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  • "Discontents" -- according to his narrative -- "were disseminated -- secret conspiracies entered into upon the frontier -- hostilities were already begun in many places, and every thing seemed to menace a revolution as rapid as that which succeeded the surrender of Charlestown."

    The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835

  • Civilization and It’s Discontents is 75 years old and being reissued by Norton.

    Did Freud Kill Character in Fiction? « So Many Books 2005

  • University of Alabama School of Law, and Rex Perschbacher, University of California, Davis School of Law, have posted The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents, which is forthcoming in volume 61 (2008) of the Oklahoma Law Review.

    Legal History Blog 2008

  • Debra Lyn Bassett, University of Alabama School of Law, and Rex Perschbacher, University of California, Davis School of Law, have posted The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents, which is forthcoming in volume 61 2008 of the Oklahoma Law Review.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Debra Lyn Bassett, University of Alabama School of Law, and Rex Perschbacher, University of California, Davis School of Law, have posted The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents, which is forthcoming in volume 61 2008 of the Oklahoma Law Review.

    Bassett and Perschbacher on the "Revolutionary" Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Dan Ernst 2008

  • Nazism also colored the previous reference to minor differences that appeared eight years earlier, in Civilization and Its Discontents.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Much of Civilization and Its Discontents considers how the aggressive urges can be tamed.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Nazism also colored the previous reference to minor differences that appeared eight years earlier, in Civilization and Its Discontents.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has written a book “Globalization and its Discontents”.

    Matthew Yglesias » Battle Lines on Banking 2010

  • Much of Civilization and Its Discontents considers how the aggressive urges can be tamed.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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