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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333463
- ISBN
- 9780822333463
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€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
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Paperback. An examination of visual art in post-independence Senegal. It explores the complex interplay of cultural nationalism, negotiations of postcolonial identity, and an emergent artistic modernism. Highlighting the distinctive cultural history that shaped Sengalese modernism, it reveals its innovations, diversity, and dynamism. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 color photos, 78 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ACXJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822333951
- ISBN
- 9780822333951
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822334941
- ISBN
- 9780822334941
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€ 30.99€ 27.51
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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822335436
- ISBN
- 9780822335436
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€ 30.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. An ethnographic study of Zimbabwe's land occupations that focuses on the effects of spatialized struggles on sovereignty and the nation-state Num Pages: 424 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJP; GTB; JHMC; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335702
- ISBN
- 9780822335702
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€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
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Paperback. A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335719
- ISBN
- 9780822335719
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€ 30.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336433
- ISBN
- 9780822336433
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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336440
- ISBN
- 9780822336440
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration" Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 b&w photos, 4 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336693
- ISBN
- 9780822336693
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€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336921
- ISBN
- 9780822336921
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€ 32.99€ 29.82
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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337225
- ISBN
- 9780822337225
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€ 34.99€ 31.94
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Paperback. Develops a theory of how exit-voice dynamics affect collective action in order to identify the processes that spurred the extraordinarily swift and surprisingly bloodless 1989 revolution within the German Democratic Republic. This work compares the East German rebellion with events occurring during the same period in other communist states. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 tables, 17 figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337652
- ISBN
- 9780822337652
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Paperback. Traces the history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period, revealing how popular film styles and controversial film regulations in the politically linked territories of Britain and India reconfigured imperial relations. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822337935
- ISBN
- 9780822337935
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€ 31.99€ 28.64
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Paperback. Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337959
- ISBN
- 9780822337959
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€ 32.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337997
- ISBN
- 9780822337997
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€ 30.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India. Num Pages: 288 pages, 46 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338420
- ISBN
- 9780822338420
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Paperback. By turns candid, witty, and poignant, 36 Views of Mount Fuji is an American professor's much-praised memoir about her experiences of Japan and the Japanese. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339137
- ISBN
- 9780822339137
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Paperback. While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed about what constitutes safe, decorous driving and who is capable of it. This title presents a cultural history of America's fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Num Pages: 360 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339632
- ISBN
- 9780822339632
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€ 32.99€ 29.82
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Paperback. Brings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take. Editor(s): Martin, Michael T.; Yaquinto, Marilyn. Num Pages: 728 pages, 6 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBJK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 42. Weight in Grams: 993.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 728
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340249
- ISBN
- 9780822340249
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€ 41.99€ 37.53
€ 41.99
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Paperback. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. This title brings together some of the original research on this emerging cinema and its relationship to Chinese society. Editor(s): Zhang, Zhen (Communications Science Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA). Num Pages: 464 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340744
- ISBN
- 9780822340744
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94