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North America
Paperback. Presents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like - between 1890 and 1945. This book describes the strange phenomenon of blackface performances by women, both black and white, and considers how black expressive artists navigated racial segregation. Num Pages: 360 pages, 49 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASZH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341574
- ISBN
- 9780822341574
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€ 32.99€ 29.60
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Paperback. Weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC). This book contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. It challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341246
- ISBN
- 9780822341246
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Paperback. Suitable for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, this title argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in North America since the mid-twentieth century. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341208
- ISBN
- 9780822341208
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€ 31.99€ 28.64
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Paperback. Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This book tells the story of Tubman's life as an American icon. Num Pages: 424 pages, 88 illustrations ( incl. 9 in color). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340737
- ISBN
- 9780822340737
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€ 33.99€ 30.71
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Paperback. Investigates how "W" stands for women. This book contains ten feminist scholars who analyze various aspects of Bush' persona, language, and policy to show how his administration has shaped a new politics of gender. Editor(s): Ferguson, Michaele L.; Marso, Lori Jo. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340423
- ISBN
- 9780822340423
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€ 31.99€ 28.50
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Paperback. A critique of the Law & Economics movement, this book draws connections between conceptions of science and efforts at legitimating American legal theory as an objective enterprise. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; LAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339984
- ISBN
- 9780822339984
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Paperback. In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. This title investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Num Pages: 432 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JWKW; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339700
- ISBN
- 9780822339700
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€ 33.99€ 30.83
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Paperback. While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed about what constitutes safe, decorous driving and who is capable of it. This title presents a cultural history of America's fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Num Pages: 360 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339632
- ISBN
- 9780822339632
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€ 32.99€ 31.27
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Paperback. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self-discipline for the common good. This title demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the 'normal' American. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 photo, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSK; JHMP; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339489
- ISBN
- 9780822339489
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€ 27.99€ 26.21
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Paperback. A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337478
- ISBN
- 9780822337478
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Paperback. An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336440
- ISBN
- 9780822336440
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336433
- ISBN
- 9780822336433
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
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Paperback. An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 176 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APT; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3480 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336402
- ISBN
- 9780822336402
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
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Paperback. An ethnography about 'Japan outside of Japan' - specifically, how Japanese families on corporate re-assignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336228
- ISBN
- 9780822336228
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€ 27.99€ 26.21
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Paperback. Essays contest the notion of the absolute preeminence of judicial review in constitutional interpretation, analyzing the role of Congress as a constitutional interpreter and responsible constitutional agent Editor(s): Devins, Neal E.; Whittington, Keith E. Series: Constitutional conflicts. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPH; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336129
- ISBN
- 9780822336129
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€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Essays by leading constitutional scholars on the relationship between war powers and the Constitution in general and in the aftermath of September 11th. Editor(s): Tushnet, Mark V. Series: Constitutional Conflicts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334682
- ISBN
- 9780822334682
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€ 30.99€ 27.37
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Paperback. Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of Brown v. Board of Education , showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been assumed. Editor(s): Lau, Peter F. Series: Constitutional Conflicts. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JN; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334491
- ISBN
- 9780822334491
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€ 33.99€ 30.69
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paperback. A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APT; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333418
- ISBN
- 9780822333418
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
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Paperback. An archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20,000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JHM; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333388
- ISBN
- 9780822333388
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€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Paperback. Collection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical angles Editor(s): Apostolidis, Paul; Williams, Juliet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332657
- ISBN
- 9780822332657
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
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