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The mystifications of a nation "the potato bug" and other essays on Czech culture / by Macura, Vladimír, 1945-1999

Table of Contents: “…The joyous age : reflections on Czechoslovak communism.…”
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America's response to China a history of Sino-American relations / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the barbarians and the tribute system -- The development of the treaty system -- The United States as a power in East Asia -- In the light of the rising sun -- The response to Chinese nationalism -- China as an abstraction : the conflict with Japan -- Communism in China -- The great aberration -- Rapprochement : at last -- In the shadow of Tiananmen -- America in the age of Chinese power.…”
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Atatürk an intellectual biography / by Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siècle Salonica -- Das Volk in Waffen : the formation of an Ottoman officer -- The scientism of the Young Turks -- From wars to the Great War : a hero is born -- Muslim communism? : the Turkish War of Independence -- The secular republic -- Nationalism and Kemalism -- Turkey and the West.…”
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Jews on Broadway an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / by Lane, Stewart F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : setting the stage -- Immigration, Yiddish theater and building Broadway -- Part of the melting pot : from Vaudeville to Broadway -- Music of Broadway : classic composers, legendary lyricists -- Group theater, acting teachers and life during wartime -- From communism to the Catskills -- Jewish themes, legends and life in the 1960s and 1970s -- Young playwrights with a message, inflation, Disney and me -- New millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs : veterans and newcomers -- Epilogue.…”
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Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism selected writings 1953-1974 / by MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Table of Contents: “…-- From Macdonald to Gaitskell -- Communism and British intellectuals -- Freedom and revolution -- Breaking the chains of reason -- Is a neutralist foreign policy possible? …”
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Norman Thomas the great dissenter / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The Thomas and Mattoon families -- Working in the slum areas of New York City -- Pacifism and socialism -- Civil liberties in time of war -- Running for elective office -- Running for President -- The Depression years -- The 1932 presidential election and the New Deal -- Arkansas sharecroppers -- The sharecropper problem and the Roosevelt administration -- The decline of the Socialist Party -- Between elections -- Opposing a United States President and a New Jersey mayor -- Fascism, communism and pacifism -- Opposing United States' entry into World War II -- The internment of Japanese-Americans and other wartime civil rights violations -- Taking stock -- The final run for the presidency -- Opposing nuclear testing, supporting disarmament -- Reevaluating socialism -- Confronting racism, the Vietnam War, and injustice -- The great dissenter -- Declining health -- Summing up.…”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Republican treason Republican fascism exposed / by Burrell, Joseph, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…The Republican Party -- The nature of the Republican Party -- Eisenhower's political warfare -- The Republican Party's fake anti-communism -- The fascist orientation of the Republican Party -- pt. 2. …”
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An age of progress? clashing twentieth-century global forces / by Moss, Walter

Table of Contents: “…A century of violence -- Science, technology, and the acceleration of change -- Capitalism, socialism, and communism -- Imperialism, nationalism, and globalization -- Freedom and human rights -- Changing environments -- Culture and social criticism -- Values and virtues -- An age of progress.…”
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Bulgaria and Europe shifting identities /

Table of Contents: “…The Europeanization of Bulgarian society : a long-lasting political project / Stefanos Katsikas and Peter Siani-Davies -- Institution-building, political culture, and identity in Bulgaria : the challenge of "Europeanization" / Wolfgang Höpken -- Appropriations of Bulgarian literature in the West : from Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Ionkov / Galin Tihanov -- Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria : the absence of Europe? …”
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Right in Michigan's grassroots from the KKK to the Michigan militia / by Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney

Table of Contents: “…Coughlin and the Union for Social Justice -- Hard, harder, hardest of times -- Ballots not bullets -- The center restored -- Anti-communism and the John Birch Society -- Better dead than red -- Extremism in defense of influence : the John Birch Society -- Other options, other causes -- The Michigan militia -- The "duty of defense" : organizing the Michigan militia -- An unorganized, organized militia.…”
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Global citizenship and the university advancing social life and relations in an interdependent world / by Rhoads, Robert A.

Table of Contents: “…Globalization, citizenship, and the university -- "One coin has two sides" : the globalization of university life in southern China -- Pluriversity knowledge in a mobile world : international graduate students and citizenship at UCLA -- Resistance to neoliberalism : north-south tensions in Argentina -- Post-communism, globalization, and citizenship : the case of Central European University in Hungary -- Global citizenship and changing times for universities.…”
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Empires at war a short history of modern Asia since World War II / by Pike, Francis

Table of Contents: “…Cold War in the balance -- pt. 4. Communism in retreat -- pt. 5. End of America's Asian empire.…”
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Orienting Canada race, empire, and the transpacific / by Price, John

Table of Contents: “…Pax Americana : race, anti-communism, and Asia.…”
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Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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Tax politics in Eastern Europe globalization, regional integration, and the democratic compromise / by Appel, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…The decline of tax politics in Eastern Europe -- Creating a capitalist tax structure after communism -- Ceding control : European integration and consumption taxes -- The race to the bottom? …”
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The judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe mechanical jurisprudence in transformation? / by Kühn, Zdeněk

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The origins of Central European legal culture -- Socialist legal culture in Central Europe : an introduction -- From Stalinist anti-formalism to socialist textual positivism : Central European judicial methodology during the Cold War -- Institutional changes after the collapse of communism -- Judicial methodology in a post-communist world : overcoming the concept of limited law? …”
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Bought & sold living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia / by Patterson, Patrick Hyder, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the good life and the Yugoslav dream -- Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture -- Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle -- Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture -- Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture -- Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism -- Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure -- Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream -- Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption -- Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of communism, and the death of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost.…”
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The paradox of love by Bruckner, Pascal

Table of Contents: “…-- The ideology of love -- Persecution in the name of love: christianity and communism -- Marcel proust's slippers -- Epilogue : don't be ashamed!.…”
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The small worlds of corporate governance

Table of Contents: “…Lazzarini, Jordan Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina -- Ownership networks and new institutional forms in the transition from communism to capitalism / Doug Guthrie, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Roger Schoenman, and Zhixing Xiao -- Structural breaks and governance networks in Western Europe / Fabrizio Ferraro, Raffaele Corrado, Gerhard Schnyder, Eelke M. …”
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