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The Americas

paperback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360414
ISBN
9780822360414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Editor(s): Shohov, Serge P. Num Pages: 126 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590339930
ISBN
9781590339930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.28
€ 88.36

Hardcover. Num Pages: 261 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNLC; JNMT; JNU; YQM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 187 x 22. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611227840
ISBN
9781611227840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.98
€ 95.53

Paperback. Combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. Num Pages: 696 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC8; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993867
ISBN
9780295993867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Presents an intimate look at the typical but often misunderstood practice of adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada discuss this issue by focusing on the cases of such prominent earlier scholars as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas. Editor(s): Kan, Sergei A. Num Pages: 270 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Nebraska
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803277977
ISBN
9780803277977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.52

Paperback. Translator(s): Summ, G. Harvey. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268026134
ISBN
9780268026134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. No other country in the world evokes such contrasting sentiments as the United States of America. This is not new, but it has become particularly virulent in recent years. The reason is simple: after the end of the cold war America has remained the only super power in the world. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642512
ISBN
9780745642512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.08

Hardback. No other country in the world evokes such contrasting sentiments as the United States of America. This is not new, but it has become particularly virulent in recent years. The reason is simple: after the end of the cold war America has remained the only super power in the world. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642505
ISBN
9780745642505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Paperback. Translator(s): Parker-Stainback, Michael. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFE; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 114 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584351108
ISBN
9781584351108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.71

Paperback. Sergio Ramirez was Vice President of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990. This title covers the turbulent years that toppled the Samoza dictatorship in 1979 and the triumphs and shortcomings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that was charged with national reconstruction and social transformation in this country and region. Translator(s): Skar, Stacey Alba D. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLCM; BG; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350873
ISBN
9780822350873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Explores the changing forms of colonial domination and peasant politics in the Andean highlands from the 1740s (the starting point of large political and economic transformations) through the early 1780s, when a massive insurrection of the highland communities shook the foundations of Spanish rule. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331469
ISBN
9780822331469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.79

Hardback. "Sergo Mikoyan, who died in 2010, was a historian specializing in Latin America and in Soviet-Latin American relations. Svetlana Savranskaya is a research fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University." Editor(s): Savranskaya, Svetlana. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 616 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 975.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762014
ISBN
9780804762014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.16

Paperback. Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements. Editor(s): Sernett, Milton C. Series: C.Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Second
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324492
ISBN
9780822324492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

hardcover. On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087379
ISBN
9780802087379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.88

paperback. This title emhasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814726815
ISBN
9780814726815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Paperback. A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12 maps and charts. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393338515
ISBN
9780393338515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Argues that American cultural conceptions of religion and race during the 1950s played a crucial role in framing an ideology through which U.S. policymakers understood their options in Vietnam. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBWS2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334408
ISBN
9780822334408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6, 5 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801445477
ISBN
9780801445477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.85

Hardcover. "A child is a man in small letter," wrote Bishop John Earle in the seventeenth century. "His father hath writ him as his own little story." In this title, the writer acknowledges the author of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014418
ISBN
9780226014418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Why do anti-party reforms, from campaign finance reform to nonpartisan legislatures, tend to fail? The Inevitable Party looks at the structure and behavior of parties to understand why they are so resilient, and examines how various attempts to undermine them just end up hurting democracy. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPL; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 285.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190220846
ISBN
9780190220846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.78

Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754194
ISBN
9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; RBC; RBG; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151382
ISBN
9780231151382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PD; RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151399
ISBN
9780231151399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.43

Hardcover. Editor(s): Sethi, Rajat. Num Pages: 371 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 874.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624177354
ISBN
9781624177354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 300.96
€ 204.63

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