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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History \| Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Six screenplays Author: Riskin, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nothing but history: reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics Author: Roberts, David D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: What is the role of history in our "postmetaphysical" age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual trad . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Psychology \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Toil and toxics: workplace struggles and political strategies for occupational health Author: Robinson, James C. (James Claude) 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Labor Studies \| Sociology \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Social and Political Thought \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Physical Sciences \| European History Publisher's Description: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifest . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cognition: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-ti . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Telling lives, telling history: autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia Author: Rodgers, Susan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Dance \| Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: One king, one faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century Author: Roelker, Nancy L. (Nancy Lyman) Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| European Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passi . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| European Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Christianity \| Judaism \| Islam \| Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Economics and Business \| European History \| Sociology \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and king in Burgundy: agrarian foundations of French absolutism Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society. Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Opera \| European History Publisher's Description: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items

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