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States, citizens and the privatisation of security by Krahmann, Elke

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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture -- Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism -- Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II -- Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy -- Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context -- Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school -- Jodo Shinshu and literature -- Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree -- Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki -- A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu -- Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu -- Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu -- Harold H. …”
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Dokdo historical appraisal and international justice /

Table of Contents: “…Overview : "Dokdo : historical appraisal and international justice / Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee -- Legalism, geopolitics, and morality : perspectives from law and history on war guilt in relation to the Dokdo Island controversy / Harry N. …”
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Baltimore '68 riots and rebirth in an American city /

Table of Contents: “…Elfenbein -- Convergences and divergences : the civil rights and anti-war movements, Baltimore / W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor -- The Pats family : oral history -- How the 1968 riots stopped school desegregation in Baltimore / Howell Baum -- Pivot in perception : the impact of the 1968 uprising on three Baltimore business districts / Elizabeth M. …”
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Economic warfare secrets of wealth creation in the age of welfare politics / by Abdelnour, Ziad

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Art in the lives of immigrant communities in the United States

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- GenerAsians learn Chinese: the Asian American youth generation and new class formations / Deborah Wong -- Unfinished journey: Mexican migration through the visual arts / Gilberto Cárdenas -- Immigrant art as liminal expression: the case of Central Americans / Cecilia Menjívar -- Negotiating memories of war: arts in Vietnamese American communities / Yen Le Espiritu -- Miracles on the border: the votive art of Mexican migrants to the United States / Jorge Durand and Douglas S. …”
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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /

Table of Contents: “…Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. …”
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Screening integration recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France /

Table of Contents: “…Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African Émigré Directors / Will Higbee -- Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued / Hakim Abderrezak -- Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema / Sylvie Durmelat -- Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? …”
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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. …”
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Human action a treatise on economics / by Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973

Table of Contents: “…The government and the market -- Interference by taxation -- Restriction of production -- Interference with the structure of prices -- Currency and credit manipulation -- Confiscation and redistribution -- Syndicalism and corporativism -- The economics of war -- The welfare principle versus the market principle -- The crisis of interventionism -- Pt. 7. …”
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Psychology of trust

Table of Contents: “…: how blog users judge credibility of different types of blogs for information about the Iraq war / Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Amon G. …”
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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / by Dabove, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).…”
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The neighborhood outfit : organized crime in Chicago Heights / by Corsino, Louis, 1948-

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America at the ballot box : elections and American political history /

Table of Contents: “…John -- Anglophobia in nineteenth-century elections, politics, and diplomacy / Jay Sexton -- The war and peace election of 1916 / Elizabeth Sanders -- Farewell to the "smoke-filled room" : parties, interests, public relations, and the election of 1924 / Bruce J. …”
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The limits of Orientalism seventeenth-century representations of India / by Sapra, Rahul

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Power in movement social movements and contentious politics / by Tarrow, Sidney G.

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Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire by Stone, Rachel

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Reappraisals : Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

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Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / by Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

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Defying the IRA? : Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution / by Hughes, Brian (Historian)

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