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Paperback. Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPK; GTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326458
- ISBN
- 9780822326458
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Paperback. Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism. Translator(s): Maclean, Heather. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326434
- ISBN
- 9780822326434
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Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
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Paperback. Offers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326205
- ISBN
- 9780822326205
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Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market to investigate the social construction of value. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AB; ACBK; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326182
- ISBN
- 9780822326182
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Paperback. Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326144
- ISBN
- 9780822326144
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paperback. Describing the life and ideas of the founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), this work is a biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, an important and influential figure of the post-1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; BGH; HBTV; JPF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325956
- ISBN
- 9780822325956
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Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325628
- ISBN
- 9780822325628
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Paperback. Presents the study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. This title appreciates and analyses the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in general to read stand-up through the lens of literary and cultural theory. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 160 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325468
- ISBN
- 9780822325468
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Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, this book presents an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 2 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324997
- ISBN
- 9780822324997
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Paperback. A comparative study of state formation in 19th-century Latin America that examines the different social and political paths that have led to democracy or military rule. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 photographs, 11 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324744
- ISBN
- 9780822324744
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Paperback. Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements. Editor(s): Sernett, Milton C. Series: C.Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324492
- ISBN
- 9780822324492
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Paperback. Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324157
- ISBN
- 9780822324157
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Paperback. Explores the changing meanings of honour in early-20th-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This title reveals how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323983
- ISBN
- 9780822323983
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Paperback. Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323969
- ISBN
- 9780822323969
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Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323457
- ISBN
- 9780822323457
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Paperback. Presents ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path. This book chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation of the rondas, the social and geographical expansion of the movement, and its gradual decline in the 1990s. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 344 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFC; JFSC; JFSF; JHM; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323211
- ISBN
- 9780822323211
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Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322962
- ISBN
- 9780822322962
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Paperback. Presents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322726
- ISBN
- 9780822322726
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Paperback. Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos. Num Pages: 448 pages, 15 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWYB; 1FPC; 1HFGS; 1KBB; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322665
- ISBN
- 9780822322665
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€ 33.99€ 31.02
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