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61. | | Title: Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies | CriminologyPublisher's Description: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Political criticism Author: Shapiro, Ian Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Philosophy | SociologySimilar Items | 63. | | | 64. | | | 65. | | Title: Political Islam: essays from Middle East reportAuthor: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | IslamPublisher's Description: The essays and case studies collected here - featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material - challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The auth . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex politiesAuthor: Smith, Adam T Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | Political Theory | GeographyPublisher's Description: How do landscapes - defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations - contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic re . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: The political logic of economic reform in ChinaAuthor: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980sAuthor: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin AmericaAuthor: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Politics, death, and the devil: self and power in Max Weber and Thomas MannAuthor: Goldman, Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Political Theory | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: The politics of desire: Propertius IV Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | PoetryPublisher's Description: Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: The politics of duplicity: controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's RomaniaAuthor: Kligman, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarmi . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: The politics of force: media and the construction of police brutalityAuthor: Lawrence, Regina G 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: When police brutality becomes front-page news, it triggers a sudden, intense interaction between the media, the public, and the police. Regina Lawrence ably demonstrates how these news events provide the raw materials for looking at underlying problems in American society. Journalists, policy makers . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam | Asian Studies | Asian History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in KenyaAuthor: Thomas, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | African Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance - and complex ramifications - of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female i . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | ConservationPublisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic traditionAuthor: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | PoetryPublisher's Description: This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other gen . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Polyhymnia: the rhetoric of Horatian lyric discourseAuthor: Davis, Gregson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | RhetoricPublisher's Description: Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies - what he calls modes of assimilati . . . [more]Similar Items |
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