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| 61. |  | Title: Intimate enemies: Jews and Arabs in a shared land Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Pales . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975  Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | Aging Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Inventing the feeble mind: a history of mental retardation in the United States Author: Trent, James W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Sociology | American Studies | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 years. He contends that the economic vulnerability of mentally retarded people (and their families), more than the claims mad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: Inventing the needy: gender and the politics of welfare in Hungary Author: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | European History | Gender Studies | Law | Social Problems | Political Theory | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one ano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: The invention of Argentina Author: Shumway, Nicolas Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: The Irish Ulysses Author: Tymoczko, Maria Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature Publisher's Description: In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary sources alone. Challenging conventional views that Joyce rejected Irish literature, Tymoczko demonstrates ho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: Islam, politics, and social movements Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies.This collection is uniq . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: It did happen here: recollections of political repression in America Author: Schultz, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Italo Balbo: a Fascist life Author: Segrè, Claudio G Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Politics Publisher's Description: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshi . . . [more] Similar Items |