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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, this title argues for a reassessment of unionism in American life during the second half of the twentieth century and a recasting of "official memory." It traces the history of union steelworkers after World War II. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs, 2 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; KCZ; KNJH; KNXB1; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397391
- ISBN
- 9781566397391
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. This title portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; JFSL3; JKV; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397506
- ISBN
- 9781566397506
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, this book examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. It focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Editor(s): Liu, Sandra. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 56 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; APFA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 16. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397766
- ISBN
- 9781566397766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays, which consider the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 figure, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 19. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398725
- ISBN
- 9781566398725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.17
€ 36.99
€ 33.17
paperback. Reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally. This book is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. It reveals how German film borrowed, both literally and figuratively, from its Nazi past. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; APF; HBJD; HBLW3; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781566398787
- ISBN
- 9781566398787
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. A collection of essays that asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, it speaks to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 18. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399647
- ISBN
- 9781566399647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. Radio, the nation, and the rise of the voice in broadcasting, in a clearly written, significant history of the birth of the first mass medium. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APW; HBJK; HBLW; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399937
- ISBN
- 9781566399937
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135773
- ISBN
- 9781571135773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardcover. Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139047
- ISBN
- 9781571139047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardcover. A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind." Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FKAH; 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139580
- ISBN
- 9781571139580
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Condition: New
€ 116.35
€ 116.35
Hardcover. Discusses recent technological applications and advances in sol-gel processing of various ceramics, gels and glasses. Also features historical aspects from the initial discovery of the development of sol-gel processing for ceramics 50 years ago. Editor(s): Komarneni, Sridhar; Sakka, Sumio; Phule, Pradeep P.; Laine, Richard M. Series: Ceramic Transactions. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; TDCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- American Ceramic Society United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781574980639
- ISBN
- 9781574980639
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Condition: New
€ 144.52
€ 144.52
Hardcover. Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions. Num Pages: 254 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465687
- ISBN
- 9781580465687
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Condition: New
€ 128.59
€ 128.59
Hardback. Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Editor(s): Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F.; Thoms, Ulrike. Num Pages: 238 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFF; MBNH3; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465762
- ISBN
- 9781580465762
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Condition: New
€ 128.59
€ 128.59
Hardback. This is a journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land. Margalit Shilo sheds new light on female society of the time, a subject nearly untouched by historians. Series: Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584654834
- ISBN
- 9781584654834
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Condition: New
€ 61.83€ 52.85
€ 61.83
€ 52.85
Hardback. A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations Num Pages: 340 pages, 70 illus. (10 colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584657682
- ISBN
- 9781584657682
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
€ 52.99
€ 41.39
Paperback. Composed at the request of the Royal Spanish Chronicler of the Indies, this title presents the history of Puerto Rico. This title records the history of the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico as well as the political, social, military, economic, and natural history of the island. Translator(s): Vidal, Jaime R. Series: ECOS Hispanic Caribbean Religious Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JD; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 74th ed.
- SKU
- V9781589661899
- ISBN
- 9781589661899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.27
€ 26.99
€ 22.27
Paperback. The Manhattan Project was a sprawling research and industrial enterprise. It also included women in every capacity. Although women participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, their contributions are either omitted or only mentioned briefly in most histories of the project. This title presents this hidden story. Series: Labor & Social Change. Num Pages: 264 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBT; JFSJ1; JWMN; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131921
- ISBN
- 9781592131921
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JHBL; JPFF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592131976
- ISBN
- 9781592131976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Traces the ways in which US culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. This work demonstrates that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; GTB; JFC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592132010
- ISBN
- 9781592132010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Presents the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. This volume comments on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." It argues eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; HBJK; HBLX; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781592132034
- ISBN
- 9781592132034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. This is a reexamination of John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JNA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592135929
- ISBN
- 9781592135929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJPN; BM; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136162
- ISBN
- 9781592136162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 144 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; AJC; HBJK; HBLW; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592139989
- ISBN
- 9781592139989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. Describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century, exposing the politics through which the words, categories, and values that structure our understanding of the field came to be while revealing the historicity of Western and non-Western art history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17 full-colour, 19 b&w & 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606060599
- ISBN
- 9781606060599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29€ 73.22
€ 77.29
€ 73.22