The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. Num Pages: 276 pages, 45 half-tones 4 tables 3 graphs 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804743396
- ISBN
- 9780804743396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.43
€ 38.99
€ 35.43
Paperback. Studying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth. Editor(s): Bortz, Jeffrey; Haber, Stephen H. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742085
- ISBN
- 9780804742085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.72
€ 40.99
€ 39.72
Paperback. This volume is the first to take a broad-ranging look at the engagement of Asian Americans with American politics. Its contributors come from a variety of disciplines-history, political science, sociology, and urban studies-and from the practical political realm. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G. Num Pages: 440 pages, 18 line diagrams 35 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 681.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742016
- ISBN
- 9780804742016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.48
€ 38.99
€ 35.48
Paperback. This book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide both enough union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government. Editor(s): Konig, David Thomas. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- V9780804741934
- ISBN
- 9780804741934
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.48
€ 38.99
€ 35.48
paperback. This title is a detailed examination of social interaction in the city of Chihuahua, a major silver mining center of colonial Mexico. Founded at the beginning of the 18th century, the city attracted people from all over New Spain, all summoned by the voices of the mines of Chihuahua. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741682
- ISBN
- 9780804741682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. Challenging the belief that national security agencies work well, this book asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in ways that meant they were handicapped from birth. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 tables 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH; JWK; KNSS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741316
- ISBN
- 9780804741316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.18
€ 34.99
€ 31.18
Hardback. The work of nearly every photographer of consequence since the nineteenth century is captured in this collection of photographs of California farmworkers, raising moral questions about the exploitation and colonization of an entire class of people. Num Pages: 360 pages, 249 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AJCP; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1379.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804740920
- ISBN
- 9780804740920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.36
€ 69.36
Paperback. This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHBC; JHBD; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740593
- ISBN
- 9780804740593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Hardback. This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 250 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 768 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; GBCB; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 768
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804740579
- ISBN
- 9780804740579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.85
€ 214.85
Paperback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740463
- ISBN
- 9780804740463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.82
€ 41.99
€ 41.82
Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804740456
- ISBN
- 9780804740456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.87
€ 178.87
Paperback. By addressing, through empirical research, the many facets of racial dynamics in higher education, this timely book offers not only strong arguments for the necessity of affirmative action policies, but also ways of building a research agenda that tests notions of fairness, merit, and the benefits of diversity. Editor(s): Chang, Mitchell J.; Witt, Daria; Jones, James; Hakuta, Kenji. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740357
- ISBN
- 9780804740357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.28
€ 33.99
€ 33.28
Hardback. This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the extensive writings of Dr. Francisco Hernandez (1515-87). Celebrated in his own day as one of Spain s leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work on the native plants of central Mexico. Editor(s): Varey, Simon. Translator(s): Chamberlin, Cynthia L.; Chabran, Rafael. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 line diagram 65 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; PDX; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 25. Weight in Grams: 945.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804739634
- ISBN
- 9780804739634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.63
€ 96.63
Paperback. This book analyzes the relationship between the many and the few in the formation of a republican polity. It studies the case of Buenos Aires in the 1860s and 1870s, when the inauguration of a new national order in Argentina entailed a radical change, by exploring the different forms of participation of the people in the public life of the city. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739443
- ISBN
- 9780804739443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.39
€ 38.99
€ 35.39
Paperback. In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs (71 duotones, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), the author vividly recreates the life and times of the Western Homestead Era. Num Pages: 200 pages, 71 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 6782 x 13. Weight in Grams: 689.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738873
- ISBN
- 9780804738873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.68€ 46.84
€ 50.68
€ 46.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 936 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HBWN; JHBL; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 1425. Weight in Grams: 1569.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 936
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804738804
- ISBN
- 9780804738804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.59€ 61.27
€ 62.59
€ 61.27
Paperback. This tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JH; PDX; UBJ; UKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738712
- ISBN
- 9780804738712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.52
€ 36.99
€ 31.52
Paperback. In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How did these ceramics, which were more than a hundred years old, find their way to this remote area? Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738491
- ISBN
- 9780804738491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.56
€ 29.99
€ 25.56
paperback. Published in 1929, Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd's "Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture" was destined to become a sociological point of reference for the quality of life in an average American town in the 1920s. This study sheds new light on the Middletown project. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJG; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738460
- ISBN
- 9780804738460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Hardback. Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause of the 1924 U.S. immigration law. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJG; JPS; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738132
- ISBN
- 9780804738132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.62
€ 91.62