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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ordering the world: approaches to state and society in Sung Dynasty China Author: Hymes, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a r . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art \| Architecture \| China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vessels Author: Shaughnessy, Edward L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| China \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic struct . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance response Author: Barnes, Bernadine Ann Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art Publisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography; first fifty years Author: Raitt, Helen Published: W. Ritchie Press, 1967 Subjects: Similar Items
9.	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
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue Author: Sargent, Peter Published: Sargent, 1979 Subjects: Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D Author: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas Author: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Composers Publisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seeing double: intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Author: Stephens, Susan A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocr . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Classical History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Twain \| American Literature \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Barbarians and politics at the Court of Arcadius Author: Cameron, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Religion \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of th . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700 Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more] Similar Items