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121. | | 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 | ReligionPublisher'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 | 122. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 123. | | 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 BiographiesPublisher'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 | 124. | | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational familiesAuthor: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | SociologyPublisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more]Similar Items | 125. | | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more]Similar Items | 126. | | Title: Covering immigration: popular images and the politics of the nationAuthor: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a grow . . . [more]Similar Items | 127. | | Title: Crack in America: demon drugs and social justiceAuthor: Reinarman, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in . . . [more]Similar Items | 128. | | Title: Crafting the culture and history of French chocolateAuthor: Terrio, Susan J. (Susan Jane) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | European Studies | French Studies | Food and Cooking | SociologyPublisher's Description: This absorbing narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers - members of a tiny group experiencing intensive international competition - as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling . . . [more]Similar Items | 129. | | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of StanfordAuthor: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more]Similar Items | 130. | | 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 | 131. | | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher'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 | 132. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 133. | | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | CriminologyPublisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more]Similar Items | 134. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 135. | | Title: A critic writes: essays by Reyner BanhamAuthor: Banham, Reyner Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art | American Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essay . . . [more]Similar Items | 136. | | Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakersAuthor: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more]Similar Items | 137. | | Title: A critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakersAuthor: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | FilmPublisher's Description: A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film histor . . . [more]Similar Items | 138. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 139. | | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher'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 | 140. | | Title: Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videosAuthor: Barbash, Ilisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Ethnic Studies | PhotographyPublisher's Description: This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail - information never before ass . . . [more]Similar Items |
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