Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Hardback. In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Num Pages: 280 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360575
- ISBN
- 9780822360575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Hardback. In Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; CFP; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360582
- ISBN
- 9780822360582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Paperback. In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360674
- ISBN
- 9780822360674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.27
€ 37.99
€ 34.27
Hardback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360766
- ISBN
- 9780822360766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.54
€ 150.54
Hardback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360773
- ISBN
- 9780822360773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Hardback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822360803
- ISBN
- 9780822360803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.86
€ 123.86
Hardback. Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the history of Latin American studies by tracing its roots back to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how its ties to U.S. business and foreign policy interests helped build an informal empire that supported U.S. economic, technological, and cultural hegemony throughout the hemisphere. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLS; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360810
- ISBN
- 9780822360810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360872
- ISBN
- 9780822360872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360919
- ISBN
- 9780822360919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; HBJK; JHMC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361022
- ISBN
- 9780822361022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.67
€ 42.99
€ 37.67
Hardback. In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361046
- ISBN
- 9780822361046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardback. The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography recover the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination by focusing on the importance of humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion to Dalit emancipatory politics. Editor(s): Rawat, Ramnarayan S.; Satyanarayana, K. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361138
- ISBN
- 9780822361138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardback. The contributors to New Countries examine how eight newly independent nations in the Western Hemisphere between 1750 and 1870 played fundamental roles in the global transformation from commercial to industrial capitalism. Editor(s): Tutino, John. Num Pages: 408 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLW; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361145
- ISBN
- 9780822361145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Paperback. In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present. Num Pages: 264 pages, 87 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APFA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361305
- ISBN
- 9780822361305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361343
- ISBN
- 9780822361343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardback. In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current problems of uneven economic development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JPA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361411
- ISBN
- 9780822361411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Hardback. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 312 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361435
- ISBN
- 9780822361435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 331 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JHMC; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361503
- ISBN
- 9780822361503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Hardback. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatan, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361510
- ISBN
- 9780822361510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatan, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361701
- ISBN
- 9780822361701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.08
€ 37.99
€ 34.08
Hardback. Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; APT; HBJF; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361886
- ISBN
- 9780822361886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback. Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; APT; HBJF; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362043
- ISBN
- 9780822362043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardback. In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBTB; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362067
- ISBN
- 9780822362067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
Hardback. Containing over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship-most published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multi-layered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. Editor(s): Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann; Palacios, Marco; Gomez Lopez, Ana Maria. Series: The Latin America Readers. Num Pages: 648 pages, 103 illustrations (incl. 8 page color insert). BIC Classification: 1KLSC; HBJK; HBTB; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362074
- ISBN
- 9780822362074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.30
€ 139.30