81. | | Title: Rethinking the American race problem Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | Law | Politics | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more]Similar Items |
82. | | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more]Similar Items |
83. | | Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatasAuthor: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology | ComposersPublisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more]Similar Items |
84. | | Title: The returns of Odysseus: colonization and ethnicityAuthor: Malkin, Irad Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Anthropology | Classical Literature and LanguagePublisher's Description: This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward a . . . [more]Similar Items |
85. | | Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theaterAuthor: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology | Opera | Musicology | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more]Similar Items |
86. | | Title: Revenge in Attic and later tragedyAuthor: Burnett, Anne Pippin 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place di . . . [more]Similar Items |
87. | | Title: Revenge of the aesthetic: the place of literature in theory today Author: Clark, Michael 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especia . . . [more]Similar Items |
88. | | Title: Reversible destiny: mafia, antimafia, and the struggle for PalermoAuthor: Schneider, Jane 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Politics | Criminology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive . . . [more]Similar Items |
89. | | Title: Revolution and history: the origins of Marxist historiography in China, 1919-1937 Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist his . . . [more]Similar Items |
90. | | Title: Revolution and rebellion in the early modern worldAuthor: Goldstone, Jack A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Political Theory | European History | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhel . . . [more]Similar Items |
91. | | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more]Similar Items |
92. | | Title: The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science Author: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical HistoryPublisher's Description: G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science. Similar Items |
93. | | Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more]Similar Items |
94. | | Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | Japan | Literary Theory and Criticism | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more]Similar Items |
95. | | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | PsychologyPublisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more]Similar Items |
96. | | Title: The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societiesAuthor: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | European History | Social Theory | Political Theory | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies , drawing on original . . . [more]Similar Items |
97. | | Title: Rich democracies: political economy, public policy, and performanceAuthor: Wilensky, Harold L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social Theory | Public Policy | Economics and Business | SociologyPublisher's Description: In this landmark work, the culmination of 30 years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of 19 rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: (1) What is distinctly modern about modern societies--in what ways are they becoming alike? (2) How do variations in types of political economy sha . . . [more]Similar Items |
98. | | Title: Rich forests, poor people: resource control and resistance in JavaAuthor: Peluso, Nancy Lee Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Southeast Asia | Environmental Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Peluso untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries. Similar Items |
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100. | | Title: The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" Author: Widner, Jennifer A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatt . . . [more]Similar Items |