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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state Author: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain Author: Kagan, Richard L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| Women's Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams an . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hegemony to empire: the development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C Author: Kallet-Marx, Robert Morstein Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: In one of the most important contributions to the study of Roman imperialism to appear in recent years, Robert Kallet-Marx argues for a less simplistic, more fluid understanding of the evolution of Roman power in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor. He distinguishes between hegemony - the ability of . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Economics and Business \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel Author: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| Sociology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Sociology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuan . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taking back the streets: women, youth, and direct democracy Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| European Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other wa . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld Author: Kaplan, David E 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Japan \| Politics \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood Author: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science \| Gender Studies \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Art \| European History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Essays on the blurring of art and life Author: Kaprow, Allan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: As the creator of "Happenings" and "Environments," Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today. He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential essays of his generation. From "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock" in 1958 to "The . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The paradox of plenty: oil booms and petro-states Author: Karl, Terry Lynn 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically i . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950 Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity Author: Kaster, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Language and Linguistics \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and r . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The state and the mass media in Japan, 1918-1945 Author: Kasza, Gregory James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya Published: University of California Press, 1974 Subjects: Asian Studies \| China Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Asian History \| Japan \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bad girls and sick boys: fantasies in contemporary art and culture Author: Kauffman, Linda S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Literature \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic reson . . . [more] Similar Items

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