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The Americas

Hardback. 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: 234 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351726
ISBN
9780822351726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.50

Paperback. A collection of essays considering how country music became "white," how that fictive racialization has been maintained, and how African American artists and fans have used country music to elaborate their own identities. Editor(s): Pecknold, Diane. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21 illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351634
ISBN
9780822351634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.78

Paperback. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544. The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. 392 pages, 9 illustrations. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351337
ISBN
9780822351337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351054
ISBN
9780822351054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Sergio Ramirez was Vice President of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990. This title covers the turbulent years that toppled the Samoza dictatorship in 1979 and the triumphs and shortcomings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that was charged with national reconstruction and social transformation in this country and region. Translator(s): Skar, Stacey Alba D. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLCM; BG; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350873
ISBN
9780822350873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350866
ISBN
9780822350866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. 408 pages, 71 photographs. Editor(s): Wallace, Maurice O.; Smith, Shawn Michelle. Brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 29. Weight: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350859
ISBN
9780822350859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350750
ISBN
9780822350750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350507
ISBN
9780822350507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350477
ISBN
9780822350477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago. Num Pages: 392 pages, 72 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; CFC; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350446
ISBN
9780822350446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350439
ISBN
9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Reveals how Peru s early-twentieth-century labor reforms excluded the majority of the country s laborers. They were indigenous, and the nation s elites saw indigeneity as incommensurable with work, modernity, and industrial progress. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350132
ISBN
9780822350132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 424 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APT; AVGN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584. Popular Music on Early Television. Series: Console-ing Passions. 424 pages, 29 illustrations. Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APT; AVGN; JFD. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 25. Weight: 584.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350118
ISBN
9780822350118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. The difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have children Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 36 tables, 17 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350088
ISBN
9780822350088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350064
ISBN
9780822350064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garcia Cubas. Num Pages: 352 pages, 91 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349914
ISBN
9780822349914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. This history of the political economy, social relations, and cultural debates that animated Spanish North America from 1500 until 1800 illuminates its centuries of capitalist dynamism and subsequent collapse into revolution. Num Pages: 712 pages, 19 illustrations, 164 tables, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; HBJK; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349891
ISBN
9780822349891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaeton. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 424 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; AVGR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349594
ISBN
9780822349594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. 240 pages. Editor(s): O'Neill, Kevin Lewis; Thomas, Kedron. Essays on violence in Guatemala City, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMC; JKV. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349587
ISBN
9780822349587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

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