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| 1. |  | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter  Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | Title: By popular demand: revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections Author: Gastil, John Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of representative democracy in the United States. Gastil argues that American citizens have difficulty developing clear policy interes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt Author: Ferguson, James 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The blood of strangers: stories from emergency medicine Author: Huyler, Frank 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Medicine | American Literature | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Popular Culture | United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968 Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender Studies Publisher'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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish Communist Author: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Loose change: three women of the sixties Author: Davidson, Sara Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three - Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself - from their first meeting in 1962, through the eve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewife Author: LeBlanc, Robin M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: When government fails: the Orange County bankruptcy Author: Baldassare, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Law | California and the West Publisher's Description: When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. In the first comprehensive analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, Mark Baldassare uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked Author: Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Autobiography | American Studies Publisher's Description: Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.Using his "End Poverty in California" movement (more commonl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | French Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: American empire: Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization Author: Smith, Neil Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Geography | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | International Relations Publisher's Description: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geogra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really want Author: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A heart at fire's center: the life and music of Bernard Herrmann Author: Smith, Steven C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Contemporary Music | Composers Publisher's Description: No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C. Smith explores the interrelationships between Herr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Mallarmé's children: symbolism and the renewal of experience Author: Smith, Richard Cándida Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Art | European Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new med . . . [more] Similar Items |