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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| China \| Politics Publisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the House Author: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	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
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| China Publisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s Author: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish Communist Author: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" Author: Widner, Jennifer A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatt . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual histories Author: Wang, Zheng Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| China \| Women's Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a ge . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Life's origin: the beginnings of biological evolution Author: Schopf, J. William 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Paleontology \| Astronomy \| Evolution \| Earth Sciences \| Physical Sciences Publisher's Description: Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in this area have made remarkable progress, and an overall picture of how life emerged is coming more clea . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rise of the Paris red belt Author: Stovall, Tyler Edward Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Social Science \| French Studies Publisher's Description: From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stov . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinction Author: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya Published: University of California Press, 1974 Subjects: Asian Studies \| China Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revolution and history: the origins of Marxist historiography in China, 1919-1937 Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist his . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third Republic Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The origins of the Boxer Uprising Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from ear . . . [more] Similar Items