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61. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 62. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 63. | | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial pastAuthor: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | 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 | ArtPublisher'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 | 65. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 66. | | Title: Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialismAuthor: Rofel, Lisa 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Blackface, white noise: Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting potAuthor: Rogin, Michael 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Film | United States History | Jewish Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump , Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonologyAuthor: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nationAuthor: Rohrbough, Malcolm J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | American Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession - soon c . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian CybeleAuthor: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: The building program of Herod the GreatAuthor: Roller, Duane W Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Architecture | Ancient History | ArchaeologyPublisher's Description: Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's responsibilities as king of Judaea . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | 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 | ChristianityPublisher'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 | 73. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 74. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 75. | | Title: Heritage of China: contemporary perspectives on Chinese civilizationAuthor: Ropp, Paul S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enri . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 77. | | Title: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German cultureAuthor: Rose, Paul Lawrence Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | European Studies | Science | Technology and Society | Physics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertake . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicineAuthor: Roseman, Marina 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | East Asia Other | Ethnomusicology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | MusicologyPublisher's Description: Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community sh . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industryAuthor: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Politics | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domest . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Movies as politicsAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | American Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological ident . . . [more]Similar Items |
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