The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. This book focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors. Num Pages: 142 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 185.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803272699
- ISBN
- 9780803272699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.16
€ 15.16
Paperback. The M1 Garand gave the US infantryman a marked edge during World War II. It shot faster and further than enemy infantry rifles and hit harder. No less an authority on killing the enemy than General George S Patton called the Garand, The greatest battle implement ever devised. This book deals with this rifle. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter; Gilliland, Alan. Series: Weapon. Num Pages: 80 pages, 40 b/w; 15 col. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 186 x 7. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849086219
- ISBN
- 9781849086219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63
paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH; LNDC; VSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 114 x 23. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781632206190
- ISBN
- 9781632206190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages, illustrations (some colour). BIC Classification: 1KLC; RNKH; WNC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 220 x 28. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Publisher
- Interlink Publishing Group, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 414
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566565295
- ISBN
- 9781566565295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.98
€ 30.99
€ 27.98
Paperback. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFSC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press North Carolina
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322887
- ISBN
- 9780822322887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.22
€ 31.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. This book examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among the California Indian tribes. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342335
- ISBN
- 9780822342335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. Probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. This book considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBZ; JHMC; MNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138383
- ISBN
- 9780231138383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.62€ 71.25
€ 94.62
€ 71.25
Paperback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360605
- ISBN
- 9780822360605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.22
€ 31.99
€ 30.22
Hardback. Focusing on an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, Gill examines the ways in which neoliberal policies reorder social relations among poor men and women-and between them and the state. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JFSC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118040
- ISBN
- 9780231118040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.27€ 88.98
€ 118.27
€ 88.98
Hardback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360292
- ISBN
- 9780822360292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.67
€ 123.67
Paperback. Brings fresh perspectives on the works of celebrated modernists Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, illuminating some of the artistic and cultural parallels and common themes between American and Australian modernism while exploring each artist's unique contribution to international developments of modernism. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; 3JJ; ACXD2; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Publisher
- Art Gallery New South Wales
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781921330537
- ISBN
- 9781921330537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.27
€ 45.99
€ 40.27
Hardback. Covers an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 tables, 5 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758239
- ISBN
- 9780804758239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.96
€ 74.96
Hardback. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017581
- ISBN
- 9780253017581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.05
€ 92.05
paperback. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017871
- ISBN
- 9780253017871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142523
- ISBN
- 9781897142523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.97
€ 18.99
€ 13.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 303 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801474422
- ISBN
- 9780801474422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.76
€ 37.99
€ 33.76
Hardcover. The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 262 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DSBH5; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319747
- ISBN
- 9781846319747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.40
€ 140.40
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498526500
- ISBN
- 9781498526500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.25€ 15.38
€ 92.25
€ 15.38
Hardcover. Analyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814791325
- ISBN
- 9780814791325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.19
€ 97.19
Paperback. Analyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814791332
- ISBN
- 9780814791332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63