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The Americas
Paperback. This text brings together many scholars who have been working through the Freedman's Bureau papers and other sources, to rethink the Bureau's place in securing freedom and remaking the South. It presents a sampling of the range and variety of work being done on the Bureau. Editor(s): Cimbala, Paul A. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 363 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823219353
- ISBN
- 9780823219353
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. The King's Ranger explores not only military history but also such aspects of the American past as colonial migration, upheaval in the backcountry.. and the formation of new settlements in the Caribbean. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823219087
- ISBN
- 9780823219087
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.46
€ 41.99
€ 37.46
Paperback. Powell addresses the role that the Northern Planters had on the post-Reconstruction system. He deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, the planters' motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns and their gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined. Series: North's Civil War S. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218943
- ISBN
- 9780823218943
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. A biography of the Supreme Court Justice of 34 years, Hugo Black, (1886-1971). He once was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and went on to be one of the most celebrated and important civil libertarians in the history of the USA and the 20th century's chief proponent of the First Amendment. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218684
- ISBN
- 9780823218684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. Biographies featuring the pioneers of American medicine. The author combines curious medical lore with little-known facts of early American history. Among those included are Morgan, founder of the first medical school in America, and McDowell who prepared the way for abdominal surgery. Num Pages: 370 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780823213795
- ISBN
- 9780823213795
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. A chronicle of the lives of three men, John Fitch, James Rumsey and Robert Fulton, all striving to invent the first steamboat. The author shows the pattern of their interwoven fates in this tale of "anguished pioneering". Num Pages: 406 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; TBX; TTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 33. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780823213764
- ISBN
- 9780823213764
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.57
€ 42.99
€ 38.57
Hardback. Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; GTF; HBJK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363842
- ISBN
- 9780822363842
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created a record of Native Hawaiian cultural history and thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363682
- ISBN
- 9780822363682
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.40
€ 29.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created a record of Native Hawaiian cultural history and thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363521
- ISBN
- 9780822363521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru's capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the "City of Kings." Editor(s): Aguirre, Carlos; Walker, Charles F. Series: The Latin America Readers. Num Pages: 296 pages, 67 illustrations, incl. 14 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363378
- ISBN
- 9780822363378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.64
€ 110.64
paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363224
- ISBN
- 9780822363224
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Hardback. David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363064
- ISBN
- 9780822363064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. In analyses of digital death footage-from victims of police brutality to those who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge-Jennifer Malkowski considers the immense changes digital technologies have introduced in the ability to record and display actual deaths-one of documentary's most taboo and politically volatile subjects. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; APFA; APFR; HPJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363002
- ISBN
- 9780822363002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362999
- ISBN
- 9780822362999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362982
- ISBN
- 9780822362982
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Hardback. Mark Rifkin explores how Indigenous experiences with time and the dominance of settler colonial conceptions of temporality have affected Native peoplehood and sovereignty, thereby rethinking the very terms by which history is created and organized around time by. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362852
- ISBN
- 9780822362852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362838
- ISBN
- 9780822362838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.73
€ 107.73
Hardback. Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AVC; AVG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362821
- ISBN
- 9780822362821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBTV; JFSL3; JPL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362753
- ISBN
- 9780822362753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 1KJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362623
- ISBN
- 9780822362623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.40
€ 29.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its place in Western culture to situate it as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Experimenting with form and content, Greene redefines how we think about punk subculture and revolutionary politics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 63 illustrations, 8 page color insert. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGU; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362593
- ISBN
- 9780822362593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362562
- ISBN
- 9780822362562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 1KJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362470
- ISBN
- 9780822362470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.83
€ 110.83
Paperback. Ernesto Bassi examines the lives of those who resided in the Caribbean between 1760 and 1860 to trace the configuration of a dynamic geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, where residents made their own geographies and futures while trade, information, and people circulated freely across borders. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362401
- ISBN
- 9780822362401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60