The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. A comprehensive investigation of the New World. It describes the region's natural resources, flora, animals, and terrain, as well as the Amerindians and their religious and political practices. It offers a significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World. Editor(s): Mangan, Jane E.; Lopez-Morillas, Frances M. Series: Chronicles of a New World Encounter - Latin America in Translation S. Num Pages: 568 pages, 10 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 806. Series: Chronicles of a New World Encounter - Latin America in Translation S. 568 pages, 10 figures,. 3 maps. Editor(s): Mangan, Jane E.; Lopez-Morillas, Frances M. A comprehensive investigation of the New World. It describes the region's natural resources, flora, animals, and terrain, as well as the Amerindians and their religious and political practices. It offers a significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLH. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 35. Weight: 806.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328452
- ISBN
- 9780822328452
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Paperback. Examines the labor of government workers in North America. Countering conceptions of the government and its employees as remote and inflexible, this work uses the theory of mass intellectuality developed by Italian worker-theorists to illuminate the potential for genuine political progress inherent within state work. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JHBL; JPA; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328957
- ISBN
- 9780822328957
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€ 33.99€ 30.67
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Paperback. Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this work collects studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330226
- ISBN
- 9780822330226
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€ 41.99€ 31.10
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Paperback. Examines the history of banana-producing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective, asking why different regions developed distinct patterns of property and labor mobilization. This collection also reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages. Editor(s): Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 illustrations, 16 tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331964
- ISBN
- 9780822331964
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€ 41.99€ 29.83
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Paperback. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, this title explains how private bank loans were extended to leverage acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; KCLF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332190
- ISBN
- 9780822332190
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€ 41.99€ 37.13
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Paperback. Explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia. This work describes a rich republicanism characterized by legal rights and popular participation, and explains how this vibrant political culture was created by competing subaltern groups. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332244
- ISBN
- 9780822332244
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Cohn, Deborah N. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KJ; 1KL; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333166
- ISBN
- 9780822333166
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€ 41.99€ 33.35
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Paperback. The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 368 pages, 55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1KLSX; HB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333906
- ISBN
- 9780822333906
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333937
- ISBN
- 9780822333937
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Paperback. Argues that American cultural conceptions of religion and race during the 1950s played a crucial role in framing an ideology through which U.S. policymakers understood their options in Vietnam. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBWS2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334408
- ISBN
- 9780822334408
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Paperback. Examines the politics of a 19th c. peasant revolt in Peru, looking at the organization and practice of government by the rebels to examine what a largely illiterate population understood by terms such as "nation" and showing the rebellion's significance in constructing the Peruvian State. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 b&w photos, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334415
- ISBN
- 9780822334415
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€ 41.99€ 29.90
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Paperback. Generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335979
- ISBN
- 9780822335979
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Paperback. Argues that zombies and murderers in American film and literature embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. This book reveals that each creature has its tale to tell about how a free-wheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. It tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through pulp fiction and Hollywood blockbusters. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3895 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337454
- ISBN
- 9780822337454
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€ 27.99€ 26.14
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Paperback. Traces the emergence of the mammoth US flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. This book shows how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and business elite in outlying territories. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RBP; RNK; TNFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337737
- ISBN
- 9780822337737
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Paperback. The story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Series: Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations. Num Pages: 576 pages, 36 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 35. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338413
- ISBN
- 9780822338413
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Paperback. An ethnographic consideration of why the Cuban government has allowed criticism of its policies to be expressed in Cuban film, visual art, and music over the past fifteen years. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338918
- ISBN
- 9780822338918
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€ 33.99€ 30.67
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Paperback. Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low, the bad, and the sleazy face of cinema, this book examines the ineffable quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Editor(s): Sconce, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 352 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339649
- ISBN
- 9780822339649
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
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Paperback. Sarah Banet-Weiser explores how the cable network Nickelodeon combines an appeal to kids formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- 50032nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339939
- ISBN
- 9780822339939
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Paperback. Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the rights granted US citizens nor allowed access to the tribal programs and resources. This book investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what the author argues is, in effect, a transnational existence. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340300
- ISBN
- 9780822340300
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€ 36.99€ 34.28
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Paperback. An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Num Pages: 360 pages, 37 b&w photos, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340379
- ISBN
- 9780822340379
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35