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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 416 pages, 14 halftones. 3 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160825
ISBN
9780691160825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.38

Paperback. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353935
ISBN
9780822353935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. This title shows how this park embodies the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. It focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting. Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black-and-white illustrations, 7 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; JFC; JFSL9; JPVH3; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 248 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234680
ISBN
9780520234680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.20

Paperback. Imposing Harmony offers an analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; AVGC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341604
ISBN
9780822341604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.41

Hardback. Translator(s): Deane, Cormac. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: AFKV; APFA; CFD; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173667
ISBN
9780231173667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.02
€ 79.57

Paperback. Translator(s): Deane, Cormac. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AFKV; APFA; CFD; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173674
ISBN
9780231173674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the TwentyFirst Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583675779
ISBN
9781583675779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.76

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405136778
ISBN
9781405136778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.18

Paperback. Develops an historical argument with contemporary relevance - Empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. Focusing on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, this title shows how empire and the post-colony have pervaded - and corroded - Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-19th century onwards. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336976
ISBN
9780822336976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond World War I. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719018688
ISBN
9780719018688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.20

Paperback. Presents the history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity. This book probes more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, and argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 336 pages, Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117812
ISBN
9780691117812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.71
€ 42.11

Paperback. Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America. Editor(s): Fisher, Andrew; O'Hara, Matthew D. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344209
ISBN
9780822344209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.83

Paperback. A history of San Francisco, this work traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others - who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media. Num Pages: 437 pages, 85 b/w photographs, 7 maps, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 802.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
437
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520250086
ISBN
9780520250086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.02

Paperback. This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently, its bloody dismantling. Num Pages: 464 pages, 50ill. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC; JFSJ; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415908900
ISBN
9780415908900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.32

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Natural Heritage Books Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554887569
ISBN
9781554887569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.83

Hardback. Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and continuing relevance of empire. Rejecting choice-centered theories of imperial decline, Motyl maintains that the very structure of empires promotes decay and that decay in turn facilitates the progressive loss of territory. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFS; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121101
ISBN
9780231121101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.49

Hardback. Examines how immigrants acquire American ideas about race, both pre- and post-migration, in light of U.S. military presence and U.S. cultural dominance over their home country, drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations of Koreans in Seoul and Los Angeles. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758864
ISBN
9780804758864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.60

Paperback. An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities. Series: Culture, Politics & the Cold War. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558494145
ISBN
9781558494145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816670994
ISBN
9780816670994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. The author of this work explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed ways from other slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had access to power; and, even before legal emancipation, a large free black population lived there. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 307 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 619.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823219629
ISBN
9780823219629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.62

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