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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of revolutionary Paris Author: Garrioch, David Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Anthropology \| Politics \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domest . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making the invisible visible: a multicultural planning history Author: Sandercock, Leonie 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Geography \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Architecture \| Physical Anthropology Publisher's Description: The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices an . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Male colors: the construction of homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan Author: Leupp, Gary P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Asian Studies \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class st . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mallarmé's children: symbolism and the renewal of experience Author: Smith, Richard Cándida Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Art \| European Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new med . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Economics and Business \| Politics Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Manchurian myth: nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China Author: Mitter, Rana 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Japan Publisher's Description: A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows h . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Manufacturing militance: workers' movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985 Author: Seidman, G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics \| Latin American Studies \| African Studies \| Labor Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies. Beginning with the 1960s, Seidman shows how both authoritarian states pr . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Geography \| Japan Publisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| African Studies \| African History \| Politics Publisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marcus Garvey, life and lessons: a centennial companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History \| United States History \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves." - Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France Author: Tiersten, Lisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies \| European History \| Consumerism \| French Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Asian Studies Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan Author: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Cultural Anthropology \| China \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: A marriage made in heaven: the sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish Author: Seidman, Naomi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Gender Studies \| Religion \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-le . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Martyred village: commemorating the 1944 massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane Author: Farmer, Sarah Bennett Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the town in the rolling farm country of . . . [more] Similar Items

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