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| 141. |  | Title: Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Until now, we have known very little of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, despite extensive research on the modern Middle East. With this collection of essays, the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites can finally be heard - no more will our view of the M . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 142. |  | Title: The struggle for the breeches: gender and the making of the British working class Author: Clark, Anna Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 143. |  | Title: Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 Author: Wadley, Susan Snow 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur - the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser - as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 144. |  | Title: The stubborn earth: American agriculturalists on Chinese soil, 1898-1937  Author: Stross, Randall E Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: This is a study of the first major American effort to aid a developing country - China - in the early twentieth century. Anyone interested in U.S.-China relations and in the American presence abroad will find it provocative and frequently moving. Similar Items |
| 145. |  | Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 146. |  | Title: Subtle bodies: representing angels in Byzantium Author: Peers, Glenn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Medieval Studies | Art History | Christianity | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This boo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 147. |  | Title: Sugar and the origins of modern Philippine society Author: Larkin, John A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tena . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 148. |  | Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: film festivals and the world they made Author: Turan, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema ma . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 149. |  | Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Author: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981 Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 150. |  | Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 151. |  | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American Literature Publisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 152. |  | Title: Survivors: an oral history of the Armenian genocide Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 153. |  | Title: Suspended music: chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China Author: Falkenhausen, Lothar von Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Music | Asian History | China | Art History Publisher's Description: The Chinese made the world's first bronze chime-bells, which they used to perform ritual music, particularly during the Shang and Zhou dynasties (ca. 1700-221 B.C.). Lothar von Falkenhausen's rich and detailed study reconstructs how the music of these bells - the only Bronze Age instruments that can . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 154. |  | Title: Susto, a folk illness Author: Rubel, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 155. |  | Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Literature in Translation | Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 156. |  | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthology Author: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: Symbols, computation, and intentionality: a critique of the computational theory of mind Author: Horst, Steven W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Psychology Publisher's Description: The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that cognitive states possess the generative and compositional properties of natural languages - has proven enormously influential in recent philosophical studies of cognition. In this carefully argued criti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 159. |  | Title: Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna Author: Bunzl, Matti 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Jewish Studies | European History | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of . . . [more] Similar Items |