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Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354741
ISBN
9780822354741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of postcolonial temporality. David Scott argues that the palpable sense of the present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about justice and the nature of political action. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356066
ISBN
9780822356066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.96

Hardback. In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state. Editor(s): Gillingham, Paul; Smith, Benjamin T. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 464 pages, 6 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356318
ISBN
9780822356318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Paperback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356783
ISBN
9780822356783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. Presents a theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356905
ISBN
9780822356905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVGR; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822358855
ISBN
9780822358855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Exploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 256 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359661
ISBN
9780822359661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Hardback. In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DD; HBJD1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360599
ISBN
9780822360599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.26

Paperback. 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: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360735
ISBN
9780822360735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. David H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology. Num Pages: 488 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361060
ISBN
9780822361060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Paperback. Nation Within is the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai?i in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. Highlighting the native Hawaiians' resistance during that five year span, Tom Coffman shows why occupying Hawai?i was crucial to American imperial ambitions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 68 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361978
ISBN
9780822361978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular musicians in the transnational context to show how their engagement with foreign genres, ideologies, and audiences helped them create innovative new music and shape new Argentine cultural and national identities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AVGW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362364
ISBN
9780822362364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors who were literally killed by the job-the plot of a Broadway show or a dime-store novel? No, the unique and colorful history of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Series: Empire State Editions. Num Pages: 366 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; AVGD; HBJK; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231881
ISBN
9780823231881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end. Editor(s): Cimbala, Paul A. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232031
ISBN
9780823232031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. After situating sanctuary law within early Christian and late Roman traditions, this book explores a range sources, with special attention to the early English common law, and concludes by examining the legal arguments that led to the abolition of sanctuary privileges and ushered in state-centered age of criminal deterrence and social control. Series: Just Ideas. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232680
ISBN
9780823232680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.02

Hardback. Despite a wealth of books on campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined operations has been largely neglected. This book offers ten case studies of combined Army-Navy operations by Union forces. It is presented in chronological order, each essay illuminates an aspect of combined operations during a time of changing technology. Editor(s): Symonds, Craig L. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232864
ISBN
9780823232864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Paperback. The book examines the role that theoretical thinking and intellectual discussion played in preparing the downfall of communism. Drawing on the impact of various 20th century thinkers it revisits debates on the end of history, utopia, and man, as well as controversies over gender and the political implications of theory. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823243006
ISBN
9780823243006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. A groundbreaking account of the two largest autonomous women's associations in Italy during the early Cold War-the UDI and the CIF-and how they developed an active Italian and global agenda for the advancement of women's rights. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBTW; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245604
ISBN
9780823245604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.11

Hardback. Nine essays which examine constitutional issues at different points in American political history to explain how the constitutional issues resulting in the Civil War were central to politics for a long time before and after the actual conflict. Treats the period from the 1780s through the 1920s. Editor(s): Moreno, Paul D. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251940
ISBN
9780823251940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.49

Hardback. The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Series: Empire State Editions. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; GTB; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256532
ISBN
9780823256532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This con Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KJ; HBJF; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267392
ISBN
9780823267392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823268160
ISBN
9780823268160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851155906
ISBN
9780851155906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardcover. Presents studies of Britain in transition from Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy. Editor(s): Dark, K. R. Series: Studies in Celtic History. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3D; 3F; HBJD1; HBLA; HBLC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851156552
ISBN
9780851156552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

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