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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: Workin' man blues: country music in California Author: Haslam, Gerald W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| California and the West Publisher's Description: California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys t . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand Author: Hatch, Elvin Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| African American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Devī: goddesses of India Author: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Women's Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Gr . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| United States History \| European History \| Labor Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome Author: Haynes, Holly Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Political Theory \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories , this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire. Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about th . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Philosophy \| Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Author: Hays, Terence E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Asian Studies Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Christianity \| History Publisher's Description: One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian History \| Sociology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia \| Politics Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany Author: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| German Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Virgil's epic technique Author: Heinze, Richard 1867-1929 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Heinze's study, originally published in German in 1903, remains a classic of Virgil scholarship. This translation makes the book available in English for the first time. Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: The language of inquiry Author: Hejinian, Lyn Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection o . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Heller, Wendy Beth Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| European Studies \| Opera \| Classical Music \| Women's Studies \| Classical Literature and Language \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality - was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological wom . . . [more] Similar Items

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