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| 41. |  | Title: The color of gender: reimaging democracy  Author: Eisenstein, Zillah R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Gender Studies | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law , Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | 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 |
| 43. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Architecture | China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance Author: Gruber, Judith Emily Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Cool conduct: the culture of distance in Weimar Germany Author: Lethen, Helmut Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Sociology | German Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Coordination without hierarchy: informal structures in multiorganizational systems Author: Chisholm, Donald William Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Natural History Publisher's Description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on the impact that conservation in these areas had on rural people, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African History Publisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more] Similar Items |