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


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1.	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
2.	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
3.	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
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dwelling in the text: houses in American fiction Author: Chandler, Marilyn R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature Publisher's Description: What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels, beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	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
6.	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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics \| Art and Architecture \| Architectural History \| Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Experiencing politics: a legislator's stories of government and health care Author: McDonough, John E. (John Edward) Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Medicine Publisher's Description: John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquen . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London Author: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Urban Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide Author: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Biology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious - or more fraught with paradox - than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items
18.	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics \| Biology \| Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy \| Ancient History \| Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items