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Society & culture: general

Paperback. This contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history, sensitive to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, was published in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8tabs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807856062
ISBN
9780807856062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.55

Paperback. Explores relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence. The author sheds light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture. She asks how children learned the racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807856840
ISBN
9780807856840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.38

Paperback. Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird". Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807856864
ISBN
9780807856864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.68

Paperback. The US has been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four arrived religious communities - Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs - are being shaped by American values. Editor(s): Prothero, Stephen R. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 tables, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807857700
ISBN
9780807857700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.53

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

€ 52.24

Paperback. Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century Num Pages: 337 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807859766
ISBN
9780807859766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.51

Paperback. Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807871201
ISBN
9780807871201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 79 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR1; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807871232
ISBN
9780807871232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the role of foil whose contribution was to stimulate the energy of European dispossessors. This book recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807871447
ISBN
9780807871447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.69

Paperback. House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807872673
ISBN
9780807872673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.69

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

€ 52.24

Paperback. Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807872901
ISBN
9780807872901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.69

Paperback. In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions. Series: Shawnee Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 72 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFE; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809322176
ISBN
9780809322176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.60

Paperback. Explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors. Editor(s): Glenn, Cheryl; Logan, Shirley Wilson. Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; CFG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809327508
ISBN
9780809327508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.94

Paperback. Drawing on 4 decades of "New York Times" editorials, this book demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread across the continent in the post-Civil War period. It provides perspectives on the public images of Natives and their place in a nation bent on expansion. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809327621
ISBN
9780809327621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809332946
ISBN
9780809332946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.88

Paperback. Tells us about the social and political roles of women in America as they do about the relation of the first lady to the press. Looking at the personal interaction between each first lady and the mass media of her day, the author traces the growth of the institution of the first lady as a part of the American political system. Series: Visions of the American Press S. Num Pages: 240 pages, plates [10]. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHL; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810123120
ISBN
9780810123120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.91

Paperback. Begins with the death of the poet Karen Gershon's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kinder-transport mission. This title charts the period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated passage from adolescence to adulthood in the British Isles. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810126138
ISBN
9780810126138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127173
ISBN
9780810127173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810129337
ISBN
9780810129337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

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