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Politics and the papacy in the modern world by Coppa, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…The Vatican in an age of dictatorship, totalitarianism, and anti-Semitism, 1922-1939 -- 7. The Vatican's "impartiality," "silence," and "internationalism" during World War II and beyond -- 8. …”
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Russia before the radiant future essays in modern history, culture, and society / by Confino, Michael, 1926-2010

Table of Contents: “…The fate of ideas in history -- Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's elusive counter-Enlightenment -- Russian and Western European roots of Soviet totalitarianism -- Traditions, old and new : patterns of protest and dissent in modern Russia -- pt. 2. …”
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Hang 'em high law and disorder in western films and literature / by Herzberg, Bob, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mistrials: 1929-1939-the depression, the talkies and manipulation of the law in the old west -- international hangmen: 1940-1949-war in the present and totalitarian behavior in the old west -- chaos: 1950-1955-the cold war, huac, and mob rule in the old west -- badge toters: 1956-1959-reafþrming the rule of law in the old west -- deadly force: 1960-1969-riding the vengeance trail as war breaks out at home and abroad -- bloodbath: 1970-1976-vietnam, race riots and abuse of the law in the old west -- reload: 1977-1992-american cynicism and revisionist western history -- back trail: 1993-2012-the last nineteen years.…”
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Hang 'em high law and disorder in western films and literature / by Herzberg, Bob, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mistrials: 1929-1939-the depression, the talkies and manipulation of the law in the old west -- international hangmen: 1940-1949-war in the present and totalitarian behavior in the old west -- chaos: 1950-1955-the cold war, huac, and mob rule in the old west -- badge toters: 1956-1959-reafþrming the rule of law in the old west -- deadly force: 1960-1969-riding the vengeance trail as war breaks out at home and abroad -- bloodbath: 1970-1976-vietnam, race riots and abuse of the law in the old west -- reload: 1977-1992-american cynicism and revisionist western history -- back trail: 1993-2012-the last nineteen years.…”
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Popper's Vienna by Antiseri, Dario

Table of Contents: “…Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de siècle against Freud -- Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna.…”
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Popper's Vienna by Antiseri, Dario

Table of Contents: “…Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de siècle against Freud -- Karl Bühler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de siècle Vienna.…”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…The three Souths --The journalistic eye -- The mind of the South and Southern distinctiveness -- The times looks at Dixie -- Among the believers the secret history of civil rights -- The smoke never clears -- One tough lady -- A South that never was -- History and historians -- American weed -- Slaves View slavery -- Slipshod totalitarianism Southern intellect -- Southern studies abroad -- Friends and masters -- C. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard by Demastes, William W.

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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…The three Souths --The journalistic eye -- The mind of the South and Southern distinctiveness -- The times looks at Dixie -- Among the believers the secret history of civil rights -- The smoke never clears -- One tough lady -- A South that never was -- History and historians -- American weed -- Slaves View slavery -- Slipshod totalitarianism Southern intellect -- Southern studies abroad -- Friends and masters -- C. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard by Demastes, William W.

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Christianity and resistance in the 20th century from Kaj Munk and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Desmond Tutu /

Table of Contents: “…Hartling -- Lajos Ordass : a Christian and a consistent adversary of the totalitarian systems / Eniko Böröcz -- Oscar Arnulfo Romero : the defender of the poor / Paul Gerhard Schoenborn -- Desmond Tutu : church resistance to apartheid and injustice in Africa / Peter Lodberg -- Instead of a conclusion / Søren Dosenrode.…”
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Christianity and resistance in the 20th century from Kaj Munk and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Desmond Tutu /

Table of Contents: “…Hartling -- Lajos Ordass : a Christian and a consistent adversary of the totalitarian systems / Eniko Böröcz -- Oscar Arnulfo Romero : the defender of the poor / Paul Gerhard Schoenborn -- Desmond Tutu : church resistance to apartheid and injustice in Africa / Peter Lodberg -- Instead of a conclusion / Søren Dosenrode.…”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Key concepts of Romanian history alternative approaches to socio-political languages /

