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Paperback. Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France. Num Pages: 200 pages, 27 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; ASZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252076978
- ISBN
- 9780252076978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780576220
- ISBN
- 9781780576220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.79
€ 32.99
€ 29.79
Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082907
- ISBN
- 9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.58€ 57.47
€ 73.58
€ 57.47
Paperback. "An exploration of Russia's modern history focused on the particular and peculiar ways in which the sensory has translated into Russian culture and society"-- Editor(s): Romaniello, Professor Matthew P.; Starks, Tricia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 BW Illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 333 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474263122
- ISBN
- 9781474263122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.18
€ 49.18
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848842106
- ISBN
- 9781848842106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRAX; HRC; JFSC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081897
- ISBN
- 9780252081897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783463060
- ISBN
- 9781783463060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Hardcover. Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the later 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, 6 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013193
- ISBN
- 9780674013193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.88€ 85.93
€ 94.88
€ 85.93
Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044194
- ISBN
- 9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 30.01
€ 37.99
€ 30.01
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 269 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317960
- ISBN
- 9780226317960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.61
€ 46.99
€ 36.61
Paperback. Over recent decades much has been written on the complexities of Imperial Germany. More is known today about the politics, society, economy and culture of the German Empire than ever before. However, the sheer volume of new scholarship makes it increasingly challenging to synthesize all the available information. Series: Contesting the Past. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129978
- ISBN
- 9781405129978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41
Hardcover. 223pp. Keywords: Irish Abroad. These essays examine diverse elements of the Irish American Experience in the fifteen years after World War II. It emphasises the transition through which the diaspora were moving with focus on social and political developments
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780716529873
- ISBN
- 9780716529873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.00€ 42.11
€ 60.00
€ 42.11
Hardback. Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. Editor(s): Grant, Matthew; Ziemann, Benjamin. Series Editor(s): Jones, Max. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784994402
- ISBN
- 9781784994402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.85
€ 167.85
Paperback. Presents the comprehensive history of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTK; JPWQ; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283855
- ISBN
- 9780520283855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Jackson, Paul; Feldman, Matthew. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 336 pages, fig: 3, b&w. BIC Classification: 3JJH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838205540
- ISBN
- 9783838205540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.85
€ 45.99
€ 32.85
Paperback. Examines the pitched battles over busing at a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 260 pages, 35 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3; JNFR; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284258
- ISBN
- 9780520284258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. "American Bandstand", one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJPG; APT; JFCA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272088
- ISBN
- 9780520272088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.13
€ 33.99
€ 25.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; JPW; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487842
- ISBN
- 9780801487842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardback. The Blackfriars Theatre, founded in 1940, was one of New York's first Off-Broadway playhouses. It was unique in another way: it was the only professional level theatre in the United States under Roman Catholic auspices. This book examines the efforts of the Blackfriars staff to meld theatre and religion between 1940 and 1972. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834170
- ISBN
- 9780810834170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.04
€ 113.04
Paperback. A gripping and insightful history of the French Resistance and the men and women who opposed Nazi occupation during World War II Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages b-w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847391568
- ISBN
- 9781847391568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33