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The Americas
Paperback. The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious development from a precocious "PK" ("preacher's kid") in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HRCX4; JFSL3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 125 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195111323
- ISBN
- 9780195111323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.54
€ 35.54
Based on research and interviews with successful young African-American males and their parents, this book emphasises the unique combinations of supportive and challenging parenting practices that parents have adopted to help their sons cope and achieve in both the African-American community and mainstream white society. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL3; JHBK; VFXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195102192
- ISBN
- 9780195102192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.48
€ 52.48
Paperback. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195098365
- ISBN
- 9780195098365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.79
€ 34.79
Paperback. This history of Latin America during its period of independence has been revised and updated to include new material based on recently published research, as well as augmented references covering areas of special contemporary interest. The bibliography has also been updated. Num Pages: 352 pages, halftones, map. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195084023
- ISBN
- 9780195084023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 147.77
€ 147.77
Paperback. This treatise argues that the American West serves as a testament to a dependence upon water as the "shaping force" of a region's history and development. It defines the West as a "modern hydraulic society" dependent on man-made systems of irrigation such as dams, irrigation ditches and canals. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; KNBW; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195078060
- ISBN
- 9780195078060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.20
€ 25.20
Paperback. Covering the massive emigration of some 7 million people from Ireland to the USA between 1660 and the 1900s, this focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, songs, and folklore. Num Pages: 704 pages, 1map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; JFFN; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 978.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195051872
- ISBN
- 9780195051872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.92
€ 40.92
Paperback. The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origins to the drive-in culture of today. Num Pages: 432 pages, 24 pp halftones, figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195049831
- ISBN
- 9780195049831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.82
€ 23.99
€ 22.82
Hardcover. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, "Empire of Liberty" offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195039146
- ISBN
- 9780195039146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 44.22
€ 45.99
€ 44.22
Paperback. Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Revised, Enlarg
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195025637
- ISBN
- 9780195025637
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Condition: New
€ 148.93
€ 148.93
Paperback. A region-by-region introduction to life in the USA. Num Pages: 176 pages, full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; EL; YQC. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780194342353
- ISBN
- 9780194342353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.66
€ 30.66
Paperback. Meikle explores the history of American design, from the industrialization of the 19th century and the mass production of the 'machine age' to the information-based society of the present, examining how design, consumerism, and culture connect. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, halftones and full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1D; ACV; ACXD2; ACXJ8; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192842190
- ISBN
- 9780192842190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.79
€ 36.79
Paperback. The Power of Race in Cuba analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress, racial attitudes and activism through the lens of Cuba. This work gives a nuanced portrait of black identity and draws from the many black spaces, both formal and informal to highlight black consciousness on the island. Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPA; JPF; JPFN; JPHL. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190632304
- ISBN
- 9780190632304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.41
€ 58.41
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190624620
- ISBN
- 9780190624620
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 45.69
€ 47.99
€ 45.69
Paperback. Louis P. Masur uses Abraham Lincoln's final public address in April 1865 to trace the debate over reconstruction policies from the earliest days of the Civil War. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190620097
- ISBN
- 9780190620097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.88
€ 21.88
Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 1KBBEY; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190619213
- ISBN
- 9780190619213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.48
€ 90.48
Paperback. Filling a gap in presidential history, Roosevelt's Second Act uncovers in complex detail what lay behind Roosevelt's decision to stand for an unprecedented third term, and examines the multiplicity of conflicting forces at work on him. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190266288
- ISBN
- 9780190266288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.34
€ 25.34
In the Beginning Was the Word provides a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement through the American Revolution. Num Pages: 448 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HRAM2; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190263980
- ISBN
- 9780190263980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.21
€ 34.99
€ 32.21
Paperback. The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides. Editor(s): Gray, Edward G.; Kamensky, Jane. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 700 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 170 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190257767
- ISBN
- 9780190257767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.48
€ 76.48
A study of the massacre at Wounded Knee in history and memory. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190249038
- ISBN
- 9780190249038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
America's Four Gods: What We Say About God--And What That Says About U...
Froese, Paul, Bader, Christopher
Paperback. America's Four Gods is an unprecedented investigation into what average Americans think about God. Utilizing survey data and in-depth interviews, Froese and Bader demonstrate how Americans have four distinct conceptions of God and how these different Gods lie at the heart of the major social, moral, and political divisions in our country. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRAX; HRLM; JFSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Updated Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190248857
- ISBN
- 9780190248857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.11
€ 57.11
The narrative of the discovery of a hacked up body outside of Philadelphia leads to a police investigation and trial of a woman and man, which sheds like on post-Reconstruction America, the history of African Americans, illicit sex, and domestic violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190241216
- ISBN
- 9780190241216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.98
€ 29.99
€ 25.98
Paperback. The Modern American Military is composed of essays surveying the mission and character of the United States armed forces in the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Kennedy, David M. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190230906
- ISBN
- 9780190230906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.88
€ 33.99
€ 33.88
Paperback. An eye-opening account of how racial appeals generate broad enthusiasm for policies that injure the middle class Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190229252
- ISBN
- 9780190229252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.08
€ 21.08
Paperback. The country's most prominent historians reflect on the significance and legacy of the Gettysburg Address Editor(s): Conant, Sean. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190227456
- ISBN
- 9780190227456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.28
€ 29.99
€ 26.28