Table of Contents: “…: the evolution of socio-political concepts and alternative interpretations / Victor Neumann -- On the process of writing the history of Romania : methodological issues / Armin Heinen -- Some reflections on historical semantics, political modernity and Romanian history (1780-1939) / Alexandre Escudier -- The concept of patriotism in Romanian culture / Klaus Bochmann -- Romanian liberalism (1821-1866) / Keith Hitchins -- Democracy, democratic, democratization / Wim van Meurs -- The concept of progress : the fraught relation between liberalism and state intervention / Angela Harre -- The concept of property in Romania's economic-legal history / Dietmar Müller -- The notion of Europe from the perspective of Romanian historical studies / Hans Christian Maner -- Images of Europe : images of Romania (1945/1948-2008) / Armin Heinen -- The concept of constitution in the history of Romanian legal thought / Edda Binder Iijima -- The concept of national style in artistic historiography : asserting a critical vocabulary / Ruxandra Demetrescu -- The conceptualization of national character in the Romanian intellectual tradition / Balázs Trencsényi -- Neam (Romanian for kin) and popor (Romanian for people) : the notions of Romanian ethno-centrism / Victor Neumann -- The concept of totalitarianism in Romanian socio-political languages / Victor Neumann -- Transition, transitions : the conceptualization of change in Romanian culture / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu, Bogdan Murgescu -- The history of politics as a dispute around the concepts of politics, statesman political person, politician / Armin Heinen -- Summary : key-concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen.…”
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Key concepts of Romanian history alternative approaches to socio-political languages /

Table of Contents: “…: the evolution of socio-political concepts and alternative interpretations / Victor Neumann -- On the process of writing the history of Romania : methodological issues / Armin Heinen -- Some reflections on historical semantics, political modernity and Romanian history (1780-1939) / Alexandre Escudier -- The concept of patriotism in Romanian culture / Klaus Bochmann -- Romanian liberalism (1821-1866) / Keith Hitchins -- Democracy, democratic, democratization / Wim van Meurs -- The concept of progress : the fraught relation between liberalism and state intervention / Angela Harre -- The concept of property in Romania's economic-legal history / Dietmar Müller -- The notion of Europe from the perspective of Romanian historical studies / Hans Christian Maner -- Images of Europe : images of Romania (1945/1948-2008) / Armin Heinen -- The concept of constitution in the history of Romanian legal thought / Edda Binder Iijima -- The concept of national style in artistic historiography : asserting a critical vocabulary / Ruxandra Demetrescu -- The conceptualization of national character in the Romanian intellectual tradition / Balázs Trencsényi -- Neam (Romanian for kin) and popor (Romanian for people) : the notions of Romanian ethno-centrism / Victor Neumann -- The concept of totalitarianism in Romanian socio-political languages / Victor Neumann -- Transition, transitions : the conceptualization of change in Romanian culture / Mirela-Luminita Murgescu, Bogdan Murgescu -- The history of politics as a dispute around the concepts of politics, statesman political person, politician / Armin Heinen -- Summary : key-concepts of Romanian history : alternative approaches to socio-political languages / Victor Neumann, Armin Heinen.…”
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Routes into abyss : coping with the crises in the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…/ Nelson Lichtenstein -- Turkey in the first world crisis : from authoritarianism to totalitarianism / Erik-Jan Z�urcher -- Brazil in the 1930s : state building, nationalism and working-class agency / Alexandre Fortes and Paulo Fontes -- Labour, organisation and gender : the jute industry in India in the 1930s / Samita Sen -- Japan's way out of the crisis of the 1930s as a strategy for overcoming modernity / Hiroko Mizuno -- Reappraising the Nanjing decade (1927-1937): modernizing China during the world economic crisis / Zhu, Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.…”
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Routes into abyss : coping with the crises in the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…/ Nelson Lichtenstein -- Turkey in the first world crisis : from authoritarianism to totalitarianism / Erik-Jan Z�urcher -- Brazil in the 1930s : state building, nationalism and working-class agency / Alexandre Fortes and Paulo Fontes -- Labour, organisation and gender : the jute industry in India in the 1930s / Samita Sen -- Japan's way out of the crisis of the 1930s as a strategy for overcoming modernity / Hiroko Mizuno -- Reappraising the Nanjing decade (1927-1937): modernizing China during the world economic crisis / Zhu, Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.…”
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Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Mark Antaki -- Lying and politics -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- Citizenship -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. …”
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Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Mark Antaki -- Lying and politics -- A lying world order : political deception and the threat of totalitarianism / Peg Birmingham -- Lying and history / Cathy Caruth -- Citizenship -- The experience of action / Patchen Markell -- Dissent in dark times : Hannah Arendt on civil disobedience and constitutional patriotism / Verity Smith -- Promising and civil disobedience : Arendt's political modernism / J.M. …”
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