Society & culture: general
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Society & culture: general
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422335
- ISBN
- 9780821422335
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€ 27.99€ 26.21
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822311195
- ISBN
- 9780822311195
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€ 32.99€ 29.60
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315919
- ISBN
- 9780822315919
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- Text is Free of Markings
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316497
- ISBN
- 9780822316497
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Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: JFSJ5; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316923
- ISBN
- 9780822316923
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316930
- ISBN
- 9780822316930
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€ 27.99€ 26.48
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316992
- ISBN
- 9780822316992
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317395
- ISBN
- 9780822317395
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€ 27.99€ 26.43
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317913
- ISBN
- 9780822317913
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€ 30.99€ 27.59
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319993
- ISBN
- 9780822319993
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320227
- ISBN
- 9780822320227
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€ 32.99€ 29.60
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320463
- ISBN
- 9780822320463
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€ 37.99€ 33.91
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Paperback. Without psychoanalysing philosophy, this title explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterised by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist." Editor(s): Zizek, Slavoj. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320975
- ISBN
- 9780822320975
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Paperback. In this text, the author, Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little-known group of migrant shepherds in western India, to re-examine scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFS; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321224
- ISBN
- 9780822321224
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
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Paperback. Reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States - George Washington Williams. Awarded the Clarence L Holte Literary Prize, this is a part biography and part social history. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321644
- ISBN
- 9780822321644
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capital? Is it possible for America to honour General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? This title deals with these questions. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 160 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; JFC; JHM; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322207
- ISBN
- 9780822322207
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
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Paperback. Presents a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. This book shows how women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction. It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322719
- ISBN
- 9780822322719
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€ 27.99€ 26.43
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Paperback. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFSC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press North Carolina
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322887
- ISBN
- 9780822322887
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€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback. Brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. This book includes essays that examine an array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 376 pages, 55 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323426
- ISBN
- 9780822323426
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. Suitable for scholars and students in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women's studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labour and postcolonial studies, this book presents an ethnography of globalisation positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324393
- ISBN
- 9780822324393
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324416
- ISBN
- 9780822324416
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Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324447
- ISBN
- 9780822324447
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television. Series: Console-ing Passions. 360 pages, 35 illustrations, 10 tables. During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket headlines became ubiquitous in America as the 'tabloidisation' of the nation's media took hold. This title analyses important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFD; KNTD. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 22. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325697
- ISBN
- 9780822325697
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Paperback. Focuses on the role of African American folk music in Renaissance aesthetic and political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity. This book elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation in the era of the Harlem Renaissance. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325918
- ISBN
- 9780822325918
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
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