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81. | | | 82. | | Title: The Codex MendozaAuthor: Berdan, Frances Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Native American Studies | Latin American History | ArtPublisher's Description: This book is available in two editions: a four-volume deluxe hardcover edition and a single-volume paperback abridgment. The four-volume hardcover facsimile edition of Codex Mendoza places the most comprehensive, most extensively illustrated document of Aztec civilization within reach of a broad aud . . . [more]Similar Items | 83. | | Title: Cognition: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-ti . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961Author: Klein, Christina 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | American Literature | Asian American Studies | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more]Similar Items | 86. | | Title: Collected proseAuthor: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Poetry | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | PoetryPublisher's Description: The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmoder . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practicesAuthor: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | | 90. | | Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspectiveAuthor: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Postcolonial Studies | Urban Studies | Immigration | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items | 92. | | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century IndiaAuthor: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | HistoryPublisher'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 | 93. | | Title: The color bind: California's battle to end affirmative action Author: Chavez, Lydia 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | California and the WestPublisher's Description: The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next g . . . [more]Similar Items | 94. | | Title: The color of gender: reimaging democracy Author: Eisenstein, Zillah R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Gender Studies | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law , Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abo . . . [more]Similar Items | 95. | | 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 | 96. | | Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more]Similar Items | 97. | | Title: Comedy/cinema/theoryAuthor: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | FilmPublisher's Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject. The result is a . . . [more]Similar Items | 98. | | Title: A companion to California wine: an encyclopedia of wine and winemaking from the mission period to the presentAuthor: Sullivan, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Viticulture | California and the West | Californian and Western History | WinePublisher's Description: California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. But until now there has been no comprehensive guide to California wine and . . . [more]Similar Items | 99. | | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more]Similar Items | 100. | | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more]Similar Items |
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