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Hardback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822342861
ISBN
9780822342861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.16

Paperback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343035
ISBN
9780822343035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.22

Paperback. An ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343042
ISBN
9780822343042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.41

Paperback. An historical account of the significant roles of feminists and female philanthropists in the emergence of the Argentine welfare state between 1880 and 1955. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; HB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343301
ISBN
9780822343301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.16

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JMC; JFFN; JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344094
ISBN
9780822344094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.49

Paperback. A biography of Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884-1950), a Winnebago educator, scholar, and minister who was one of the most renowned Native Americans of his time. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL1; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344216
ISBN
9780822344216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.16

Paperback. An argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFC; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344469
ISBN
9780822344469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Editor(s): McCrossen, Alexis. Num Pages: 440 pages, 105 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFCD; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344759
ISBN
9780822344759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.68

Paperback. An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSK; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345015
ISBN
9780822345015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345480
ISBN
9780822345480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Paperback. What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric and/or violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? This volume addresses these questions through critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are produced. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345985
ISBN
9780822345985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.22

Paperback. Shows the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. This book explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa challenge assumptions about historical trauma and politics of gay visibility. Num Pages: 336 pages, 63 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFH2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822346012
ISBN
9780822346012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.42

Paperback. An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Series Editor(s): Halberstam, Jack; Lowe, Lisa. Series: Perverse Modernities. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; JFCA; JFFH; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348283
ISBN
9780822348283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.13

Hardback. The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFFH2; MBNH; MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780822348627
ISBN
9780822348627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.00

Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVG; GTB; JFFH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349129
ISBN
9780822349129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350330
ISBN
9780822350330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.33

Paperback. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350491
ISBN
9780822350491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.33

Paperback. In this feminist cultural study of reenactments, Katie King traces the development of a new kind of transmedia storytelling during the 1990s, as a response to the increasing difficulty of reaching large audiences at a time where entertainment media and knowledge production were both being restructured. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350729
ISBN
9780822350729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.58

Paperback. This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351313
ISBN
9780822351313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.41

Paperback. This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally. Editor(s): Loomba, Ania; Lukose, Ritty A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351795
ISBN
9780822351795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.68

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