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61.	Requires cookie*	Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European Literature \| Folklore and Mythology \| Religion \| Language and Linguistics \| Classics \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items
62.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Social and Political Thought \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items
63.	Requires cookie*	Title: The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry Author: Cary, Elizabeth, Lady 1585 or 6-1639 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the des . . . [more] Similar Items
64.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Men and Masculinity \| Women's Studies \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more] Similar Items
65.	Requires cookie*	Title: Transforming free speech: the ambiguous legacy of civil libertarianism Author: Graber, Mark A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law \| Social and Political Thought \| Politics Publisher's Description: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. . . . [more] Similar Items
66.	Requires cookie*	Title: Transforming settler states: communal conflict and internal security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe Author: Weitzer, Ronald John Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: European Studies \| Politics \| Sociology \| African Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Z . . . [more] Similar Items
67.	Requires cookie*	Title: Translating property: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 Author: Montoya, María E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Law \| Latino Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups . . . [more] Similar Items
68.	Requires cookie*	Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Similar Items
69.	Requires cookie*	Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature Author: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Poetry \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China Publisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more] Similar Items
70.	Requires cookie*	Title: The trauma of gender: a feminist theory of the English novel Author: Moglen, Helene 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| European Studies \| European History \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| English Literature Publisher's Description: Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen c . . . [more] Similar Items
71.	Requires cookie*	Title: Traveling in Mark Twain Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| American Literature Similar Items
72.	Requires cookie*	Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Travel \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Similar Items
73.	Requires cookie*	Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more] Similar Items
74.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Similar Items
75.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tribes of India: the struggle for survival Author: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies Similar Items
76.	Requires cookie*	Title: The triumph of Venus: the erotics of the market Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Social and Political Thought \| Economics and Business \| Gender Studies \| Law Publisher's Description: The theory of law and economics that dominates American jurisprudence today views the market as rational and individuals as driven by the desire to increase their wealth. It is a view riddled with misconceptions, as Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder demonstrates in this challenging work, which looks at cont . . . [more] Similar Items
77.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tropical forests and the human spirit: journeys to the brink of hope Author: Stone, Roger D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Ecology \| Conservation \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been . . . [more] Similar Items
78.	Requires cookie*	Title: The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture Author: Lancaster, Roger N Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links . . . [more] Similar Items
79.	Requires cookie*	Title: True gardens of the gods: Californian-Australian environmental reform, 1860-1930 Author: Tyrrell, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers at . . . [more] Similar Items
80.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tupai: a field study of Bornean treeshrews Author: Emmons, Louise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science \| Zoology Publisher's Description: Treeshrews suffer from chronic mistaken identity: they are not shrews, and most are not found in trees. These squirrel-sized, brownish mammals with large, dark, lashless eyes were at one time thought to be primates. Even though most scientists now believe them to belong in their own mammalian order, . . . [more] Similar Items

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