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81.	Requires cookie*	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
82.	Requires cookie*	Title: The New cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack ... [et al.] Author: Biersack, Aletta Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Law Publisher's Description: Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a dee . . . [more] Similar Items
83.	Requires cookie*	Title: Antigonos the One-eyed and the creation of the Hellenistic state Author: Billows, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first d . . . [more] Similar Items
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art \| History \| Jewish Studies \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1918 the city of Berlin evolved into a commercial and industrial hub that also became an international center for radical new ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jews were key leaders in developing this unique cosmopolitan culture. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New . . . [more] Similar Items
85.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: Balancing water: restoring the Klamath Basin Author: Blake, Tupper Ansel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Photography \| Water Publisher's Description: The Klamath Basin is a land of teeming wildlife, expansive marshes, blue-ribbon trout streams, tremendous stretches of forests, and large ranches in southern Oregon and northern California. Known to waterfowl, songbirds, and shorebirds, the Klamath Basin's marshlands are a mecca for birds along the . . . [more] Similar Items
87.	Requires cookie*	Title: Family size and achievement Author: Blake, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology \| Demography Publisher's Description: The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to come primarily from small families - families of three or fewer children. Judith Blake calls this momentous change the sibsize revolution, and this book focuses on the cognitive and educational consequences . . . [more] Similar Items
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Social Problems \| Public Policy \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items
89.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| Women's Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan , sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion . . . [more] Similar Items
90.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 Author: Bloch, Ruth H 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Christianity \| Women's Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of h . . . [more] Similar Items
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more] Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourse Author: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies \| Sociology \| Labor Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more] Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: Flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgery Author: Blum, Virginia L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Film \| Psychology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Sociology \| Anthropology \| Television and Radio \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu . . . [more] Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: The other modernism: F.T. Marinetti's futurist fiction of power Author: Blum, Cinzia Sartini Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of It . . . [more] Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art \| Architectural History \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more] Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Author: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies \| History \| Men and Masculinity \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more] Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	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
99.	Requires cookie*	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
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: The view from Bald Hill: thirty years in an Arizona grassland Author: Bock, Carl E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Conservation \| California and the West \| Ecology \| Natural History \| Science \| Biology \| Botany \| Zoology Publisher's Description: In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Ap . . . [more] Similar Items

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