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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social change and modernity Author: Haferkamp, Hans 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Politics Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Medieval History \| Renaissance History Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| California and the West \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Religion \| Gender Studies \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian Literature \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan Author: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Japan \| Women's Studies \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The city as subject: Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka Author: Hanes, Jeffrey E 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing in . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inventing the needy: gender and the politics of welfare in Hungary Author: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| European Studies \| European History \| Gender Studies \| Law \| Social Problems \| Political Theory \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one ano . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture Author: Hanley, Susan B 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. H . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| American Literature \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England Author: Hansen, Karen V Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Gender Studies \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men - both white and black - n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary co . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucer and the fictions of gender Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Gender Studies \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English poetry and the recent arguments that Chaucer was a protofeminist, subversive of the misogyny of his day. Hansen argues that these mistaken interpretations inhibit readings of Chaucer that respond to femi . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| European History Publisher's Description: For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Military History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics \| Agriculture Publisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Testing testing: social consequences of the examined life Author: Hanson, F. Allan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Sociology \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychiatry Similar Items

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