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Balancing the Tides : Marine Practices in American S?moa / by Poblete, JoAnna, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pacific -- Minimal Returns: Colonial Minimum Wage Issues and the Global Tuna Canning Industry -- The Devolution of Marine Sanctuary Development in American Sāmoa -- The Impact of the U.S. Imperial Grants System on Indigenous Marine Programs…”
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Balancing the Tides : Marine Practices in American S?moa / by Poblete, JoAnna, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pacific -- Minimal Returns: Colonial Minimum Wage Issues and the Global Tuna Canning Industry -- The Devolution of Marine Sanctuary Development in American Sāmoa -- The Impact of the U.S. Imperial Grants System on Indigenous Marine Programs…”
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Themes in Latin American cinema a critical survey / by Richards, Keith John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…A spectrum of criminality: gangsters, politicians and the military -- Ratas, ratones, rateros (Rodents) -- Perder es cuestión de método (The art of losing) -- Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) -- Fratricide and neo-imperialism: twentieth-century conflicts. Fratricidal wars and imperialism -- Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed by fire) -- Mi mejor enemigo (My best enemy) -- Hamaca paraguaya (Paraguayan hammock) -- The poet in the city. …”
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Africa, empire and world disorder : historical essays / by Hopkins, A. G. (Antony G.)

Table of Contents: “…History at the Universities: Change without Decay; 2. Economic Imperialism in West Africa: Lagos, 1880-92; 3. Asante and the Historians: Transition and Partition on the Gold Coast; 4. …”
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Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Women in Byzantium -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach -- Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity -- Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world -- "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women -- The imperial feminine in Byzantium -- Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802) -- Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople -- The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants) -- Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess -- Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems -- The icon corner in medieval Byzantium -- Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft -- Index.…”
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The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008 by Powe, L. A. Scot

Table of Contents: “…Very modest beginnings -- The court in a two-party republic -- The states and the republic -- The sectional crisis and the Jacksonian court -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Industrializing America -- Progressivism, normalcy, and depression -- After the New Deal constitutional revolution -- Reforming America -- An uneasy status quo -- An imperial court.…”
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Writing the New World : The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire / by Caraccioli, Mauro Jose

Table of Contents: “…Opening: Of Nature and Other Demons -- Narratives of Conquest and the Conquest of Narrative -- Oviedo, Las Casas, and the Difference That Made Nature -- The Anthropolitics of Bernardino de Sahagún -- The Imperial Renaissance of Francisco Hernández -- Jose de Acosta and the Ends of Empire -- Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton…”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Baetica felix people and prosperity in southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus / by Haley, Evan W.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Baetica pacata -- The Julio-Claudian experience -- The Flavian impact : the evidence surveyed -- The Flavian impact : an analysis -- Wealthy Baetici -- The nature of economic growth in Roman Imperial Baetica : a theoretical perspective.…”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Writing the New World : The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire / by Caraccioli, Mauro Jose

Table of Contents: “…Opening: Of Nature and Other Demons -- Narratives of Conquest and the Conquest of Narrative -- Oviedo, Las Casas, and the Difference That Made Nature -- The Anthropolitics of Bernardino de Sahagún -- The Imperial Renaissance of Francisco Hernández -- Jose de Acosta and the Ends of Empire -- Epilogue: Towards a Natural History of Colonial Dominaton…”
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Dance and the Hollywood Latina race, sex, and stardom / by Ovalle, Priscilla Peña, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Mobilizing the Latina myth -- Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line -- Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation -- Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race -- Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic" -- Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity.…”
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The legal system of the People's Republic of China in a nutshell / by Chow, Daniel C. K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The history of law in imperial and modern China -- Constitution, state structure, and human rights -- The communist party of China -- Legislative authority and legal interpretation -- Courts and procuratorates -- Lawyers and the legal profession -- Procedural law -- Substantive law -- Foreign investment -- Intellectual property -- Reference tools for further research.…”

What's wrong with democracy? from Athenian practice to American worship / by Samons, Loren J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Athenian society and government -- Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship -- Public finance : democracy and the people's purse -- Foreign policy I : democracy imperial -- Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War -- National defense : democracy defeated -- Democracy and religion -- Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen.…”
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The political trial of Benjamin Franklin a prelude to the American Revolution / by Penegar, Kenneth Lawing

Table of Contents: “…A duel in Hyde Park -- Private letters, public causes -- Imperial over-reach : the political context of the letters -- Harvest of spite : reaction in the London press -- Preliminary hearing -- Showdown in the cockpit -- The verdict -- Circles of support -- Other perils and after shocks -- Second thoughts -- Going home, looking back.…”
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Transatlantic mysteries crime, culture, and capital in the "noir novels" of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán / by Nichols, William J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Social crisis, modernization, and the emergence of the "novela negra" in Mexico and Spain -- Reading and (re) writing culture : subversion of models, models of subversion -- "Poisonville" reincarnated : modernization, metropolis and spaces of self-representation -- Memories of underdevelopment : resurrecting revolution -- Crimes against culture : anti-imperialism in Taibo and Vázquez Montalbán.…”
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Semi-detached empire suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / by Kuchta, Todd, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."…”
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Beyond the Chinese connection contemporary Afro-Asian cultural production / by Anderson, Crystal S.

Table of Contents: “…Afro-Asian cultural production and the rise of the global culture -- "You can stay at my crib, I will show you my 'hood": Interethnic male friendship -- "Scheming, treacherous, and out for revenge": Ethnic imperialism -- "Some things never change, and some things do": Interethnic conflict and solidarity.…”
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Transpacific articulations student migration and the remaking of Asian America / by Wang, Chih-ming, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Leaving Asia for America: Yung Wing, study abroad, and translated subjectivity -- Writing diaspora: tactics of intervention and pedagogy of desire -- Tracking Baodiao: diaspora, sovereignty, and Cold War imperialism -- Formosa betrayed: transnational politics and Taiwanese American identity -- Internationalism at work: bridge and Asian American studies in Asia.…”
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Mercury and the making of California mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / by Johnston, Andrew Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining.…”
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