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61. | | Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | | 64. | | Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Religion | Sociology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies | California and the West | Geography | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar FranceAuthor: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct t . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: Framing American divorce: from the revolutionary generation to the VictoriansAuthor: Basch, Norma Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Law | United States History | Gender Studies | Victorian HistoryPublisher's Description: Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nat . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industryAuthor: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | East Asia Other | Gender Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and powerAuthor: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of p . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern timesAuthor: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French StudiesPublisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth centuryAuthor: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: The Free Speech Movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960sAuthor: Cohen, Robert 1955 May. 21- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Gender Studies | United States History | EducationPublisher's Description: This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent h . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: The French Revolution and the birth of modernity Author: Fehér, Ferenc 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Politics | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: The French Revolution as blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792Author: Pressly, William L 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 , and Celebrating over the Bodi . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial eraAuthor: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Psychology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: From catastrophe to power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of IsraelAuthor: Zertal, Idith Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Judaism | HistoryPublisher's Description: In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | PhysicsPublisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more]Similar Items |
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