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The Americas

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive analysis of a range of literary works that extends into the 21st century. This book covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. It features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and more. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 266 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119062523
ISBN
9781119062523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.85

Offers an analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century. This book covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. It features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192323
ISBN
9781405192323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 143.12

Paperback. Jean de Lery had undertaken his arduous voyage to the land of Brazil in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. This title presents a translation of an early European account of life in the New World. Translator(s): Whatley, Janet. Series: Latin American Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 340 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520082748
ISBN
9780520082748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.74

Paperback. Fifteen scholars and museum staffers critically review American history museums. They note exhibit form and content, social and political contexts, and suggest improvements. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Editor(s): Leon, Warren; Rosenzweig, Roy. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252060649
ISBN
9780252060649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.78

Hardcover. Argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large. This title peels back layers of clutter to reveal the important questions at the heart of various complex and fruitful discussions about the connections between culture and literature. Num Pages: 228 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587297977
ISBN
9781587297977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156149
ISBN
9780691156149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.63

paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The New Press United States
Edition
HIST
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595582157
ISBN
9781595582157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.41

Paperback. An innovative new series of history-themed biography books for young readers. Illustrator(s): Phillips, Mike. Series: History Heroes. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3H; 4KHF; 5AH; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 56.
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445132945
ISBN
9781445132945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99

Hardback. This book, a product of collaboration and cooperation between two non-Masonic historians and the Grand Lodge of Virginia, is an objective, comprehensive study of the history of Freemasonry in the state of Virginia. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 37. Weight in Grams: 939.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761811305
ISBN
9780761811305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.41

Paperback. Provides a balanced assessment of how mainstream cinema portrays the American past. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252076893
ISBN
9780252076893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Hardback. Why is it that Japan, with few natural resources, has become one of the world's leading economies but not Latin America, which is so rich in natural resources? This anthropological essay questions the Euro-centric notion of modernity and modernization and argues that Latin America has to find its own form of modernity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810120
ISBN
9781571810120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.52

hardcover. In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
0th Edition
SKU
V9780231075909
ISBN
9780231075909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.32

Paperback. Presents the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. This volume comments on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." It argues eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; HBJK; HBLX; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781592132034
ISBN
9781592132034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

Paperback. A unique examination of ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavour focused on indigenous and Afro-descended Ecuadorian people Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 color photographs, 1 line drawing, 1 map, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077975
ISBN
9780252077975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

Hardback. A unique examination of ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavour focused on indigenous and Afro-descended Ecuadorian people Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 color photographs, 1 line drawing, 1 map, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036033
ISBN
9780252036033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.37

Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350439
ISBN
9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.91

Paperback. Analyses how Chiapas' indigenous peoples have rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on 'being Mexican' and participating in the construction of a Mexican national identity. This book traces the relations between the Mam and the national government from 1934 to the Zapatista rebellion. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292731493
ISBN
9780292731493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Paperback. Presents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; HBA; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298170
ISBN
9780803298170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.39

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648675
ISBN
9780691648675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.74

Paperback. A terrific guide to the history of Eastern Pennsylvania and its environs. Num Pages: 336 pages, B&W Photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9781581571837
ISBN
9781581571837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.96