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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Law \| United States History Publisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: American sensations: class, empire, and the production of popular culture Author: Streeby, Shelley 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| American Literature \| Californian and Western History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncov . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Analogies between analogies: the mathematical reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos collaborators Author: Ulam, Stanislaw M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| Mathematics \| Physical Sciences Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Sociology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Appeasement or resistance and other essays on New Testament Judaism Author: Daube, David Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics \| Archaeology \| European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture: France, 1570-1715 Author: Dewald, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inhe . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| South Asia \| Victorian History \| Travel \| European History \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	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
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: The attic: memoir of a Chinese landlord's son Author: Cao, Guanlong 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literature in Translation \| China \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramp . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aunt Safiyya and the monastery: a novel Author: Ṭāhir, Bahāʾ 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers - including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz - noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, te . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Similar Items

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