Wroclaw University Library
The failure of Italian nationhood : the geopolitics of a troubled identity
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Preface to the English Edition . . ix
Introduction to the English Edition . . xi
Introduction . . 1
Foreword: The "Original Sin" . . 13
Part I: The Original Characteristics
1 How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness . . 27
2 The Phantom Nation . . 35
3 The Northern Question . . 43
4 Inventing Ancestors . . 49
5 The Unhappy Consciousness of Italian Development . . 55
6 A Culture without a Nation . . 61
7 The Difficult Italianization of the Piedmont . . 69
8 The Difficult Piedmontization of Italy . . 75
9 The Moderate Social Bloc . . 81
Part II: The Permanencies
10 Transformism . . 91
11 Internationalization Crises and Transformism . . 99
12 Emerging Sectors and Transformism . . 105
13 The Southern Question . . 111
Part III: Identity and Sovereignty
14 A Counter-Reformist Identity . . 121
15 A Civil "Guelph" Religion . . 129
16 The Quest for a Civil Italian Religion . . 137
17 A Petit-Bourgeois Fatherland . . 145
18 A Country of Limited Sovereignty . . 153
19 Identity and Development . . 161
20 The Failure of "Democratic Nationalization" . . 167
21 Italian Metamorphoses . . 177
22 Between Europe and the Mediterranean . . 183
23 The Intel-nationalization Crisis of the 1990s . . 1992
Conclusion . . 199
Biographies . . 203
Notes . . 217
References . . 249
Index . . 259
The architecture of William Nichols : building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
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Foreword . . VII
Acknowledgments . . XI
Chronology . . XIII
Introduction . . 3
Chapter One - THE AMBITIOUS YOUNG CARPENTER . . 13
Chapter Two - HAYES . . 43
Chapter Three - CAPTAIN WILLIAM NICHOLS, STATE ARCHITECT OF NORTH CAROLINA . . 61
Chapter Four - THE STATE HOUSE IN RALEIGH . . 101
Chapter Five - ALABAMA . . 123
Chapter Six - LOUISIANA . . 173
Chapter Seven - THE MISSISSIPPI STATE CAPITOL AND THE OFFICE OF STATE ARCHITECT . . 185
Chapter Eight - "... ENTIRE MASTER OF His PROFESSION" . . 231
Epilogue . . 269
Notes . . 283
Bibliography . . 313
Index . . 323
La distruzione di Milano (1162) : un luogo di memorie
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Premessa . . IX
Abbreviazioni e sigle . . XI
La distruzione di Milano tra memoria e storia . . 3
L'identità cittadina fra memoria e oblio . . 17
La distruzione di Milano nella memoria comunale (secc. XII-XIII) . . 31
La porta Romana (1171). Un luogo della memoria e della distruzione della città . . 55
La distruzione di Milano nelle fonti tedesche. Percezioni ed elaborazioni dell'episodio dal XII ai primi decenni del XVI secolo . . 85
Federico I Barbarossa e la distruzione di Milano nella storiografia milanese dai cronisti tardomedievali al Verri . . 145
La distruzione di Milano nella letteratura del Risorgimento: tra memona storica e coscienza patriottica . . 185
«Zeitungsartickel des Mittelalters». Friedrich I. Barbarossa und Mailand in Darstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland . . 197
«Che importano le distruzioni? Importa che lo spirito sopravviva». Memoria storica e agiografica nella quarta porta del Duomo di Milano . . 231
Erinnerungsgeschichte(n): Die Zerstorung Mailands 1162 . . 255
Abstracts . . 287
Indice dei nomi di persona . . 292
Liquid natural gas in the United States : a history
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Acknowledgments . . VI
Preface . . 1
Introduction . . 3
1—Inferno . . 9
2—Discovery and Growth . . 25
3—Growth to Shortage . . 48
4—Discovery of Gas Liquefaction . . 78
5—Liquid Storage . . 105
6—Setback . . 140
7—Recovery . . 178
8—Breakout: Moving the Energy . . 216
Chapter Notes . . 249
Selected Bibliography . . 263
Index . . 271
Rights come to mind : brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness
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Acknowledgments . . XI
Introduction . . 1
1 Decisions . . 12
2 The Injury . . 16
3 Coming to Terms with Brain Injury . . 26
4 The Origins of the Vegetative State . . 35
5 A Shift since Quinlan . . 42
6 Maggie's Wishes . . 49
7 Something Happened in Arkansas . . 59
8 From PVS to MCS . . 69
9 Leaving the Hospital . . 83
10 Heather's Story . . 97
11 Neuroimaging and Neuroscience in the Public Mind . . 111
12 Contractures and Contradictions: Medical Necessity and the Injured Brain . . 134
13 Minds, Monuments, and Moments . . 165
14 Heads and Hearts, Toil and Tears . . 179
15 What Do Families Want? . . 196
16 Deep Brain Stimulation in MCS . . 204
17 Mending Our Brains, Minding Our Ethics . . 216
