History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- and influential texts of the decade. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748619474
- ISBN
- 9780748619474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.54
€ 38.99
€ 35.54
Paperback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction (specifically newspapers and magazines), music and radio, film and theatre, serious and popular visual arts, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624133
- ISBN
- 9780748624133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.08
€ 38.99
€ 35.08
Hardback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction (specifically newspapers and magazines), music and radio, film and theatre, serious and popular visual arts, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624126
- ISBN
- 9780748624126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.40€ 114.87
€ 118.40
€ 114.87
Paperback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748622597
- ISBN
- 9780748622597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.18
€ 34.99
€ 32.18
paperback. Examines the intersection of American cultural pluralism and law. This book documents and analyzes legal challenges to the social order raised by many cultural groups, among them, Native Americans and Native Hawaiians, homeless persons, immigrants, disabled persons, and Rastafarians. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL1; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Praeger United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780275986995
- ISBN
- 9780275986995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173276
- ISBN
- 9780691173276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.23
€ 43.23
Hardcover. This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Conde and Lafcadio Hearn. Editor(s): Munro, Martin; Britton, Celia. Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KJ; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846317538
- ISBN
- 9781846317538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.63
€ 70.63
Paperback. Describes the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait. This book conveys the story of competing interests - Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian - that over the centuries shaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBJK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780142002100
- ISBN
- 9780142002100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.89
€ 23.99
€ 22.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JJG; HBTB; KNXB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646074
- ISBN
- 9780816646074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.84
€ 26.84
Paperback. Spanning nearly 500 years, this book describes the Catholic experience from the arrival of Columbus and the other European explorers to the present day. Jay P. Dolan discusses Catholicism as it spread across the New World, transforming - and being transformed by - the land and its people. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268006396
- ISBN
- 9780268006396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardcover. Takes us on a well-researched journey across America - from Augusta to Sacramento, Albany to Baton Rouge - shedding light along the way on the historical circumstances that led to their appointment, their success or failure, and their evolution over time. Series: University of Chicago Geography Research Papers S. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226080482
- ISBN
- 9780226080482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.39
€ 95.39
Paperback. Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 30 halftones. 8 tables. 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691124865
- ISBN
- 9780691124865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.82
€ 41.99
€ 30.82
Hardback. A colorful social and cultural history of the often-overlooked independent radio stations of the 1920s, which played an integral role in shaping the American broadcast system through innovative commercial practices, all the while incurring the wrath of the large corporate stations trying to fulfill radio's utopian cultural potential. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238716
- ISBN
- 9780812238716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.08
€ 61.08
Paperback. This book offers the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s looking at its origins and its theoretical foundations through an examination of literature, cinema and art. Series: Theatre Production Studies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AN; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415241397
- ISBN
- 9780415241397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.24
€ 52.24
Paperback. Visual texts demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. This book offers an account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like - or 'should' look like. Num Pages: 302 pages, 60 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJ; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691004785
- ISBN
- 9780691004785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 426 pages, 11 black & white tables, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTK; JFSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415537605
- ISBN
- 9780415537605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.48
€ 69.48
Hardback. A study of Birmingham, Alabama, and the black struggle for civil rights. It argues that Alabama's path to industrialism differed significantly from that in the North and Midwest. No other industrial city in the United States depended so much upon the exploitation of black labour. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847694808
- ISBN
- 9780847694808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.87
€ 184.87
Paperback. A study of the decade that swept America into the modern age and changed it forever, this book looks at the 1920s as framed by the aspirations, scandals, and attitudes of the Wilson, Harding, Collide and Hoover presidencies, examining how Victorian values transformed into the Jazz Age. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630333
- ISBN
- 9780815630333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.29
€ 27.29
Paperback. Traces the political and social saga of America as it passed through the momentous transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the settlement of the West. This title includes chapters that are focusing on immigration, labor, the great cities, and the American Renaissance. Num Pages: 442 pages, 50 photographs, 10 black and white drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814714959
- ISBN
- 9780814714959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.85
€ 37.99
€ 33.85
Hardcover. Shows how the issues confronted America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and "movements" on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans. This book is useful for instructors of American history survey courses. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 black-&-white photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631033
- ISBN
- 9780815631033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28