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Paperback. Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and the larger urban media culture with which it was closely associated in early twentieth-century China. This book revises understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AVGJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326946
ISBN
9780822326946
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€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. Looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The author looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 37 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJP; GTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326960
ISBN
9780822326960
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Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.66

Paperback. More than four million United States citizens live in five "unincorporated" US territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. This book addresses the problem of the US territories. Editor(s): Burnett, Christina Duffy; Marshall, Burke. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; GTB; JPS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326984
ISBN
9780822326984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. A sophisticated theoretical reconsideration of Latin American studies, critiquing past work and proposing new frameworks for the discipline. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327240
ISBN
9780822327240
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Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. Examines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place." Editor(s): Miyoshi, Masao; Harootunian, Harry. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: GTB; HB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328407
ISBN
9780822328407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. Collection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J.; Warren, Kay B.; Mertz, Professor Elizabeth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328483
ISBN
9780822328483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. Considers questions of Asian American Identity and issues of homeland and home in Asian American film. Num Pages: 304 pages, 44 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5919 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329961
ISBN
9780822329961
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Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330400
ISBN
9780822330400
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Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Collection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical angles Editor(s): Apostolidis, Paul; Williams, Juliet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332657
ISBN
9780822332657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national borders Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333159
ISBN
9780822333159
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Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. Probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. This book combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 illus., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333371
ISBN
9780822333371
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic Editor(s): Fujii, James A. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 illus., 7 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333463
ISBN
9780822333463
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Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. An examination of visual art in post-independence Senegal. It explores the complex interplay of cultural nationalism, negotiations of postcolonial identity, and an emergent artistic modernism. Highlighting the distinctive cultural history that shaped Sengalese modernism, it reveals its innovations, diversity, and dynamism. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 color photos, 78 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; ACXJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333951
ISBN
9780822333951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. Focuses on the extensive changes that have taken place in Cuba since 1993, when Castro legalized the dollar, with essays including transformations in the economy, religious life, the literary world, ballet, and hip hop. Editor(s): Chavez, Lydia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 75 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJ; GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822334941
ISBN
9780822334941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJP; APT; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822335436
ISBN
9780822335436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.46

Paperback. An ethnographic study of Zimbabwe's land occupations that focuses on the effects of spatialized struggles on sovereignty and the nation-state Num Pages: 424 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJP; GTB; JHMC; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822335702
ISBN
9780822335702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335719
ISBN
9780822335719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.46

Paperback. Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336433
ISBN
9780822336433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336440
ISBN
9780822336440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration" Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 b&w photos, 4 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336693
ISBN
9780822336693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.41

paperback. A cultural history of the political legitimization of youth rebellion during the Cold War era Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 400 pages, 37 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336921
ISBN
9780822336921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.10

paperback. Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance Num Pages: 488 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; AN; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337225
ISBN
9780822337225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. Develops a theory of how exit-voice dynamics affect collective action in order to identify the processes that spurred the extraordinarily swift and surprisingly bloodless 1989 revolution within the German Democratic Republic. This work compares the East German rebellion with events occurring during the same period in other communist states. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 tables, 17 figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337652
ISBN
9780822337652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.13

Paperback. Demonstrates that gender, cultural difference, and colonial history are intimately bound together and often can only be understood in relation to one another. The author analyzes how diverse representational practices - be they visual, textual, or even scientific - relate to the construction of gender, race, sexuality, and national identity. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 60 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337713
ISBN
9780822337713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.28

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