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| 1. |  | Title: Zinfandel: a history of a grape and its wine Author: Sullivan, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Wine and Viticulture | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Wine | Agriculture Publisher's Description: The Zinfandel grape - currently producing big, rich, luscious styles of red wine - has a large, loyal, even fanatical following in California and around the world. The grape, grown predominantly in California, has acquired an almost mythic status - in part because of the caliber of its wines and its . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: A companion to California wine: an encyclopedia of wine and winemaking from the mission period to the present Author: Sullivan, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Viticulture | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Wine Publisher's Description: California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. But until now there has been no comprehensive guide to California wine and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Bottled poetry: Napa winemaking from Prohibition to the modern era  Author: Lapsley, James T Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Viticulture | Wine Publisher's Description: California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | Law | United States History Publisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Strangers at home: Jews in the Italian literary imagination Author: Gunzberg, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literatu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | History Publisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Postcolonial Studies | European History | African History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The promise of the land: the inheritance of the land of Canaan by the Israelites Author: Weinfeld, Moshe Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The settlement of the Land of Canaan by the Israelite tribes is a central theme in the Bible which is immensely relevant to the Middle East today.Moshe Weinfeld synthesizes the biblical material on this theme, approaching his subject from three viewpoints: historical, using the Bible as a source; li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Intellectual History | Politics | European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Classical Religions | Classics | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy Author: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesis Author: Levy, Jerrold E 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | California and the West | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | American Literature Publisher's Description: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Author: Scaglione, Aldo D Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Rite of spring: the beginnings of a musical language Author: Van den Toorn, Pieter C 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Music | Composers Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking | Renaissance History | History of Science | History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items |