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Paperback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748622597
ISBN
9780748622597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.49

Paperback. Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625222
ISBN
9780748625222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.18

Paperback. This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748634248
ISBN
9780748634248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 509.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748634231
ISBN
9780748634231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.27
€ 112.54

Paperback. This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism. Editor(s): Murray, David. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894043
ISBN
9780859894043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173276
ISBN
9780691173276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 26.96

Hardcover. This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American costume jewelry from 1930-1950. It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and pr Num Pages: 256 pages, 430 colour photos & 329 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; WCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764329838
ISBN
9780764329838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.58
€ 45.85

Hardcover. This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American costume jewelry from 1930-1950. It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and pr Num Pages: 256 pages, 536 color photos, 400 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; WCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764329821
ISBN
9780764329821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.58
€ 45.85

Paperback. Traces the spread of American constitutionalism throughout the world Num Pages: 564 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 181 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814725177
ISBN
9780814725177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.62

Paperback. This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748619238
ISBN
9780748619238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.07

Hardback. This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BM; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073050
ISBN
9780674073050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JJG; HBTB; KNXB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816646074
ISBN
9780816646074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.55

Paperback. During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. This work examines the film industry's growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era. Editor(s): Fischer, Lucy Rose. Series Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D.; Pomerance, Murray. Series: Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema. Num Pages: 312 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813544854
ISBN
9780813544854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.02

Paperback. Offers an insightful analysis of the efforts of many American Catholics as a private interest group to effect change in the public policy of Mexico and in US-Mexican relations. The author's judicious examination of ecclesiastical and governmental archives, as well as personal papers, elucidates an important period in American Catholic history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040239
ISBN
9780268040239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.64

Hardback. A compact and incisive history of the American economy since 1945, concentrating on the development of economic policy, economic structure, and ideas about both, and explaining the complex interaction of these factors over the past half-century. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566635370
ISBN
9781566635370
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.34

Paperback. Provides us the lives of the twelve men, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush, who presided over America's imperial fortunes - the good, the bad and the truly awful. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780099520412
ISBN
9780099520412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 13.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 257 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JWM; TTMW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 300 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1460.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764350498
ISBN
9780764350498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 44.57

Hardcover. A study of the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) and its critical role in the post - World War II Red Scare. This book demonstrates how the listed organizations and their members (including a large number of federal employees) came under suspicion, were investigated, and suffered numerous public and private penalties. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JPWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700616046
ISBN
9780700616046
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691171449
ISBN
9780691171449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.96

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161099
ISBN
9780691161099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.96
€ 54.23

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