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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Renaissance History \| European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics \| Biology \| Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japan's new middle class; the salary man and his family in a Tokyo suburb, Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1971 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Sociology \| Economics and Business Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jazz cultures Author: Ake, David Andrew 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Jazz \| Ethnomusicology \| American Studies \| African American Studies \| Jazz Publisher's Description: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities h . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| European History \| Jewish Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Asian Studies \| East Asia Other \| Japan \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japanese American celebration and conflict: a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 Author: Kurashige, Lon 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particula . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Japan \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 Author: Endelman, Todd M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European History \| Ethnic Studies \| Immigration Publisher's Description: In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of t . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Japan's Orient: rendering pasts into history Author: Tanaka, Stefan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany Author: Poiger, Uta G 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| United States History \| American Music \| Jazz \| Gender Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted t . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Judeo-Spanish ballads from New York Author: Benardete, M. J. (Maír José) 1895- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Literature \| Jewish Studies Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Law \| History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jews, medicine, and medieval society Joseph Shatzmiller Author: Shatzmiller, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| European History \| Medieval Studies \| Medicine Publisher's Description: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allo . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Justice in South Africa, Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| Law Similar Items

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