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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: A generation divided: the new left, the new right, and the 1960s Author: Klatch, Rebecca E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, an important war in the fight against com . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley  Author: Shulman, George M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | European History Publisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: There's something happening here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligence Author: Cunningham, David 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Politics | Sociology | Law Publisher's Description: Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Resistant structures: particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts Author: Strier, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s Author: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third Republic Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: American media and mass culture: left perspectives Author: Lazere, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | Media Studies Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan Author: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Women's Studies | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: For the hell of it: the life and times of Abbie Hoffman Author: Raskin, Jonah 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In this riveting new biography, Jonah Raskin draws on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman; hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and forme . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French reformist socialism Author: Vincent, K. Steven Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoît Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of age under the Second Empire, Malon was . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolution Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in science Author: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | Science Publisher's Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MI . . . [more] Similar Items |