The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. In the twelve essays in "Reflections on Memory and Democracy," an interdisciplinary group of contributors explores legacies of authoritarian political regimes noted for repression and injustice, questioning how collective experiences of violence shape memory and its relevance for contemporary social and political life in Latin America. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Edition
- 1/1 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088290
- ISBN
- 9780674088290
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.74
€ 26.99
€ 23.74
Hardback. A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088931
- ISBN
- 9780674088931
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.72
€ 27.99
€ 24.72
Paperback. This text fuses political economy and cultural analysis to show that both the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome of death-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua were shaped by a single commodity: coffee. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 1KLCR; 1KLCS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPHV; JPWQ; KCC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674136496
- ISBN
- 9780674136496
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.55
€ 41.99
€ 34.55
Paperback. A cross-disciplinary collection of 12 essays by scholars of the Mexican immigration to the United States. "Crossings" theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new and that demarcate this wave of immigration from earlier experiences of the 20th century. Editor(s): Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674177673
- ISBN
- 9780674177673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.81
€ 21.99
€ 19.81
Paperback. "Through the use of folklore, apocryphal stories, poetry, jokes, and discussion of split factions and advocacy organizations, Padden and Humphries gracefully explain how deaf culture works, what it means to its members, how they define themselves within it, and how they interact with the world outside".--Booklist. Illustrated. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674194243
- ISBN
- 9780674194243
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.64
€ 33.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJD; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674197374
- ISBN
- 9780674197374
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Hardback. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that reached far beyond the field of medicine - changes that placed teenagers themselves at the centre of the national agenda. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSP1; JFSP2; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674214613
- ISBN
- 9780674214613
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Condition: New
€ 73.23€ 66.95
€ 73.23
€ 66.95
Paperback. The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674246904
- ISBN
- 9780674246904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.56
€ 38.99
€ 33.56
Hardcover. Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against US military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. This political biography examines American dissenting thought through his 60-year career. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674260603
- ISBN
- 9780674260603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.38€ 75.79
€ 83.38
€ 75.79
Hardcover. Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; MBX; MJW; MMZF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281448
- ISBN
- 9780674281448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.06€ 50.26
€ 54.06
€ 50.26
Hardcover. After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 210 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674283541
- ISBN
- 9780674283541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.48
€ 45.99
€ 38.48
Hardcover. Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites' theories of an "Indian mind" inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government's efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 330 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFF; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674289932
- ISBN
- 9780674289932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.53
€ 51.99
€ 43.53
Paperback. The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674314269
- ISBN
- 9780674314269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Hardcover. The peopling of French Canada across the 17th and 18th centuries is the focus of this book. Using archival material it traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 409 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 409
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674323155
- ISBN
- 9780674323155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.15€ 81.68
€ 90.15
€ 81.68
Hardcover. The American Civil War and the Paris commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-19th century - an age of democratic civil wars. He shows how American political culture in the period that followed was shaped by the Paris Commune. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 206th
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674323483
- ISBN
- 9780674323483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.00€ 72.85
€ 80.00
€ 72.85
Paperback. This is a social history of 20th-century show business and the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure places, parks, theatres, nickledeons, world's fair midways and dance halls. African Americans were segregated and this cemented the rest of the audience. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 halftones, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674356221
- ISBN
- 9780674356221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.95
€ 41.99
€ 36.95
Hardcover. Community colleges enroll half of the nation's undergraduates. Yet only 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree in six years. Redesigning America's Community Colleges explains how two-year colleges can increase their students' success rate quickly and at less cost, through a program of guided pathways to completion. Num Pages: 297 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 30. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674368286
- ISBN
- 9780674368286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.60
€ 45.99
€ 38.60
Hardcover. This text examines black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations and 20th-century cultural nationalism in the United States. The author seeks to expose the oversimplifications and misrepresentations of popular readings of the "Harlem Renaissance". Num Pages: 560 pages, epilogue, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 172 x 34. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674372627
- ISBN
- 9780674372627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.62€ 70.14
€ 76.62
€ 70.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674380813
- ISBN
- 9780674380813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.73
€ 34.99
€ 29.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 914 pages, 42 halftones; 15 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 914
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674395534
- ISBN
- 9780674395534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.52€ 130.79
€ 146.52
€ 130.79