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Paperback. In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. The strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American politics. Based on first-hand reportage and interviews, this book illuminates a moment of unusually significant social ferment. Num Pages: 225 pages, 26 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; HBTB; JPVH; KNAC; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254336
- ISBN
- 9780520254336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.33
€ 35.99
€ 26.33
Hardback. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 3JH; HBTB; JFFS; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254244
- ISBN
- 9780520254244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.09€ 56.78
€ 74.09
€ 56.78
Paperback. Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 343 pages, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254176
- ISBN
- 9780520254176
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a array of sophisticated cultural production. This work examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254077
- ISBN
- 9780520254077
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, this title abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest. It examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253636
- ISBN
- 9780520253636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.58
€ 83.50
€ 63.58
Hardback. Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open an interpretive view of Western European history. Num Pages: 196 pages, 12 color illustrations, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253483
- ISBN
- 9780520253483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.58
€ 83.50
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Paperback. A companion to "Luminous Debris", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HDDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253353
- ISBN
- 9780520253353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This study of a pivotal American historical document, approaching it from the perspective of visual studies as well as American literature and history. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 128 pages, 27 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCR; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 49.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253315
- ISBN
- 9780520253315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.41
€ 33.99
€ 24.41
Hardback. Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. 352 pages, Illustrations. Explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize 'us' and 'them' through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. This title illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSR1; JFSR2. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253216
- ISBN
- 9780520253216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.58
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€ 63.58
Hardback. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253025
- ISBN
- 9780520253025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 64.18
€ 83.50
€ 64.18
Paperback. Offering a global overview of Islamic hagiography, this book describes the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith. It is suitable for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251984
- ISBN
- 9780520251984
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Brings together the story of the orange industry - how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. Num Pages: 402 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251670
- ISBN
- 9780520251670
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.93
€ 38.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 353 pages, 12 figures, 19 b/w photographs, 9 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251595
- ISBN
- 9780520251595
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.25
€ 34.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251540
- ISBN
- 9780520251540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.37
€ 35.99
€ 26.37
Paperback. Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. This study on Latinos and professional baseball since the 1880s tells a story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn - passing as 'Spanish' in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL4; WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251434
- ISBN
- 9780520251434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Hardback. Offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251298
- ISBN
- 9780520251298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.58
€ 83.50
€ 63.58
Paperback. Presents an argument that the coming of sound inspired more in the massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. This book makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends. Num Pages: 202 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251229
- ISBN
- 9780520251229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
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Paperback. Investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. This book traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the 18th century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251144
- ISBN
- 9780520251144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Hardback. Covering more than half a millennium in US history - from conception to colonization to Hurricane Katrina - this atlas documents the discoveries and explorations, the intrigue and negotiations, the technology and the will that led the United States to become what it is today. Num Pages: 280 pages, 535 color illustrations, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 338 x 258 x 27. Weight in Grams: 2152. With Original Maps. 280 pages, 535 colour illustrations, 52 b/w illustrations, and original maps. Covering more than half a millennium in US history - from conception to colonization to Hurricane Katrina - this atlas documents the discoveries and explorations, the intrigue and negotiations, the technology and the will that led the United States to become what it is today. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WTRM. Dimension: 338 x 258 x 27. Weight: 2152.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250369
- ISBN
- 9780520250369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 38.86
€ 49.99
€ 38.86
Paperback. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. This work focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments. Num Pages: 307 pages, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249943
- ISBN
- 9780520249943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.04
€ 38.99
€ 28.04