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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Weaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, this text traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312292911
ISBN
9780312292911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.56

Paperback. The publication of this collection of Muller's best known essays, though long overdue, brings Muller back to life, and brings needed historical depth to the continuing theoretical and methodological debates in the academic study of religion. Editor(s): Stone, Jon R. Num Pages: 387 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRAB; JFHF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 539.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293093
ISBN
9780312293093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.54

Hardback. This text situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism, and makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293222
ISBN
9780312293222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.33

Hardcover. Rusty Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas and reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293291
ISBN
9780312293291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.81

Paperback. Carole H. Dagher presents an account on how Christian and Muslim communities emerged from the 16-year-old Lebanese war, what their points of friction and their common grounds are, and what the prospects of Lebanon's communal representation system and pluralistic society are. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; HRAM9; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293369
ISBN
9780312293369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293420
ISBN
9780312293420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.63

Paperback. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293604
ISBN
9780312293604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. "Primitive Pictures" explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; APFA; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293734
ISBN
9780312293734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays that collectively seek to re-vision the Beats from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293796
ISBN
9780312293796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Melvin G. Holli shows how presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for his 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPHF; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293956
ISBN
9780312293956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293994
ISBN
9780312293994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.65

Hardback. Exploring the influence of histories of heresy on early modern and modern conceptions of the toleration of differing religious ideas, this volume pieces together the intentions and effects of key works from this literature in the promotion or rejection of toleration in theory and practice. Editor(s): Laursen, John Christian. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; HRAF; HRAM7; HRCC2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294045
ISBN
9780312294045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.51

Paperback. This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294434
ISBN
9780312294434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.45
€ 69.00

Hardback. Daniel Vitkus demonstrates that the theatrical representations inspired by England's encounter with exotic otherness helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DS; 1QFM; 1QSM; 2AB; 3J; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSL1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294526
ISBN
9780312294526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Hardcover. Through the growth of internationalization and a growing acceptance of immigration rights, union leaders now support more open immigration policies than those once adopted in the first part of the 20th century. This is a research into those changes from the beginning to the end of the century. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294946
ISBN
9780312294946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Paperback. Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both chronological narrative and a selection of primary documents in translation. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295240
ISBN
9780312295240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.64

Hardcover. Through analysis of an array of "low" and "high" Hindu literatures, such as pamphlets, tracts, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JD; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HRG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295455
ISBN
9780312295455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.13

Paperback. This study shows how the "rewriting" of Shakespeare's plays serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy and postmodernism - via the "Tempest" characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; DSGS; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295486
ISBN
9780312295486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
9th
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295493
ISBN
9780312295493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.81

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
9th
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295516
ISBN
9780312295516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.90

Hardback. Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors to this volume trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a difficult past and in the shadow of the culture and political values of the United States. Editor(s): Muller, Jan-Werner. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295790
ISBN
9780312295790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

hardcover. The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theater, drama, sports, dance and politics. This work discusses African-American theatre art in the US during those years. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; 3JJF; AN; AVGC6; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295905
ISBN
9780312295905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 49.16

Hardcover. Ellis Goldberg examines the development of cotton production in Egypt and the long term consequences. Goldberg shows how the cotton industry became dependent on cheap, largely child labour, and links this to the slow development of a country that is held back by an under-educated workforce. Num Pages: 222 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; KCF; KCLT; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312296292
ISBN
9780312296292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Picador USA United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312429263
ISBN
9780312429263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.35

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