The Americas
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The Americas
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
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
€ 50.00€ 42.82
€ 50.00
€ 42.82
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. 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. 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
€ 157.24
€ 157.24
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
€ 26.28
€ 26.28
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
Provides an understanding of how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, and how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien - and how to manage the landscapes around us. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 halftones, 6 line illustrations, 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026636
- ISBN
- 9780674026636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23€ 58.22
€ 64.23
€ 58.22
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
€ 31.99€ 30.09
€ 31.99
€ 30.09
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. Chronicles the case of a runaway slave who was tracked to Boston by his owner. Compellingly details the struggle over his fate and how that became a focal point for national controversy. Reveals how the case became one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617364
- ISBN
- 9780700617364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.06
€ 37.06
Hardback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823272891
- ISBN
- 9780823272891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.68
€ 103.68
Paperback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823272907
- ISBN
- 9780823272907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739100882
- ISBN
- 9780739100882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.17
€ 156.17
paperback. Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221087
- ISBN
- 9780253221087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.96
€ 21.99
€ 20.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; BM; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975296
- ISBN
- 9781555975296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.03
€ 17.99
€ 16.03
Hardcover. This text explores why and how democracy broke down in Peru in 1992. The author's argument is that institutional factors - especially the absence of a legislative majority - were crucial to the collapse of democracy in Peru during and before this period and throughout Latin America since the 1960s. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 25 tables, 11 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPHV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268031718
- ISBN
- 9780268031718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.85
€ 132.85
hardcover. Provides a full and balanced portrait of Fulgencio Batista. The author describes Batista's rise to power as part of a revolutionary movement and the intrigues and dangers that surrounded him. This volume focuses on Batista's role as a revolutionary leader from 1933 to 1934 and his image as a strongman in the years between 1934 and 1939. Num Pages: 432 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- None ed.
- SKU
- V9780813537016
- ISBN
- 9780813537016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.26
€ 52.26
Paperback. A photographic history of the city on the Yellowstone, this is a photographic history of the city on the Yellowstone Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 305 x 8. Weight in Grams: 14.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780964872806
- ISBN
- 9780964872806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.88
€ 14.99
€ 12.88
hardcover. Illustrator(s): Ramirez, Michael. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780789212832
- ISBN
- 9780789212832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.82
€ 30.99
€ 28.82
Paperback. Full Frontal T.O. examines how the architecture of the city's streetscape looks, lives, and changes over time. Num Pages: 156 pages, B&W photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Coach House Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552452578
- ISBN
- 9781552452578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.69
€ 26.99
€ 24.69
paperback. Editor(s): Coates, Ken. Series: The Spokesman. Num Pages: 88 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851246475
- ISBN
- 9780851246475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.31
€ 9.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739150665
- ISBN
- 9780739150665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.17
€ 72.17
Paperback. There is something doing every day in Texas, from the Fireant Festival to the Gatorfest, Watermelon Thump, or Bun Run. Texan Jim Gramon has compiled all the major events in one book. Num Pages: 294 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ASZP; JHBT; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Republic of Texas Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556228865
- ISBN
- 9781556228865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.16
€ 20.99
€ 20.16