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| 41. |  | Title: History and tropology: the rise and fall of metaphor  Author: Ankersmit, F. R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: A history of Ethiopia Author: Marcus, Harold G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Postcolonial Studies Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome Author: Haynes, Holly Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Political Theory | Ancient History Publisher's Description: A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories , this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire. Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951: the demise of the Lamaist state Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Tibet Publisher's Description: The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has argued that Tibet was, in the main, historically independe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: A history of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition Author: Pinney, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Food and Cooking | United States History | American Studies | Wine Publisher's Description: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground dow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropology Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African Studies Publisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: History, religion, and antisemitism Author: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism | Sociology | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: selected writings and interviews Author: Hitchcock, Alfred 1899- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the ci . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Hollywood diva: a biography of Jeanette MacDonald Author: Turk, Edward Baron Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | American Studies | Gender Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen radiance mirrored a beguiling real-life personality. Based in large part on the author's exclusive access to MacDonald's private papers, including her unpublished memoir, this vivid, often touching biogr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Holy women of the Syrian Orient Author: Brock, Sebastian P Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion | Classical Religions | Religion Publisher's Description: The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Home bound: Filipino lives across cultures, communities, and countries Author: Espiritu, Yen Le 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | United States History | Postcolonial Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Homer the theologian: Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition Author: Lamberton, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents Author: Hubbard, Thomas K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Classics | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Gre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | European Literature | Poetry | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies | Medieval Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Honky Author: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 Author: Neuberger, Joan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items |