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Society & culture: general

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351924
ISBN
9780822351924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 photos, 10 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532. Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands. 384 pages, 19 photographs, 10 tables, 3 maps. Examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the Lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351856
ISBN
9780822351856
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€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback. Folksongs of North India. 320 pages, 30 photographs, 2 maps. Analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AVGH; JFSJ. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 19. Weight: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351306
ISBN
9780822351306
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.18

Paperback. Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and then "medicalized" the modern home several decades later. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304. Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home. 224 pages, 15 illustrations. Traces the history of television as a therapeutic device. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351269
ISBN
9780822351269
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Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Hardback. The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Editor(s): Lopez, A. Ricardo; Weinstein, Barbara. Series: Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review Book Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351177
ISBN
9780822351177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.60

Paperback. Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351054
ISBN
9780822351054
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918. Series: Objects/Histories. 344 pages, 121 photographs (duotones), 1 table. Looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AJG; HBJD1; JFC. Dimension: 206 x 254 x 21. Weight: 1008.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351047
ISBN
9780822351047
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Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback. Sergio Ramirez was Vice President of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990. This title covers the turbulent years that toppled the Samoza dictatorship in 1979 and the triumphs and shortcomings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that was charged with national reconstruction and social transformation in this country and region. Translator(s): Skar, Stacey Alba D. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLCM; BG; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350873
ISBN
9780822350873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350866
ISBN
9780822350866
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. 408 pages, 71 photographs. Editor(s): Wallace, Maurice O.; Smith, Shawn Michelle. Brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 29. Weight: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350859
ISBN
9780822350859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350828
ISBN
9780822350828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350507
ISBN
9780822350507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350439
ISBN
9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.49

Paperback. Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 424 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APT; AVGN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584. Popular Music on Early Television. Series: Console-ing Passions. 424 pages, 29 illustrations. Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APT; AVGN; JFD. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 25. Weight: 584.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350118
ISBN
9780822350118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. The difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have children Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 36 tables, 17 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350088
ISBN
9780822350088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350064
ISBN
9780822350064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. An anthology of writing by Jacqueline Rose, a singular, provocative critic renowned for her commitment to psychoanalytic theory as a uniquely productive way of analyzing literature, culture, politics, and society. Editor(s): Clemens, Justin; Naparstek, Ben. Num Pages: 440 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349785
ISBN
9780822349785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Editor(s): Browner, Carole H.; Sargent, Carolyn Fishel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHM; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349600
ISBN
9780822349600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349518
ISBN
9780822349518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349457
ISBN
9780822349457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.22

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