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Paperback. A study of governmental slaves in Berbice from 1803 to 1831. The author illustrates that the imperial government arrived at the general abolition of slavery throughout its colonies in a rather ad hoc and piecemeal fashion. He also raises questions about the government's commitment to abolition. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSG; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766401207
- ISBN
- 9789766401207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.59
€ 48.59
Hardcover. This teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by US Latina and Latin American women writers. It should assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, course design and classroom presentation. Editor(s): Quintana, Alvina E. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2JS; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294137
- ISBN
- 9780312294137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
paperback. Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St Patrick's Cathedral in honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing - and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform. This book examines this juxtaposition of religion and politics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814732151
- ISBN
- 9780814732151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.18
€ 34.99
€ 31.18
Paperback. A multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. Editor(s): Pallares, Amalia; Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda. Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white photographs, 18 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 1KLCM; JFFN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077166
- ISBN
- 9780252077166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.24
€ 36.99
€ 33.24
Hardcover. Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and presents two close readings of emerging ethnicities in Australia and Brazil. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1MBF; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480569
- ISBN
- 9781137480569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 590 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; WC; WFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 290 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Schiffer Pub Ltd
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764312489
- ISBN
- 9780764312489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.32€ 38.62
€ 53.32
€ 38.62
Hardcover. Using the Maya city of Itzmal as a case study, this book explores how indigenous conceptions of space and landscape both aided and subverted the Franciscan evangelical effort in Colonial Yucatan Num Pages: 244 pages, 70 b&w illustrations, 19 colour photographs, 4 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 185 x 18. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292744943
- ISBN
- 9780292744943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
Paperback. The author was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin American, befriending teenagers and reporting back with details of their ideas, hopes, fears and aspirations. This book is a humane portrait of this elusive continent in crisis - riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and brutality. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFFS; KJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0005914
- ISBN
- 9780091900847
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826520975
- ISBN
- 9780826520975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.52
€ 106.52
Hardback. This book examines culture and diplomacy in Mexico s relations with the rest of Latin America during the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas (1934 1940). " Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826356901
- ISBN
- 9780826356901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.18
€ 71.18
Paperback. Editor(s): America's Test Kitchen; America's Test Kitchen. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 188 x 26. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Publisher
- America's Test Kitchen
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936493975
- ISBN
- 9781936493975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.06
€ 31.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. How developing countries manage their climb to power--with case studies from China, Brazil and India. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KLSB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849040778
- ISBN
- 9781849040778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.49
€ 51.99
€ 46.49
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409433132
- ISBN
- 9781409433132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.32€ 24.60
€ 162.32
€ 24.60
Paperback. ""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"-- Series: Women, Gender, and the West. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896729322
- ISBN
- 9780896729322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.27
€ 47.27
Hardback. This, the first book to narrate what is a complex and inspiring history, traces the development of Brazil's AIDS treatment policies during the country's tumultuous path to democracy, as its government redefined access to health care as a basic right. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; MBX; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387096179
- ISBN
- 9780387096179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.12
€ 123.12
Hardback. What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of information in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Successful issue framing and effective alliance building are identified as 'pathways' to participation. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506542
- ISBN
- 9781137506542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Paperback. The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 b&w photos, 1 b&w map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477308981
- ISBN
- 9781477308981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.07
€ 34.99
€ 31.07
Paperback. A groundbreaking examination of Chile's Mapuche shamans and their use of a unique tree in ritual transvestitism and political defiance. Num Pages: 335 pages, 31 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HRKT; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292716599
- ISBN
- 9780292716599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Hardcover. The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; 1KLSU; HBJK; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120600
- ISBN
- 9780230120600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Paperback. Explosive, bestselling account of Mexico's drug cartels and the government - business nexus that enables them. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; JKVG; JKVM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 143 x 31. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781682968
- ISBN
- 9781781682968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals and state officials during the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, the author uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871157
- ISBN
- 9780807871157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.10
€ 45.10
Paperback. Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 color and 49 b&w photos, 8 b&w illus., 1 b&w map. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3J; ACBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477309551
- ISBN
- 9781477309551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Hardback. The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate how these trends make new forms of social and political power possible. Editor(s): Roy, Ananya; AlSayyad, Nezar. Series: Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FM; 1KL; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739107409
- ISBN
- 9780739107409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Hardback. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 246 pages, 17 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KLSC; GTJ; JFFN; JFSJ; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531964
- ISBN
- 9781137531964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.38
€ 96.38