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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Film \| Gender Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Popular Culture \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding Vietnam Author: Jamieson, Neil L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| History \| Architectural History \| European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for power Author: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History \| Politics Publisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar Author: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Geography \| African History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Popular Culture \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	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
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Popular Culture \| United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia \| Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| China \| Popular Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Politics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The memory of Tiresias: intertextuality and film Author: I︠A︡mpolʹskiĭ, M. B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Literature \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertex . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The mind's past Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Psychology \| Cognitive Science \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Art \| African History \| Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Music \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items