Dead heat : the race against the greenhouse effect / Michael Oppenheimer, Robert H. Boyle. by Oppenheimer, Michael, 1924-

Out of America : a black man confronts Africa / by Keith B. Richburg. by Richburg, Keith B.

Everything you think you know about politics... and why you're wrong / Kathleen Hall Jamieson. by Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

The contagious city : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / Simon Finger. by Finger, Simon, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"A rude place and an unpolisht man" : William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania -- "An infancy of government" : population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship -- "A suitable charity or an effectual security" : community, contagion, and the care of strangers -- "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city -- "Improvement in every part of the healing art" : transatlantic cultures of medical improvement -- "A fine field for professional improvement" : sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War -- "In a yielding state" : nervous nationalism in the new republic -- "Those friendly reciprocities" : panic and participation in the age of yellow fever -- "A matter of police" : fever and betrayal in the federal union.…”
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From the Fire Hills / Chad Davidson. by Davidson, Chad, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; IN RAVENNA; I; THE GOTHIC LINE; VANDALS; SAN LUCA; LOVERS IN THE CAPUCHIN CRYPT; THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD; THE SCREAMING TODDLER IN SANTA MARIA NOVELLA; CONTROLLED BURN; II; AERIAL; FROM THE NEW REPUBLIC; THE LAST CRUSADE; THE GROTESQUE; SOFT COSTS; LABOR DAYS; III; WATERWALKERS; THE BARISTA OF SANT'EUSTACHIO; BELLAGIO; WINK; HOLE IN THE HEART; THE CHURCHES OF ITALY; THE NEW WORLD; IV; OSSI DI MORTO; LIMONCELLO; BLOOD ORANGE; DISPENSATION; TRUFFLE; LITTLE SHOE; SANTA MARIA IN TRASTEVERE; NATIVE; V; SURVIVAL ITALIAN; BEFORE THE BOMBING.…”
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Revolution and the Word : the Rise of the Novel in America. by Davidson, Cathy N.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the Expanded Edition -- PART ONE -- 1 Introduction: Toward a History of Texts -- 2 The Book in the New Republic -- 3 Ideology and Genre -- 4 Literacy, Education, and the Reader -- PART TWO -- 5 Commodity and Communication: The First American Novel -- 6 Privileging the Feme Covert: The Sociology of Sentimental Fiction -- 7 The Picaresque and the Margins of Political Discourse -- 8 Early American Gothic: The Limits of Individualism -- 9 Afterword: Texts as Histories -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.…”
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The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 / Jonathan Israel. by Israel, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic -- Expropriating the Native Americans -- Whites dispossessed -- Canada: an ideological conflict -- John Adams's "American revolution" -- Jefferson's French revolution -- A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s -- America and the Haitian revolution -- Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- The Greek revolution (1770-1830) -- The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s -- The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- American reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.…”

The unfinished nation : a concise history of the American people / Alan Brinkley, Columbia University ; with contributions from John Giggie, University of Alabama ; Andrew Huebner, University of Alabama. by Brinkley, Alan

Table of Contents: “…The collision of cultures -- Transplantations and borderlands -- Society and culture in provincial America -- The empire in transition -- The American Revolution -- The Constitution and the New Republic -- The Jeffersonian Era -- Varieties of American nationalism -- Jacksonian America -- America's economic revolution -- Cotton, slavery, and the Old South -- Antebellum culture and reform -- The impending crisis -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and the New South…”

The provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament / Tommy McKearney. by McKearney, Tommy

Table of Contents: “…-- Attempting to quell the insurgency by bloodshed and blandishment -- Irish republicanism and class -- The political and military strategy of the Provisional IRA -- The war in England -- Britain's response -- Reviewing stategy in the mid-1970s -- The gradual adoption of parliamentarianism -- Options and opportunities -- The road less travelled ... the left alternative -- Parliamentary Sinn Féin, 'surrender and re-grant' -- From armalites to populist conformity -- General election upset in the South -- The end of a journey -- A new republic and a relevant republicanism.…”
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American Popular Music and Its Business, Volume II : the First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909. by Sanjek, Russell

