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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and king in Burgundy: agrarian foundations of French absolutism Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society. Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Postcolonial Studies \| Hinduism Publisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perceptions of Jewish history Author: Funkenstein, Amos Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European History Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perfecting women: Maulana Ashraf ʿAlī Thanawi's Bihishti zewar: a partial translation with commentary Author: Thānvī, ʿAshraf ʿAlī Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Mus . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perfectly Japanese: making families in an era of upheaval Author: White, Merry I 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Social Science \| Japan \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian History \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death Author: Montano, Linda 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Permissible dose: a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century Author: Walker, J. Samuel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science \| Environmental Studies \| American Studies \| United States History \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation - caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, expo . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan Author: Allison, Anne 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| Japan Publisher's Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London Author: Andrew, Donna T 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| European History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figur . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| China \| Ethnic Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Petrarch's genius: pentimento and prophecy Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| European History \| Religion Publisher's Description: Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.Petra . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Phase diagrams of the elements Author: Young, D. A. (David A.) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science \| Physics Publisher's Description: The behavior of solid and liquid matter at high pressures and temperatures is best described in a phase diagram, which shows the regions of stability of different phases of the material. Thanks to the diamond-anvil cell, which has made possible much higher pressures, and to new and very accurate the . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy \| Gender Studies \| Art History \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Physics and politics in revolutionary Russia Author: Josephson, Paul R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses t . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Picturing Casablanca: portraits of power in a modern city Author: Ossman, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Electronic Media \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand e . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Picturing Chinatown: art and orientalism in San Francisco Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| California and the West \| Asian American Studies \| Photography \| Art History Publisher's Description: This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and ma . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Christianity \| European History Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more] Similar Items

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