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Paperback. This collection situates over seventy essential primary documents in their historical context to illustrate the American experience during the interwar period (1919-1941). Editor(s): Welky, David. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444338973
ISBN
9781444338973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Paperback. 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 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631286
ISBN
9780815631286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.87

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

€ 62.91

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
€ 33.91

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

€ 27.13

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

€ 182.80

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

€ 70.00

Paperback. This work examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US, from the origins of the movement in the 18th century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Within a basic chronological framework it also considers black abolitionists, feminism, and anti-slavery violence. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, chronology, glossary, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 175 x 12. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582357389
ISBN
9780582357389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 41.04

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

€ 52.99
€ 37.69

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

€ 60.68

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

€ 43.99
€ 30.78

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

€ 71.30
€ 60.06

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
€ 30.61

Paperback. Tom Kemp's new book, The American Census Handbook, is the first general guide to the thousands of published census indexes currently available in print and online and is sure to be used by beginning and experienced genealogists alike. Num Pages: 517 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTG; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 215 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
517
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842029254
ISBN
9780842029254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.57

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

€ 19.99
€ 19.81

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
€ 16.53

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

€ 70.45

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

€ 37.99
€ 27.51

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

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

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

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

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