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| 61. |  | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era  Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil society Author: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | Christianity Publisher's Description: After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implicati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher'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 |
| 65. |  | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and Business Publisher'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 |
| 66. |  | Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China Publisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: Cholera in post-revolutionary Paris: a cultural history Author: Kudlick, Catherine Jean Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Medicine Publisher's Description: Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. Its symptoms were gruesome, its sources were mysterious, and it tended to strike poor neighborhoods hardest. In this insightful cultural history, Catherine Kudlick explores the dynamics of class relatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Christianity and the rhetoric of empire: the development of Christian discourse Author: Cameron, Averil Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History | History | Christianity | Ancient History | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: The city as subject: Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka Author: Hanes, Jeffrey E 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: City of stone: the hidden history of Jerusalem Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher'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 |
| 72. |  | Title: Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Author: Ryan, Mary P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies | Gender Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the nineteenth-century city in this ambitious retelling of a key period of American political and social history. Basing her analysis on three quite different cities - New York, New Orleans, and Sa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: Classicism, politics, and kinship: the Chʿang-chou school of new text Confucianism in late imperial China Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Scholars have generally agreed that the story of New Text Confucianism in late imperial China centers on K'ang Yu-wei and the late nineteenth-century political reforms he took credit for after fleeing China in 1898. In this important new book, Benjamin Elman explores the roots of New Text ideas and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practices Author: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 75. |  | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 Author: Walker, Brett L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Japan | Ethnic Studies | Ecology Publisher's Description: This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. I . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | American Studies | Gender Studies | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items |