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1. |  | Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman EmpireAuthor: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | | 3. |  | Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.DAuthor: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imaginationAuthor: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: Reproducing empire: race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto RicoAuthor: Briggs, Laura 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | Medicine | United States History | Women's Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, fe . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920Author: Wigen, Kären 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Geography | Asian History | JapanPublisher's Description: Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Ja . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Background to discovery: Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook Author: Howse, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Travel | GeographyPublisher's Description: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime explorati . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex politiesAuthor: Smith, Adam T Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | Political Theory | GeographyPublisher's Description: How do landscapes - defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations - contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic re . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in MadagascarAuthor: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Geography | African History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 11. |  | Title: Barbarians and politics at the Court of Arcadius Author: Cameron, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of th . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman stateAuthor: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Geography | JapanPublisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: A different shade of colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the SudanAuthor: Powell, Eve Troutt Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialismAuthor: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. JacksonAuthor: Wilson, Chris 1951 Dec. 23- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Architecture | Landscape Architecture | Geography | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes - a far more recent development - has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepeni . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great WarAuthor: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European StudiesPublisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti' . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil WarAuthor: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Latin American History | United States History | American Studies | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more]Similar Items |
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