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Thaddeus Stevens : Civil War revolutionary, fighter for racial justice /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Bringing "the spirit of John Brown" into government -- A son of Vermont ; A young man's outlook -- Resisting slavery's expansion, 1840-1850 -- From Whig to Republican, 1850-1856 -- "If this union should be dissolved" : Stevens and the road to war -- Steven's Civil War, part I: for victory through emancipation -- Steven's Civil War, part II: for black union troop and nationwide abolition -- Steven's Civil War, part III: to rebuild the union -- "In the midst of a revolution": Stevens and postwar reconstruction -- "Perfecting a revolution": the ballot, the land, and impeachment -- "Equality of man before his creator."…”
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The day Lincoln was almost shot : the Fort Stevens story /
Table of Contents: “…Lincoln's capital as center of gravity -- Lincoln and the army come to the suburbs -- Abe's re-election, Old Jube and the moment of greatest danger -- Sigel/Weber and upper Potomac delays -- Monocacy, a secretary's son and the road to Washington -- Blindness or stupidity on a hot weekend -- First defenders to the front: Lincoln at Fort Stevens, July 11 -- The president is almost shot: July 12 -- Rebel recessional/yankee repercussions -- Lincoln, Fort Stevens and American memory.…”
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The land agent in Britain : past, present and future /
Table of Contents: “…The Reeve's tale: past, present and future / Jeremy Moody -- The path to professionalisation: mechanisation and legislation on the Welbeck Estate / Geoff Monks -- Land agents: fact and fiction in the long nineteenth century / Caroline Dakers -- William Castleman and sons: agents to the Marquis of Anglesey 1814-1854 / Carol Beardmore -- Land agents, game shooting and diversification of estate income c.1850 to the present / John Martin -- The role of the land agent: continuity and continuity / Steven King -- Innovative land management, an independent school and the national trust: the Stowe estate / Nick Morris -- The making of the modern land agent in Victorian times / Elizabeth T. …”
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Outlaw tales of South Dakota : true stories of the Mount Rushmore state's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats /
Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction; William Gay From Gayville to the Gallows; Chief Two Sticks The Disenchanted Rebel; Martin Couk The Curious Case of Minnie Callison's Murder; Madame Vestal The Lure of Lurline; Lame Johnny The Legend of Lost Gold; James Leighton Gilmore Blood on the Trail; Bud Stevens Acquitted of Murdering a Cattle King's Son; Charles Brown Savage Killer Swings by His Neck; Wild Bill Hickok Jack McCall Claimed the Life of a Legend; Thomas Egan Death of an Innocent; Crow Dog Killing Spotted Tail; Lee "Curly" Grimes Everyone Approved of His Demise…”
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Behind the lines : gender and the two world wars /
Table of Contents: “…Higonnet -- The new Eve and the old Adam: French women's condition at the turn of the century / Michelle Perrot -- Rivers and Sassoon: the inscription of male gender anxieties / Elaine Showalter -- Vera Brittain's Testament(s) / Lynne Layton -- Growing up banished: a reading of Anne Frank and Ette Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas -- More Minerva than Mars: the French women's rights campaign and the First World War / Steven C. Hause -- Women's military services in the First World War Britain / Jenny Gould -- The German nation's obligation to the heroes' widows of world War I / Karin Hausen -- Redefining resistance: women's activism in wartime France / Paula Schwartz -- American women and the discourse of the democratic family in World War II / Sonya Michel -- American women and industrial unionism during world War II / Ruth Milkman -- Waiting for the captive sons of France: prisoner of war wives, 1940-1945 / Sarah Fishman -- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women and the Great War / Sandra M. …”
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The Korean popular culture reader /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Indexing Korean popular culture / by Kyung Hyun Kim -- The world in a love letter / by Boduerae Kwon -- Fisticuffs, high kicks, and colonial histories : the ambivalence of modern Korean identity in narrative comics / by Kyu Hyun Kim -- It all started with a bang : the role of PC bangs in South Korea's cybercultures / by Inkyu Kang -- As seen on the internet : the recap as translation in English-language K-drama fandoms / by Regina Yung Lee -- Regimes within regimes : film and fashion cultures in the Korean 1950s / by Steven Chung -- The quasi patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean postwar movies / by Kelly Jeong -- The partisan, the worker, and the hidden hero : popular icons in North Korean film / by Travis Workman -- Face value : the star as genre in Bong Joon-ho's Mother / by Michelle Cho -- Bend it like a man of Chosun : sports nationalism and colonial modernity of 1936 / by Jung Hwan Cheon -- "She became our strength" : female athletes and (trans)national desires / by Rachael Miyung Joo -- Young musical love of the 1930s / by Min-Jung Son -- Birth, death, and resurrection of group sound rock / by Pil Ho Kim and Hyunjoon Shin -- The popularity of individualism : the Seo Taiji phenomenon in the 1990s / by Roald Maliangkay -- Girls' generation? …”
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