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Paperback. The History and Politics of Blackness. 344 pages, 4 illustrations. Editor(s): Keaton, Trica Danielle; Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean; Stovall, Tyler. A distinctive and important contribution to the increasingly public debates on diversity, race, racialization, and multicultural intolerance in French society and beyond. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFSL3; JHMC. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352624
- ISBN
- 9780822352624
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Condition: New
€ 38.56
€ 38.56
Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346661
- ISBN
- 9780822346661
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Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. A detailed examination of the contest in Manchuria between Korean, Chinese, and Japanese interests and its consequences for history Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 photos, 6 tables, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336143
- ISBN
- 9780822336143
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
paperback. Bringing together Mexican, Soviet, and North American (as well as British) perspectives, this book shows how the convergence of each country's domestic and foreign policies precluded them from a harmonious triangular relationship. It contributes to an understanding of the international dimension of the Mexican revolution. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJG; HBTV; JPSD; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322894
- ISBN
- 9780822322894
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. Explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. This title exposes the presuppositions of the field of medieval studies and significantly shifts the objects of its historical inquiry. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321996
- ISBN
- 9780822321996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Hardback. Draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. This book offers a critique of postmodern tendencies in the philosophy of science, and sets out arguments for a feminist hermeneutics of scientific research. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419762
- ISBN
- 9780821419762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.98
€ 86.98
Hardback. The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche both praised the individual's wish to be transformed. This volume examines the argument, as well as the affinity, between these two philosophers. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 661. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821414965
- ISBN
- 9780821414965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.77
€ 86.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KL; ACXJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679348
- ISBN
- 9780816679348
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816644568
- ISBN
- 9780816644568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Hardcover. In The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-1924, Robert E. Hannigan challenges the conventional belief that the United States entered World War I only because its hand was forced and disputes the claim that Washington was subsequently driven by a desire "to make the world safe for democracy." Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248593
- ISBN
- 9780812248593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Hardcover. Naftali S. Cohn provides an innovative understanding of the rabbinic authors of the Mishnah and their intense focus on the Temple. He contends that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis, arguing for their own importance within the complex social landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244571
- ISBN
- 9780812244571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.75
€ 94.75
Hardback. Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 70 illus. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240856
- ISBN
- 9780812240856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Hardback. Provides an analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. This work argues that three factors, the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family, were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 40. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240191
- ISBN
- 9780812240191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
paperback. Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 552 pages, 47 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221718
- ISBN
- 9780812221718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.60
€ 46.99
€ 41.60
Paperback. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219890
- ISBN
- 9780812219890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
paperback. A classic rediscovered. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; HBJH; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 1476 x 114 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217759
- ISBN
- 9780812217759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786874
- ISBN
- 9780804786874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardback. Translator(s): Hecker, Joel. Series: The Zohar. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS; HRJX; VXWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784504
- ISBN
- 9780804784504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.32€ 73.48
€ 80.32
€ 73.48
Paperback. This is the story of a spectacular naval rebellion in which ordinary Brazilian seamen (mostly black and led by a black sailor) overpowered their officers on Dreadnought-class battleships in 1910, to abolish flogging and secure civic rights; it also tells how the sailors suffered lethal retribution, although flogging would never return. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781091
- ISBN
- 9780804781091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Hardback. Facsimile samples of original texts on endpapers. Translator(s): Matt, Daniel Chanan. Series: The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: HRJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 184 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1050.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776639
- ISBN
- 9780804776639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.42€ 55.36
€ 61.42
€ 55.36