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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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China : The Struggle for Power 1917–1972 / by Thornton, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…To build a Communist movement in China, 1917-1927 -- The "Soviet" experiment, 1927-1931 -- Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934 -- From the long march to the united front, 1934-1937 -- The road to war, 1937-1941 -- World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944 -- The United States, the Soviet Union and China, 1945 -- Strategies in conflict, 1946-1949 -- The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1959 -- The polarization of Communist politics, 1959-1965 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution II: protracted crisis, 1967-1968 -- China, the unsettled dragon, 1969-1972.…”
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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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China : The Struggle for Power 1917–1972 / by Thornton, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…To build a Communist movement in China, 1917-1927 -- The "Soviet" experiment, 1927-1931 -- Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934 -- From the long march to the united front, 1934-1937 -- The road to war, 1937-1941 -- World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944 -- The United States, the Soviet Union and China, 1945 -- Strategies in conflict, 1946-1949 -- The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1959 -- The polarization of Communist politics, 1959-1965 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution II: protracted crisis, 1967-1968 -- China, the unsettled dragon, 1969-1972.…”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Rome's imperial economy twelve essays / by Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Table of Contents: “…The Roman economy in the Late Republic, 133-31 BC ; Between archaic and modern : some current problems in the economic history of the High Roman Empire.…”
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Rome's imperial economy twelve essays / by Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Table of Contents: “…The Roman economy in the Late Republic, 133-31 BC ; Between archaic and modern : some current problems in the economic history of the High Roman Empire.…”
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Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice engineering electoral dominance / by Ahmed, Amel

Table of Contents: “…France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the third republic; 7. Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR; 8. …”
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Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice engineering electoral dominance / by Ahmed, Amel

Table of Contents: “…France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the third republic; 7. Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR; 8. …”
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Radio active advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 / by Newman, Kathy M. (Kathy Michelle), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Average Man": the CIO boycott of Philco -- Radio and Boake Carter -- Washboard weepers: women writers, women listeners and the debate over soap operas -- "I won't buy you anything but love, baby": NBC, Donald Montgomery, and the post-war consumer revolt -- Conclusion: high-class hucksters: the rise and fall of a radio republic.…”
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Cosmopolitan patriots Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / by Ziesche, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…The problem of popular sovereignty in Thermidorian Paris and Federalist America, 1794-1796 -- The end of a beautiful friendship : anti-cosmopolitanism, anti-Americanism, and public diplomacy, 1796-1799 -- From sister republics to republican empires : the Jeffersonian divorce from France and the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1805.…”
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Romani in contact the history, structure, and sociology of a language /

Table of Contents: “…On typological changes and structural borrowing in the history of European Romani / Vit Bubenik -- On the migration and affiliation of the Dọ̄mba : Iranian words in Rom, Lom, and Dom Gypsy / Ian Hancock -- Plagiarism and lexical orphans in the European Romani lexicon / Anthony Grant -- Interdialectal interference in Romani / Norbert Boretzky -- Verb evidentials and their discourse function in Vlach Romani narratives / Yaron Matras -- Notes on the genesis of Caló and other Iberian Para-Romani varieties / Peter Bakker -- Romani lexical items in colloquial Romanian / Corinna Leschber -- Romani standardization and status in the Republic of Macedonia / Victor A. Friedman -- Trial and error in written Romani on the pages of Romani periodicals / Milena Hübschmannová.…”
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The yearning for relief a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / by Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Deliverance, conquered and lost -- The rise of the UDN, 1946-1957 -- To revolutionary supremacy, March 1957-May 1958 -- The challenge of the Fifth Republic -- A referendum -- Declining fortunes -- Part II. …”
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Cosmopolitan patriots Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / by Ziesche, Philipp

Table of Contents: “…The problem of popular sovereignty in Thermidorian Paris and Federalist America, 1794-1796 -- The end of a beautiful friendship : anti-cosmopolitanism, anti-Americanism, and public diplomacy, 1796-1799 -- From sister republics to republican empires : the Jeffersonian divorce from France and the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1805.…”
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