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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The political logic of economic reform in China Author: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business Author: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | American Studies | Popular Culture | Intellectual History | Media Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | Title: Divided loyalties: nationalism and mass politics in Syria at the close of Empire Author: Gelvin, James L 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Politics Publisher's Description: James L. Gelvin brings a new and distinctive perspective to the perennially fascinating topic of nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Unlike previous historians who have focused on the activities and ideas of a small group of elites, Gelvin details the role played by non-elites in nationalist politi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Business of the heart: religion and emotion in the nineteenth century Author: Corrigan, John 1952- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significanc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin America Author: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History | Politics Publisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam | Asian Studies | Asian History | European History Publisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items |