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The correspondence of Pope Gregory VII : selected letters from the registrum / by Emerton, Ephraim

“…Records of western civilization…”

Medieval handbooks of penance : a translation of the principal "libri poenitentiales" and selections from related documents /

“…Records of western civilization…”

The age of Reformation by Harbison, E. Harris (Elmore Harris), 1907-1964

“…Development of Western civilization.…”
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Culture and social transformations in reform era China

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The United States and public diplomacy new directions in cultural and international history /

Table of Contents: “…The anomaly of the Cold War : cultural diplomacy and civil society since 1850 /…”
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Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

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Climate change, sustainable development, and human security : a comparative analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- China and Climate Change : Environmental Impacts, Human Security, and Mitigation Policies and Actions / Jian Li -- Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Western China's Minqin Oasis : Joining Forces with Civil Society / Maria Bondes, Ding Li -- Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Human Security : Challenges for Brazil / Eduardo Assad, Ant�onio M�arcio Buainain, Hilton Pinto, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Vanessa Duarte -- Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Human Insecurities : Understanding the Impact on India / Roopinder Oberoi, M.P. …”
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Culture and the Judiciary : The Anthropologist Judge / by Ruggiu, Ilenia

Table of Contents: “…The topos of female equality -- 12. Toward a common Western legal tradition on the resolution of multicultural conflicts? …”
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862

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The Routledge history of disability /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Reason, value and persons: The construction of intellectual disability in western thought from antiquity to the romantic age /…”
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Encounters in avalanche country : a history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 / by Di Stefano, Diana L.

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Ancient Israel. by Orlinsky, Harry Meyer, 1908-

“…The Development of Western civilization; narrative essays in the history of our tradition from its origins in ancient Israel and Greece to the present…”

The great discoveries and the first colonial empires. by Nowell, Charles E.

“…The Development of Western civilization; narrative essays in the history of our tradition from its origins in ancient Israel and Greece to the present…”

Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Lynching in America a history in documents /

Table of Contents: “…-- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.…”
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The grandchildren of Solano López : frontier and nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 / by Chesterton, Bridget María, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Chaco frontier -- Forgetting Solano López : debating the Paraguayan foundational narrative -- Managing Rojas Silva : rhetoric and inaction -- Comparing eastern and western Paraguay : scientific nationalism -- Civilizing the Chaco : the religious arrive -- Becoming Guaraní : soldiers, agriculturalists, and poets -- Remembering Solano López : the rise of febrerismo -- Reconsidering the frontier : the decades following the war.…”
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Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / by Hallion, Richard

Table of Contents: “…. -- The military and the airplane -- Ground attack on the western front, 1917-1918 -- The Palestine Campaign of 1918 -- Great War air support in retrospect -- Small conflicts of the interwar years. -- Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology -- Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia. -- The Abyssinian War -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Spanish legacy -- War in Asia -- The Second World War. -- The blitzkrieg -- The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert -- The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns -- A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe -- Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going.…”
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Homer, Troy and the Turks : Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1870-1915 / by Uslu, Günay

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Religion of peace? why Christianity is and Islam isn't / by Spencer, Robert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Islamic "apes and pigs" -- The West calls for dialogue; Islam calls for Jihad -- Faith and unreason -- Democracy, whiskey, sexy -- Women in the West vs. burkas and beatings -- Yes, Virginia, Western civilization is worth defending.…”
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Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism -- The Oriental roots of the picaresque -- Orientalism and literary translation -- The Oriental sources of courtly love -- The Orient, the other and the novel -- Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse -- Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness -- Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past -- Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations -- Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom.…”
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