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The Americas
Hardcover. Part of the three volumes on South Carolina women, this title spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era. It features the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women. It contains essays on plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from the upcountry and slave women. Editor(s): Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA); Littlefield, Valinda W.; Johnson, Joan Marie. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Volume 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329352
- ISBN
- 9780820329352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.49
€ 154.49
South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 2 (Southern Women:...
Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefie...
Hardcover. A collection of essays that offers insights into various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminates the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. Editor(s): Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA); Littlefield, Valinda W.; Johnson, Joan Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 colour & 20 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329376
- ISBN
- 9780820329376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.93
€ 154.93
Hardcover. Explores Toni Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the "axes" on which these relationships turn. This book considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a racist culture of competition, and fixed ideals about physical beauty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329451
- ISBN
- 9780820329451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.99
€ 60.99
Hardcover. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329468
- ISBN
- 9780820329468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.23
€ 155.23
Paperback. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329475
- ISBN
- 9780820329475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.12
€ 45.12
Paperback. People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? This work questions widely held assumptions about our built environments. Num Pages: 248 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329895
- ISBN
- 9780820329895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.89
€ 39.89
Paperback. A biography of Ellison that focuses on the author's early life. Containing photographs, it draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison's relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the writer's path from poverty in dust bowl Oklahoma to his rise among the literary elite. Num Pages: 544 pages, 21 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329932
- ISBN
- 9780820329932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.52
€ 48.52
Hardcover. Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330051
- ISBN
- 9780820330051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.52
€ 60.52
Paperback. For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330594
- ISBN
- 9780820330594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.19
€ 36.19
Paperback. Reveals affinities between antebellum southern and modern American capitalist psychology. This book identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820331126
- ISBN
- 9780820331126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Paperback. The Leo Frank case of 1913 was one of the most sensational trials of the early twentieth century, capturing international attention. This title examines the feature films and television programs produced in response to the trial and lynching of Leo Frank. Num Pages: 400 pages, 120 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; APF; APT; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332390
- ISBN
- 9780820332390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.12
€ 45.12
Paperback. Looks at the legal and cultural implications of bequests that crossed the color line. This book examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. Series: Studies in the Legal History of the South. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3; LNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332512
- ISBN
- 9780820332512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.25
€ 39.25
Paperback. Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation's dawning environmental consciousness, this book demonstrates that they instead alienated Americans from the physical environment even as they seemed to draw people to it. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 colour & 9 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JHMC; WN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332901
- ISBN
- 9780820332901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.67
€ 44.67
Paperback. Drawing on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including aesthetics, anthropology, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, "Shades of Green" demonstrates the agility with which human thought about the natural and the racial leapt across formal epistemological, professional, and artistic boundaries. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820337807
- ISBN
- 9780820337807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.82
€ 44.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; HBTB; JFSL3; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820340647
- ISBN
- 9780820340647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.94
€ 43.94
Paperback. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped--and were shaped by--the landscape itself. "They Saved the Crops" is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Num Pages: 576 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JPQB; KNXB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820341767
- ISBN
- 9780820341767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.05
€ 51.05
Hardcover. Series: Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820342122
- ISBN
- 9780820342122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.57
€ 139.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820343426
- ISBN
- 9780820343426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.96
€ 38.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSL; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820344546
- ISBN
- 9780820344546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820344980
- ISBN
- 9780820344980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.51
€ 36.99
€ 33.51