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261. | | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more]Similar Items | 262. | | Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more]Similar Items | 263. | | Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more]Similar Items | 264. | | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggleAuthor: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more]Similar Items | 265. | | Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | French StudiesPublisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more]Similar Items | 266. | | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American StudiesPublisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 267. | | Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial RussiaAuthor: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more]Similar Items | 268. | | Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush yearsAuthor: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | History | Opera | Composers | American Studies | California and the West | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more]Similar Items | 269. | | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papersAuthor: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more]Similar Items | 270. | | Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern FranceAuthor: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Art History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more]Similar Items | 271. | | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary FranceAuthor: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more]Similar Items | 272. | | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more]Similar Items | 273. | | | 274. | | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more]Similar Items | 275. | | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial ChinaAuthor: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more]Similar Items | 276. | | Title: Memories of Chicano history: the life and narrative of Bert CoronaAuthor: García, Mario T Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Autobiography | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication - the . . . [more]Similar Items | 277. | | Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of ChristianityAuthor: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Christianity | Classical Religions | History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more]Similar Items | 278. | | Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los AngelesAuthor: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | California and the West | Urban Studies | Water | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more]Similar Items | 279. | | Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Psychology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more]Similar Items | 280. | | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more]Similar Items |
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