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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: Political economy and the rise of capitalism: a reinterpretation Author: McNally, David Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Economics and Business \| History Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Social importance of self-esteem Author: Mecca, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare dependency?In an attempt to answer these questions, th . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Literature \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics Publisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recor . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion in Hellenistic Athens Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Religion \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion d . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| Art Theory \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics \| Political Theory \| History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Archaeology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and human existence: from Marx to Merleau-Ponty Author: Miller, Jim 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Philosophy \| Religion \| Intellectual History Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Sociology \| Literature \| United States History \| Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Intellectual History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Kinship with strangers: adoption and interpretations of kinship in American culture Author: Modell, Judith Schachter 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Adoption challenges our understanding of the core symbols of kinship in American culture - birth, biology, and blood. Through the lens of anthropological theory, Judith Modell examines these symbols and the way they affect people who experience the "fictive" kinship of adoption. Her findings are tim . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Aging Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Ger . . . [more] Similar Items

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