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Hardback. All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? This book illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society. Editor(s): Bayor, Ronald H. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 179 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
1104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119948
ISBN
9780231119948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.77

Hardback. Presents the Asian American heritage through various sources including speeches, diary entries, editorials, and more. This work tells the story of South and Southeast Asians' transplantation to a new culture, and covers the issues of gender relations and sexuality, racial profiling and stereotyping, and diasporic connections to homeland cultures. Editor(s): Odo, Franklin. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 37. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110303
ISBN
9780231110303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.35

Hardback. Addresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr? Editor(s): Frankovich, Nicholas; Larzelere, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; GBCR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231112345
ISBN
9780231112345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.33
€ 111.05

Paperback. Editor(s): Harris, Robert L.; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138116
ISBN
9780231138116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127912
ISBN
9780231127912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Offers students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with a source of information and interpretation. This book focuses on areas in which scholars have identified changes (such as suffrage and reform), and innovative explorations (for example, work on female sexuality). It features alphabetical encyclopedia-like entries. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; GBC; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231109208
ISBN
9780231109208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.66

Hardback. Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115100
ISBN
9780231115100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.32

Paperback. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 75 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; GB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121651
ISBN
9780231121651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. Editor(s): Kritzman, Lawrence D. Translator(s): DeBevoise, Malcolm. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 206 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107907
ISBN
9780231107907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Aiming to provide a corrective to the rhetoric of suspicion and fear surrounding discussions of Muslims in the United States, this book emphasizes Muslims' continuing impact on American society and culture. It also includes records from the large-scale migrations of the 1880s; and racial, ethnic, and religious trends of the 1960s. Editor(s): Curtis, Edward E., IV. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231139564
ISBN
9780231139564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.39

Paperback. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146418
ISBN
9780231146418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire built by Comanche Indians rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This book uncovers the lost story of Comanches. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations + 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151176
ISBN
9780300151176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

Paperback. The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644042
ISBN
9780745644042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.30

Hardback. The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644035
ISBN
9780745644035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback. In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 halftones, 4 maps, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJH; HBTB; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226767772
ISBN
9780226767772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 7tabs.5M. BIC Classification: 1H; JFMX; JFSJ1; JHM; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226895079
ISBN
9780226895079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Random House USA Paperbacks
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780375707599
ISBN
9780375707599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.10

Paperback. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it. 264 pages, illustrations. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight: 370.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271234
ISBN
9780520271234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. : A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JPFB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 117 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Autonomedia
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350804
ISBN
9781584350804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. This book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence. Series: Extraordinary World. Num Pages: 189 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Bison Books ed.
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803266551
ISBN
9780803266551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

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