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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Middle Eastern History \| Christianity \| Medieval Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Social Science \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: What makes life worth living?: how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds Author: Mathews, Gordon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| American Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring h . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies \| California and the West \| Popular Culture \| History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rome and the enemy: imperial strategy in the principate Author: Mattern, Susan P 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Politics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Military History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Print Media \| Education \| United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary France Author: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Law \| European History \| European Literature \| French Studies Publisher's Description: From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution. Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the postcolony Author: Mbembé, J.-A 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Political Theory \| African History \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as som . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Cultural Anthropology \| African American Studies \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Middle Eastern History \| Popular Culture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: In Search of equality: the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America Author: McClain, Charles J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Law \| California and the West \| History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobili . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical form Author: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| Musicology Publisher's Description: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account . . . [more] Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: Poets on painters: essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets Author: McClatchy, J. D 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| Art \| Poetry \| Art History Publisher's Description: What are poets looking at , looking for , when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened languag . . . [more] Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program Author: McConnell, David L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Politics \| Education Publisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more] Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passionate uncertainty: inside the American Jesuits Author: McDonough, Peter 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Sociology \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they belie . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Experiencing politics: a legislator's stories of government and health care Author: McDonough, John E. (John Edward) Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Medicine Publisher's Description: John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquen . . . [more] Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre Publisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Writing Publisher's Description: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters - in their own words. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age focused on the early sound era and the 1930s. Backstory 2 featured Interviews with Screenwriter . . . [more] Similar Items

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