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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalising theoretical framework, this title demonstrates how localised and resistant social practices - including anti-colonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labour organising, and various cultural movements - challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production. Editor(s): Lowe, Lisa; Lloyd, David. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320463
ISBN
9780822320463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.86

Paperback. Presents the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. This book is useful for labour historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of Dutch or European history. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 b&w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320227
ISBN
9780822320227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319993
ISBN
9780822319993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. Editor(s): Hendrickson, Hildi. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317913
ISBN
9780822317913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. Presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. This book develops a perspective variously historical, philosophical, and cultural by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317395
ISBN
9780822317395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

Paperback. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316992
ISBN
9780822316992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316930
ISBN
9780822316930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: JFSJ5; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316923
ISBN
9780822316923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. This title gathered many of those foundational essays. Editor(s): Bove, Paul A. Series: A Boundary 2 Book. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316497
ISBN
9780822316497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

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. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, the author chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, racial, religious, and class identities. Num Pages: 343 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSG; JFC; JFSL3; JHM; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311195
ISBN
9780822311195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; BGH; JFSJ1; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821422335
ISBN
9780821422335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BK; DNJ; JFD; KNTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821421772
ISBN
9780821421772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

Paperback. The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozam-bique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821420881
ISBN
9780821420881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.00

Hardback. Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Editor(s): Cox, Steven. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821420867
ISBN
9780821420867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.96

Paperback. Takes a look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. This work considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; and the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821417621
ISBN
9780821417621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. This study argues that, due to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its images of women at work, the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or male radical, because she exposed contradictions in the class and gender ideologies of the period. Num Pages: 233 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821413883
ISBN
9780821413883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.25

Hardcover. Series: Center for Chemical Process Safety "Guidelines" series. Num Pages: 358 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSW; TC; TDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 675.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816906536
ISBN
9780816906536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 232.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFC; JKSW; TC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1042.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816905683
ISBN
9780816905683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 323.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACXJ; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816699155
ISBN
9780816699155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

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