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| 1. |  | Title: Picturing Chinatown: art and orientalism in San Francisco Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | California and the West | Asian American Studies | Photography | Art History Publisher's Description: This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and ma . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | Politics | California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | Women's Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Poets on painters: essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets Author: McClatchy, J. D 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | Art | Poetry | Art History Publisher's Description: What are poets looking at , looking for , when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened languag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco  Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | African American Studies | Social Problems | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 Author: Boyd, Nan Alamilla 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Sociology | California and the West Publisher's Description: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant mili . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush years Author: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | History | Opera | Composers | American Studies | California and the West | European History Publisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography | California and the West | Marine and Freshwater Sciences | Geology | Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Intensive care: a doctor's journal Author: Murray, John F. (John Frederic) 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Medicine | Aging Publisher's Description: Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The French Revolution as blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 Author: Pressly, William L 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 , and Celebrating over the Bodi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | African History | Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The Society of Six: California colorists Author: Boas, Nancy 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six - Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest - created a color-centered modernist idiom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Contesting Earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity Author: Zimmerman, Michael E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Natural History | Ecology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 Author: Benjamin, Roger 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II Author: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | American Studies | California and the West | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more] Similar Items |