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Society & culture: general
paperback. A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APT; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333418
- ISBN
- 9780822333418
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Paperback. The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic Editor(s): Fujii, James A. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 illus., 7 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333463
- ISBN
- 9780822333463
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Paperback. Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333883
- ISBN
- 9780822333883
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Paperback. Explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334170
- ISBN
- 9780822334170
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Paperback. Shares the life experiences of the children of 4 siblings who out of eight siblings, parents and grandparents, survived the Holocaust. It explores the ways in which these children from the same socio-cultural background have built diverse lives in German Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334217
- ISBN
- 9780822334217
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Paperback. Focuses on the extensive changes that have taken place in Cuba since 1993, when Castro legalized the dollar, with essays including transformations in the economy, religious life, the literary world, ballet, and hip hop. Editor(s): Chavez, Lydia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 75 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJ; GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 513.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822334941
- ISBN
- 9780822334941
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Paperback. An exploration of how cultural agency can be used by different organizations and artists to rethink and challenge the notion of a globalized society Editor(s): Sommer, Doris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822334996
- ISBN
- 9780822334996
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Paperback. A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJP; APT; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
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- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822335436
- ISBN
- 9780822335436
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Paperback. How grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335658
- ISBN
- 9780822335658
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Paperback. A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world Editor(s): Scully, Pamela; Paton, Diana. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KL; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335948
- ISBN
- 9780822335948
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Paperback. Cultural readings of alien encounters Editor(s): Battaglia, Debbora. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336211
- ISBN
- 9780822336211
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Paperback. An ethnography about 'Japan outside of Japan' - specifically, how Japanese families on corporate re-assignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336228
- ISBN
- 9780822336228
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Paperback. Analyzes scientific, literary, and popular works of the last century to offer a cross-disciplinary reading of Mars as both an object of scientific study and as a site on which humankind has projected its fears of ecological devastation Num Pages: 456 pages, 4 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: FL; JFCA; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336389
- ISBN
- 9780822336389
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Paperback. An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 176 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APT; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3480 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336402
- ISBN
- 9780822336402
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Paperback. An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336440
- ISBN
- 9780822336440
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Paperback. Asks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradox Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 26 illus., 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336471
- ISBN
- 9780822336471
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Paperback. A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionary Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 photos, 4 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336655
- ISBN
- 9780822336655
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Paperback. Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalism Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336747
- ISBN
- 9780822336747
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Paperback. This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization Num Pages: 456 pages, 28 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 653.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336891
- ISBN
- 9780822336891
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paperback. A cultural history of the political legitimization of youth rebellion during the Cold War era Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 400 pages, 37 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336921
- ISBN
- 9780822336921
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Paperback. Develops an historical argument with contemporary relevance - Empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. Focusing on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, this title shows how empire and the post-colony have pervaded - and corroded - Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-19th century onwards. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336976
- ISBN
- 9780822336976
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paperback. Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance Num Pages: 488 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; AN; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337225
- ISBN
- 9780822337225
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€ 34.99€ 32.13
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paperback. An innovative collection that brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies Editor(s): Stoler, Ann Laura. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 568 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 784.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
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- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822337249
- ISBN
- 9780822337249
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Paperback. A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
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- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337478
- ISBN
- 9780822337478
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€ 29.99€ 26.56
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