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| 1. |  | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950 Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | Physics Publisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory  Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Psychology | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Peasant and nation: the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru Author: Mallon, Florencia E 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Anthropology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political histo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France Author: Tiersten, Lisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Consumerism | French Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London Author: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | European History | Urban Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century music Author: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music | Music Publisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Business of the heart: religion and emotion in the nineteenth century Author: Corrigan, John 1952- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significanc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Asian History | Japan | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century Author: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | Title: A different shade of colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan Author: Powell, Eve Troutt Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n . . . [more] Similar Items |