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Paperback. Since Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This book examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324935
- ISBN
- 9780822324935
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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paperback. Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324904
- ISBN
- 9780822324904
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€ 29.43
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Paperback. A comparative study of state formation in 19th-century Latin America that examines the different social and political paths that have led to democracy or military rule. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 photographs, 11 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324744
- ISBN
- 9780822324744
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€ 36.99€ 28.87
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Paperback. Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements. Editor(s): Sernett, Milton C. Series: C.Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324492
- ISBN
- 9780822324492
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Paperback. Examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West, and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about culture" and "aesthetics" in their theories and practices. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1FPC; HPN; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324485
- ISBN
- 9780822324485
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€ 27.99€ 26.14
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Paperback. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324140
- ISBN
- 9780822324140
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Explores the changing meanings of honour in early-20th-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This title reveals how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323983
- ISBN
- 9780822323983
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Paperback. Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323969
- ISBN
- 9780822323969
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Presents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood", and more, this book demonstrates that these films were more than simply 'bad' movies. It shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Num Pages: 488 pages, 59 b&w photographs, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 796.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323747
- ISBN
- 9780822323747
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€ 34.99€ 32.08
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Paperback. Traces the experiences of three small French towns during the troubled months of the Provisional Government following the Liberation in 1944. This title reveals how citizens of these towns expected legal, and honorary justice - such as punishment for collaborators, fair food distribution, and formal commemoration of patriots, both living and dead. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 b&w photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323730
- ISBN
- 9780822323730
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€ 41.99€ 37.13
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Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323495
- ISBN
- 9780822323495
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€ 41.99€ 32.22
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Paperback. Demonstrates how caution, confusion, and conflicting goals marked US relations with Trujillo and set the tone for the ambivalent Cold War relations that prevailed until Trujillo's assassination in 1961. This title is for suitable Latin Americanists, historians, political scientists, and specialists in international relations and diplomacy. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JPA; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822321231
- ISBN
- 9780822321231
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€ 41.99€ 37.13
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Paperback. Traces the history of the Jesuits' invention of Confucius and of themselves as native defenders of Confucius' teaching. This book demonstrates how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the historical figure who has since been globally celebrated as philosopher, and prophet. Num Pages: 472 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320470
- ISBN
- 9780822320470
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€ 41.99€ 32.13
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Paperback. Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: CF; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822320159
- ISBN
- 9780822320159
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€ 41.99€ 37.30
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€ 37.30
paperback. Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists. Editor(s): French, John D.; James, Daniel. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319962
- ISBN
- 9780822319962
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€ 36.99€ 28.79
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Paperback. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBAH; HBJK; JFC; JFHF; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319726
- ISBN
- 9780822319726
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€ 36.99€ 27.67
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Paperback. Considers the appeal of the Christian right wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFC; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319672
- ISBN
- 9780822319672
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of France, the early modern period, and the history of religion, this book offers interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War in the mid-fourteenth century to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century. Editor(s): Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 424 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319139
- ISBN
- 9780822319139
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€ 29.85
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paperback. Explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 photographs, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822318989
- ISBN
- 9780822318989
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€ 36.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture Editor(s): Losebrink, Hans-Jorgen; Reichardt, Rolf. Translator(s): Schurer, Norbert. Series: Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 halftones, 4 charts, 8 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3658 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822318941
- ISBN
- 9780822318941
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81