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| 61. |  | Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914  Author: Neuberger, Joan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics Author: Waltz, Susan Eileen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | African History | African Studies Publisher's Description: Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | Medicine Publisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: In the shadow of the eagles: Sonora and the transformation of the border during the Porfiriato Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Shadow of the Eagles considers the historical roots of Mexican border society. The Mexican northwest, and Sonora in particular, has often captured the public's imagination; it has been portrayed as a region of untold mineral wealth, insurgent Apaches and Yaquis, self-reliant cowboys, miners, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Renaissance History Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | Aging Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | American Studies | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Asian American Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Law | History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | European History Publisher'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 |
| 75. |  | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Art Theory | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics | Political Theory | History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: Lewis & Clark: legacies, memories, and new perspectives Author: Fresonke, Kris 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | American Studies | American Literature | Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: Lithuania awakening Author: Senn, Alfred Erich Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher'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 |