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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Chinese historical microdemography Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian History \| China \| Demography Publisher's Description: Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility, mortality, fa . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art \| Architecture \| China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales Author: Kendrick, Laura Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A certain realism: making use of Pasolini's film theory and practice Author: Viano, Maurizio Sanzio 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films - Accattone , The Canterbury Tales , Medea , Saló - continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, a . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The chances of rhyme: device and modernity Author: Wesling, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Composers \| Intellectual History \| Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film histor . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| Comparative Literature \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: City steeple, city streets: saints' tales from Granada and a changing Spain Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European Literature Publisher's Description: Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusse . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Medicine \| History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really want Author: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany Author: Widdig, Bernd Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: German Studies \| European History \| Intellectual History \| European Literature Publisher's Description: For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dyn . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Geography \| Sociology \| California and the West \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Called by the wild: the autobiography of a conservationist Author: Dasmann, Raymond Fredric 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. This delightful memoir tells the st . . . [more] Similar Items

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