Table of Contents: “…Music Publishing in the New Republic 1790-1800; 2. The Business of Popular Music 1800-1860; 3. …”
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"Miscegenation" : making race in America / Elise Lemire. by Lemire, Elise Virginia

Table of Contents: “…Race and the Idea of Preference in the New Republic: The Port Folio Poems About Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- 2. …”
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From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction / Hildegard Hoeller. by Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Nineteenth-century American fiction and the inevitable, (im)possible, maddening importance of the gift -- Sacrifices of a nation. The new republic and the aporia of responsibility: prudent economy, speculation, and (ir)responsible sacrifice in Hannah Foster's Coquette -- Self-sacrifice or preservation: Lydia Maria Child's reflections on the gift in Hobomok and The American Frugal Housewife -- Panic fictions. …”
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The political scene ; an essay on the victory of 1918 / by Walter Lippmann. by Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

The first two years of the Nixon watch / by John Osborne ; illustrated by Robert Osborn and Bill Mauldin ; introductions by Tom Wicker and David Broder. by Osborne, John, 1907-1981

The myth of heterosexual AIDS / Michael Fumento. by Fumento, Michael

Telling lives, the biographer's art / by Leon Edel [and others] ; edited by Marc Pachter.

Brazilian literature : first 500 years / Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Portuguese Conquest of Brazil (1:09) -- Brazil: Indigenous Cultures (2:39) -- Jesuit Morality Literature in Brazil (3:17) -- Brazilian Baroque (4:20) -- Influential Portuguese Poem (4:30) -- Brazilian Literature: Neoclassics (1:48) -- Brazilian Literature: Romanticism (2:54) -- Brazilian Literature: Narrative Devices (1:59) -- Brazilian Literature: Realism (2:37) -- Brazil as New Republic: Conflict and Controversy (1:30) -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Renewal of Brazilian Literature (3:25) -- Brazilian Literature: Authors of Realism (2:37) -- Brazilian Literature: Naturalism (3:14) -- Parnassianism: Between Romanticism and Symbolism (2:18) -- Brazilian Literature: Symbolism (1:44) -- Brazil: Literature in Transition (4:27) -- Postlude: 20th Century Brazilian Writers (1:04)…”
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Brazilian literature : first 500 years / Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Portuguese Conquest of Brazil (1:07) -- Brazil: Indigenous Cultures (2:44) -- Jesuit Morality Literature in Brazil (3:19) -- Brazilian Baroque (4:11) -- Influential Portuguese Poem (4:40) -- Brazilian Literature: Neoclassics (1:52) -- Brazilian Literature: Romanticism (2:52) -- Brazilian Literature: Narrative Devices (1:54) -- Brazilian Literature: Realism (2:46) -- Brazil as New Republic: Conflict and Controversy (1:36) -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Renewal of Brazilian Literature (3:25) -- Brazilian Literature: Authors of Realism (2:48) -- Brazilian Literature: Naturalism (3:21) -- Parnassianism: Between Romanticism and Symbolism (2:17) -- Brazilian Literature: Symbolism (1:51) -- Brazil: Literature in Transition (4:26) -- Postlude: 20th Century Brazilian Writers (0:23)…”
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North Carolina : Change and Tradition in a Southern State. by Link, William A.

Table of Contents: “…Part One: Colonial North Carolina -- European Invasion -- Origins of North Carolina -- A Slave Society -- Part Two: The Revolutionary Republic -- Immigrants and the Backcountry World -- The Age of Revolution -- The New Republic -- Part Three: The Civil War Crisis -- Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina -- Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War -- The Civil War -- Part Four: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath -- Reconstruction -- Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era -- Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s -- Part Five: Modernizing North Carolina -- Progressive North Carolina -- World War I and the 1920s -- Depression, New Deal, and World War II -- Part Six: Toward the Twenty-First Century -- Postwar North Carolina -- The Civil Rights Revolution -- Modernizers and Traditionalists -- Appendix: State Symbols; Governors; U.S. …”
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Cinderella in America : a book of folk and fairy tales / compiled and edited by William Bernard McCarthy.

Table of Contents: “…Tales from a new Republic -- Puerto Rico : the oldest depository of American tales -- Tales from the Hispanic Southwest -- Isleño tales from St. …”
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