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Tocqueville the Ancien R�egime and the French Revolution / by Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Challenge accepted a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country / by Kaunonen, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Finnish immigration and settlement in a Hancock, Michigan neighborhood -- Finnish immigrant cultural organizations and the "Finn Hall" -- Finnish immigrant socialist-unionists in Hancock -- The early existence of the Työmies Publishing Company, 1904-09 -- The Työmies Publishing Company reaches maturity, 1910-1913 -- The 1913-14 copper country strike -- Gun hounds, scabs, and tragedy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Työmies Publishing Company staff and contributors, 1909 -- Appendix 2: Työmies Publishing Company interior use of space, 1913 -- Appendix 3: Copper territory strikers' march, 1913 -- Appendix 4: Työmies Publishing Company's composite list of Italian Hall deceased, 1913.…”
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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / by Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness.…”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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100 years of pragmatism William James's revolutionary philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Kloppenberg -- The enemies of pragmatism / Mark Bauerlein -- The earth must resume its rights : a Jamesian genealogy of immaturity / Ross Posnock -- Pragmatism and death : method vs. metaphor, tragedy vs. the will to believe / William J. Gavin -- William James's pragmatism : a distinctly mixed bag / Bruce Wilshire -- The deconstruction of traditional philosophy in William James's pragmatism / Richard M. …”
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December 1941 twelve days that began a world war / by Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war -- 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia -- 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East -- 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril -- 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore -- 3 December: the president's secret promise -- 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest -- 5 December: the lull before two storms -- 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies -- 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii -- 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire -- 9 December: FDR begins the American century -- 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy -- 11 December: Hitler's war on America -- 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews -- Aftermath: the new war and a new world.…”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Takács -- Love, triumph, tragedy : Cleopatra and Egypt in high Renaissance Rome / Brian Curran -- The amazing afterlife of Cleopatra's love potions / Ingrid D. …”
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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / by Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The origin of mistrust -- The secrets behind the banks -- Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world -- Too different for one policy -- First doubts about the euro -- The American crisis becomes the European crisis -- The European central bank's first rescue of the states -- Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province -- The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy -- Let Greece default -- Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it -- Sell your islands -- Contagion -- Dr. …”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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100 years of pragmatism William James's revolutionary philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Kloppenberg -- The enemies of pragmatism / Mark Bauerlein -- The earth must resume its rights : a Jamesian genealogy of immaturity / Ross Posnock -- Pragmatism and death : method vs. metaphor, tragedy vs. the will to believe / William J. Gavin -- William James's pragmatism : a distinctly mixed bag / Bruce Wilshire -- The deconstruction of traditional philosophy in William James's pragmatism / Richard M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

December 1941 twelve days that began a world war / by Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…1 December: Japan, Germany, and the coming world war -- 1 December: the fight to the death in Russia -- 1 December: London, Libya, and the dangers of the Far East -- 1 December: Washington, magic, and the Japanese peril -- 2 December: two doomed battleships in Singapore -- 3 December: the president's secret promise -- 4 December: Hitler and Japan's war of conquest -- 5 December: the lull before two storms -- 6 December: General Zhukov throws in his armies -- 7 December: date of infamy: Japan's undeclared wars in Malaya and Hawaii -- 8 December: the beginning of the end of the British empire -- 9 December: FDR begins the American century -- 10 December: Force 'Z' and the Malayan tragedy -- 11 December: Hitler's war on America -- 12 December: world war and the destruction of the Jews -- Aftermath: the new war and a new world.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Takács -- Love, triumph, tragedy : Cleopatra and Egypt in high Renaissance Rome / Brian Curran -- The amazing afterlife of Cleopatra's love potions / Ingrid D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / by Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The origin of mistrust -- The secrets behind the banks -- Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world -- Too different for one policy -- First doubts about the euro -- The American crisis becomes the European crisis -- The European central bank's first rescue of the states -- Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province -- The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy -- Let Greece default -- Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it -- Sell your islands -- Contagion -- Dr. …”
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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History / by Rothes, Joshua

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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / by Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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