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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: The emancipation of writing: German civil society in the making, 1790s-1820s Author: McNeely, Ian F 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| German Studies \| European History \| Sociology \| Political Theory \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Heller, Wendy Beth Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| European Studies \| Opera \| Classical Music \| Women's Studies \| Classical Literature and Language \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality - was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological wom . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emerson: the mind on fire: a biography Author: Richardson, Robert D 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Social and Political Thought \| United States History Publisher's Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Author: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| United States History \| Renaissance Literature \| European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Gender Studies \| Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European History \| Victorian History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Pacific Rim Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emptying beds: the work of an emergency psychiatric unit Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychiatry \| Social Problems \| Medicine Publisher's Description: The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and ot . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encarnación's kitchen: Mexican recipes from nineteenth-century California: selections from Encarnación Pinedo's El cocinero español Author: Pinedo, Encarnación b. 1848 Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Food and Cooking \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnación Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero españo . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian Literature \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly det . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Endless night: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories Author: Bergstrom, Janet 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Art Theory \| Psychology Publisher's Description: The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness that these two disciplines face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This collection emphasizes the history of theory to demonstrate that film theory must be written with a strong sense of historical conscious . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Religion \| African American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s Author: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engineering trouble: biotechnology and its discontents Author: Schurman, Rachel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Conservation \| EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Technology and Society \| Agriculture \| Technology \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States . . . [more] Similar Items

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