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20th century
Paperback. Recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. This book explores a central dimension of American culture and politics - the postwar preoccupation with captivity. It reveals how 'menticide', the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257313
- ISBN
- 9780520257313
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
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Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257337
- ISBN
- 9780520257337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.97
€ 44.99
€ 31.97
Paperback. Traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Focusing on Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, this book sketches the rise of a maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258174
- ISBN
- 9780520258174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.73
€ 36.99
€ 26.73
Hardback. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School - this book traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258372
- ISBN
- 9780520258372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.67
€ 84.37
€ 64.67
Paperback. Aizawa Kikutaro was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, an agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. Taking the biography of this villager as its focus and incorporating details of life drawn from Aizawa's diary, this book chronicles the transformation of Hashimoto against the background of Japan's rapid industrialization. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258594
- ISBN
- 9780520258594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Captures the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. This title follows the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. Num Pages: 214 pages, 16 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJF; BJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259553
- ISBN
- 9780520259553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. A study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260177
- ISBN
- 9780520260177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. Includes essays that offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. This title focuses on a range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260962
- ISBN
- 9780520260962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.28
€ 53.48
€ 42.28
Paperback. In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261310
- ISBN
- 9780520261310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
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Hardback. Offers a challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. This title examines the US and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 520 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262232
- ISBN
- 9780520262232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
€ 84.37
€ 64.45
Paperback. Presents an history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout Japan's postwar period. The author traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262713
- ISBN
- 9780520262713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
Paperback. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change. Num Pages: 358 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520264298
- ISBN
- 9780520264298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. Beginning in 1947, when 'India and Pakistan were born to conflict', this title presents an account of what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. It distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, and explaining the various attempts to resolve their disputes. Num Pages: 144 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266773
- ISBN
- 9780520266773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.32
€ 59.42
€ 46.32
Hardback. Traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This title encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. Num Pages: 396 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267602
- ISBN
- 9780520267602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.92€ 53.22
€ 68.92
€ 53.22
Hardback. In focusing on China's social survey movement, this title analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices - census, sociological investigation, and ethnography - was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267862
- ISBN
- 9780520267862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
€ 84.37
€ 64.45
Hardback. Traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary. This book shows how the inspirations that emerged in California went on to transform the experience of eating throughout the United States and the world. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268197
- ISBN
- 9780520268197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Features essays and articles by Japanese visitors to the United States from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Covering the period from 1878 to 1989, this title offers these visitors' perspectives on Americans and American society. Editor(s): Duus, Peter; Hasegawa, Kenji. Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268456
- ISBN
- 9780520268456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Hardback. Identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. This title also identifies aesthetics of anarchy - art-making without rules - that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Num Pages: 360 pages, 68 scattered halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 716. Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde. 360 pages, Illustrations. Identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. This title also identifies aesthetics of anarchy - art-making without rules - that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; ACXD. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 26. Weight: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268760
- ISBN
- 9780520268760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
€ 84.37
€ 64.45
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels
Federal Writers Project Of The Works Progress...
Paperback. A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A's history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations - and the mystique - for which the City of Angels is still known. Num Pages: 504 pages, 111 b/w photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJG; WQH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 36. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268838
- ISBN
- 9780520268838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.93
€ 33.99
€ 24.93
Hardback. Covers the San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 30 musical examples, 13 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; AV; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268913
- ISBN
- 9780520268913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.63
€ 65.36
€ 50.63
Hardback. What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich? This book interviews average Germans who came of age between 1933 and 1945. It provides insights into Germany's tragic years, offering a nuanced response to the abiding question of how a nation made the quantum leap from anti-Semitism to systematic genocide. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269644
- ISBN
- 9780520269644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
€ 37.99
€ 27.43
Paperback. Tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Taking us from the antechambers of policymakers in Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and the streets of Hanoi, this title provides an account of the series of events that would make Vietnam the most embattled area in the world during the Cold War period. Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 388 pages, 9 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269934
- ISBN
- 9780520269934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. Details the construction of Berlin, and explores homes and workplaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania. Editor(s): Whyte, Iain Boyd; Frisby, David. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 632 pages, 50 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1002. 1880-1940. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. 632 pages, Illustrationsstrations. Editor(s): Whyte, Iain Boyd; Frisby, David. Details the construction of Berlin, and explores homes and workplaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; RPC. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 45. Weight: 1002.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270374
- ISBN
- 9780520270374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.61
€ 84.37
€ 64.61
Hardback. After living in San Francisco for 15 years, the author found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary "Roger & Me". This book reminds us that cities are defined by people, not politics or economics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270527
- ISBN
- 9780520270527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74