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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: L.A. city limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present Author: Sides, Josh 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| African American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass - embodying both the best and worst of what urban America off . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: La lucha for Cuba: religion and politics on the streets of Miami Author: De La Torre, Miguel A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Latino Studies \| Politics \| Christianity Publisher's Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar Japan Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Politics \| Asian History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can bes . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Author: Shafir, Gershon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but t . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land mammals of Oregon Author: Verts, B. J Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Zoology \| Biology \| Natural History Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of mammals in the state of Oregon since 1936, when Vernon Bailey's The Mammals and Life Zones of Oregon was published. It provides a basic reference for mammalogists, wildlife biologists, students, and anyone interested in mammalian life in the n . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present Author: Arkush, R. David 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| United States History \| China \| American Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 year . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Landscapes of power: from Detroit to Disney World Author: Zukin, Sharon Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies \| Urban Studies \| Geography \| Economics and Business Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Author: Byg, Barton 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| German Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived and worked together for almost forty years - may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language and colonial power: the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Language and Linguistics \| African History \| African Studies Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Author: Thomason, Sarah Grey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Language and Linguistics \| Linguistic Theory \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of conta . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language in time of revolution Author: Harshav, Benjamin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| History \| Literature Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The language of inquiry Author: Hejinian, Lyn Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection o . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The language war Author: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Language and Linguistics \| Sociology \| Literature \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political corr . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Languages of community: the Jewish experience in the Czech lands Author: Kieval, Hillel J Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Judaism Publisher's Description: With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Medicine \| History and Philosophy of Science \| European History \| European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutions Author: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| Art Theory \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics \| Political Theory \| History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin American experiments in neoconservative economics Author: Foxley, Alejandro Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Similar Items

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