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| 41. |  | Title: Republican Beijing: the city and its histories Author: Dong, Madeleine Yue 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Adventures of a mathematician Author: Ulam, Stanislaw M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Mathematics | United States History Publisher's Description: The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Rethinking American history in a global age Author: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | Historiography Publisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China Author: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C  Author: Reger, Gary Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Hellenistic constructs: essays in culture, history, and historiography Author: Cartledge, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Anthropology | African Studies | African History Publisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | History Publisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: The Sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identiti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies | Hinduism Publisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Geography | Japan Publisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | History | Ethics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: American media and mass culture: left perspectives Author: Lazere, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | Media Studies Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: The private worlds of Marcel Duchamp: desire, liberation, and the self in modern culture Author: Seigel, Jerrold Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: On holiday: a history of vacationing Author: Löfgren, Orvar Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Travel | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Popular Culture | Criminology Publisher's Description: Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teachin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 Author: Bernstein, Gail Lee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Gregory the Great: perfection in imperfection Author: Straw, Carole Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Classical History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality - monk, preacher, and pope - in order to elucidate the structure of his thou . . . [more] Similar Items |