Libros de: Duke University Press

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  • Tell Tchaikovsky the News "Rock 'n' Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians' Union, 1942-1968 "

    Roberts, Michael James

    Duke University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780822354758
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.29,95 €

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    For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada, refused to recognize rock ...

  • Only the Road / Solo el Camino "Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry "

    Randall, Margaret

    Duke University Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780822362081
    • Páginas: 528
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.133,95 €

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    Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. ...

  • How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands

    Eckstein, Susan Najam,Adil

    Duke University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780822353959
    • Páginas: 278
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.29,50 €

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    How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become ...

  • The Power at the End of the Economy

    Massumi, Brian

    Duke University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780822358381
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.21,60 €

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    Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In "The Power at the End of the Economy" Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in ...

  • The Intimacies of Four Continents

    Lowe, Lisa

    Duke University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780822358756
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.24,35 €

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    In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western ...

  • Global Indios "The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain"

    Van Deusen, Nancy E.

    Duke University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780822358473
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.89,95 €

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    In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed ...

  • Ever Faithful "Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba"

    Sartorius, David

    Duke University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780822355939
    • Páginas: 328
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.22,95 €

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    Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking ...

  • Constitutional Theory

    Schmitt, Carl

    Duke University Press (2008)

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    • EAN: 9780822340706
    • Páginas: 560
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.29,15 €

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    Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, "Constitutional Theory", was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt's masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first ...

  • The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

    Chartier, Roger

    Duke University Press (1990)

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    • EAN: 9780822309932
    • Páginas: 260
    • Fecha de edición: 1990

    pvp.21,85 €

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    Renowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French historians now refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French Revolution ...

  • The Provocative Joan Robinson "The Making Of a Cambridge Economist"
    The Making Of a Cambridge Economist

    Aslanbeigui, Nahid Oakes, Guy

    Duke University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780822345381
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.23,30 €

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    One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, ...

  • Global Pharmaceuticals

    Varios

    Duke University Press (2006)

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    • EAN: 9780822337416
    • Páginas: 312
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.27,30 €

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    In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor ...

  • Harnessing Farms And Forest In The Low-Carbon Economy "How To Create, Measure, And Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets"
    How To Create, Measure, And Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets

    Willey, Zach

    Duke University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780822341680
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.59,50 €

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    As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming - first at the state level and eventually through a national program - credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will ...

  • Banana Wars "Power, Production, And History In The Americas"
    Power, Production, And History In The Americas

    Striffler, Steve

    Duke University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780822331964
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.27,28 €

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    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. "Banana Wars" is a history of the Americas as told ...

  • Economists' Lives.

    Forget, Evelyn Weintraub, Roy

    Duke University Press (2008)

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    • EAN: 9780822366836
    • Páginas: 402
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.59,95 €

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    This collection of essays, a supplement to "History of Political Economy", brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The ...

  • Victims Of The Chilean Miracle

    Winn, Peter

    Duke University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780822333210
    • Páginas: 440
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.36,00 €

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    Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neo-liberal transformation. Its policies - encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the ...

  • Oeconomies In The Age Of Newton

    Schabas, Margaret

    Duke University Press (2004)

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    • EAN: 9780822365860
    • Páginas: 394
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.78,85 €

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    Offers a detailed account of economic concepts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries While the history of early modern science is well-charted terrain, less has been recorded on the economic thinking of the same period, ...

  • Rural Revolt In Mexico. U.S. Intervention And The Domain Of Subaltern Politics.

    Nugent, Daniel

    Duke University Press (1998)

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    • EAN: 9780822320869
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 1998

    pvp.88,95 €

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    In the present volume, we can see one tangible result of this vision in the remarkable new essay by Adolfo Gilly, which is a product of, first, Gilly's own long-term reflections on Mexican politics and ...