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  • Negotiating National Identity

    Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

    by Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser explores the crucial role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Discontented Diaspora

    Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

    by Jeffrey Lesser ...
    In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in São Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo was also the world’s largest ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    by Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present

    by Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians along with their children and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Global Latin America

    Into the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Matthew C. Gutmann, Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Series Book 1 - The Global Square
    Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Searching for Home Abroad

    Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

    by Shuhei Hosokawa, Koichi Mori, Karen Tei Yamashita ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Cat O' Nine Tales

    And Other Stories

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Cat O'Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller and bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Archer's trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these thirteen stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison, including the story of a company chairman who tries to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    False Impression

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 26 min

    A thrilling novel of suspense from the international bestselling author of The Clifton Chronicles, Jeffery Archer's False Impression.Why was an elegant lady brutally murdered the night before 9/11?Why was a successful New York banker not surprised to receive a woman's left ear in the morning mail?Why did a top Manhattan lawyer work only for one client, but never charge a fee?Why did a young woman ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Shall We Tell the President?

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Lorelei King ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 17 min

    Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer keeps the pace sizzling in this final installment in the Kane and Abel trilogy, Shall We Tell the President?*, a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty.*After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    A Matter of Honor

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    International bestseller Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with A Matter of Honor--featuring a bonus interview with author.It seems innocent enough. A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. But the moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to shake the very ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Martin Jarvis ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 48 min

    The thrilling novel that launched #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's career, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.THE SWINDLE IS INGENIOUSThe conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    And Thereby Hangs a Tale

    Short Stories

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Gerard Doyle ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    Tragic, comic, outrageous—these fifteen stories in And Thereby Hangs a Tale from international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer showcase his remarkable talent for capturing an unforgettable moment in time…In India, in "Caste-Off," a man and woman fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green on the streets of Delhi…From Germany comes "A Good Eye," about a priceless oil painting ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook