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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush years Author: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| History \| Opera \| Composers \| American Studies \| California and the West \| European History Publisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The vanguard of the Islamic revolution: the Jamaʿat-i Islami of Pakistan Author: Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Islam Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement's idealized vision . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Voice of the living light: Hildegard of Bingen and her world Author: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Women's Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard authority, brings major scholars together to prese . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Television and Radio \| History Publisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies \| European History \| Intellectual History \| Politics \| European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Volcanology and geothermal energy Author: Wohletz, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science \| Physical Sciences \| Earth Sciences Publisher's Description: Most high-temperature geothermal resources develop in volcanic regions, but very few have been successfully explored and developed despite the ever-growing need for renewable energy resources. This is particularly true of the many developing countries that exist in volcanic regions with potential ge . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Art History \| English Literature \| Victorian History \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imag . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The view from Bald Hill: thirty years in an Arizona grassland Author: Bock, Carl E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Conservation \| California and the West \| Ecology \| Natural History \| Science \| Biology \| Botany \| Zoology Publisher's Description: In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Ap . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Violence workers: police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities Author: Huggins, Martha Knisely 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for power Author: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History \| Politics Publisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community Author: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion \| Ethics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vale of tears: revisiting the Canudos massacre in northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 Author: Levine, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, Levine challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as op . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visionary Women: ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England Author: Mack, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Women's Studies Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Voting at the political fault line: California's experiment with the blanket primary Author: Cain, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| California and the West Publisher's Description: California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the fron . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class, and race relations Author: Jackman, Mary R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Mary Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands & around the world in the years, 1826-1829 Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard 1790-1849 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| Literature in Translation \| Travel Publisher's Description: While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to trade he found it necessary to spend nearly two . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vanishing points: Dickens, narrative, and the subject of omniscience Author: Jaffe, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In traditional narrative theory, the term "omniscience" refers to a narrator's absolute knowledge and authority. Narrative theory provides no social, historical, or psychological context for omniscience, nor does it attempt to explain the predominance of omniscient narration in nineteenth-century Br . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law \| Philosophy \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through Polynesia Author: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| United States History \| East Asia Other \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more] Similar Items

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