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21. | | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | | 23. | | | 24. | | Title: From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo Author: Field, Norma 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Asian History | Japan | PoliticsPublisher's Description: From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returne . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern ItalyAuthor: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Kitchens: the culture of restaurant workAuthor: Fine, Gary Alan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Popular Culture | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. He provides a riveting exploration of . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Heavy drinking: the myth of alcoholism as a diseaseAuthor: Fingarette, Herbert Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Science | MedicinePublisher's Description: Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Tracing the veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to ChuquicamataAuthor: Finn, Janet L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | California and the West | Economics and Business | Environmental Studies | Latino StudiesPublisher's Description: This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African HistoryPublisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through PolynesiaAuthor: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | United States History | East Asia Other | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: The Galileo affair: a documentary historyAuthor: Finocchiaro, Maurice A 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of ScienceSimilar Items | 35. | | Title: Making environmental policyAuthor: Fiorino, Daniel J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Public Policy | EcologyPublisher's Description: Who speaks for the trees, the water, the soil, and the air in American government today? Which agencies confront environmental problems, and how do they set priorities? How are the opposing claims of interest groups evaluated? Why do certain issues capture the public's attention?In Making Environmen . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940Author: Fischer, Claude S 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Sociology | United States History | Technology and Society | History and Philosophy of Science | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histori . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan NepalAuthor: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European HistorySimilar Items | 39. | | Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatasAuthor: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology | ComposersPublisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | PoetryPublisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more]Similar Items |
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