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| 1. |  | Title: Letters from prison and other essays Author: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | European History Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Konspira: Solidarity underground  Author: Łopiński, Maciej Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Konspira bares the soul and mind of Solidarity not long before the movement's stunning emergence as Poland's political vanguard. Written while martial law still gripped the country, Konspira tells the inside story of this inspiring contemporary workers' movement. The authors taped, then consolidated . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Selected letters Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Letters Publisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | European Studies | Literature in Translation | Autobiography | European History | Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedom Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | United States History | Religion | American Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge Joh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | European History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Medicine | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums" - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and tre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Academic freedom and the Japanese imperial university, 1868-1939 Author: Marshall, Byron K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Education Publisher's Description: Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II.Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to provide their new government with necessary te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold War Author: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | Title: Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 Author: Klein, Christina 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | American Literature | Asian American Studies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The tireless traveler: twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury Author: Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Letters Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The fourth estate and the Constitution: freedom of the press in America Author: Powe, L. A. Scot Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Law | Politics | American Studies | Media Studies Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons Author: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of Stanford Author: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items |