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The Americas

Paperback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360940
ISBN
9780822360940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardcover. Examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928838
ISBN
9780813928838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1MBF; JFSL9; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 137 x 125. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756222
ISBN
9781876756222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.85

Paperback. Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 121 pages, 28 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
121
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520265660
ISBN
9780520265660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859653695
ISBN
9780859653695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.11

Paperback. Editor(s): Jeppesen, Anne Marie Ejdesgaard. Num Pages: 133 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763505505
ISBN
9788763505505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

Paperback. When the author's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was left paralyzed from the chest down. Like so many Americans, neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, had health insurance. Using Marcella and Dave's situation as a case in point, the author reveals the system's many shortcomings. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226140445
ISBN
9780226140445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience. Hecht offers a fascinating examination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137433657
ISBN
9781137433657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.27

Hardback. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world - the sheer bulk and weight of artworks, the long delays inherent in long-distance reception, the uneasy mingling of artworks with other kinds of things in transit, the author forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 color, 50 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 19. Weight in Grams: 808.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251847
ISBN
9780520251847
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.46

Hardcover. Editor(s): Inweldi, Peter O. Num Pages: 350 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNG; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 980.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604560312
ISBN
9781604560312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.66
€ 158.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Graves, Tristan. Num Pages: 95 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624177637
ISBN
9781624177637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.00
€ 70.08

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574431
ISBN
9780813574431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813574424
ISBN
9780813574424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469622040
ISBN
9781469622040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.23

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2GDC; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231176965
ISBN
9780231176965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.36

Hardback. Examines legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States Num Pages: 301 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; LNFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814752791
ISBN
9780814752791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFSJ1; JHMP; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474224
ISBN
9780801474224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFSJ1; JHMP; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801446498
ISBN
9780801446498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.48

Paperback. Tackles the diversity of Islamist thinking and practice and how it relates to the latest global political and economic trends. Editor(s): Karam, Azza M. Series: Critical Studies on Islam. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745316253
ISBN
9780745316253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.49

Paperback. The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137338549
ISBN
9781137338549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.93

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