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201. | | Title: City of stone: the hidden history of JerusalemAuthor: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that . . . [more]Similar Items | 202. | | Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more]Similar Items | 203. | | Title: The state and labor in modern JapanAuthor: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more]Similar Items | 204. | | Title: Lithuania awakening Author: Senn, Alfred Erich Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika released new forces throughout Soviet society. In Lithuania this process resulted in a psychological-cultural revolution. Deep-rooted feelings, long suppressed, exploded, demonstrations and mass meetings ensued, and the face of the society changed. Although . . . [more]Similar Items | 205. | | Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of AintabAuthor: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more]Similar Items | 206. | | Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more]Similar Items | 207. | | Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more]Similar Items | 208. | | Title: The call from Algeria: third worldism, revolution, and the turn to IslamAuthor: Malley, Robert 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam | Intellectual History | African StudiesPublisher's Description: The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers. Charting Algeria's political evolution from the turn of the century to the present, Robert Malley explores the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the current . . . [more]Similar Items | 209. | | | 210. | | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth cen . . . [more]Similar Items | 211. | | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more]Similar Items | 212. | | Title: International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledgeAuthor: Cooper, Frederick 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Social Science | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | PoliticsPublisher's Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and . . . [more]Similar Items | 213. | | Title: Foundations of political economy: some early Tudor views on state and societyAuthor: Wood, Neal Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers - Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, B . . . [more]Similar Items | 214. | | Title: From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York CityAuthor: Sánchez Korrol, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements - "colonias" . . . [more]Similar Items | 215. | | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonologyAuthor: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more]Similar Items | 216. | | Title: Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920sAuthor: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Sociology | Women's Studies | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan , sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion . . . [more]Similar Items | 217. | | Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more]Similar Items | 218. | | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more]Similar Items | 219. | | Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | Chicano StudiesPublisher's Description: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexic . . . [more]Similar Items | 220. | | Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilizationAuthor: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more]Similar Items |
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