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The Americas
Hardcover. This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; KCP; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114463
- ISBN
- 9780230114463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.68€ 47.16
€ 53.68
€ 47.16
Paperback. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114098
- ISBN
- 9780230114098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.44€ 55.66
€ 63.44
€ 55.66
Hardcover. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114074
- ISBN
- 9780230114074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.68€ 47.72
€ 53.68
€ 47.72
Hardcover. Discussing the most pressing global challenges, this book suggests ways for the Obama Administration to tackle them in a holistic manner. In particular, the book proposes effective measures for various problems like the war on terror, resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and forging of better relations with the Muslim World. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113763
- ISBN
- 9780230113763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues. Editor(s): Lieberman, Robbie; Lang, Clarence. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; HBTW; HBWS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113749
- ISBN
- 9780230113749
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113725
- ISBN
- 9780230113725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113718
- ISBN
- 9780230113718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Hardcover. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113688
- ISBN
- 9780230113688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.68€ 46.85
€ 53.68
€ 46.85
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANF; AS; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113312
- ISBN
- 9780230113312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.49€ 84.45
€ 102.49
€ 84.45
Hardcover. An examination of how US states and governors connect to American foreign relations, this book argues that these subnational actors should be analyzed in international relations scholarship. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113251
- ISBN
- 9780230113251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. This book examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States, through methods of exploitation, control, and repression. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113169
- ISBN
- 9780230113169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed Black life. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; AN; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113152
- ISBN
- 9780230113152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.68€ 46.76
€ 53.68
€ 46.76
Hardcover. Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by Progressive-era capitalism. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112841
- ISBN
- 9780230112841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 217 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 1KLSH; 3JH; BGB; BGH; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112803
- ISBN
- 9780230112803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPR; JPA; KCLT1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112797
- ISBN
- 9780230112797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.68€ 47.88
€ 53.68
€ 47.88
Hardcover. The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism. Num Pages: 198 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112704
- ISBN
- 9780230112704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112551
- ISBN
- 9780230112551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112513
- ISBN
- 9780230112513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC; KJE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112490
- ISBN
- 9780230112490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112476
- ISBN
- 9780230112476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Using five personal narratives and in contrast to both the traditional and multicultural narratives, this book suggest cross-cultural transformation has been at the core of America since the first moments of contact. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112063
- ISBN
- 9780230112063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111899
- ISBN
- 9780230111899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. This book offers a step forward in finding out how the new decentralized institutional arrangements affect local economic development. In particular, it analyzes how local governments can use their increasing powers and responsibilities to improve productivity and quality of life in their territories. Editor(s): De la Cruz, Rafael; Palgrave Macmillan; Mannheim, Carlos Pineda; Poschl, Caroline; Inter-American Development Bank. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111769
- ISBN
- 9780230111769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111660
- ISBN
- 9780230111660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95