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101. | | Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | South Asia | IslamPublisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more]Similar Items | 102. | | Title: The rise of the Paris red belt Author: Stovall, Tyler Edward Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French StudiesPublisher's Description: From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stov . . . [more]Similar Items | 103. | | Title: Risk and rationality: philosophical foundations for populist reforms Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social Problems | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased . . . [more]Similar Items | 104. | | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more]Similar Items | 105. | | Title: A river and its city: the nature of landscape in New OrleansAuthor: Kelman, Ari 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orle . . . [more]Similar Items | 106. | | Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | United States History | ChristianityPublisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more]Similar Items | 107. | | Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Print Media | Education | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more]Similar Items | 108. | | Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance ArtsPublisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more]Similar Items | 109. | | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European HistorySimilar Items | 110. | | Title: Roman honor: the fire in the bonesAuthor: Barton, Carlin A 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Comparative LiteraturePublisher's Description: This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 111. | | Title: Romance and the "yellow peril": race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fictionAuthor: Marchetti, Gina Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in A . . . [more]Similar Items | 112. | | Title: The romance of American psychology: political culture in the age of experts Author: Herman, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | American Studies | Politics | Psychology | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most . . . [more]Similar Items | 113. | | Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary MexicoAuthor: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more]Similar Items | 114. | | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriagesAuthor: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more]Similar Items | 115. | | Title: Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | European History | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act . . . [more]Similar Items | 116. | | Title: Rome and the enemy: imperial strategy in the principateAuthor: Mattern, Susan P 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Military History | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern . . . [more]Similar Items | 117. | | Title: Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Religion | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the intrigues of the great families, like the Orsini and Colonna, the reader is guided through . . . [more]Similar Items | 118. | | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonologyAuthor: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more]Similar Items | 119. | | Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859 Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more]Similar Items | 120. | | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophyAuthor: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more]Similar Items |
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