History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Examines the ways in which place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. The authors assemble a set of essays that uncover not only the geography of revolutions but also the role of geography in revolutions. Editor(s): Livingstone, David N.; Withers, Charles W. J. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226487335
- ISBN
- 9780226487335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.27
€ 84.27
Hardcover. Presents a study of playhouse catastrophes and the theory of performance they convey. Bringing together dramatic theory,theatrical, religious, and cultural history, this title reveals the period's radical take on the history and the future of the stage to show just how critical the relation was between early modern English theater and its public. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; AN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226500195
- ISBN
- 9780226500195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.60
€ 69.60
Hardcover. Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. It was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his kitchen. The author examines what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants. Num Pages: 200 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226651408
- ISBN
- 9780226651408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.57
€ 36.57
Hardcover. Almost fifty years after Brown v Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. This title examines a complex relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBTB; JNFR; JNKH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226660714
- ISBN
- 9780226660714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.29
€ 133.29
Hardcover. An essay that focuses on reading in an e-reader world. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, it offers an elegantly argued and up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world. Num Pages: 200 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226669786
- ISBN
- 9780226669786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.82
€ 32.82
Paperback. Translator(s): Bowman, Sharon. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226723693
- ISBN
- 9780226723693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.12
€ 45.12
Hardcover. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226733074
- ISBN
- 9780226733074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.23
€ 130.23
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226744254
- ISBN
- 9780226744254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.27
€ 82.27
Hardcover. By situating malleable ethnic bonds in the context of political economy and racial dynamics, this work offers a fresh perspective on the potential of local environments to shape individual identities and social experience. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 1KBCO; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226770741
- ISBN
- 9780226770741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226781679
- ISBN
- 9780226781679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.55
€ 118.55
Hardcover. After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. This book demonstrates that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846682
- ISBN
- 9780226846682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.58
€ 119.58
Hardcover. Examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing - harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226893471
- ISBN
- 9780226893471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.73
€ 118.73
Hardcover. Reveals that pawnshops have long played an integral role in Americans' economic lives. Presenting the history of pawn-broking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, this title demonstrates that the practice was inextricably intertwined with the rise of capitalism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 39 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; KCZ; KFFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905679
- ISBN
- 9780226905679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.55
€ 118.55
Hardcover. Overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. The author's investigation begins in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as primary mark of racial difference. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922935
- ISBN
- 9780226922935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.96
€ 69.96
Hardcover. History of a Nicaraguan family based on conversations with its members over a four-year period. The author traces their story from the years of repression and guerilla activity under Somoza, through to an era of personal and political revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299126100
- ISBN
- 9780299126100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.07
€ 31.07
Paperback. This is the second edition of Stern's account of the Indians of the Ayachucho region of Peru during the century that followed the Spanish Conquest. Following ten years of historical interpretation, the author is now able to set his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299141844
- ISBN
- 9780299141844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.01
€ 32.01
The University of Wisconsin: A History, 1925-1945- Politics, Depressio...
E. David Cronon, Jenkins, John W.
Hardcover. An account of the political, social, and educational transformations, emphasizing the effect of Wisconsin's partisan politics on the University, the growth of the faculty's role in institutional governance, the development of student communities and the enhancement of its academic reputation. Num Pages: 800 pages, halftones, line drawings, cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299144302
- ISBN
- 9780299144302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.38
€ 40.99
€ 39.38
Paperback. Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299145743
- ISBN
- 9780299145743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.02
€ 25.02
Paperback. Eamonn Wall arrived in the US in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish". In this book he wrestles with his own identity, and comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memories of both the New Irish and Americans of Irish heritage. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2AB; BG; DNF; DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Pres
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299167240
- ISBN
- 9780299167240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.29
€ 17.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as "Roger and Me" and "Sherman's March" raise weighty questions about American cultural life. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 376 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APF; HBT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299176549
- ISBN
- 9780299176549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.16
€ 39.16