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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": war's end, activism's beginning -- "All de land belongs to de yankees now": the Freedmen's Bureau -- "The Lord has sent us books and teachers": missionaries and community formation -- "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies": black codes and black conventions -- "Andrew Johnson is but one man": the Progressive Alliance coalesces -- "We knows that much better than you do": voting rights and political service -- "An absolute massacre": white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South -- "We shall be recognized as men": the Reconstruction Era in memory -- Epilogue: the spirit of freedom monument…”

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“…This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. …”

“…Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of Late Antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality - the One - which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped in thought. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Land of Necessity -- PART I HISTORIES OF NATIONS, CONSUMERS, AND BORDERLANDS -- Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940 -- Disrupting Boundaries: Consumer Capitalism and Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940-2008 -- PART II NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS OF CONSUMPTION -- Domesticating the Border: Manifest Destiny and the ''Comforts of Life'' in the U.S.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Yields on U.S. Financial Investments Take Off -- Priorities Shift to Raising Returns on Financial Assets -- Americans Raise Their Aspirations -- The New Mechanism for Creating Wealth in the United States -- An Upper Limit to the Financial Wealth-Creation Process in the United States? …”