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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City
ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...
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£39,00
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Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...
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£14,99
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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community
ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm
Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...
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£25,00
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£69,00
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Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones
Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...
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£21,00
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£60,00
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