American foreign relations since independence / Richard Dean Burns, Joseph M. Siracusa, and Jason C. Flanagan. by Burns, Richard Dean, Siracusa, Joseph M., Flanagan, Jason C.

Table of Contents: “…The diplomacy of the Revolution -- The new republic in a world at war -- The War of 1812: reestablishing American independence -- The Monroe Doctrine and latin american independence -- Manifest Destiny triumphant: Oregon, Texas, and California -- A house divided: diplomacy during the Civil War -- Territorial and commercial expansionism: Alaska, the Caribbean, and the Far East -- War with Spain and the new Manifest Destiny -- The United States adjusts to its new status -- Woodrow Wilson and world at war -- The slow death of Versailles -- World War II: the grand alliance -- A new global struggle: founding of the UN to the Cold War-- Crises, conflicts and coexistence -- The United States and Southeast Asia: Laos Cambodia, and Vietnam -- Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War -- The United States and the Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq -- Twenty-first century challenges.…”
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Freedom on my mind : a history of African Americans, with documents / Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, Waldo E. Martin Jr. by White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-, Bay, Mia, Martin, Waldo E., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- From Africa to America, 1441-1808 -- Slavery in North America, 1619-1740 -- African Americans in the age of Revolution , 1741-1783 -- Slavery and freedom in the new republic, 1775-1820 -- Black life in the slave South, 1820-1860 -- The northern Black freedom struggle and the coming of the Civil War, 1830-1860 -- Freedom rising : the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Reconstruction : the making and umaking of a revolution, 1865-1877 -- Black life and culture during the nadir, 1877-1915 -- The new Negro comes of age, 1915-1930 -- Catastrophe, recovery, and renewal, 1930-1942 -- Fighting for a double victory in the World War II era, 1938-1950 -- The early civil rights movement, 1945-1963 -- Multiple meanings of freedom : the movement broadens, 1961-1976 -- Racial progress in an age of backlash and change, 1965-2000 -- African Americans in the 21st century.…”

Germany : beyond the stable state / editors, Herbert Kitschelt, Wolfgang Streeck.

Table of Contents: “…: changes in social structure and life courses and their political impact / Karl Ulrich Mayer and Steffen Hillmert -- The crumbling pillars of social partnership / Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel -- Political-economic context and partisan strategies in the German Federal elections, 1990-2002 / Herbert Kitschelt -- The changing role of political protest movements / Dieter Rucht -- Corporate governance and the disintegration of organised capitalism in the 1990s / Jürgen Beyer and Martin Höpner -- The state of the welfare state : German social policy Between macroeconomic retrenchment and microeconomic recalibration / Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger -- The politics of citizenship in the New Republic / Michael Minkenberg.…”
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The First Presidential Contest 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy. by Pasley, Jeffrey L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Unintentional Campaign -- 1. A New Republic and Its Discontents -- 2. Popular Politics in a Postcolonial Nation -- 3. …”
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Face the Nation : Sunday, May 17, 1987

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Face the Nation : Sunday, January 12, 1986

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George Orwell : the critical heritage / edited by Jeffrey Meyers.

Table of Contents: “…DAVIES, New Statesman and Nation, 18 March 1933; Unsigned notice, Nation, 6 September 1933; JAMES FARRELL, New Republic, 11 October 1933; DANIEL GEORGE, Tribune, 24 January 1941; SEAN O'FAOLAIN, Spectator, 28 June 1935; Unsigned notice, TLS, 18 July 1935; G.W. …”
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American literature before 1880 / Robert Lawson-Peebles. by Lawson-Peebles, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The rising empireThe fall of the British American empire; 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826; The age of Paine; Writing in a vacuum; Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown; Transatlantic domesticity; Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper; 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865; Transatlantic trifles; Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy; Yankee attitudes; Explorations of identity: Hawthorne; Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville; The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe; Disunion and Civil War; 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880.…”
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The politics of war : race, class, and conflict in revolutionary Virginia / Michael A. McDonnell. by McDonnell, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Defeat -- Toward the New Republic: The Revolutionary legacy of the War for Independence -- Index.…”
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Plastic Jesus / by Wayne Simmons. by Simmons, Wayne

