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| 81. |  | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870  Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: Marcus Garvey, life and lessons: a centennial companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies Publisher's Description: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves." - Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: To the Right: the transformation of American conservatism Author: Himmelstein, Jerome L Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Politics | Public Policy | American Studies Publisher's Description: In this timely book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over the past decades, showing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | Medicine Publisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | Title: William Faulkner and the tangible past: the architecture of Yoknapatawpha Author: Hines, Thomas S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Literature | American Literature | United States History Publisher's Description: The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and many-faceted study. Hines assesses the impact of the built environment on Faulkner's consciousness and shows how the architecture of the writer's fictional county of Yoknapatawpha reflects the actual archi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China Author: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | Religion Publisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village Author: Hinton, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Sociology Publisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Urban revolt: ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement Author: Hirsch, Eric L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Urban Revolt is a careful, incisive reexamination of the most highly mobilized urban revolutionary force in American history - the late nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement. By documenting the importance of ethnic origins in accounting for political choice, Eric L. Hirsch completely reconceptua . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: selected writings and interviews Author: Hitchcock, Alfred 1899- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the ci . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy Author: Hollander, Jack M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Politics | Social Science | Politics Publisher's Description: Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century music Author: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music | Music Publisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Military History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Thundering Zeus: the making of Hellenistic Bactria Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Author: Hom, Marlon K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Asian American Studies | American Literature | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger g . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: Gender and U.S. immigration: contemporary trends Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: Gendered transitions: Mexican experiences of immigration Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Latin American Studies | Gender Studies | Chicano Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and . . . [more] Similar Items |