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21. | | Title: Classicism, politics, and kinship: the Chʿang-chou school of new text Confucianism in late imperial China Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Scholars have generally agreed that the story of New Text Confucianism in late imperial China centers on K'ang Yu-wei and the late nineteenth-century political reforms he took credit for after fleeing China in 1898. In this important new book, Benjamin Elman explores the roots of New Text ideas and . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Tupai: a field study of Bornean treeshrews Author: Emmons, Louise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | ZoologyPublisher's Description: Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now believe them to belong in their own mammalian order, . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000Author: Endelman, Todd M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Ethnic Studies | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of t . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Loss: the politics of mourningAuthor: Eng, David L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | History | Philosophy | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing t . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Water | AgricultureSimilar Items | 26. | | Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold WarAuthor: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | American Studies | Sociology | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Impure science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge Author: Epstein, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Social Science | Medicine | Public Policy | History and Philosophy of Science | SociologyPublisher's Description: In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty i . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the TolaiAuthor: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980sAuthor: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Rainbow's end: Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985Author: Erie, Steven P Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociolog . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialismAuthor: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: The sexual education of Edith Wharton Author: Erlich, Gloria C Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution - from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the n . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progressAuthor: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Latin American History | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Politics | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | Criminology | CriminologyPublisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | American Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: The origins of the Boxer UprisingAuthor: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from ear . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Minor heresies, major departures: a China mission boyhoodAuthor: Espey, John Jenkins 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | China | Literature | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. There he faced the alley brats' Lady Bandit, heard the shrill screa . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Home bound: Filipino lives across cultures, communities, and countriesAuthor: Espiritu, Yen Le 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | United States History | Postcolonial Studies | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen L . . . [more]Similar Items |
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