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| 41. |  | Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology  Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical Philosophy | Theatre Publisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: The research universities and their patrons Author: Rosenzweig, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Sociology | Sociology Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth Author: Ross, Charles Stanley Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | European History | English Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Public Policy Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Some trouble with cows: making sense of social conflict Author: Roy, Beth Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | South Asia | Politics | Hinduism Publisher's Description: Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.Using first-person acco . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | History Publisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Caste and capitalism in colonial India: the Nattukottai Chettiars Author: Rudner, David West Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact . . . [more] Similar Items |