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Society & culture: general
Paperback. This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634248
- ISBN
- 9780748634248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634231
- ISBN
- 9780748634231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.91€ 114.65
€ 118.91
€ 114.65
Paperback. Examines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 316 pages, 128 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082792
- ISBN
- 9780231082792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Paperback. This study of American behavioural and thought patterns analyzes Americans' perceptual processes and how they contrast with the ways of thinking of other cultures. It should help the reader examine the cultural dimensions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; GTC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877864018
- ISBN
- 9781877864018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism. Editor(s): Murray, David. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894043
- ISBN
- 9780859894043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.54
€ 45.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173276
- ISBN
- 9780691173276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. This is the study of a major change in American middle-class emotional culture. It took place between the end of World War I and the 1950s. Becoming a "cool" character meant adopting an air of nonchalance, an emotional mantle, to shield the whole personality from embarrassing excess. Num Pages: 378 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM; JMH; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814779965
- ISBN
- 9780814779965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748619238
- ISBN
- 9780748619238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardback. This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BM; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073050
- ISBN
- 9780674073050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBCR; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560729617
- ISBN
- 9781560729617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.92€ 72.36
€ 93.92
€ 72.36
Paperback. Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 30 halftones. 8 tables. 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691124865
- ISBN
- 9780691124865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
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
€ 102.24
€ 102.24
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
€ 195.17
€ 195.17
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
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
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€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
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€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
Hardcover. From figurines to bumper stickers, Broadway to prime-time TV, angels have taken over America. This study looks objectively at the place of angels in American culture. It mixes theology, psychology, sociology of religion, gender theory, and even film criticism to create an unusually well-rounded survey of a uniquely American phenomenon. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615377
- ISBN
- 9780700615377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41
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
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
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
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
CD-Audio.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- AK Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Abridged
- Number of pages
- 52
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902593449
- ISBN
- 9781902593449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.24
€ 15.99
€ 14.24