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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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From the 21st century B.C. to the 21st century A.D. : proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies held in Madrid 22-24 July 2010 /
Table of Contents: “…Administration and ideology -- Some considerations on the management of an administrative structure in Ur III Mesopotamia : the case of mar-sa / SERGIO ALIVERNINI -- The tenure of provincial governors : some observations / LANCE ALLRED -- Symbols and bureaucratic performances in the Ur III administrative sphere : an interpretation through data mining / ALESSANDRO DI LUDOVICO -- The third dynasty of Ur and the limits of state power in early Mesopotamia / STEVEN GARFINKLE -- Networks of authority and power in Ur III times / PIOTR MICHALOWSKI -- Prince Etel-pū-Dagān, Son of Šulgi / PALMIRO NOTIZIA -- The Ur III administration : workers, messengers, and sons / FRANCO POMPONIO -- Šulgi meets Stalin : comparative propaganda as a tool of mining the Šulgi hymns for historical data / LUD.K VACIN -- III. …”
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Arguing with historians : essays on the historical and the unhistorical /
Table of Contents: “…-- The myth of the jealous son -- Lincoln biographies -- President Grant and the continuing Civil War -- Love, hate, and Thaddeus Stevens -- Reconstruction in Mississippi -- Carpetbaggers reconsidered -- Neo-Calhounism and minority rights -- Fiction as history -- The "new ethnicity" and American history.…”
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