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The buzzel about Kentuck : settling the promised land / edited by Craig Thompson Friend.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction: The Buzzel About Kentuck; PART ONE: DEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY; The Lower Shawnee Town on Ohio: Sustaining Native Autonomy in an Indian Republic -- Frontier Defenses and Pioneer Strategies in the Historic Settlement Era; This Idea in Heaven: Image and Reality on the Kentucky Frontier; PART TWO: ENACTING EXPECTATIONS; Kentucky in the New Republic: A Study of Distance and Connection; Work & Be Rich: Economy and Culture on the Bluegrass Farm.…”
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Worlds of Irving Howe : the Critical Legacy. by Rodden, John

Table of Contents: “…10 Lionel Trilling, The Reporter William Faulkner (1952); 11 Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review ; 12 Isaac Rosenfeld, The New Republic.…”
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The collected works of Harold Clurman : six decades of commentary on theatre, dance, music, film, arts, and letters / edited by Marjorie Loggia and Glenn Young ; introduction by Robert Whitehead. by Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980

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Village journey : the report of the Alaska Native Review Commission / by Thomas R. Berger. by Berger, Thomas R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- One / The promise of the Claims Act -- The promise -- The settlement -- The problems of the settlement -- Village corporations -- Regional corporations -- Economic effects -- ANCSA and the idea of development -- Two / Subsistence: more than survival, a way of life -- The meaning of subsistence -- The economy of subsistence -- Subsistence and the law -- The future of subsistence -- Three / Land: focus of cultural conflict -- Taking the land -- The conflict in Alaska -- Four / 1991: the unravelling of ANCSA -- Risks to native land -- Some conventional solutions -- The dilemma of stock sale -- Excluded natives -- Doing nothing -- Alternative institutions -- Five / A new direction: the uses of history -- The thirteen colonies and the new republic -- The courts -- The Indian Reorganization Act and self-determination -- The resurgence of tribal government -- Six / Native sovereignty in Alaska -- What is native sovereignty? …”

La battaglia di Roma 1849 / una produzione CinemArt-Roma ; sceneggiatura e regia, Luigi Cozzi.

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The necessary angel : essays on reality and the imagination / Wallace Stevens. by Stevens, Wallace

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Pennsylvania farming : a history in landscapes / Sally McMurry. by McMurry, Sally Ann, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial Pennsylvania farming and the Atlantic world -- Transformations in the New Republic, circa 1780-1830 -- Pennsylvania's farming regions evolve -- Farm and city in Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1830-1910 -- Transformations on the Lancaster Plain: the rise of America's "banner county" -- A different rhythm: York and Adams counties -- Landlords and tenants in the ridge and valley region -- The Susquehanna Lowlands: a little bit of everything -- Grassland farming in the northern tier -- Northwestern Pennsylvania: "a hard soil and a fickle climate" -- Southwestern Pennsylvania: riding a wool wave -- Farms, mines, and industry on the Allegheny Mountain plateau -- Modernization comes to the Pennsylvania farm -- Cows and chickens: statewide trends toward dairy and poultry production -- Persistant localism: local marketing and farm household self-provisioning, circa 1910-1965 -- Potatoes in Dutch country: Lehigh County, circa 1910-1960 -- Potter County, unlikely stop on the "Florida Itinerary" -- Provisioning tourists: farming in the Pocono region, circa 1865--1960 -- The Lake Erie fruit and vegetable belt -- Apples in Adams: the rise of the Adams County fruit belt, 1875-1960 -- Mushroom country: how a fungus became Pennsylvania's top "vegetable" -- Amish farming landscapes -- Swimming with the agricultural mainstream: Pennsylvania farm landscapes since 1960 -- Alternative voices.…”
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Tales and sketches / Nathaniel Hawthorne. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Augustine's conversion : a guide to the argument of Confessions I-IX / Colin Starnes. by Starnes, Colin

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