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Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326694
ISBN
9780822326694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Offers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326205
ISBN
9780822326205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market to investigate the social construction of value. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AB; ACBK; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326182
ISBN
9780822326182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326144
ISBN
9780822326144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325628
ISBN
9780822325628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.27

Paperback. Presents the study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. This title appreciates and analyses the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in general to read stand-up through the lens of literary and cultural theory. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 160 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325468
ISBN
9780822325468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, this book presents an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 2 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324997
ISBN
9780822324997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements. Editor(s): Sernett, Milton C. Series: C.Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Second
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324492
ISBN
9780822324492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.86

Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323457
ISBN
9780822323457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322962
ISBN
9780822322962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos. Num Pages: 448 pages, 15 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWYB; 1FPC; 1HFGS; 1KBB; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822322665
ISBN
9780822322665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

paperback. Offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a context for understanding debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, this work contributes to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322474
ISBN
9780822322474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

paperback. Most would agree that American culture in the 1980s differed dramatically from that of the 1960s. Yet the 1970s is still thought of as a cultural wasteland. This text debunks this notion by examining a wide range of political and cultural phenomena. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822321668
ISBN
9780822321668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Demonstrates how caution, confusion, and conflicting goals marked US relations with Trujillo and set the tone for the ambivalent Cold War relations that prevailed until Trujillo's assassination in 1961. This title is for suitable Latin Americanists, historians, political scientists, and specialists in international relations and diplomacy. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JPA; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822321231
ISBN
9780822321231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Considers the appeal of the Christian right wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFC; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319672
ISBN
9780822319672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.35

Paperback. Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in US history. This book examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2JN; DSB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822319443
ISBN
9780822319443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

paperback. Explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 photographs, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822318989
ISBN
9780822318989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Looking inside the New South, this book shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the years altered racial reality, that in turn altered white perceptions, and thus behaviour and attitudes in a section of the country where segregation had been entrenched. It is useful for those interested in America's conflict over civil liberties. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318934
ISBN
9780822318934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Examines the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. This work argues that anti-nuclear activism was a means of demanding local self-determination under the Soviet system. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPFN; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822318378
ISBN
9780822318378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars working in the areas of race, gender, and identity theory, as well as US history and literature, this book offers a perspective for studying the construction and meaning of personal and cultural identities. Editor(s): Ginsburg, Elaine. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822317647
ISBN
9780822317647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316695
ISBN
9780822316695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAT; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316626
ISBN
9780822316626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.27

Paperback. Reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. This book presents a view of the development of literary history in the United States, and a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315995
ISBN
9780822315995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315988
ISBN
9780822315988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.12

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