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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The naked text: Chaucer's Legend of good women Author: Delany, Sheila Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| English Literature \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame , Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century. The richness of late medieval art, philosophy . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law \| American Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Narrowing the Nation's Power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea th . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| Law \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native place, city, and nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 Author: Goodman, Bryna 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| California and the West \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Archaeology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose Author: Logan, Peter Melville 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Victorian History \| English Literature \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writin . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| South Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Christianity \| European History \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: New York, the politics of urban regional development Author: Danielson, Michael N Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Urban Studies Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nietzsche: naturalism and interpretation Author: Cox, Christoph 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology, Nietzsche is considered by many critics to share th . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Aging \| South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nothing but history: reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics Author: Roberts, David D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: What is the role of history in our "postmetaphysical" age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual trad . . . [more] Similar Items

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