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Paperback. Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327486
- ISBN
- 9780822327486
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€ 27.05
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Paperback. An analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico. Num Pages: 376 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 17 tables, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSG; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327479
- ISBN
- 9780822327479
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Paperback. The first study to focus on how popular representations of the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II affected the formation of Cold War culture Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5995 x 3734 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327462
- ISBN
- 9780822327462
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€ 28.15
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Paperback. Representing a wave of legal history that has emerged in recent years, this title presents essays about the relationship between ordinary people and the law. It is suitable for scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social and cultural history of law. Editor(s): Salvatore, Ricardo Donato; Aguirre, Carlos A.; Joseph, Gilbert M. Num Pages: 480 pages, 11 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 717.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327448
- ISBN
- 9780822327448
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Paperback. Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism. Translator(s): Maclean, Heather. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326434
- ISBN
- 9780822326434
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€ 29.99€ 29.23
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Paperback. Examines the role played by women's bodies - specifically the bodies of wives - in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. This title reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3F; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326427
- ISBN
- 9780822326427
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€ 33.99€ 30.33
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Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
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€ 28.15
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paperback. Describing the life and ideas of the founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), this work is a biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, an important and influential figure of the post-1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; BGH; HBTV; JPF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325956
- ISBN
- 9780822325956
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€ 29.99€ 29.12
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Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325680
- ISBN
- 9780822325680
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Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325628
- ISBN
- 9780822325628
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€ 32.99€ 31.27
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Paperback. Investigates the politics of ethnic identity in post-socialist China. By combining innovative research with fieldwork conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s in south-central and southwestern China, the author provides a detailed ethnography of the region's Yao population in order to question how minority groups are represented in China. Num Pages: 360 pages, 21 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325499
- ISBN
- 9780822325499
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Paperback. Since Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This book examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324935
- ISBN
- 9780822324935
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paperback. Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324904
- ISBN
- 9780822324904
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Paperback. A comparative study of state formation in 19th-century Latin America that examines the different social and political paths that have led to democracy or military rule. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 photographs, 11 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324744
- ISBN
- 9780822324744
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Paperback. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324140
- ISBN
- 9780822324140
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Paperback. Explores the changing meanings of honour in early-20th-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This title reveals how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323983
- ISBN
- 9780822323983
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Paperback. Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323969
- ISBN
- 9780822323969
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Paperback. Presents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood", and more, this book demonstrates that these films were more than simply 'bad' movies. It shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Num Pages: 488 pages, 59 b&w photographs, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 796.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323747
- ISBN
- 9780822323747
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€ 34.99€ 33.59
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Paperback. Traces the experiences of three small French towns during the troubled months of the Provisional Government following the Liberation in 1944. This title reveals how citizens of these towns expected legal, and honorary justice - such as punishment for collaborators, fair food distribution, and formal commemoration of patriots, both living and dead. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 b&w photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323730
- ISBN
- 9780822323730
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323495
- ISBN
- 9780822323495
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€ 34.99€ 31.54
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Paperback. Examining the links between the concept of criminality and scandal, rumour, fear, and the state, this book analyses daily life in Jakarta through the seemingly disparate and strongly connected elements of family life, gossip, and sensationalist journalism. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JKV; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322412
- ISBN
- 9780822322412
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€ 27.05
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Paperback. Demonstrates how caution, confusion, and conflicting goals marked US relations with Trujillo and set the tone for the ambivalent Cold War relations that prevailed until Trujillo's assassination in 1961. This title is for suitable Latin Americanists, historians, political scientists, and specialists in international relations and diplomacy. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JPA; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822321231
- ISBN
- 9780822321231
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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paperback. Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists. Editor(s): French, John D.; James, Daniel. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319962
- ISBN
- 9780822319962
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€ 31.99€ 30.33
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Paperback. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBAH; HBJK; JFC; JFHF; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319726
- ISBN
- 9780822319726
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.23
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