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North America
Paperback. Explores how westerners have expanded the boundaries of the political and emerged as a harbinger of America's electoral future. This book portrays a politically heterogeneous region and shows how its multiple traditions have strongly shaped the nation's body politic. Editor(s): Roche, Jeff. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616145
- ISBN
- 9780700616145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 35.80
€ 43.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Uncovers the forgotten World War II diary of journalist Roi Ottley, who was the first African American correspondent to cover the war for major American newspapers. Establishes Ottley as a key figure in both American journalism and the Civil Rights movement. Editor(s): Huddle, Mark A. Num Pages: 200 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618910
- ISBN
- 9780700618910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.16
€ 31.99
€ 27.16
Paperback. This personal account of the American Civil War by General Edward Porter Alexander, provides an assessment of people and events. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East and had frequent contact with the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Num Pages: 692 pages, 75 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- Fourth Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847220
- ISBN
- 9780807847220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.18
€ 42.18
Paperback. From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have shaped human culture in the region - and the ways humans have shaped their environment. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; GBC; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858561
- ISBN
- 9780807858561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Paperback. Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This volume celebrates this essential element of southern life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 47 illustrations, 2 maps, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; GBC; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859087
- ISBN
- 9780807859087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.30
€ 38.30
Hardcover. Presenting papers pertaining to Grant's first term in office, this volume covers areas such as his climb-down over the annexation of Santo Domingo, legislation to facilitate federal intervention in the persecution of blacks in the South, his Indian policy and the Treaty of Washington. Editor(s): Ferraro, William M.; Lisec, Aaron M.; Dotson, Sue E. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1365.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809321971
- ISBN
- 9780809321971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.52
€ 81.52
Hardcover. From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. This title covers every angle of the campaign, from its prelude to its denouement. Editor(s): Woodworth, Steven E. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809329809
- ISBN
- 9780809329809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.57
€ 26.99
€ 23.57
Hardcover. Editor(s): Marszalek, John F. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBC; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809330911
- ISBN
- 9780809330911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.03
€ 76.03
Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Paul M.; Holli, Melvin G. Num Pages: 333 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; JPHC; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809331987
- ISBN
- 9780809331987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.68
€ 34.68
Hardcover. Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine this operation. Editor(s): Woodworth, Steven E.; Grear, Charles D. Series: Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809334520
- ISBN
- 9780809334520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.52
€ 46.52
Paperback. Captures in words and pictures the emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. This book gives readers a window onto a man who won over an entire city. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPN; AJCR; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 889.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810124462
- ISBN
- 9780810124462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.42
€ 23.42
Hardcover. Collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis's Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. Each of the chapters engages Sallis's work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics as a beginning that is always beginning again. Editor(s): Jones, David; Wirth, Jason M.; Schwartz, Michael. Series: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 images in gallery. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; HPCF3; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131590
- ISBN
- 9780810131590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.59
€ 138.59
Paperback. Editor(s): Dittmar, Linda; Michaud, Gene. Num Pages: 387 pages, 42pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; APF; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813515878
- ISBN
- 9780813515878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.45
€ 51.45
Paperback. This anthology on race in early cinema examines the origins, dynamics, and ramifications of racism and Eurocentrism and the resistance to both during the early years of American motion pictures. It addresses such subjects as miscegenation and assimilation and their impact on early cinema. Editor(s): Bernardi, Daniel. Num Pages: 350 pages, 66 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813522760
- ISBN
- 9780813522760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.62
€ 51.62
Paperback. This anthology seeks to revolutionize the way the Harlem Renaissance is viewed. It seeks to redress the emphasis on male writers, offering a balanced collection of writers - men and women, gay and straight, famiiar and obscure. It includes poetry, short stories, drama, essays, music and art. Editor(s): Patton, Venetria K.; Honey, Maureen. Num Pages: 544 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ABM; ACX; AVGC6; DNF; DQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 184 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813529301
- ISBN
- 9780813529301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.71
€ 47.99
€ 42.71
Hardcover. Editor(s): Phillips, Robert A. Num Pages: 225 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 889.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press Medicine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813572222
- ISBN
- 9780813572222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.82
€ 173.82
Paperback. Design with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage presents an introduction along with eight essays by landscape historians that argue against the diminution of early preservationists work. The book uncovers the holistic stewardship ethic that drove pioneering landscape preservation advocates. Editor(s): Birnbaum, Charles A.; Hughes, Mary V. Num Pages: 216 pages, 55ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923307
- ISBN
- 9780813923307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.81
€ 40.81
Paperback. Offering an overview of minority representation, this title examines several aspects of representation, including both Latino and African American perspectives, and a range of topics, ranging from the dynamics of partisanship to various groups' perceptions of the political system. It reveals the American representative democracy. Editor(s): Segura, Gary M.; Bowler, Shaun. Num Pages: 328 pages, 39 tables, 2 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923383
- ISBN
- 9780813923383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.11
€ 42.11
Paperback. George Washington used his Mount Vernon estate to preserve the memory of events that had created a new nation. This book constitutes a chronicle of the Washington estate's ascent to the status of national shrine, and offers evidence of Mount Vernon's role in helping forge American national identity. Editor(s): Lee, Jean B. Num Pages: 304 pages, 48 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925158
- ISBN
- 9780813925158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.71
€ 23.99
€ 21.71
Paperback. Editor(s): Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Ian (Yale University, Connecticut Yale University Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut); Tebeau, Kahreen. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928272
- ISBN
- 9780813928272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29