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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, this book focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a trans-national fight for Khalistan. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JH; 3JJ; HRKS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326151
ISBN
9780822326151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. "Political clientelism" is a term used to characterise the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favours. This title presents the ethnography of urban clientelism ever carried out in Argentina. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFFA; JHMP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326212
ISBN
9780822326212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Suitable for those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth century history, this book analyses texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326977
ISBN
9780822326977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.18

Paperback. Bernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation. Editor(s): Moore, David Chioni. Num Pages: 576 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327172
ISBN
9780822327172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, this title provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States in order to illuminate the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism in an increasingly globalised world. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJH; JFFN; JFSL1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327912
ISBN
9780822327912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Hardback. Views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328827
ISBN
9780822328827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.75

Paperback. Shows how new forms of desire, pleasure, anxiety and curiosity emerged as capitalist reforms advanced in post-Maoist China. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329213
ISBN
9780822329213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.49

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329725
ISBN
9780822329725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.15

Paperback. Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this work collects studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330226
ISBN
9780822330226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.45

Paperback. Presenting a social history of "the new woman" that emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, this title shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom, particularly in the 1920s. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 33 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330448
ISBN
9780822330448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.04

Paperback. A comprehensive guide to the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory. It offers an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein's thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 504 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330455
ISBN
9780822330455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 34.56

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330486
ISBN
9780822330486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. Introduces concepts of time from physics to students of religion, and discusses these concepts in relation to the notions of time in Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Judeo-Christian and Islamic thought. Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 illus., 12 figures. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331445
ISBN
9780822331445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Examines the history of banana-producing areas of Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective, asking why different regions developed distinct patterns of property and labor mobilization. This collection also reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages. Editor(s): Striffler, Steve; Moberg, Mark. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 illustrations, 16 tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822331964
ISBN
9780822331964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. An account of the rise, fall, and persistence of the 20th century's Black Zionist dream -- the movement's creation of a homeland in Africa. Num Pages: 456 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFD; GTB; JFSL3; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332473
ISBN
9780822332473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.31

Paperback. The Inkan empire did not have writing as it is usually understood. The Inkas kept track of information - including their social and political organization - on khipus, knotted cords of cotton or wool. This book offers a reading of the khipus of one Andean village, where villagers have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 368 pages, 55 photos (incl. 16 in color), 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1KLSX; HB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333906
ISBN
9780822333906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333937
ISBN
9780822333937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Examines the politics of a 19th c. peasant revolt in Peru, looking at the organization and practice of government by the rebels to examine what a largely illiterate population understood by terms such as "nation" and showing the rebellion's significance in constructing the Peruvian State. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 b&w photos, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334415
ISBN
9780822334415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334910
ISBN
9780822334910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. An examination of how popular culture is received and produced within the Middle East. Editor(s): Stein, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JFCA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335160
ISBN
9780822335160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335443
ISBN
9780822335443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. Generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335979
ISBN
9780822335979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

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