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The Americas

Hardback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928593
ISBN
9780813928593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.34

Paperback. Takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life - the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. The author shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 186 x 28. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First edition, first printing (full number line)
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226301389
ISBN
9780226301389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 237 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; ACN; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 275 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477310977
ISBN
9781477310977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; ACN; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477310502
ISBN
9781477310502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.15

Paperback. Specters of Revolution examines the development of two guerrilla insurgencies led by schoolteachers in Mexico during the 1960s. Relying upon recently declassified documents and oral histories, it chronicles a history of nonviolent peasant political action, underscored by long-held rural utopian ideals, radicalized by persistent state terror. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 hts. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199936595
ISBN
9780199936595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075858
ISBN
9780252075858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardcover. Editor(s): Flores, Wanda. Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634822657
ISBN
9781634822657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.88
€ 146.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPS; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816675906
ISBN
9780816675906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as 'the one genuinely modern pleasure', and one of the fastest and most thrilling ways to attain it was through the new sport of bobsledding. This book tells stories of the fastest men on ice. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; BGS; WSBB; WSBX; WSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780857502650
ISBN
9780857502650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBT; WSPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Granville Island Publishing Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894694353
ISBN
9781894694353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.48

Hardback. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFC; JHM; RGB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 719.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319208480
ISBN
9783319208480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.97

Hardback. A collection of twelve articles that explore various events in the history of witch-hunting and its demonization of women in American and American women's own use of witchcraft as a source of identity and strength, as well as the complicated relationship between the two. Editor(s): Reis, Elizabeth. Series: The Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRQX9; JFSJ1; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842025768
ISBN
9780842025768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.29

Paperback. What happens to a revolutionary town after the revolution? This anthropological history studies the Namiquipan peasants, who supported Pancho Villa in the revolution of 1910-1920, but who now consider themselves mere "spent cartridges" of a struggle that benefitted other classes. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; HBTV; JHM; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226607429
ISBN
9780226607429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501700774
ISBN
9781501700774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.01

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Parkins, David. Num Pages: 32 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; YNH; YNM; YNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 253 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Tundra Books Canada
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9781101918432
ISBN
9781101918432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 black and white photographs, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPFC; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081514
ISBN
9780252081514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 black and white photographs, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPFC; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 281 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040023
ISBN
9780252040023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.98

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gounaris, Anieli; Balli, Maximus. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNQ; URD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781614702214
ISBN
9781614702214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 300.64
€ 202.44

Paperback. Time after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous secret programme. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 358 pages, 25 photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWH; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700611478
ISBN
9780700611478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.88

Hardcover. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSH; JWMN; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612239
ISBN
9780700612239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.25

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