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| 61. |  | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropology Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African Studies Publisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Marxist modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | History | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia - conducted over a twenty . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Protectors of privilege: red squads and police repression in urban America Author: Donner, Frank J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Urban Studies | Public Policy | Sociology Publisher's Description: This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthology Author: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman  Author: Dorter, Kenneth 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History | European Literature | Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Missing persons: a critique of the social sciences Author: Douglas, Mary Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third Republic Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 Author: Doumani, Beshara 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons Author: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France Author: Dowbiggin, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Sociology | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness , Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolut . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Tibet | Autobiographies and Biographies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Art of the gold rush Author: Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden Stat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 75. |  | Title: Keeper of concentration camps: Dillon S. Myer and American racism Author: Drinnon, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Nati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands & around the world in the years, 1826-1829 Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard 1790-1849 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Literature in Translation | Travel Publisher's Description: While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to trade he found it necessary to spend nearly two . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland Author: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | European History Publisher's Description: In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | American Studies | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Similar Items |