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21. | | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justiceAuthor: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial IndiaAuthor: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | South Asia | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hopeAuthor: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big businessAuthor: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | American Studies | Popular Culture | Intellectual History | Media Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Romance and the "yellow peril": race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fictionAuthor: Marchetti, Gina Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in A . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and LondonAuthor: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | European History | Urban Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: A history of EthiopiaAuthor: Marcus, Harold G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Postcolonial StudiesSimilar Items | 28. | | Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Interpretation radical but not unruly: the new puzzle of the arts and history Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of h . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: The flux of history and the flux of science Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledge of the world and ourselves is possible? In this boldly original and elegantly written study, Joseph Margolis argues for a radically historicized vie . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | | 32. | | Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollutionAuthor: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Public Policy | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: apes, people, and their genesAuthor: Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Evolution | Physical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | MammalogyPublisher's Description: The overwhelming similarity of human and ape genes is one of the best-known facts of modern genetic sciencenm. But what does this similarity mean? Does it, as many have suggested, have profound implications for understanding human nature? Well-known molecular anthropologist Jonathan Marks uses the h . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for powerAuthor: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Asian History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Public Policy | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Academic freedom and the Japanese imperial university, 1868-1939Author: Marshall, Byron K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | EducationPublisher's Description: Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II.Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to provide their new government with necessary te . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: The Shanghai Green Gang: politics and organized crime, 1919-1937Author: Martin, Brian G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics | CriminologyPublisher's Description: In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence - from diplomatic dispatches to m . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance cityAuthor: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush yearsAuthor: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | History | Opera | Composers | American Studies | California and the West | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more]Similar Items |
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