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Paperback. During the Second World War, Chinese Americans contributed to the war effort by joining the armed forces and working in the defense industries. This title traces the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated outfit of Chinese Americans sent to China in support of the American Army Air Corps and the Chinese Air Force. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592138401
- ISBN
- 9781592138401
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. Writing over three decades and featuring many essays that have not been in wide circulation, the author draws from political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to provide a configurative analysis of and long-term approach to the cultural diversity in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 376 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592138326
- ISBN
- 9781592138326
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.63
€ 34.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Offering an introduction to and an overview of postwar social science in the United States, this title explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology's professional identity. It contends that from the late 1940s through the early 1960s leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137145
- ISBN
- 9781592137145
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.53
€ 35.99
€ 32.53
Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592136988
- ISBN
- 9781592136988
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.76
€ 37.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJPN; BM; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136162
- ISBN
- 9781592136162
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.15
€ 31.99
€ 28.15
Paperback. This is a reexamination of John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JNA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592135929
- ISBN
- 9781592135929
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardcover. Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, this title focuses on Chinese labourers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba. This title presents an examination of writings by Chinese coolies that raises theoretical and methodological questions regarding freedom, race, diaspora, trans-nationalism, and globalization. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 tables, 2 illustrations, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592135813
- ISBN
- 9781592135813
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Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58
paperback. Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. This work shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to US culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Revised, Expanded ed.
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592134946
- ISBN
- 9781592134946
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.59
€ 37.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were "comic masterpieces of the legislator's art") sprang up to combat it. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBT; WBXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592132690
- ISBN
- 9781592132690
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.63
€ 37.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. When the locals and the rest of the world say 'New York', they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. This title tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy; Benson, Susan Porter; Brier, Stephen; Rozenweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 73 b&w illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMVD; HBJK; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 17. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592132355
- ISBN
- 9781592132355
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 47.99
€ 53.99
€ 47.99
Paperback. Presents the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. This volume comments on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." It argues eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; HBJK; HBLX; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781592132034
- ISBN
- 9781592132034
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.35
€ 33.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JHBL; JPFF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592131976
- ISBN
- 9781592131976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.64
€ 35.99
€ 32.64
Paperback. The Manhattan Project was a sprawling research and industrial enterprise. It also included women in every capacity. Although women participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, their contributions are either omitted or only mentioned briefly in most histories of the project. This title presents this hidden story. Series: Labor & Social Change. Num Pages: 264 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBT; JFSJ1; JWMN; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131921
- ISBN
- 9781592131921
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.36
€ 35.99
€ 32.36
Paperback. Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others. Editor(s): Hamilton, Paula; Shopes, Linda. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131419
- ISBN
- 9781592131419
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.90
€ 41.99
€ 36.90
Paperback. Tells the story of immigrants labour struggles, examining how unions can learn from their example, and explaining their activism in the face of terrific odds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592130412
- ISBN
- 9781592130412
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.45
€ 34.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781584659686
- ISBN
- 9781584659686
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.14
€ 37.99
€ 29.14
Hardcover. A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America Num Pages: 436 pages, 105 illus. BIC Classification: GBCT; HBJK; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781584659648
- ISBN
- 9781584659648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.83€ 115.84
€ 141.83
€ 115.84
Paperback. A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city Num Pages: 328 pages, 46 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584659228
- ISBN
- 9781584659228
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.01
€ 42.99
€ 33.01
Paperback. A history of the complex relationship between a school and a people Num Pages: 280 pages, 28 illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584658443
- ISBN
- 9781584658443
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.56
€ 32.99
€ 25.56
Hardback. A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations Num Pages: 340 pages, 70 illus. (10 colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657682
- ISBN
- 9781584657682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.48
€ 52.99
€ 40.48