18 It's Still Freedom . . 227
19 Maggie Is in Town . . 248
20 When Consciousness Becomes Prosthetic . . 272
21 The Rights of Mind . . 286
22 A Call for Advocacy . . 309
Epilogue . . 313
Notes . . 321
In Memoriam . . 355
Index . . 357
Let there be water : Israel's solution for a water-starved world
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TIMELINE . . IX
MAPS . . XI
INTRODUCTION - A Global Water Crisis Looms . . 1
PART I - THE CREATION OF A WATER-FOCUSED NATION
CHAPTER 1 - A Water-Respecting Culture . . 11
CHAPTER 2 - The National Water Carrier . . 20
CHAPTER 3 - Managing a National Water System . . 42
PART II -THE TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER 4 - Revolution(s) on the Farm . . 55
CHAPTER 5 - Turning Waste into Water . . 78
CHAPTER 6 - Desalination: Science, Engineering, and Alchemy . . 100
CHAPTER 7 - Renewing the Water of Israel . . 128
PART III - THE WORLD BEYOND ISRAEL'S BORDERS
CHAPTER 8 - Turning Water into a Global Business . . 151
CHAPTER 9 - Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians: Finding a Regional Water Solution . . 171
CHAPTER 10 - Hydro-Diplomacy: Israel's Use of Water for Global Engagement . . 196
CHAPTER 11 - No One Is Immune: California and the Burden of Affluence . . 219
PART IV - HOW ISRAEL DID IT
CHAPTER 12 - Guiding Philosophy . . 235
CHART: Sources and Uses of Israel's Water . . 252
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . 253
INTERVIEW LIST . . 257
NOTES . . 269
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY . . 309
INDEX . . 321
Hoover's secret war against Axis spies : FBI counterespionage during World War II
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Introduction . . 1
Chapter One: False Start . . 8
Chapter Two: Aid, Arms, and Bases . . 56
Chapter Three: A Split and a Tilt . . 123
Chapter Four: Picking Up the Pieces . . 171
Chapter Five: A Most Superb and Patriotic Liar . . 225
Chapter Six: Denial and Double Game . . 271
Chapter Seven: Parallel Universes . . 317
Notes . . 351
Acknowledgments . . 387
Index . . 389
About the Author . . 415 Acknowledgments . . ix
List of Abbreviations . . xv
Introduction . . 1
1. A Remarkable Weekend . . 7
2. Jones and Stott . . 18
3. The Balloon Went Up . . 33
4. Rothschild Is Coming . . 54
5. Art Goes to London . . 68
6. Ostrich . . 81
7. A Fool's Errand . . 90
8. South of the border . . 106
9. The Man from Buffalo . . 126
10. Breach of Faith . . 141
11. The Count from New York . . 161
12. Japs, Aspirin, and Pep . . 173
13. ND98 . . 184
14. Gaston DeChant . . 212
15. Koehler . . 232
16. Peasant . . 248
Conclusion . . 268
Appendix A. FBI Radio Relay Station between BSC and MI6 . . 277
Appendix B. FBI Special Intelligence Service Coverage . . 278
Appendix C. Money Given by the German Nazis to Its Agents Operating in the United States . . 279
Appendix D. Genuine and Fictional FBI Double Agents . . 280
Notes . . 281
Selected Bibliography . . 315
Index . . 325
Stones of Contention : a history of Africa's Diamonds
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List of Illustrations . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi
ONE An Introduction to Africa's Diamonds . . 1
TWO Africa's Mineral Wealth - Material and Mythical . . 19
THREE From Illusion to Reality - The Kimberley Discoveries, the Diamond "Rush," and the "Wild West" in Africa . . 39
FOUR Consolidation and Control - The Birth and Growth of the Cartel . . 66
FIVE Creating "New Kimberleys" Elsewhere in Africa . . 97
SIX The Experiences of African Workers on Colonial-Era Mines . . 122
SEVEN A Resource Curse - "BloodDiamonds,"State Oppression, and Violence . . 139
EIGHT Mineral Assets - Diamonds and the Development of Democratic States . . 173
NINE Africa's Diamonds - A Rough Past with a Brighter Future . . 193
Study Guide and Selected Readings - Digging Deeper . . 201
Notes . . 213
Index . . 221
Učastie Rossijskoj imperii v Pervoj mirovoj vojne : 1914
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China's new socialist countryside : modernity arrives in the Nu River Valley
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Foreword . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xiii
Equivalents and Abbreviations . . xvii
Introduction . . 3
1 Life at the Periphery of the Chinese Party-State An Introduction . . 41
2 Nature Reserves and Reforestation The Impacts of Conservation Programs upon Livelihoods . . 71
3 All Is Not as It Appears Education Reform . . 110
4 Migration from the Margins Increasing Outward Migration for Work . . 159
Conclusion . . 185
Notes . . 191
Glossary of Chinese Terms . . 201
Bibliography . . 207
Index . . 223