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Emerging Memory : Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance / by Bijl, Paul

Table of Contents: “…-- Overview -- Introduction -- The 1904 Expedition and the Atjeh War -- The Surface of the 1904 Photographs -- Genres of Empire -- Images of Imperial Massacres -- Times of Empire -- Conclusion -- The Ethical Distribution of the Perceptible -- Managing Established Frames -- Icons of the Nation -- Haunting Memories -- An Icon of One Man's Cruelty -- Uncomfortable Colonial Conservatism -- Conclusion -- Compartmentalized Memory -- Multidirectional Memory -- Conclusion -- The Atjeh Photographs and the Violence of Western Modernity -- Emerging Memory.…”
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What Goes Around Comes Around /

Table of Contents: “…Winick -- "Cheaters never prosper" and other lies adults tell kids : proverbs and the culture wars over character / Jay Mechling -- The proverb and fetishism in American advertisements / Anand Prahlad -- "The early bird is worth two in the bush" : Captain Jack Aubrey's fractured proverbs / Jan Harold Brunvand -- As the crow flies : a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech / Alan Dundes.…”
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Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / by Byford, Jovan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism -- Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice -- "Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism -- "Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric -- Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism -- National self-glorification in a historical context -- Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism" -- "We are not antisemites, but-- " : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers -- "He was merely quoting the Bible!" …”
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Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) by Pirnie, Bruce, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…COIN effort is slow to unfold -- Traditional U.S. military forces may need to be adjusted -- Fallujah -- Tal Afar -- Baghdad -- Air support -- Combatting improvised explosive devices -- Detainee operations -- U.S. development and support of Iraqi forces -- Iraqi police -- Iraqi armed forces -- Assessing progress in counterinsurgency -- Iraqi casualties and displacement -- Iraqi economy -- Iraqi opinion -- Accounting for success and failure -- Understanding Iraqi society -- Little planning for the occupation of Iraq -- The impact of a lack od international support for the war -- The disastrous effects of prematurely dismantling the Ba'athist regime -- The challenge of building a new Iraqi state from scratch -- Instituting a new system of justice -- Undertaking the reconstruction of Iraq -- The consequences of failing to maintain security early on military missions -- Lck of infiltration and tips hinder intelligence on the insurgency -- Building effective capabilities for counterinsurgency -- Use of force -- Public safety and security -- Partnering with and enabling indigenous forces -- Reporting on the enemy and infiltration -- Provision of essential services -- Informing and influencing operations -- Rigorous and coordinated detainee operations -- Recommendations -- Development of strategy -- Coalition-building -- Planning process -- Unity of effort -- Interagency process -- Host-nation governance -- Funding mechanisms -- Counterinsurgency as a mission -- Protection of the indigenous population -- Personnel policy -- U.S. …”
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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Changing views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878) -- A fool's education : Albion Tourgée's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880) -- Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. …”
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Transforming public leadership for the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Government's new breed of change agents: leading the War on Terror / Daniel P. Forrester -- Leadership and ethics in decision making by public managers / Christine Gibbs Springer -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.…”
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Animosity, the Bible, and us some European, North American, and South African perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…War and violence in the Old Testament world : various views / Eben Scheffler -- The world's first murder : violence and justice in Genesis 4:1-16 / Eric Peels -- The enemies in the headings of the Psalms : a comparison ofJewish and Christian interpretation / Herrie F. van Rooy -- Disputes about the calendar in Jewish apocalyptic literature and its basis / Marius Nel -- Animosity in Targumic literature / Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman -- Domestic violence in the ancient world : preliminary considerations and the problem of wife-beating / John T. …”
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The United States and the end of British colonial rule in Africa, 1941-1968 by Hubbard, James P. (James Patrick), 1945-

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'You are a priest forever' Second Temple Jewish messianism and the priestly christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews / by Mason, Eric Farrel

Table of Contents: “…Hebrews' presentation of Jesus as High Priest -- Jesus as 'pioneer' or 'forerunner' -- Jesus as 'Son' and 'Son of God' -- Jesus as 'priest' and 'high priest' -- Hebrews 1:1-14 -- Hebrews 2:5-18 -- Hebrews 4:14-5:10 -- Hebrews 7 -- Hebrews 8-10 -- Previous theories of the background of the motif -- Largely original to the author of Hebrews -- Dependent on early Christian theology and exegesis -- Dependent on gnostic mythology -- Dependent on the thought of Philo of Alexandria -- Messianic priest traditions in Second Temple Judaism -- Messianic expectations at qumran -- Identification of 'messianic' figures at Qumran -- Evolutionary development of messianic conceptions at Qumran -- The messianic priest in the qumran texts -- Rule of the community and Damascus document -- Rule of the congregation -- Rule of the blessings -- War scroll -- Forilegium (4Q174) and Catenaa (4Q177) -- Testimonia (4Q175) -- Other possible references to a messianic priest -- Antecedents to the Qumran expectations of a messianic priest -- Aramaic Levi document -- Jubilees -- Ttestament of Levi -- Significance of the Levi priestly tradition -- Angelomorphic christology Melchizedek traditions in Second Temple Judaism -- Melchizedek in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Septuagint -- Genesis 14:18-20 -- Psalm 110:4 -- Melchizedek in nonbiblical Second Temple Jewish literature -- Genesis apocryphon -- Jubilees -- Pseudo-eupolemus -- Philo of Alexandria -- Melchizedek in the texts of the Qumran community -- Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice -- Visions of Amram -- Melchizedek -- The priestly christology of Hebrews and Qumran traditions -- A narrative theology of Hebrews -- Comparison with Qumran traditions -- Hebrews and the priestly messianism of Qumran -- Hebrews and the Melchizedek traditions of Qumran.…”
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Rallying for immigrant rights the fight for inclusion in 21st century America /

