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paperback. The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFFE3; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774814225
ISBN
9780774814225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. Presents the story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who came to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry in the US. This book also provides an examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JPVH1; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 33. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318743
ISBN
9780822318743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.63

Paperback. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, this work shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at different levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027497
ISBN
9780674027497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.10

Paperback. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195098365
ISBN
9780195098365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 226 x 12. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780772663436
ISBN
9780772663436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.03

Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, 80 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 262 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1282.
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890136126
ISBN
9780890136126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.68

Paperback. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBT; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176161
ISBN
9780691176161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 219 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; HBTQ; MBX; MMRT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318290
ISBN
9781846318290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.82

Hardback. A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 illus. (8 colour). BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Brandeis University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781611683578
ISBN
9781611683578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.89
€ 68.15

Paperback. In the wake of World War II, the Nazi genocide of European Jews has come to stand for "the unspeakable," posing crucial challenges to the representation of suffering. This book argues against the "unspeakable" as any kind of inherent quality of such an event. It shows how, when, and why the term "unspeakable" is used. Num Pages: 278 pages, 3 b & w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTS; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925813
ISBN
9780813925813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.90

paperback. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, this title discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566392655
ISBN
9781566392655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 78 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCS; 1FP; 3J; HBJF; HBTP1; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 261 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1328.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160704
ISBN
9780231160704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.60
€ 131.06

Paperback. Filled with more than 200 stories and packed with photos, The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown is the most hilarious homage to the national pastime ever assembled, and a fitting testament to the Hall's motto: "Fame and shame are part of the game." Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WH; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762778454
ISBN
9780762778454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.39

Paperback. On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke. Num Pages: 240 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJC; BT; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809327218
ISBN
9780809327218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.59

Paperback. Examines Mexican immigration - from 1924 when immigration acts drastically reduced immigration to the US to 1965 when many quotas were abolished - to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
213
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280083
ISBN
9780520280083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.18

Hardback. Race and Ethnicity in the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993 offers the first archive-based account of the charged debates between white and ethnic minority women on the place of race in the English feminist movement. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442796
ISBN
9781137442796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.94

Paperback. Editor(s): Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJH; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297986
ISBN
9781349297986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardback. Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom, prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narratives about newly freed slaves in the Caribbean. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359753
ISBN
9780822359753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Hardback. Clayer and Bougarel's prodigiously researched book is a political and institutional history of the Muslims of south-east Europe since the fourteenth century, focusing on empires, states, political parties, and religious institutions. Editor(s): Clayer, Professor Nathalie; Bougarel, Xavier. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849046596
ISBN
9781849046596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.53
€ 53.20

Hardcover. After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation s seamen, whose labor took them deep into the Atlantic world. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal tells the story of how their efforts created the first national, racially inclusive model of U.S. citizenship." Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; HBWF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674286153
ISBN
9780674286153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Hardback. Series: Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271065557
ISBN
9780271065557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.99
€ 63.31

paperback. Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349473182
ISBN
9781349473182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Hardcover. Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJF; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137363978
ISBN
9781137363978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781510715868
ISBN
9781510715868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.80

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