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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wagering the land: ritual, capital, and environmental degradation in the Cordillera of northern Luzon, 1900-1986 Author: Lewis, Martin W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Geography \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemption Author: Wolin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his co . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Walter Benjamin's other history: of stones, animals, human beings, and angels Author: Hanssen, Beatrice Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Rhetoric \| German Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wandering, begging monks: spiritual authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity Author: Caner, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Religion \| Classical Religions \| Christianity \| Classical History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| European History \| Asian History \| China \| European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and secession: Pakistan, India, and the creation of Bangladesh Author: Sisson, Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| South Asia \| Asian History Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European History \| German Studies \| Military History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History \| European Literature \| Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: War of shadows: the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian Amazon Author: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka te . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: War stories: the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| German Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selecti . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Military History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics \| Agriculture Publisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Classical History \| Economics and Business \| Anthropology \| Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countries Author: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wars we took to Vietnam: cultural conflict and storytelling Author: Bates, Milton J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Popular Culture \| American Literature Publisher's Description: What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Water and American government: the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Author: Pisani, Donald J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Water \| Public Policy \| Geography \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country - shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Water \| Agriculture Similar Items

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