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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Editor(s): Bendix, Regina F.; Bendix, John. Num Pages: 131 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHMP; JKVC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 8. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
131
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899879
ISBN
9788772899879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.39

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Seven Stories Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583227015
ISBN
9781583227015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583224786
ISBN
9781583224786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.89

Paperback. Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low, the bad, and the sleazy face of cinema, this book examines the ineffable quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Editor(s): Sconce, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 352 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339649
ISBN
9780822339649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.95

Paperback. Shows that although plantation slavery was a horrible reality for many Africans and their descendants in Latin America, blacks experienced many other realities in Iberian colonies. This work analyses a treatise by a seventeenth-century Muslim scholar in Morocco and argues it shaped the slave trade to Latin America. Editor(s): Landers, Jane G.; Robinson, Barry M. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826323972
ISBN
9780826323972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.94

Hardcover. A detailed history showing that the free blacks and "contraband" slaves who joined the US Navy during the Civil War were essential to Northern victories at sea. Through their role in preserving the Union, they helped to win recognition for African Americans as full citizens. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875802862
ISBN
9780875802862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCF; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472030224
ISBN
9780472030224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.33

hardcover. First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 284 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714631424
ISBN
9780714631424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.62

Paperback. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402369
ISBN
9781421402369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.89

hardcover. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBTS; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820348025
ISBN
9780820348025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.29

Paperback. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBTS; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820348056
ISBN
9780820348056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.10

Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402352
ISBN
9781421402352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.97

Hardback. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 246 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040559
ISBN
9780252040559
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
First Edition/. First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299096342
ISBN
9780299096342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.00

Hardback. Offers a comprehensive analysis of slavery in the First State. This text is suitable for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It provides insight into this period in the nation's history. Num Pages: 270 pages, indexes, tables, maps, charts, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTS; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842025942
ISBN
9780842025942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.33

Paperback. Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA. Num Pages: 576 pages, 104 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFH; PSAJ; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 936.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591431510
ISBN
9781591431510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.44

Paperback. Slave Religion remains the preeminent sythesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition will consider the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past twenty five years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today. Num Pages: 416 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Updated ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195174120
ISBN
9780195174120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.12

paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801852503
ISBN
9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.16

Paperback. Series: Modern Library Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Random House Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679783282
ISBN
9780679783282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.19

Paperback. This study addresses the question of why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918112
ISBN
9780813918112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. Investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. Smithers argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSL3; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813049601
ISBN
9780813049601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.80

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472592095
ISBN
9781472592095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.77

Paperback. Exploring the often difficult relations between hip-hop and schooling, Slam School builds a new and surprising argument: the very reasons teachers and administrators might resist the deliberate introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital. Num Pages: 208 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JNF; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763660
ISBN
9780804763660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.30

Hardback. In this text, one of today's foremost art historians and critics presents an original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Translator(s): Goodman, John. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732451
ISBN
9780804732451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.46

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