UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


Your request for similar items found 20 book(s).		Modify Search	Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 book(s)

1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state Author: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Art \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: An Ottoman tragedy: history and historiography at play Author: Piterberg, Gabriel 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Historiography \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-l . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History \| Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Redefining Black film Author: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous bl . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Author: Tucker, Judith E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Law \| Islam \| Women's Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam Publisher's Description: In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Islam \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies \| African American Studies \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The development of Attic black-figure Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Classics \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| African American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| African American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D Author: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Labor Studies \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items