Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. Arguing that Rousseau and Goethe are the foremost practitioners of Romantic autobiography, this is a comparative study of these foundational figures. It shows how they fashioned a distinctive type of self-writing at the time when modern autobiography emerged in its identifiable form. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919751
- ISBN
- 9780813919751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.46
€ 65.46
Hardcover. A biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919966
- ISBN
- 9780813919966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.50
€ 50.50
Hardcover. This volume examines the ways in which 19th-century novels and texts that portrayed women performing charity helped to make the inclusion of this work in the domestic sphere seem natural. It examines the contradictions this caused within the domestic ideal by making women "public persons". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920887
- ISBN
- 9780813920887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Paperback. Focusing on "Amos 'n' Andy", a nightly American radio comedy in the 1930s, this text unveils a tale of America's shifting colour line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows produced a series so complex that it won admirers ranging from ultra-racists to racial egalitarians. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APW; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 10th ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920924
- ISBN
- 9780813920924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.04
€ 39.04
Paperback. This volume gives an account of contraction in household authority and the effects these changes had upon the governmental system. It argues that the disintegration of household powers during the mid 19th century is much more central to the modernization of the period than industrialization. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921266
- ISBN
- 9780813921266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.79
€ 35.79
Paperback. The author of this text set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors - African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War. Using plantation documents and oral histories in the form of stories, anecdotes and sayings, she has created a history of a slave community. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTG; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921372
- ISBN
- 9780813921372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.07
€ 34.07
Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921433
- ISBN
- 9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Hardcover. Consisting of more than 500 letters to family with an additional 650 calendared, this volume offers a complete account of William James's known correspondence from April 1905 to March 1908. Num Pages: 772 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGHA; BJ; HPCD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 170 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921495
- ISBN
- 9780813921495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Hardcover. Enter the bustling realm of domestic workers at Maymont House from 1893 to 1925, the opulent mansion of Richmond multimillionaire James H. Dooley. Drawing on personal letters, business documents and oral histories, O'Leary examines the parallel and divergent viewpoints of server and served. Num Pages: 192 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First printing.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921600
- ISBN
- 9780813921600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.27
€ 49.27
Hardcover. What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from 1820 to 1850. Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921785
- ISBN
- 9780813921785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.86
€ 97.86
Paperback. What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from 1820 to 1850. Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921792
- ISBN
- 9780813921792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.00
€ 41.00
Hardcover. In 1631, at the epicentre of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the "Cautio Criminalis", a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Translator(s): Hellyer, Marcus. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; HRQX5; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921815
- ISBN
- 9780813921815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.46
€ 65.46
Paperback. In 1631, at the epicentre of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the "Cautio Criminalis", a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Translator(s): Hellyer, Marcus. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; HRQX5; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921822
- ISBN
- 9780813921822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.53
€ 36.53
Hardcover. Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922171
- ISBN
- 9780813922171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. British social critics in the Romantic tradition stigmatized industry as a threat to aesthetic "culture". Bizup argues that early Victorian advocates of industry sought to resist the power inherent in this opposition by portraying automatic manufacture itself as a cultural force or agent. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922461
- ISBN
- 9780813922461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of Am...
Edited By Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantma...
Hardcover. Across the Continent is an examination of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Essays look at the global politics that provided the context for the expedition and at the interest in science that grew from it and justified its undertaking. It considers the legacies of it on Native Americans and the control of the expansion of the American Empire. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; JPSL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press Charlottesville
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923130
- ISBN
- 9780813923130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.38
€ 57.38
Hardcover. Explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the prisms of gender, class, and time. This biography offers portraits of these seminal figures, following them through their educations, their often groundbreaking work in economic and labor studies, and their invaluable public advocacy. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL3; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925509
- ISBN
- 9780813925509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.09
€ 61.09
Paperback. Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for 2 centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. This book provides the biographies of these three important figures. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925967
- ISBN
- 9780813925967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.11
€ 40.11
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926117
- ISBN
- 9780813926117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.95
€ 33.95
Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926131
- ISBN
- 9780813926131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.87
€ 37.87
Hardcover. Examines voluntary associations in Philadelphia from the Revolution into the 1830s, revealing how - in the absence of mass political parties or a party system - these associations served as incubators and organizational infrastructure for the development of intense partisanship in the early republic. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926483
- ISBN
- 9780813926483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.17
€ 71.17
Paperback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926711
- ISBN
- 9780813926711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.78
€ 36.78
Paperback. Analyzes the early years of the French Revolution to reveal the true difficulty of founding a liberal democracy in the midst of continual warfare, repeated coups d'etat, and endemic civil strife. This book highlights the role played by violence and fear in generating illiberal politics. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16 b&w illustrations 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927299
- ISBN
- 9780813927299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.33
€ 43.33
Hardcover. Covers the eight-month period between 8 February and 24 October 1813, during which the United States continued its military struggle against Great Britain. This volume presents Secretary of War John Armstrong's memorandum on the spring campaign against Canada, recommending attacks on Kingston and York (Toronto). Editor(s): Kreider, Angela; Stagg, J. C. A.; Colony, Anne Mandeville; Cross, Jeanne Kerr; Johnson, Mary Parke; King, Martha J.; Perry, Wendy Ellen. Num Pages: 800 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1293.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927565
- ISBN
- 9780813927565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.66
€ 133.66