The Americas
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The Americas
Hardback. Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s, presenting the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutal doggedness of the slavehunters, and the tortuous response of the federal courts. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 32. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674047044
- ISBN
- 9780674047044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816644544
- ISBN
- 9780816644544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.22
€ 30.99
€ 30.22
Hardback. For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians. This text aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3J; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733960
- ISBN
- 9780804733960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.01
€ 99.01
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. The author describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803295506
- ISBN
- 9780803295506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.60
€ 27.99
€ 26.60
Hardback. This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Series Editor(s): Bhambra, Gurminder K. Series: Theory for a Global Age. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWV; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526113740
- ISBN
- 9781526113740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.78
€ 154.78
paperback. Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. This text follows the black community as it moved from alienation and vulnerability in the 1820s toward collective consciousness and, eventually, political self-respect and self-determination. Series: Law Society & Politics in the Midwest. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JH; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821415801
- ISBN
- 9780821415801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.37
€ 44.37
Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores the self-expression of travel writers like Isabella Bird by giving geographic context to their work. It examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 black-&-white illustrations, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631675
- ISBN
- 9780815631675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.42
€ 45.42
Hardback. "Combines perfectly precise analysis with a literary form of expression, clearness of thought and language."-Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HPCF; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823213023
- ISBN
- 9780823213023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.60
€ 99.60
Hardcover. Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226096704
- ISBN
- 9780226096704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.71
€ 54.99
€ 42.71
Paperback. Offers answers to those curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (of "Into the Wild") and John Muir to Alaska. This book argues that the frontier narrative enables Americans - born or immigrant - to live deliberately, to gather courage, and to take risks, face danger, and seize freedom rather than fear it. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602231894
- ISBN
- 9781602231894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.91
€ 26.91
Hardback. Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia known locally as the trampoline of death to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781119100171
- ISBN
- 9781119100171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.50
€ 79.50
Paperback. Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia known locally as the trampoline of death to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119100188
- ISBN
- 9781119100188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.60
€ 28.60
Paperback. Chronicles the first four decades of Mahattan, Kansas, as it grew from tent to town. Captures the origins and early life of this quintessential Kansas city in an engaging and informative history. Num Pages: 284 pages, 45 Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700621408
- ISBN
- 9780700621408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.18
€ 44.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HDD; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061337
- ISBN
- 9780813061337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.56
€ 29.56
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647951
- ISBN
- 9780691647951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.05
€ 236.05
Hardback. This book is a study of the development of Brazil's far western frontier during the years of the Empire (1822-1889). Num Pages: 312 pages, 22 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751797
- ISBN
- 9780804751797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.97
€ 111.97
Paperback. At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest date to the Dakota uprising of 1862. Some were vast compounds housing hundreds of soldiers; others consisted of a few sheds built by a trader along a riverbank. Editor(s): Whittaker, William E. Series: A Bur Oak Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 colour illustrations, 25 b&w photos, 10 drawings, 41 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ of Iowa Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587298318
- ISBN
- 9781587298318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.34
€ 37.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 127 photos & 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 215 x 5. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888395986
- ISBN
- 9780888395986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.45
€ 24.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, this title addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 470 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 84 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267787
- ISBN
- 9780520267787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.30
€ 41.99
€ 30.30
Paperback. Written by lawyer turned bestselling author Garrett Wilson, "Frontier Farewell" unravels the gruesome toll wrought by the overhunting and extinction of the buffalo and exposes the false mythology of the Old West. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889773615
- ISBN
- 9780889773615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.82
€ 33.99
€ 28.82