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Arizona a history / by Sheridan, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…Incorporation -- The Native Americans -- The arrival of the Europeans -- Mexican Arizona and the Anglo frontier -- Early Anglo settlement and the beginning of the Indian wars -- The military conquest of Indian Arizona -- Extraction -- The freighters and the railroads -- Cattle -- Silver and gold -- Copper -- Oases in the desert -- Water and cotton -- Transformation -- Climate -- The Depression and the New Deal -- World War II and the postwar boom -- The other Arizona -- From the Southwest to the Sunbelt -- Arizona in the twenty-first century -- The political ecology of a desert state -- Reference material -- Bibliographic essays -- Index -- Political map of Arizona -- Physiographic map of Arizona -- Indian reservations in Arizona -- Federal lands in Arizona.…”
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Arizona a history / by Sheridan, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…Incorporation -- The Native Americans -- The arrival of the Europeans -- Mexican Arizona and the Anglo frontier -- Early Anglo settlement and the beginning of the Indian wars -- The military conquest of Indian Arizona -- Extraction -- The freighters and the railroads -- Cattle -- Silver and gold -- Copper -- Oases in the desert -- Water and cotton -- Transformation -- Climate -- The Depression and the New Deal -- World War II and the postwar boom -- The other Arizona -- From the Southwest to the Sunbelt -- Arizona in the twenty-first century -- The political ecology of a desert state -- Reference material -- Bibliographic essays -- Index -- Political map of Arizona -- Physiographic map of Arizona -- Indian reservations in Arizona -- Federal lands in Arizona.…”
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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / by Farmer, David John, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
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The making of a bestseller success stories from authors and the editors, agents, and booksellers behind them / by Hill, Brian E. (Brian Edward), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…-- Reviews : the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Changes in reader taste -- Editors and publishers -- Literary agents -- Getting the books on the shelves and out the door -- Establishing a brand image with readers -- Promotion : publishers' and publicists' efforts--and of course bookstores -- Climbing the marketing mountain -- Building a career -- From the bookshelf to the silver screen -- Where does the idea come from? -- The process of writing -- The bestselling author's life -- The ups and downs -- Wisdom from the bestselling authors, editors, and agents.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / by Morgan, Lael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919 -- Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894 -- The summer women of Helena, 1867 -- Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877 -- Miles City and the Wild West, 1880 -- Last of the silver years, 1887 -- The celestial sex trade, 1900 -- Respectable purple paths, 1900 -- Reflection, 1900 -- The beginning of the end, 1911 -- New options, 1916 -- Epilogue: The wages of sin -- Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier -- Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.…”
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Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas by Guelzo, Allen C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / by Morgan, Lael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919 -- Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894 -- The summer women of Helena, 1867 -- Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877 -- Miles City and the Wild West, 1880 -- Last of the silver years, 1887 -- The celestial sex trade, 1900 -- Respectable purple paths, 1900 -- Reflection, 1900 -- The beginning of the end, 1911 -- New options, 1916 -- Epilogue: The wages of sin -- Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier -- Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.…”
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Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas by Guelzo, Allen C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.…”
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The making of a bestseller success stories from authors and the editors, agents, and booksellers behind them / by Hill, Brian E. (Brian Edward), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…-- Reviews : the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Changes in reader taste -- Editors and publishers -- Literary agents -- Getting the books on the shelves and out the door -- Establishing a brand image with readers -- Promotion : publishers' and publicists' efforts--and of course bookstores -- Climbing the marketing mountain -- Building a career -- From the bookshelf to the silver screen -- Where does the idea come from? -- The process of writing -- The bestselling author's life -- The ups and downs -- Wisdom from the bestselling authors, editors, and agents.…”
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Race, oppression and the zombie essays on cross-cultural appropriations of the Caribbean tradition /

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Eleanor L. Pray : letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 / by Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954

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A companion to Greek and Roman sexualities /

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Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / by Gannon, Jack R.

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Race, oppression and the zombie essays on cross-cultural appropriations of the Caribbean tradition /

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Eleanor L. Pray : letters from Vladivostok, 1894 - 1930 / by Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954

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A companion to Greek and Roman sexualities /

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Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / by Gannon, Jack R.

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