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Hardcover. Freedom's Dawn is the first book devoted exclusively to John Brown during the six weeks between his arrest and execution. Louis A. DeCaro traces Brown's evolution from prisoner to convicted felon, to a prophetic figure, and then martyr, finally examining the rise of his legacy. Num Pages: 476 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442236721
- ISBN
- 9781442236721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.51
€ 83.51
Paperback. Offering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; HRCC2; HRCC9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858141
- ISBN
- 9780807858141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.00
€ 43.00
Hardcover. In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. This book tells the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226135908
- ISBN
- 9780226135908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.39€ 47.29
€ 55.39
€ 47.29
Paperback. Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351054
- ISBN
- 9780822351054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. Series: Historical Tours. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBE; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 19.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- GPP Travel United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780762757411
- ISBN
- 9780762757411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.16
€ 17.99
€ 15.16
In the postwar era, producers and consumers of cinema began to demand more freedom to make and view movies that accurately portrayed the complexities of real life. This work details the battles, fought largely in New York City, to secure "freedom of the screen" for film audiences. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124292
- ISBN
- 9780813124292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.83
€ 39.83
Hardback. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression. Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415208
- ISBN
- 9781421415208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.83
€ 50.99
€ 42.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195064728
- ISBN
- 9780195064728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.94
€ 25.94
Paperback. For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This title illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062054
- ISBN
- 9780674062054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.50
€ 34.99
€ 29.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 50 b/w Illus, Two-color Interior. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC8; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 280 x 11. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556527739
- ISBN
- 9781556527739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.72
€ 20.99
€ 20.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 black and white halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- Abridged
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199754311
- ISBN
- 9780199754311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.57
€ 20.99
€ 20.57
Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.47
€ 27.99
€ 24.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674018556
- ISBN
- 9780674018556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.74
€ 36.99
€ 31.74
Paperback. Winner of the Lincoln Prize. "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective."-David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Num Pages: 640 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393347753
- ISBN
- 9780393347753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.41
€ 19.99
€ 18.41
Hardcover. A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery. Num Pages: 596 pages, 8 pages illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393065312
- ISBN
- 9780393065312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.56
€ 32.99
€ 27.56
Paperback. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, this work shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at different levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027497
- ISBN
- 9780674027497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.74
€ 36.99
€ 31.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPHV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226674490
- ISBN
- 9780226674490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.42
€ 40.99
€ 31.42
Paperback. Andrews examines the civil rights struggle in Mississippi, where resistance to racial integration proved to be the strongest in the US. His study covers the activities of black activists and of white supremacists, and considers how the anti-integration campaign continued after the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBJK; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226020433
- ISBN
- 9780226020433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 40.99
€ 31.48
Hardcover. Presenting Harold Weston's account of his intimate relationship with the wilderness, this title combines an informal history of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve with his own experiences there as a painter and woodsman. It includes Weston's letters and Journal entries, along with illustrations, and explanatory notes. Editor(s): Foster, Rebecca. Num Pages: 272 pages, 68 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AGB; BGA; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608998
- ISBN
- 9780815608998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.76
€ 22.76
paperback. This engaging and accessible text helps students to fully understand the idea of power, and looks at key thinkers such as Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and Tocqueville. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- CQ Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608718443
- ISBN
- 9781608718443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.12
€ 90.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933092
- ISBN
- 9780813933092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.15
€ 71.15
Paperback. Series: Culture and Economic Life. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSA; JFD; JFSC; VSB; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781503600256
- ISBN
- 9781503600256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
hardcover. Series: Culture and Economic Life. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSA; JFD; JFSC; VSB; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804798266
- ISBN
- 9780804798266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.10
€ 117.10
Paperback. Deftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the ways in which Americans reconceptualized the place of the consumer in society and the implications of these shifting attitudes for the philosophy ofliberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFT; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883910
- ISBN
- 9780801883910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72