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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| History \| European History \| Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The French Revolution and the birth of modernity Author: Fehér, Ferenc 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in Bolivia Author: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine Publisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern France Author: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The forgiving air: understanding environmental change Author: Somerville, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| Science Publisher's Description: The Forgiving Air is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our time - the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution - and explains everything in acce . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| California and the West Publisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gaining ground: tailoring social programs to American values Author: Lockhart, Charles 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: Social policy questions present Americans with a cruel dilemma. Most of us will confront hazards, such as illness or aging, against which private personal resources are an inadequate defense. With this in mind, it becomes clear that conditions of our contemporary society make some kinds of public so . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theory Author: Feenberg, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical the . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The social edges of psychoanalysis Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| Psychology Publisher's Description: For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic sociology, and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic writings are less familiar to his readers. In fa . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt Author: Ferguson, James 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| African History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderland Author: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| German Studies \| Geography \| European Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna Author: Bunzl, Matti 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Jewish Studies \| European History \| Sociology \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian Literature \| Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Starting at home: caring and social policy Author: Noddings, Nel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory \| Public Policy \| Social Problems \| Public Policy \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, . . . [more] Similar Items