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| 1. |  | Title: Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century Author: Camp, Roderic Ai Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often over . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform  Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767 Author: Ferry, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Divided loyalties: nationalism and mass politics in Syria at the close of Empire Author: Gelvin, James L 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Politics Publisher's Description: James L. Gelvin brings a new and distinctive perspective to the perennially fascinating topic of nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Unlike previous historians who have focused on the activities and ideas of a small group of elites, Gelvin details the role played by non-elites in nationalist politi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide Author: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Biology | Sociology Publisher's Description: The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious - or more fraught with paradox - than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the House Author: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The Western university on trial Author: Chapman, John William 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Social Science Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Observatory seismology: an anniversary symposium on the occasion of the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley seismographic stations Author: Litehiser, J. J. (Joe J.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | Geology Publisher's Description: The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to contro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Latinos: remaking America Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: True gardens of the gods: Californian-Australian environmental reform, 1860-1930 Author: Tyrrell, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers at . . . [more] Similar Items |