Race over empire : racism and U.S. imperialism, 1865-1900 / by Love, Eric Tyrone Lowery, 1965-

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Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act / by Gyory, Andrew

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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity / by Levine, Robert S. 1953-

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Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / by Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-

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Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

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Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader / by Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

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Antebellum posthuman : race and materiality in the mid-nineteenth century / by Ellis, Cristin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment -- Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning -- Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. …”
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Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism / by Tromp, Marlene, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Spirited sexuality : sex, marriage, and Victorian spiritualism -- Wedding stories/ghost stories -- Ghostly erotics and the imperialism in the Victorian drawing room -- Economics, race, and the specter of class -- Drunk with power : stories of ghostly others -- Under the influence : the fox sisters and pernicious spirits -- Haunted : Elizabeth d'Espérance, social justice, and the evolution of mediumship.…”
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Food restraint and fasting in Victorian religion and literature / by Scholl, Lesa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ethical Food Restraint: Choosing Moderation -- Chapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, Ethical Economics and Ethical Eating -- Chapter 2: Christina Rossetti, Spiritual Growth and Social Justice -- Chapter 3: Josephine Butler's Hagiography as Social Prophecy -- Chapter 4: Alice Meynell's Complex Relationship to the Health of the Body -- Conclusion: One Body -- Bibliography.…”
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Healing the nation : literature, progress, and Christian science / by Squires, L. Ashley

Table of Contents: “…Restitution and modernity -- The falling apple: the rise of Christian science -- Build therefore your own world: the restitution narratives of Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Error uncovered: Mark Twain and the limits of demystification -- All the news worth reading: literary journalism and the Christian Science Monitor -- The tragedy of desire: social justice, gender politics, and Theodore Dreiser's the genius.…”
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Agents of reform : child labor and the origins of the welfare state / by Anderson, Elisabeth

Table of Contents: “…Appeasing Labor, Protecting Capital: Conciliatory Factory Inspection in Massachusetts -- 7. Social Justice Feminism and Labor Law Enforcement in Illinois -- Conclusion to Part II -- 8. …”
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Capital letters : authorship in the antebellum literary market / by Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Literature now makes its home with the merchant: the transformation of literary economics, 1820-61 -- Crusading for social justice. Other and more terrible evils: anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our nig and proslavery propaganda ; Alert, adventurous, and unwearied: market values in Thoreau's economies of subsistence living and writing -- Transforming the market. …”
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Catholicism and the shaping of 19th century America / by Gjerde, Jon, 1953-2008

Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of the Public Schools in the Early National PeriodThe New York City School Controversy; The Pillorized Catholic World; The Move Toward Secularization in the Schools; 5 Protestant and Catholic Critiques of Family and Women; The Changing Family in Antebellum America; The Catholic Peril to the American Family: The Convent, the Priest, and the Confessional; The Catholic System and the American Family; The Catholic Response; Conclusion; 6 The American Economy and Social Justice; The Protestant Market of Goods and Souls; The Catholic Response; The Slavery Question; Editor's Epilogue…”
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Margaret Fuller and her circles /

Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- "More anon": American socialism and Margaret Fuller's 1848 / Adam-Max Tuchinsky -- Margaret Fuller and antislavery: "a cause identical" / Albert J. von Frank -- Margaret Fuller on music's "everlasting yes": a romantic critic in the romantic era / Megan Marshall -- Sympathy and prophecy: the two faces of social justice in Fuller's New York writing / Jeffrey Steele -- Margaret Fuller and urban life / Robert N. …”
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White supremacy in children's literature : characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 / by MacCann, Donnarae

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The theological Dickens /

Table of Contents: “…Ignatius of Loyola / Mary-Antoinette Smith -- "For whom the bell tolls": Dickens' Barnaby Rudge / Julie Donovan -- "Gazing at all the church and chapel going" : social views of religious nonconformity in Dickens' fiction / Lydia Craig -- Needful things: Dickens, social justice, and the meaning of human work / Susan Johnston -- The gospel of modernity: idolatry as the road to grace in David Copperfield and Great expectations / Marie S. …”

The Cambridge introduction to Victorian poetry / by Hughes, Linda K.

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Heaven on Earth : reimagining time and eternity in nineteenth-century British evangelicalism / by Spence, Martin, 1980-

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Racial migrations : New York City and the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean / by Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse, 1971-

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Uneasy allies : working for labor reform in nineteenth-century Boston / by Zonderman, David A.

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