rule of law / Martin Böhmer -- Moral disagreement in a culture of certainty / Howard Lesnick -- The resilience of law / Joseph Vining -- Justice Jackson's republic and ours / Barry Sullivan -- Privacy's end / Jed Rubenfeld -- Anti-social behaviour orders in the United Kingdom / A.W. …”
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