Negotiating difference in the Hispanic world : from conquest to globalisation /

Table of Contents: “…The role of degeneration theory in Spanish American public discourse at the Fin de Siècle :…”

Decadent modernity : civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920 / by Coletta, Michela

Table of Contents: “…Raza latina: immigration and decadence at the fin de siècle -- Mythologizing the internal Other: rural tradition as antidote to modern civilization -- National regeneration and the education of the Latin American elites -- Against the poetics of decadence: Latin America and the aesthetics of regeneration.…”
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Southern history across the color line / by Painter, Nell Irvin

Table of Contents: “…Southern History across the Color Line -- Soul Murder and Slavery: Toward a Fully Loaded Cost Accounting -- "Social Equality" and "Rape" in the Fin-de-Siècle South -- Three Southern Women and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slave South -- The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas: A Testament of Wealth, Loss, and Adultery -- Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Communist -- Sexuality and Power in The Mind of the South.…”
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Popular culture and the enduring myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 / by Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Great Chicago Fire and the launching of Chicago's national reputation -- "The new city of the New World:" Fin-de-siecle Chicago and its fairs -- "Turbulent mistress of the West:" Popular images of Chicago in the Progressive Era -- "All the world is waiting for the sunrise:" A Century of Progress and the national image of Chicago -- Infamous city: Chicago and the reworking of reality in American popular culture -- The end of the myth: Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s.…”
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Dangerous Creole liaisons : sexuality and nationalism in French Caribbean discourses from 1806 to 1897 / by Couti, Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Colonial democracy and fin-de-siècle Martinique : the Third Republic and white Creole dissent -- Coda II. …”
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Baltimore : a political history / by Crenson, Matthew A., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Official town, improvised authority -- Settling -- Government in the streets -- Revolution -- Chartered city, nest of pirates -- Baltimore at war -- From town to city -- "Calamities peculiarly incident to large cities" -- Trial by combat -- Baltimore triumphant -- Public debt and internal improvements -- Working on the railroad -- Road hogs -- Creating order -- Racial borders -- Between mobs and corporations -- Pigs and politicians -- Know nothings -- American reckoning -- Baltimore in the divided nation -- City at war -- Democratic resurrection -- Ex-slaves, ex-Confederates, and the new regime -- The ring -- Fin de siecle -- Political economy -- Fire, smoke, and segregation -- Metropolitan morality -- World war and municipal conquest -- Civil service and Prohibition -- Boom to bust -- Relief, repeal, new deal -- Democratic harmony, Republican victory -- D'Alesandro and his Democrats -- I'm alright jack -- Slow motion race riot -- Racial breakdown -- Baltimore's best -- Driving the city -- Turning point -- Afterword: Not yet history.…”
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Cycles of conflict, centuries of change : crisis, reform, and revolution in Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Mexico from independence to revolution : the mutations of liberalism / François-Xavier Guerra ; Mexico's three Fin de Siècle crises / Alan Knight ; International wars, Mexico, and U.S. hegemony / Friedrich Katz ; The revolutionary capacity of rural communities : ecological autonomy and its demise / John Tutino -- Contemporary crisis. …”
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