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Paperback. Twentieth century Los Angeles has been the focus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between distinct cultures in U.S. history. In this pioneering study, Sanchez explores how Mexican immigrants "Americanized" themselves in order to fit in, thereby losing part of their own culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, 30 halftones & line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195096484
- ISBN
- 9780195096484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.35
€ 35.35
Paperback. Presenting an examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book investigates love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early-mid-twentieth century. It focuses on same-sex love, love marriage, and maternal love. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761987
- ISBN
- 9780804761987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Hardback. Drawing on popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories, this book examines how notions of femininity and womanhood were reshaped in Denmark, a small, largely agrarian country that remained neutral during the war. It explores changes in the female body and personality and the redefinition of female respectability. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049274
- ISBN
- 9780691049274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.84€ 77.85
€ 99.84
€ 77.85
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27, 18 black & white halftones, 3 tables, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452314
- ISBN
- 9780801452314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458172
- ISBN
- 9781349458172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321930
- ISBN
- 9781137321930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. This title shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. Num Pages: 305 pages, 25 images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520290549
- ISBN
- 9780520290549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Hardback. Reveals the ways in which many Minsk Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s Series: The Modern Jewish Experience. Num Pages: 292 pages, 14 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUB; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR1; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253008138
- ISBN
- 9780253008138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.24
€ 86.24
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253008220
- ISBN
- 9780253008220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
Hardback. This book discusses government and private sector roles in American economy. Focusing on the mobilization of American economy against the threat of Axis ascendancy in Word War II, Carew places the mobilization in its political - economic context and evaluates its performance in terms of prevailing military and political realities. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761846680
- ISBN
- 9780761846680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.59
€ 139.59
Paperback. A colorful history of Chicago journalism in the nineteenth century Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252077852
- ISBN
- 9780252077852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Paperback. Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 352 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815634676
- ISBN
- 9780815634676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.88
€ 34.88
Hardcover. Provides a better understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective in the field that stresses the social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations that occurred during the leadership of Mustafa Kemal. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633174
- ISBN
- 9780815633174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.55
€ 53.55
Paperback. Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? Editor(s): Mangcu, Xolela. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868145324
- ISBN
- 9781868145324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 color illus. 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140315
- ISBN
- 9780691140315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.60€ 51.49
€ 64.60
€ 51.49
Hardcover. Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE. Editor(s): Wright, Charles. Series: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ABA; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089647146
- ISBN
- 9789089647146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.59
€ 148.59
Hardback. This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Editor(s): Wright, Charles. Series: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789462981324
- ISBN
- 9789462981324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.59
€ 148.59
Paperback. An informative and entertaining study of London's lunatic fringe, and how we have dealt with the mad among us from pre-history to the present day. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; JKSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847390004
- ISBN
- 9781847390004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.71
€ 14.99
€ 10.71
Hardcover. Over the years, the US has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. This book features images that depict the bedrooms of forty fallen soldiers - the equivalent of a single platoon - from the US, Canada, and several European nations. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 duotones. BIC Classification: AJCR; HBWS4; HBWS5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 90 x 18. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226066868
- ISBN
- 9780226066868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.70
€ 41.99
€ 32.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621901549
- ISBN
- 9781621901549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.66
€ 43.66