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Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139845
- ISBN
- 9780691139845
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.48
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Hardback. Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts. This book suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140056
- ISBN
- 9780691140056
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.14
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Hardback. A work on the wartime letters of Dr Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. Editor(s): Jarausch, Konrad H. Num Pages: 408 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 154 x 39. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140421
- ISBN
- 9780691140421
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.00
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€ 42.00
Paperback. In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 26 halftones. 6 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBS; HBJ; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140940
- ISBN
- 9780691140940
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.89
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Paperback. Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, this work shows how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire. It focuses on issues such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140957
- ISBN
- 9780691140957
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
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Paperback. Investigates the role of civic associations in promoting democratic attitudes and behavioral patterns in contexts that are less than democratic. This work argues that, in state-centralized environments, associations can just as easily promote civic qualities vital to authoritarian citizenship - such as support for the regime in power. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPHV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140995
- ISBN
- 9780691140995
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Paperback. Provides an examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. This work shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. It argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPSH; JPWL2; JWKF; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141039
- ISBN
- 9780691141039
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.87
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Paperback. Demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. This title challenges the notion of a rupture between premodern and modern societies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141107
- ISBN
- 9780691141107
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.87
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Paperback. Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, this book features a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. It positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s. Num Pages: 408 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141862
- ISBN
- 9780691141862
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Hardback. Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies. This title argues that political emancipation and the defense of political liberty have always required the self-sacrifice of people with religious sentiments and a religious devotion to liberty. It shows that when this has been corrupted or suffocated, Italians have lost their liberty. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HRAM2; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142357
- ISBN
- 9780691142357
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.00
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Paperback. Focuses on Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. This book argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of sovereignty emerged in Americas as a response to European imperial crises in the age of revolutions. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DS; 1KL; HBJD; HBJK; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142777
- ISBN
- 9780691142777
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.67
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Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a brand of men and women moved to New York City. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. This book tells the story of most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom. Num Pages: 432 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142838
- ISBN
- 9780691142838
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.48
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Hardback. "The papers published in this volume resulted from a conference on early Greek hoplite warfare held at Yale University in April 2008." Editor(s): Kagan, Donald M.; Viggiano, Gregory F. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 tables. 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143019
- ISBN
- 9780691143019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.04€ 44.74
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Hardback. Helps to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China. This title distills the author's reflections on modern China and details change in Chinese historical studies in the 20th century. It assesses the work of historians prior to 1950 and the domination of China by the Communist Chinese. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 halftones. 22 color illus. 3 color maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144634
- ISBN
- 9780691144634
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. A work on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism. It includes essays that seek to illuminate some of the significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war. Editor(s): Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 halftones, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145068
- ISBN
- 9780691145068
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
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Hardback. Offers an account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. This title presents how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145211
- ISBN
- 9780691145211
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Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.63
€ 65.36
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Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 269 x 256 x 32. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145334
- ISBN
- 9780691145334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. This title shows that religion became sectarian and partisan whenever it entered the political fray, and that religious agendas have always mixed with nonreligious ones. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HRAM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146133
- ISBN
- 9780691146133
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.68
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Paperback. Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. This work highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146188
- ISBN
- 9780691146188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.28
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€ 42.28
Paperback. What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? This title examines the role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146621
- ISBN
- 9780691146621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.94
€ 43.99
€ 30.94