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41. |  | Title: American empire: Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalizationAuthor: Smith, Neil Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Geography | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | International RelationsPublisher's Description: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geogra . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. |  | Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiography | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more]Similar Items | 43. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisonsAuthor: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | SociologyPublisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. |  | Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | American Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. |  | Title: American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomalyAuthor: Prucha, Francis Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | LawPublisher's Description: American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today - hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. |  | Title: American Klezmer: its roots and offshootsAuthor: Slobin, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Jewish Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | EthnomusicologyPublisher's Description: Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 48. |  | | 49. |  | Title: American medicine: the quest for competenceAuthor: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more]Similar Items | 50. |  | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher'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 | 51. |  | Title: American scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat GenerationAuthor: Raskin, Jonah 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Literature | Sociology | PoetryPublisher's Description: Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in w . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. |  | 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 CulturePublisher'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 | 53. |  | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban StudiesPublisher'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 | 54. |  | Title: Amphibians and reptiles of Baja California, including its Pacific islands, and the islands in the Sea of CortésAuthor: Grismer, L. Lee 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Natural History | California and the West | HerpetologyPublisher's Description: The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer is not only the foremost authority on the amphibi . . . [more]Similar Items | 55. |  | Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish CommunistAuthor: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. |  | | 57. |  | Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolutionAuthor: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. |  | Title: Ancient Titicaca: the evolution of complex society in southern Peru and northern BoliviaAuthor: Stanish, Charles 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Archaeology | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. |  | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 60. |  | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocideAuthor: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | ReligionPublisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more]Similar Items |
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