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Society & culture: general
Paperback. This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849231
- ISBN
- 9780807849231
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.04
€ 46.99
€ 46.04
Paperback. Tropicalia was a watershed cultural movement in Brazil. This title shows how the tropicalists appropriated and parodied cultural practices in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens. Num Pages: 276 pages, 12 colour and 18 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849767
- ISBN
- 9780807849767
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Condition: New
€ 49.72
€ 49.72
Paperback. Tracing the rise of the California teen as a national icon in the 1950s and 60s, Kirse May shows how idealized images of a suburban youth culture soothed America's post-war nerves while denying racial and urban realities. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853627
- ISBN
- 9780807853627
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Condition: New
€ 51.30
€ 51.30
Paperback. Surveying the past, present and future of historic preservation in America, this text features 15 essays by some of the most eminent voices in the field, essays which highlight the principle ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement. Editor(s): Stipe, Robert E. Series: Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture & the Decorative Arts. Num Pages: 608 pages, 108 illustrations, 3 tables, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AM; JFF; TNKX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854518
- ISBN
- 9780807854518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. This guidebook offers a journey into the lands and culture of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Introducing the vibrant world of Cherokee heritage, it is organized around seven geographical hubs of the original Cherokee homeland. Num Pages: 432 pages, 144 colour photographs, 11 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 1KBBFN; 1KBBSN; JFSL9; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 821.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854570
- ISBN
- 9780807854570
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.89
€ 31.99
€ 31.89
Paperback. Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855539
- ISBN
- 9780807855539
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Condition: New
€ 59.06
€ 59.06
Paperback. Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the 19th century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had the opposite effect. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855652
- ISBN
- 9780807855652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 48.56
€ 48.99
€ 48.56
Paperback. The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFSL3; JNK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855959
- ISBN
- 9780807855959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.69
€ 44.69
Paperback. This contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history, sensitive to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, was published in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8tabs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856062
- ISBN
- 9780807856062
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Condition: New
€ 57.55
€ 57.55
Paperback. Explores relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence. The author sheds light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture. She asks how children learned the racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856840
- ISBN
- 9780807856840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.38
€ 38.38
Paperback. Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird". Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856864
- ISBN
- 9780807856864
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Condition: New
€ 47.68
€ 47.68
Paperback. The US has been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four arrived religious communities - Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs - are being shaped by American values. Editor(s): Prothero, Stephen R. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 tables, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807857700
- ISBN
- 9780807857700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.53
€ 47.53
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859599
- ISBN
- 9780807859599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.24
€ 52.24
Paperback. Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century Num Pages: 337 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859766
- ISBN
- 9780807859766
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.51
€ 43.99
€ 43.51
Paperback. Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871201
- ISBN
- 9780807871201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.51
€ 43.99
€ 43.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 79 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR1; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871232
- ISBN
- 9780807871232
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.73
€ 26.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the role of foil whose contribution was to stimulate the energy of European dispossessors. This book recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871447
- ISBN
- 9780807871447
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Condition: New
€ 44.69
€ 44.69
Paperback. House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872673
- ISBN
- 9780807872673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.69
€ 44.69
Paperback. This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872710
- ISBN
- 9780807872710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.24
€ 52.24
Paperback. Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872901
- ISBN
- 9780807872901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.69
€ 44.69