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Paperback. Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 photographs, 4 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354314
ISBN
9780822354314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354246
ISBN
9780822354246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism, focusing on the political conditions that enable-and limit-youth of color from achieving meaningful change given the entrenchment of nonprofits within the logic of the neoliberal state. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JFSP2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354239
ISBN
9780822354239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. In this comprehensive analysis of the TV series Mad Men, scholars explore the groundbreaking drama in relation to fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format. Editor(s): Goodlad, Lauren M. E.; Kaganovsky, Lilya; Rushing, Robert A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 97 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPK; APT; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354024
ISBN
9780822354024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardback. Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America Editor(s): Few, Martha; Tortorici, Zeb. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353836
ISBN
9780822353836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.43

Paperback. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550. Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore. Series: Radical Perspectives. 392 pages, 40 photographs. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353591
ISBN
9780822353591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A history tracing the growth of Stockton, California's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of the neighborhood of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it. Num Pages: 464 pages, 51 photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBBWF; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353393
ISBN
9780822353393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353126
ISBN
9780822353126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

Paperback. Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. 344 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. Illuminates the complex interconnections between differing definitions of security and human rights. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSL9. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 21. Weight: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353119
ISBN
9780822353119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes. 312 pages, 8 photographs, 3 maps, 3 figures. Shows how the General Resettlement in the Andes added another layer to a complex web of settlement rather than displacing or destroying it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; JFSL9. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 19. Weight: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353102
ISBN
9780822353102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. A new edition of the earliest English-language account of the Haitian Revolution. Originally published in 1805, the narrative played a significant role in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of that momentous event. Editor(s): Youngquist, Paul; Pierrot, Gregory. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KJH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546. 392 pages, 17 illustrations, 1 map. Editor(s): Youngquist, Paul; Pierrot, Gregory. This new edition of Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, is the first to appear since the original publication in 1805. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KJH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352884
ISBN
9780822352884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life. Series: Narrating Native Histories. 360 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 figures. Explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and their own voices. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFSL9; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 20. Weight: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352679
ISBN
9780822352679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. 240 pages, 5 illustrations. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352617
ISBN
9780822352617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352419
ISBN
9780822352419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. 304 pages, 4 photographs. Develops a new critique of United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTR; JPVH1. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352396
ISBN
9780822352396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Andean Music in Japan. 248 pages, 18 illustrations. This is a book about Andean music, its reception in Japan, and the resultant transcultural connection. Michelle Bigenho toured Japan with Bolivian musicians and dancers and describes how the two nationalites connected with each other through song and dance. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSX; AVGE; JFC. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352358
ISBN
9780822352358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence. 256 pages. Robbins takes stock of the new cosmopolitanism, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFS. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352099
ISBN
9780822352099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Paying particular attention to hula performances that toured throughout the U.S. beginning in the late nineteenth century, Adria L. Imada investigates the role of hula in the American colonization of Hawai'i. Num Pages: 392 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352075
ISBN
9780822352075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations, 3 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352051
ISBN
9780822352051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure Editor(s): Carter, Miguel. Num Pages: 544 pages, 33 photographs, 57 tables, 11maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPWD; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351863
ISBN
9780822351863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

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