Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. African Independence is a dynamic discussion of how Africa shapes world events today. Tukufu Zuberi weaves interview excerpts and stories from many Africans he has met-from refugees to heads of state-with key events in African history to show the importance of understanding Africa today. Num Pages: 210 pages, 54 black & white halftones, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; JPS; RGCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442216419
- ISBN
- 9781442216419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.78
€ 51.78
Hardcover. This work attempts to provide short profiles of Africa's leaders and their main challengers. It concentrates on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. Each profile has a short assessment of their character and career followed by a life history. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JM; GTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840195
- ISBN
- 9780810840195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.72
€ 126.72
Paperback. Tells the story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. This book covers a typical day for the author that involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 pages black and white and colour. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJP; 3JM; BM; PSVW7; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780670919710
- ISBN
- 9780670919710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
€ 14.99
€ 11.81
Hardcover. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. 330 pages, 23, 23 black and white. A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JKSW1. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 32. Weight: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463805
- ISBN
- 9781580463805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.43
€ 150.43
Paperback. Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Series: African Studies. 278 pages, 10 b/w illus. This 2009 book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and its legacies for the post-colonial state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBLW; HBW. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight: 442.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521130905
- ISBN
- 9780521130905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.36
€ 32.36
Paperback. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, this book discusses folk and decorative arts alongside fine art produced by African-Americans throughout the nineteenth century. It also explores more recent issues in art and politics - the Civil Rights era and Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s and the emergence of new black artists in the 1980s and 90s. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 320 pages, colour plates, halftones, line drawings and maps throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; ACBK; ACV; ACX; AFTB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192842138
- ISBN
- 9780192842138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.77
€ 35.99
€ 32.77
Hardcover. Presents four travel diaries of pioneering African Americans who were the first to explore and document the West African interior. This work reveals the wealth and beauty of Africa in descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. It challenges the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa. Editor(s): Fairhead, James; Geysbeek, Tim; Holsoe, Svend E.; Leach, Melissa. Num Pages: 504 pages, 39 b&w photos, 11 maps, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JH; BJ; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 38. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253341945
- ISBN
- 9780253341945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Tells the story of anthropological fieldwork centred at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia during mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, this book places anthropologists' assistants and informants in a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 1HFMZ; 3JJ; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326731
- ISBN
- 9780822326731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Hardback. Political history of Africa since independence movements Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 768.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849045155
- ISBN
- 9781849045155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 28.16
€ 46.99
€ 28.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141984094
- ISBN
- 9780141984094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Afro-Cuban identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; APFA; DSB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611484229
- ISBN
- 9781611484229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.67
€ 122.67
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011107
- ISBN
- 9781847011107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.99
€ 97.99
Hardback. Editor(s): McKnight, Kathryn Joy; Garofalo, Leo J. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Translation
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664014
- ISBN
- 9781624664014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
€ 52.99
€ 37.93
Paperback. Explores the role of African Americans in the Pentecostal Church from 1906-2006 Editor(s): Yong, Amos; Alexander, Estrelda Y. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 271 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRCC2; HRCC96; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814797310
- ISBN
- 9780814797310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
Hardcover. Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This title explores the term 'Afromodernisms' and the study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. It sets an agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. Editor(s): Sweeney, Fionnghuala; Marsh, Kate. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646401
- ISBN
- 9780748646401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.97
€ 138.97
Hardback. A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781439902783
- ISBN
- 9781439902783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardback. Through a bold combination of meticulous historiographical research and autobiographical material, this book characterizes the post-World War II era as a time of "latency" during which there emerged a new "chronotope," or change in our relationship to time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785181
- ISBN
- 9780804785181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.71
€ 41.99
€ 40.71
Hardback. Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 290 x 202 x 36. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438522
- ISBN
- 9781137438522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.87
€ 77.87
Hardcover. Investigates the ways in which the events in Derry on 30th January 1972 have found representation in photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art installations, murals, music, commemorative events, legal discourse, eyewitness testimony, and pressure-group campaigns. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184257
- ISBN
- 9781859184257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Paperback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480. Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics. 328 pages, illustrations. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight: 462.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271593
- ISBN
- 9780520271593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
Hardback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271586
- ISBN
- 9780520271586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.07€ 57.54
€ 74.07
€ 57.54
Hardcover. Traces the various paths of migration and resettlement of Sephardic Jews and Conversos over the course of the tumultuous sixteenth century Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814729113
- ISBN
- 9780814729113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.34
€ 43.34
Paperback. Examines the Italian films of the last two decades of the 20th century which managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry. The author interprets, in detail, a body of work which established an independent profile for the Italian cinema of the 80s and 90s. Num Pages: 432 pages, 34, 34 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801868474
- ISBN
- 9780801868474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.48
€ 36.99
€ 31.48
Paperback. From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America. Editor(s): Burnham, John. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226211862
- ISBN
- 9780226211862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.92
€ 32.99
€ 25.92