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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked Author: Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiography \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.Using his "End Poverty in California" movement (more commonl . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: I heard it through the grapevine: rumor in African-American culture Author: Turner, Patricia 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Sociology \| African American Studies \| Anthropology \| American Studies \| Folklore and Mythology \| Popular Culture Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Popular Culture \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics \| Art Criticism \| History \| European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Philosophy \| Medicine \| Technology and Society \| Anthropology \| American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa Author: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Art History \| Cultural Anthropology \| History Publisher's Description: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa - mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cul . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy \| Ancient History \| Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Images of intolerance: the representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée Author: Lipton, Sara 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval Studies \| French Studies \| Medieval History \| Art History \| Judaism Publisher's Description: Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée , are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and the . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imaginary communities: utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity Author: Wegner, Phillip E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Politics \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Buddhism \| Classics \| Indigenous Religions \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Military History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies \| Psychology \| African History \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The implementation perspective: a guide for managing social service delivery programs Author: Williams, Walter Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program Author: McConnell, David L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Politics \| Education Publisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imposing wilderness: struggles over livelihood and nature preservation in Africa Author: Neumann, Roderick P 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| African Studies \| Geography \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on . . . [more] Similar Items

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