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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Asian Studies \| China Publisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Californian and Western History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords: resuming Arab Palestine Author: Brown, Nathan J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| European History Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the rest Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope Author: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Ethnic Studies \| Sociology \| American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher'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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The paradox of plenty: oil booms and petro-states Author: Karl, Terry Lynn 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically i . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Social Theory \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passing by: gender and public harassment Author: Gardner, Carol Brooks Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to se . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: A passion for polka: old-time ethnic music in America Author: Greene, Victor R Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Music \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s.Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passionate uncertainty: inside the American Jesuits Author: McDonough, Peter 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Sociology \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they belie . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China Author: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Language and Linguistics \| Asian History \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paul Bowles on music Author: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Composers \| Contemporary Music \| American Literature \| Film Publisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Author: Caton, Steven Charles 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Folklore and Mythology \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasant and nation: the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru Author: Mallon, Florencia E 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Anthropology \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political histo . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugaw . . . [more] Similar Items

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