The Americas
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The Americas
Hardcover. Tells the tale of seven Virginians who strongly supported the Confederacy from beginning to end. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 264 pages, photographs, maps, bibliographic essay, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842050548
- ISBN
- 9780842050548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.82
€ 154.82
hardcover. Looks at the geographical patterns of Baptist expansion, the techniques dissenters used to gain adherents, the distinctiveness of Baptist worship, and its cultural resonances in Virginia. This book traces how the American Revolution created a new context favorable to Baptists. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; HBJK; HRCC2; HRCC92. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926797
- ISBN
- 9780813926797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.68
€ 79.68
Paperback. Traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography oout there.o Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 photographs, 5 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803232785
- ISBN
- 9780803232785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.49
€ 26.99
€ 25.49
Paperback. That there is a 'digital divide' - which falls between those who have and can afford the latest in technological tools and those who have neither in our society - is indisputable. This title redefines the issue as it explores the cascades of that divide, which involve access, skill, political participation, as well as the obvious economics. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; UBJ; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878409990
- ISBN
- 9780878409990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.76
€ 73.76
Paperback. Jane Iwamura examines contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. At the heart of her study is the Oriental Monk, a non-sexual, solitary, conventionalized icon who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; HR; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199738618
- ISBN
- 9780199738618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.23
€ 60.23
Hardcover. Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468314
- ISBN
- 9781137468314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.43
€ 117.43
Hardback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747554
- ISBN
- 9780804747554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.55
€ 132.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Thormond, Jerrod F. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604565157
- ISBN
- 9781604565157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.91€ 43.71
€ 60.91
€ 43.71
Paperback. Visionary Film has been the dominant study of the American avant-garde cinema for twenty-five years. Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000. Num Pages: 480 pages, 77 halftones & 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195148862
- ISBN
- 9780195148862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.75
€ 51.99
€ 36.75
Paperback. The essays in Visionary of the Word bring together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville's treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fiction and poetry. Editor(s): Cook, Jonathan A. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSK; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810134256
- ISBN
- 9780810134256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, 69. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; ACVT; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 5. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801444708
- ISBN
- 9780801444708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.41
€ 71.41
Hardback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121705
- ISBN
- 9780231121705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.11€ 80.20
€ 105.11
€ 80.20
Paperback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231121712
- ISBN
- 9780231121712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.40
€ 40.99
€ 29.40
Hardcover. Num Pages: 254 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJWWL; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 305 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1402. 254 pages, photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KJWWL; AJC; WTM. Dimension: 221 x 305 x 22. Weight: 1406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Phoenix Carib Limited
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955617614
- ISBN
- 9780955617614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.95
€ 40.99
€ 33.95
paperback. Offers an analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. This book describes how Oaxacans, both elites and commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of a modern Mexico. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 b&w photos, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337904
- ISBN
- 9780822337904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Hardback. Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. "Visions of the Maid" examines three pivotal films on the heroine as well as a broad array of popular culture references. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 34 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; APFA; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920757
- ISBN
- 9780813920757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.91
€ 91.91
Hardback. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879296
- ISBN
- 9780801879296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.36€ 47.64
€ 51.36
€ 47.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, map,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404. 320 pages, map,ports. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight: 400.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871873
- ISBN
- 9780907871873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 200 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AGP; AJC; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 290 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764351488
- ISBN
- 9780764351488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 35.75
€ 53.99
€ 35.75
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719056789
- ISBN
- 9780719056789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.65
€ 155.65
paperback. From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HRCX8; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802037763
- ISBN
- 9780802037763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.95
€ 46.99
€ 41.95
hardcover. From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HRCX8; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802039354
- ISBN
- 9780802039354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.85
€ 86.85
hardcover. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739139219
- ISBN
- 9780739139219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.15
€ 153.15
Paperback. In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images. This title argues that these kinds of hyperbolic accounts were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 66 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075341
- ISBN
- 9780226075341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.89
€ 37.99
€ 29.89