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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wagering the land: ritual, capital, and environmental degradation in the Cordillera of northern Luzon, 1900-1986 Author: Lewis, Martin W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Geography \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| European History \| Asian History \| China \| European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countries Author: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Water \| Agriculture Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The way the world is: cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili Author: Swartz, Marc J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture.In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Weak foundations: the economy of El Salvador in the nineteenth century Author: Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes provides the first in-depth economic history of El Salvador during the crucial decades of the nineteenth century. Before independence in 1821, the isolated territory that we now call El Salvador was a subdivision of the Captaincy General of Guatemala and had only 250,000 inhabit . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Welcoming the undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish question Author: Lesser, Jeff Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future." What motivated the Brazilian government, he asks, to create a secret ba . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Western university on trial Author: Chapman, John William 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Social Science Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Political Theory \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: When a doctor hates a patient, and other chapters in a young physician's life Author: Peschel, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Reagan, Leslie J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Women's Studies \| United States History \| Medicine Publisher's Description: As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time wh . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Ancient History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Hinduism \| South Asia Publisher's Description: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friends?What are they but rays from the crescentsleft by the nails of her loverpressing her in his passion,rays now luminous as the moonlightof a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dram . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| African Studies \| African History Publisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more] Similar Items

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