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Paperback. Starting with the crippling custom of footbinding, this work presents a study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, it shows the stages of 'unbinding' that occurred between the turn of the century and the end of World War II. Num Pages: 395 pages, 33 b&w illustrations, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520088672
- ISBN
- 9780520088672
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
€ 38.99
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Paperback. Asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, the author turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries AD, investigating its essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 275 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520089235
- ISBN
- 9780520089235
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. This book presents an historically specific, textured analysis that sheds light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity. Series: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HRCX7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520098695
- ISBN
- 9780520098695
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. This collection explores 12 different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 373 pages, 33 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520200586
- ISBN
- 9780520200586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Hardback. This work presents evidence for the phenomenon of "Asylia", the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum in the Hellenistic period. It lays out the documents and discusses their historical implications. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 660 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 47. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 660
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520200982
- ISBN
- 9780520200982
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Condition: New
€ 130.27€ 99.21
€ 130.27
€ 99.21
Hardback. This work pieces together the complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author aims to broaden understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201149
- ISBN
- 9780520201149
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Condition: New
€ 62.77€ 49.44
€ 62.77
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Paperback. Lucrecia de Leon lived on the fringes of the 16th-century Spanish royal court. As a teenager, Lucrecia had hundreds of dreams about Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy. This book is based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams and on the records of her Inquisition trial. Num Pages: 229 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201583
- ISBN
- 9780520201583
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
Paperback. Presents the factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text. Through investigation of European archives and private correspondence, this title provides an account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Num Pages: 608 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 858. 608 pages, 3 figures. Presents the factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text. Through investigation of European archives and private correspondence, this title provides an account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF; HPJ. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 38. Weight: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201590
- ISBN
- 9780520201590
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.85
€ 45.99
€ 32.85
Paperback. Features the essays that consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live. Editor(s): Grazia, Victoria De; Furlough, Ellen. Num Pages: 443 pages, 44 b&w photographs, 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201972
- ISBN
- 9780520201972
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
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Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202603
- ISBN
- 9780520202603
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Condition: New
€ 62.77€ 48.91
€ 62.77
€ 48.91
Paperback. The ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRKJ; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203242
- ISBN
- 9780520203242
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.93
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Paperback. Challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. This title argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLL; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204010
- ISBN
- 9780520204010
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.44
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Paperback. Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 603 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFMX; JFSG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 917.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 603
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204393
- ISBN
- 9780520204393
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
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Paperback. The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. This title documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204720
- ISBN
- 9780520204720
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.47
€ 35.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. The author offers a detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205062
- ISBN
- 9780520205062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.34
€ 38.99
€ 28.34
Paperback. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 449 pages, 30 b&w reproductions, 1 map, 6 museum floor plans, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; GM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; P; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 449
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205086
- ISBN
- 9780520205086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.19
€ 38.99
€ 28.19
Hardback. The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex. This work discusses the role played by university administrators in making their universities dependent upon military foundation and industrial patronage. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JNKG; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205413
- ISBN
- 9780520205413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.77€ 48.91
€ 62.77
€ 48.91
Hardback. With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, this title investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. It shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Num Pages: 382 pages, 141 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; ACBK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205451
- ISBN
- 9780520205451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.90€ 63.58
€ 82.90
€ 63.58
Paperback. This volume looks at the rise of the Ottoman Empire - the longest-lived political entity in human history - showing the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a centralized imperial state that saw itself as both leader of the world's Muslims and heir to the the Eastern Empire. Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206007
- ISBN
- 9780520206007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.56
€ 35.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, this book shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa S. Num Pages: 401 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206519
- ISBN
- 9780520206519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.77€ 49.44
€ 62.77
€ 49.44