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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Katz -- Jewish-Muslim relations in Tunisia during World War II : propaganda, stereotypes, and attitudes, 1939-1943 / Fayṣal Cherif -- The emigration of Moroccan Jews, 1948-1956 / Jamaâ Baïda -- Zouzef Tayayou (Joseph the Tailor), a Jew from Nedroma, and the others / Belkacem Mebarki -- The real Morocco itself : Jewish saint pilgrimage, hybridity, and the idea of the Moroccan nation / Oren Kosansky.…”
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The girl with the dragon tattoo and philosophy everything is fire /

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The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law by Martinez, Jenny S.

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Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / by Thomas, Karen Kruse

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New society models for a new millennium the learning society in Europe and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…New society models for a new millennium : sketching the global discourses about a world vision/ Michael Kuhn -- Inside global learning societies- the "war of ideas" of the good world in the global battle of cultures / Michael Kuhn -- The learning society in Europe : Societies in "old" member states of the European Union -- Lifelong learning and the learning society : the evolution of concepts and research in the UK / John Field -- Knowledge economy, learning society, and lifelong learning : a review of the French literature / Philippe Méhaut -- "Learning society" and "knowledge society" : concepts and controversies in German discourses / Doris Weidemann -- A "blurred" object : the Italian discourses on the concept of the learning society / Paolo Ladri and Domenico Maddaloni -- Education for inclusion in the information society / Esther Oliver & Iolanda Tortajada -- Perspectives on the Finnish learning society / Jari Kolehmainen -- Lifelong learning and the learning society : trends and prospects in Europe / John Field --The learning society in Europe : societies in transition -- The "learning society" in Poland / Ewa Slezak -- Conceptualisation of the learning society in the Czech and Slovak republics / Jaroslav Kalous -- Towards a learning society : the Russian experience / Anna Muraveva -- The learning society beyond Europe -- The learning society in Canada and the US / Daniel Schugurensky -- Globalization, development, and policies of knowledge and learning in the Arab states / André Élias Mazawi -- Towards a learning society : the New Zealand experience / Catherine Casey -- The idea of a learning society : an Australian perspective / Beverley Axford and Terri Seddon -- The lifelong learning society in Korea / Namchul Lee -- The learning society in Japan / Yukiko Sawano -- The learning society in China / Meng HongWei -- Learning society : the East-Asian perspective / Kai-ming Cheng -- Official discourse and challenges of building a learning society in India / Madhu Singh -- Knowledge and the learning society in South African debates / Shirley Walters -- Brazil : the scientific discourse about the information society / Roseli Rodrigues de Mello & Paulo Eduardo Gomes Bento -- Conceptualisation of the "learning society" in South America : official, scientific and civil organization discourses / Donatilla Ferrada.…”
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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cornel Ban -- Moving away from the Cold War. The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. …”
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Narratives of French modernity themes, forms and metamorphoses : essays in honour of David Gascoigne /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lorna Milne and Mary Orr -- A void to avoid a void / Ian Higgins -- Apollinaire's voluptuous calvary: lexical fields, generic conventions and narrative space in Les Onze mille verges / Peter Read -- Céline, invective and the dismantling of narrative: Casse-pipe / Michael Tilby -- Mounier multivocalist: towards a multiple articulation of the French experience of Black Africa / Michael Kelly -- The rhetoric of the border in Julien Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes / Robin MacKenzie -- The Mémoires of Doctor Lamballe and Mister Swing Troubadour: echoes of Vidocq and Robert Louis Stevenson in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit / Alan Morris -- L'Enfance perturbe et fertilise le récit dans la littérature française aise du vingtième siècle: l'exemple de Chamoiseau / Anne Chevalier -- "On transporte avec soi une esapèce de gouffre": textual spaces and literary heritage in Michel Houellebecq's Poésies / David Evans -- Tournier and his intellectual milieu: narratives of modernity / Mairi Maclean -- Footprint in the sand: Tournier's re-writing of Paul Valéry in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique / Paul Gifford -- "Terre d'asile, terre d'accueil": explorations of the Robinsonade in Pierre Mertens's Terre d'asile / Susan Bainbrigge -- The metamorphoses of forms in Tournier's Roi des Aulnes and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Métamorphoses de la reine / Mary Orr -- Deep space: a sojourn in the salt mines with Michel Tournier and Marie Nimier / Lorna Milne -- Les nuits de Sylvie Germain et le pari de Pascal / Alain Goulet -- Sylvie Germain: fable, cri, echolalia / Toby Garfitt -- Is France post post-war? judging the Nazi past in recent novels by Maud Tabachnik, Michel Rio and Sylvie Germain / Margaret-Anne Hutton -- David Gascoigne: publications.…”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?…”
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The rise of the Chicago police department : class and conflict, 1850-1894 / by Mitrani, Sam

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Black print with a white carnation : Mildred Brown and the Omaha star newspaper, 1938-1989 / by Forss, Amy Helene

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