The Americas
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The Americas
Series: Innovation & Technology in the World Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775199
- ISBN
- 9780804775199
Condition: New
€ 143.67
€ 143.67
Paperback. In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. Num Pages: 200 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFC; JFD; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732183
- ISBN
- 9780226732183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.21
€ 44.21
Hardback. Ultimately, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420561
- ISBN
- 9781421420561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Paperback. Examines the leadership styles of the earliest presidents, men who served at a time when it was by no means certain that the American experiment in free government would succeed. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160917
- ISBN
- 9780691160917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.50
€ 25.50
Hardback. Examines the leadership styles of earliest presidents, men who served at a time when it was by no means certain that the American experiment in free government would succeed. This book explains how these early presidents and their successors shaped the American presidency and helped the republic prosper despite challenges at home and abroad. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133584
- ISBN
- 9780691133584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.83
€ 27.83
Paperback. Features the history of an evangelical revival known in America as the "Great Awakening"�'. This book offers an overview of this episode and proposes an explanation of its origins. It demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HRCC99; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691086910
- ISBN
- 9780691086910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.53
€ 72.53
Hardback. Throughout the twentieth century, popular songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels alternated between representing intelligence as empowering and as threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, Aaron Lecklider cracks open this paradox by examining representations of intelligence to reveal brainpower's stalwart appeal and influence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244861
- ISBN
- 9780812244861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.88
€ 59.88
Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26, 16 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873942
- ISBN
- 9780801873942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Describes the early history of American guitar design in detail. This title tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. Num Pages: 360 pages, Four-Colour, Heavily Illustrated Throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 276 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1898.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation United States
- Edition
- 2013 edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781458405760
- ISBN
- 9781458405760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.87
€ 84.87
Paperback. Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496804
- ISBN
- 9781558496804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.62
€ 49.62
hardcover. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 340 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802050014
- ISBN
- 9780802050014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.23
€ 105.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; WNC; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632204868
- ISBN
- 9781632204868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.57
€ 16.57
hardcover. An analysis of the Irish community of city of Worcester, Massachusetts around the turn of the 20th century. The author reveals how an ethnic group can endure and yet change when its first American-born generation takes control of its destiny. Series: Irish in America S. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780268031534
- ISBN
- 9780268031534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.33
€ 167.33
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520227408
- ISBN
- 9780520227408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.83
€ 47.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742561274
- ISBN
- 9780742561274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.27
€ 76.27
Hardback. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 388 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 35. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442251861
- ISBN
- 9781442251861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.84
€ 66.84
Hardcover. Series: Perspective History of Congress 1789-1801. Num Pages: 315 pages, Notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JPH; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 789. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821412718
- ISBN
- 9780821412718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.14
€ 72.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572336513
- ISBN
- 9781572336513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.53
€ 47.53
Paperback. Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. This book explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; MBNH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283459
- ISBN
- 9780520283459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
paperback. Inventing Atlantic Canada is the first book to analyse the reaction of the Maritime provinces to Newfoundland's entry into Confederation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442611580
- ISBN
- 9781442611580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.41
€ 43.41