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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320708
ISBN
9780822320708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

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

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

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
€ 29.60

Paperback. Explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. In the course of this historical analysis, this book takes on some of the most influential critical perspectives on Japanese social and labour history. It will interest scholars of labour history. Editor(s): Gordon, Andrew. Translator(s): Boardman, Terry. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 figures, 2 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JPWF; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320180
ISBN
9780822320180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

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
€ 25.12

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319887
ISBN
9780822319887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. This book explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this period. Num Pages: 264 pages, 58 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319481
ISBN
9780822319481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Includes essays illustrating how valuable the analytic of colonial modernity is to the rethinking of contemporary history. Editor(s): Barlow, Tani E. Series: A Positions Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, 40 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 40. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319436
ISBN
9780822319436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. This title features essays that demonstrate how over the years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. Editor(s): Gupta, Akhil; Ferguson, James. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319405
ISBN
9780822319405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318248
ISBN
9780822318248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.37

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
€ 26.43

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
€ 29.51

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

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

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