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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dioscorus of Aphrodito: his work and his world Author: MacCoull, Leslie B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics Publisher's Description: From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect th . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Travel \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Islam \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inscribing the time: Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England Author: Mallin, Eric Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida , Hamlet , and Twelfth Ni . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Culture of the future: the Proletkult movement in revolutionary Russia Author: Mally, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Just days before the October 1917 Revolution, the Proletkult was formed in Petrograd to serve as an umbrella organization for numerous burgeoning working-class cultural groups. Advocates of the Proletkult hoped to devise new forms of art, education, and social relations that would express the spirit . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Interpretation radical but not unruly: the new puzzle of the arts and history Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of h . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The flux of history and the flux of science Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledge of the world and ourselves is possible? In this boldly original and elegantly written study, Joseph Margolis argues for a radically historicized vie . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Masks of the spirit: image and metaphor in Mesoamerica Author: Markman, Peter T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Art \| Folklore and Mythology Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Public Policy \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia \| Economics and Business \| Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies \| California and the West \| Popular Culture \| History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Print Media \| Education \| United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre Publisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Writing Publisher's Description: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters - in their own words. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age focused on the early sound era and the 1930s. Backstory 2 featured Interviews with Screenwriter . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Islam \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items

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