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| 81. |  | Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India Author: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush Author: Gutiérrez, Ramón A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Native American Ethnicity | Environmental Studies | Natural History | American Studies Publisher's Description: Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity | History Publisher's Description: One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Cool conduct: the culture of distance in Weimar Germany  Author: Lethen, Helmut Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Sociology | German Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of Stanford Author: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business Author: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | American Studies | Popular Culture | Intellectual History | Media Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Natural History Publisher's Description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on the impact that conservation in these areas had on rural people, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Middle Eastern History | Christianity | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Social Science | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: The culture of civil war in Kyoto Author: Berry, Mary Elizabeth 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time.Using d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: The culture of pain Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Literature | History Similar Items |