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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. Examining the work of such artists as Mark Rothko, Max Weber, and Ruth Weisberg, this title reveals the different ways these artists responded to the Great Immigration, the Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, and the rise of feminism. It is suitable for those interested in modern American art and Jewish studies. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 290 pages, 77 black-&-white illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630678
ISBN
9780815630678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.34

Paperback. The first comprehensive guide to identifying and interpreting items such as buttons, clasps, buckles, combs, and other items of personal adornment in early American museum collections and archaeological sites. Series: American Association for State & Local History. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCK; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759105898
ISBN
9780759105898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 95.73

Hardback. The first comprehensive guide to identifying and interpreting items such as buttons, clasps, buckles, combs, and other items of personal adornment in early American museum collections and archaeological sites. Series: American Association for State & Local History. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFCK; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 214 x 16. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759105881
ISBN
9780759105881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.55

Paperback. Visual texts demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. This book offers an account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like - or 'should' look like. Num Pages: 302 pages, 60 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJ; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691004785
ISBN
9780691004785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.33

Paperback. Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814745182
ISBN
9780814745182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. This text examines the links between persistent poverty among blacks in the United States and the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregration that they experience in American cities. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 line illustration, 22 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018211
ISBN
9780674018211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. Challenges cliches about race and gender while looking at current debates about multiculturalism and difference while simultaneously exposing the ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise of segregation Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315919
ISBN
9780822315919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, the author underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers insights into the intersection of race and culture in America. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226043104
ISBN
9780226043104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 33 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: JFSC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226313665
ISBN
9780226313665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. America's Four Gods is an unprecedented investigation into what average Americans think about God. Utilizing survey data and in-depth interviews, Froese and Bader demonstrate how Americans have four distinct conceptions of God and how these different Gods lie at the heart of the major social, moral, and political divisions in our country. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRAX; HRLM; JFSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
Updated Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190248857
ISBN
9780190248857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.11

Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; JFSL3; JPFF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813140773
ISBN
9780813140773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.70

Paperback. History of advertising using paper dolls from 1890s to First World War in America. Series: Schiffer Book for Collectors. Num Pages: 160 pages, 508 color photos. BIC Classification: AFH; JFCA; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764307027
ISBN
9780764307027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 24.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 86 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816649532
ISBN
9780816649532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Hardback. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815634805
ISBN
9780815634805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.18

Paperback. Shows how the issues confronted America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and "movements" on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans. This book is useful for instructors of American history survey courses. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 black-&-white photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631286
ISBN
9780815631286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 30 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JFSG; KNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 185 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Urban Land Institute
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874203639
ISBN
9780874203639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.30

Hardcover.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Number of pages
466
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KNW0010655
ISBN
9780446532730
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. Bringing the psychology of uncertainty together with contemporary case studies, this book is a sweeping diagnostic for-and antidote to-ineffective political discourse in a globalized world that imports bads as well as goods. Series: Themes in Global Social Change. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFC; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419602
ISBN
9781421419602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.44

Paperback. New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844676828
ISBN
9781844676828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.00
€ 17.13

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

€ 54.63

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