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Russia on the edge imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity / by Clowes, Edith W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism -- Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus -- The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south -- Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.…”
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The politics of race in Panama : Afro-Hispanic and West Indian literary discourses of contention / by Watson, Sonja Stephenson

Table of Contents: “…National rhetoric and suppression of black consciousness in poems by Federico Escobar and Gaspar Octavio Hernandez -- Anti-West Indianism and anti-imperialism in Joaquin Beleno's Canal Zone Trilogy -- Revising the canon: historical revisionism in Cubena's trilogy -- West Indian/Caribbean consciousness in works by Melva Lowe de Goodin, Gerardo Maloney, Carlos Wilson, and Carlos E. …”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…Fong -- Lamenting the dead: women's performance of grief in late imperial China / Anne E. McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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A new history of early Christianity by Freeman, Charles, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…; The idea of a church ; To compromise or reject : confronting the material world -- Interlude one: the earliest Christian art -- Celsus confronts the Christians -- The challenge of Greek philosophy -- Origen and early Christian scholarship -- New beginnings : the emergence of a Latin Christianity -- Victims or volunteers : Christian martyrs -- The spread of Christian communities -- Part three: The imperial church. The motives of Constantine ; Debating the nature of God ; The stifling of Christian diversity ; The assault on paganism ; 'No one is honoured before him' : the rise of the bishop -- Interlude two: the art of imperial Christianity -- An obsession with the flesh -- The end of optimism : Augustine and the consequences of sin -- Divine but human -- The closing of the schools -- A fragile church : Christianity and the collapse of the western empire -- Faith, certainty, and the unknown God.…”
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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Table of Contents: “…International communication research: critical reflections and a new point of departure / Chin-Chuan Lee -- Window shopping: on internationalizing "international communication" / Elihu Katz -- Beyond Lazarsfeld: international communication research and its production of knowledge / Tsan-Kuo Chang -- Beyond modernization and the four theories of the press / Jan Servaes -- Professional models in journalism: between homogenization and diversity / Paolo Mancini -- Conditions of capital: global media in local contexts / Michael Curtin -- The enduring strength of Hollywood: the "imperial adventure" genre and Avatar / Jaap van Ginneken -- Resurrecting the imperial dimension in international communication / Colin Sparks -- De-Westernization and cosmopolitan media studies / Silvio Waisbord -- Local experiences, cosmopolitan theories: on cultural relevance in international communication research / Chin-Chuan Lee -- Theorizing media production as a quasi-autonomous field: a reassessment of China News studies / Judy Polumbaum -- Translation, communication, and East-West understanding / Zhang Longxi -- Public spheres, fields, networks: Western concepts for a de-Westernizing world / Rodney Benson -- Cosmopolitanism and international communication: understanding civil society actors / Peter Dahlgren -- Postcolonial visual culture: arguments from India / Arvind Rajagopal.…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. …”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. …”
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Poetry and displacement by Smith, Stan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…: Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.…”
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Organized agriculture and the labor movement before the UFW Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California / by Valdés, Dennis Nodín

Table of Contents: “…Colonizing a movement : the Federacion Libre de Trabajo in Puerto Rico -- Dreams of democratic unionism : the Confederacion General de Trabajadores and Puerto Rican agricultural workers -- Up from colonialism : Hawaiian plantation agriculture and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- Challenges and survival : sustaining agricultural unionism in Hawai'i -- Marked in the annals of the labor movement : the National Farm Labor Union, organized labor, and the DiGiorgio Strike -- From factory to industrial area : areawide organizing in the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys.…”
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! …”
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Ethical Marxism : the categorical imperative of liberation / by Martin, Bill, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "Ethical" : not simply one adjective among others -- Part 1: Marxism and the language of good and evil, or, Theodicy and the iron law of wages -- Part II: Unforgivable napalm : imperialism is the ethical question of our time -- Part III: Sites, ramifications : animals, places, Mao -- The "animal question. …”
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Dutch scholarship in the age of empire and beyond : KITLV- the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011 / by Kuitenbrouwer, M.

Table of Contents: “…The KITLV under conservative and liberal administration (1851-1870) -- Imperialism, orientalism and ethics (1870-1914) -- The late-colonial rise of indology (1914-1940) -- Decolonization and internationalization (1940-1975) -- Postcolonial academic practice (1975-2001) -- Appendix I: Honorary members, presidents and secretary/directors KITLV -- Appendix II: KITLV membership figures, 1853-2000 -- Appendix III: KITLV publications, 1852-2010 -- Epilogue / Harry A. …”
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Japanese Demon Lore Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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Chinese Hinterland capitalism and Shanxi piaohao : banking, state, and family, 1720-1910 / by Wang, Luman

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Chinese banking in the age of capitalism: piaohao, hinterland, and treaty ports -- 2 Elements of remittance banking in late imperial China -- 3 The political economy of piaohao: the market, provinces, and the state, 1850-1895 -- 4 Piaohao in the age of fiscal centralization, 1895-1911 -- 5 Fortunes of the firms and families under the Chinese hinterland capitalism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Japanese Demon Lore : Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / by Argenti, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.…”
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Japanese Demon Lore : Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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Exhibiting the past : historical memory and the politics of museums in postsocialist China / by Denton, Kirk A., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…National origins and local identity: museums of premodern history -- Exhibiting the revolution: the museum of the Chinese revolution -- Commodification and nostalgia: revolutionary history in the era of the market economy -- Martyrdom and memory: monuments, memorials, and museums for dead heroes -- Martial glory and the power of the state: military museums -- Heroic resistance and victims of atrocity: negotiating the memory of Japanese imperialism -- Heroic models and exemplary leaders: memorial halls -- Literary politics and cultural heritage: modern literature museums -- Ethnic minorities and the construction of national identity: ethnographic museums -- Revolutionary memory and national landscape: Red tourism -- Museums of the future: municipal urban planning exhibition halls.…”
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