20th century
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20th century
Hardback. This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence that suggests that the explanation for ethnic unrest is to be found in competition processes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720281
- ISBN
- 9780804720281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.03
€ 139.03
hardcover. This text examines the political, ideological, and cultural policies pursued by the German Communist of Socialist Unity party, acting upon the instructions of Stalin and his military administration, in Soviet-occupied Germany from 1945 through 1949. Num Pages: 704 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 43. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804720939
- ISBN
- 9780804720939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.93
€ 131.93
Hardback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721721
- ISBN
- 9780804721721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Hardback. The author shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 611.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722247
- ISBN
- 9780804722247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.35
€ 91.35
Hardback. A sociohistory of German bourgeois literature from 1770-1914 based on detailed readings of six cononical literary texts. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 777.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724029
- ISBN
- 9780804724029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.01
€ 118.01
Hardback. These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who, along with over 10,000 other Japanese Americans, was stranded in Japan during World War II. Editor(s): Lee, Robert G. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 416 pages, 32 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 775.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724197
- ISBN
- 9780804724197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.94
€ 184.94
Hardback. This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; BGHA; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724401
- ISBN
- 9780804724401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.06
€ 139.06
Hardback. This is a series of case studies illuminating the role and character of the House of Lords over two centuries, from 1714 to 1914. The figures treated in the essays include: Edmund Gibson (Bishop of Lincoln and later London), the first Earl Cowper, the Sixth Earl of Denbigh, and Lord Thurlow. Editor(s): Davis, R. W. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724760
- ISBN
- 9780804724760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.22
€ 89.22
Hardback. The subject of religious liberty in the 19th century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager. This book presents new theories of understanding the liberal narrative surrounding the subject of religious liberty. Editor(s): Helmstadter, Richard J. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; 3JJ; HRC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730877
- ISBN
- 9780804730877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Hardback. This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars. Editor(s): Zhang, Yingjin. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731881
- ISBN
- 9780804731881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.16
€ 184.16
hardcover. Established in 1968 to improve conditions in the barrio of East Los Angeles, the East Los Angeles Community Union has had a pronounced impact on the area, providing social services, helping increase political representation, and, most notably, promoting economic development. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733335
- ISBN
- 9780804733335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.95
€ 94.95
Hardback. Focusing on the period between 1920 and 1950, the author looks beyond ideologies to reveal how middle-class men and women strained to wrest order from the ordeal of change. Num Pages: 348 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 2. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733601
- ISBN
- 9780804733601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.29
€ 161.29
Hardback. This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733618
- ISBN
- 9780804733618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardback. Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the 20th century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 half-tones 3 tables 6 figures 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733779
- ISBN
- 9780804733779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.69
€ 138.69
Hardback. This title tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734011
- ISBN
- 9780804734011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.73
€ 183.73
Hardback. A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734912
- ISBN
- 9780804734912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. The Technical Imagination explores how technology entered the popular imagination in the Argentina of the 1920s and 1930s and how its products helped to shape modern thinking at all levels of Argentine society. Translator(s): Callahan, Xavier. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735421
- ISBN
- 9780804735421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.75
€ 82.75
Hardback. This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736657
- ISBN
- 9780804736657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.57
€ 138.57
Hardback. Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 line diagrams 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737265
- ISBN
- 9780804737265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.00
€ 150.00
Hardback. This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740937
- ISBN
- 9780804740937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.57
€ 149.57
Hardback. What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741101
- ISBN
- 9780804741101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.82
€ 160.82
Hardback. This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of the 20th century. Editor(s): Richter, Gerhard. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; ABA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741255
- ISBN
- 9780804741255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.00
€ 184.00
Hardback. This argues that the West has played a pivotal role in the Russian economic disaster of the 1990s. Western advisors, including the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury, applied a narrow conception of economics that pushed Russia toward another failed utopia. Editor(s): Klein, Lawrence R.; Pomer, Marshall I. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; JPA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 761.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741279
- ISBN
- 9780804741279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.88
€ 184.88
hardcover. What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JFSL; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741545
- ISBN
- 9780804741545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.06
€ 139.06