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| 61. |  | Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378  Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 Author: Schechter, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Intellectual History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusuall . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | 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 |
| 67. |  | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act . . . [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: Public lands and political meaning: ranchers, the government, and the property between them Author: Merrill, Karen R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | United States History | Law Publisher's Description: The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Agriculture Publisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Hermann von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century science Author: Cahan, David Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Victorian History Publisher's Description: Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European History Publisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 75. |  | Title: Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 Author: García, Maria Cristina 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American History | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies Publisher's Description: In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García - a Cuban refugee raised in Miami - has experienced firsth . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | South Asia | Islam Publisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: Erasmus of the Low Countries Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to prom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: Ordering the world: approaches to state and society in Sung Dynasty China Author: Hymes, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval Studies Publisher'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 |
| 80. |  | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher'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 |