Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Paperback. Using a variety of sources - official papers, travel documents, diaries and newspapers - Duane Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migaration, their life in America and their curious allegiance to George III. Num Pages: 216 pages, maps, diagrams. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807841990
- ISBN
- 9780807841990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.02
€ 33.02
Paperback. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 563 pages, Illustrations, 1map,1facsim.,ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 563
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807842324
- ISBN
- 9780807842324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.76
€ 41.99
€ 41.76
Paperback. The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia. Num Pages: 584 pages, 10 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807846230
- ISBN
- 9780807846230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.50
€ 50.99
€ 50.50
Paperback. This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849231
- ISBN
- 9780807849231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.04
€ 46.04
Paperback. Surveying the past, present and future of historic preservation in America, this text features 15 essays by some of the most eminent voices in the field, essays which highlight the principle ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. Editor(s): Stipe, Robert E. Series: Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture & the Decorative Arts. Num Pages: 608 pages, 108 illustrations, 3 tables, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AM; JFF; TNKX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854518
- ISBN
- 9780807854518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.96
€ 62.96
Paperback. Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the 19th century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had the opposite effect. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855652
- ISBN
- 9780807855652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859599
- ISBN
- 9780807859599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.50
€ 50.99
€ 50.50
Paperback. This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872710
- ISBN
- 9780807872710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.50
€ 50.99
€ 50.50
Hardcover. Jessie Fauset's and Nella Larsen's novels raise important questions about gender and race. This book looks at Fauset's "Plum Bun" and "Comedy: American Style" and Larsen's "Quicksand" and "Passing", finding them revisionary and subversive. It looks at their work rather than at their lives. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFF; JFSJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813915531
- ISBN
- 9780813915531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.46
€ 71.46
Paperback. From racial disturbances in Miami has emerged the image that Blacks, Hispanics and Anglos are pitted against one another for resources. This text explores the construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict, including interviews with politicians, journalists and business people. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917054
- ISBN
- 9780813917054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.95
€ 42.95
Hardcover. A vision of our shared global future, taken from the speeches and exchanges of eight visionary recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Dalai Lamai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others discussed issues ranging from international relations to areas traditionally excluded from such discourse. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFFE; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919874
- ISBN
- 9780813919874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.01
€ 59.01
Paperback. Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. This book examines the work of various writers to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926391
- ISBN
- 9780813926391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.84
€ 42.84
Paperback. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930725
- ISBN
- 9780813930725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Hardcover. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HRCC99; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935317
- ISBN
- 9780813935317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardcover. Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938196
- ISBN
- 9780813938196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.69
€ 108.69
Paperback. Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offering an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938202
- ISBN
- 9780813938202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.08
€ 49.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFFJ; JFSL; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816699964
- ISBN
- 9780816699964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.09
€ 26.09
Paperback. In spring of 2001, across the South, padlocks and logging chains bind the doors of silent mills, and it seems a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. In these real-life stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817356835
- ISBN
- 9780817356835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.97
€ 17.99
€ 16.97
Paperback. Examines the KGB at the pinnacle of its power during the anti-corruption campaigns of 1982-1987, when it sought to break the Communist Party's stranglehold on Moscow's two largest trade organizations, which were built on a foundation of bribery and favoritism. Series: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JFFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822961086
- ISBN
- 9780822961086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.95
€ 74.95
Paperback. Father Gregory J Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. This title presents the story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary successes. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826344854
- ISBN
- 9780826344854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62