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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China Publisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| European History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Archaeology \| European History \| European History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century Author: Chirot, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II Author: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century Author: Camp, Roderic Ai Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often over . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe Author: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Printing, propaganda, and Martin Luther Author: Edwards, Mark U Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Martin Luther, the first Protestant, was also the central figure in the West's first media campaign. But to what extent was the Reformation a "print event"? And what, finally, was Luther's role in the movement? With Mark Edwards's study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in the early yea . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: At the dawn of modernity: biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000 Author: Levine, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| European History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767 Author: Ferry, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: One king, one faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century Author: Roelker, Nancy L. (Nancy Lyman) Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| European Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passi . . . [more] Similar Items