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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658 Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History \| European History \| Military History Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Popular Culture \| Art \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: Entangled edens: visions of the Amazon Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Literature \| Folklore and Mythology \| Natural History \| Latin American Studies \| History of Science Publisher's Description: Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widel . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Social Theory \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Middle Eastern History \| Popular Culture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Erasmus of the Low Countries Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to prom . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Sociology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: The erotic Whitman Author: Pollak, Vivian R Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposin . . . [more] Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: Essays in population history: Mexico and the Caribbean Author: Cook, Sherburne Friend 1896-1974 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: Latin American Studies Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Essays on the blurring of art and life Author: Kaprow, Allan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: As the creator of "Happenings" and "Environments," Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today. He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential essays of his generation. From "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock" in 1958 to "The . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmology Author: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| China \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more] Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Sociology \| Ethics \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Anthropology \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Author: Hays, Terence E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: European Jewry and the First Crusade Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed J . . . [more] Similar Items

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