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Paperback. With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330745
- ISBN
- 9780822330745
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Paperback. Examines women's inclusion into and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's 'gender regimes' following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
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- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330905
- ISBN
- 9780822330905
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Paperback. How do race and nature work as terrains of power? Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory, this title analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations. Editor(s): Moore, Donald S.; Kosek, Jake; Pandian, Anand. Num Pages: 488 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330912
- ISBN
- 9780822330912
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€ 34.99€ 31.88
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Paperback. During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, this book includes essays that rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. Editor(s): Lesser, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822331483
- ISBN
- 9780822331483
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paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332404
- ISBN
- 9780822332404
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€ 34.99€ 32.04
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Paperback. A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 248 pages, 56 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332459
- ISBN
- 9780822332459
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Paperback. An ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 b&w photos, 6 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JFSL9; JPW; KJVG; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332725
- ISBN
- 9780822332725
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€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332886
- ISBN
- 9780822332886
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Paperback. First complete study of the1898 Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor, its international relevance, and how the Exhibition's representations of the colonies, gender, class, and ethnicity influenced political culture in the Netherlands Translator(s): Hoyinck, Mischa F. C.; Chesal, Robert E. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 color illus., 31 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332961
- ISBN
- 9780822332961
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national borders Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333159
- ISBN
- 9780822333159
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333418
- ISBN
- 9780822333418
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Paperback. Shares the life experiences of the children of 4 siblings who out of eight siblings, parents and grandparents, survived the Holocaust. It explores the ways in which these children from the same socio-cultural background have built diverse lives in German Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334217
- ISBN
- 9780822334217
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Paperback. How grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335658
- ISBN
- 9780822335658
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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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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. Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalism Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336747
- ISBN
- 9780822336747
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Paperback. Argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This book urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; HBG; HBLH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336907
- ISBN
- 9780822336907
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paperback. Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance Num Pages: 488 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; AN; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337225
- ISBN
- 9780822337225
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€ 34.99€ 31.70
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paperback. An innovative collection that brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies Editor(s): Stoler, Ann Laura. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 568 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 784.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822337249
- ISBN
- 9780822337249
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€ 37.99€ 33.91
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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
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337478
- ISBN
- 9780822337478
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337997
- ISBN
- 9780822337997
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Paperback. An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India. Num Pages: 288 pages, 46 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338420
- ISBN
- 9780822338420
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Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338970
- ISBN
- 9780822338970
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€ 31.99€ 28.71
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paperback. First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822339168
- ISBN
- 9780822339168
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