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| 241. |  | Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700 Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 242. |  | Title: An Ottoman tragedy: history and historiography at play Author: Piterberg, Gabriel 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Historiography | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 243. |  | Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa Author: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Art History | Cultural Anthropology | History Publisher's Description: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa - mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cul . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 244. |  | Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Gender Studies Publisher'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 |
| 245. |  | 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 |
| 246. |  | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary world Author: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global Studies Publisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 247. |  | Title: Italo Balbo: a Fascist life Author: Segrè, Claudio G Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Politics Publisher's Description: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 248. |  | Title: The family romance of the French Revolution Author: Hunt, Lynn Avery Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 249. |  | 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 |
| 250. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 251. |  | Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 252. |  | Title: The reign of the phallus: sexual politics in ancient Athens Author: Keuls, Eva C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens.The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This ob . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 253. |  | Title: Foundations of political economy: some early Tudor views on state and society Author: Wood, Neal Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher'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 |
| 254. |  | Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | History Publisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 255. |  | Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | History | Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 256. |  | Title: Twenty thousand roads: women, movement, and the West Author: Scharff, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history - our restless, relentle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 257. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 258. |  | Title: From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York City Author: Sánchez Korrol, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher'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 |
| 259. |  | Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 260. |  | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonology Author: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History Publisher'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 |