UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| French Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Postcolonial Studies \| European History \| African History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies \| African History \| African Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Comparative Literature \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective Author: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Urban Studies \| Immigration \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies \| Psychology \| African History \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guide Author: Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| History and Philosophy of Science \| History Publisher's Description: Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican , comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hesiod's Works and days Author: Hesiod Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Classics \| Sociology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and an . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Native American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents Author: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| China \| Taoism \| Buddhism Publisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The moon and the zither: the story of the western wing Author: Wang, Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| China \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play ha . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about women Author: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Fiction \| Southeast Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	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
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India Author: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| South Asia \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more] Similar Items