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| 41. |  | Title: Building with our hands: new directions in Chicana studies Author: Torre, Adela de la Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Latino Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Athens and Macedon: Attic letter-cutters of 300 to 229 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Erasmus of the Low Countries  Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to prom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Aryans and British India Author: Trautmann, Thomas R Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian History | European History Publisher's Description: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Notes on love in a Tamil family Author: Trawick, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States Author: Trent, James W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Sociology | American Studies | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims mad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Changing the rules: the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania Author: Tripp, Aili Mari Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that even high-ranking state employees receive among the lowest incomes in the country? In this impressively researched and highly . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: The tireless traveler: twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury Author: Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Letters Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Nested games: rational choice in comparative politics Author: Tsebelis, George Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions. Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world Author: Tucker, Richard P 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Ecology Publisher's Description: In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Author: Tucker, Judith E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Law | Islam | Women's Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Punishment: theory and practice Author: Tunick, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Law Publisher's Description: What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment.Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: film festivals and the world they made Author: Turan, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema ma . . . [more] Similar Items |