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| 1. |  | Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines  Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Sugar and the origins of modern Philippine society Author: Larkin, John A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tena . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Plundering paradise: the struggle for the environment in the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Politics | Southeast Asia | Ecology | Asian Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world Author: Tucker, Richard P 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Ecology Publisher's Description: In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Home bound: Filipino lives across cultures, communities, and countries Author: Espiritu, Yen Le 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | United States History | Postcolonial Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology Author: Thomas, Julia Adeney 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Intellectual History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Water | Agriculture Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Citizenship, gender, and work: the social organization of industrial agriculture Author: Thomas, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Labor Studies | Anthropology | Gender Studies | Agriculture Publisher's Description: Why do farm workers earn less and have a lower status than blue-collar employees in comparable jobs? Robert J. Thomas answers this question through a multi-method study of agricultural work and labor markets. Fieldwork as a lettuce harvester provides valuable insights from the perspective of undocum . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Agrarian dreams: the paradox of organic farming in California Author: Guthman, Julie Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Environmental Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Social Science | Agriculture | Geography | Food and Cooking Publisher's Description: In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refut . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Natural History Publisher's Description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on the impact that conservation in these areas had on rural people, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Being human: ethics, environment, and our place in the world Author: Peterson, Anna Lisa 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Folklore and Mythology | Environmental Studies | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The stubborn earth: American agriculturalists on Chinese soil, 1898-1937 Author: Stross, Randall E Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: This is a study of the first major American effort to aid a developing country - China - in the early twentieth century. Anyone interested in U.S.-China relations and in the American presence abroad will find it provocative and frequently moving. Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world Author: Richards, J. F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Asian Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental hist . . . [more] Similar Items |