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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Political Islam: essays from Middle East report Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Islam Publisher's Description: The essays and case studies collected here - featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material - challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The auth . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Middle Eastern History \| Popular Culture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	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
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Until now, we have known very little of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, despite extensive research on the modern Middle East. With this collection of essays, the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites can finally be heard - no more will our view of the M . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Islam \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Music \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Women's Studies \| Sociology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	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
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Holy women of the Syrian Orient Author: Brock, Sebastian P Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion \| Classical Religions \| Religion Publisher's Description: The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotat . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Intimate enemies: Jews and Arabs in a shared land Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Pales . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	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
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Republic of fear: the politics of modern Iraq Author: Makiya, Kanan Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In 1968 a coup d'état brought into power an extraordinary regime in Iraq, one that stood apart from other regimes in the Middle East. Between 1968 and 1980, this new regime, headed by the Arab Ba'th Socialist party, used ruthless repression and relentless organization to transform the way Iraqis thi . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany Author: Poiger, Uta G 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| United States History \| American Music \| Jazz \| Gender Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted t . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nationalism and the genealogical imagination: oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan Author: Shryock, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate h . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Where are you from?: Middle-class migrants in the modern world Author: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Earth Sciences \| Postcolonial Studies \| Sociology \| European Studies \| South Asia \| Immigration \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers . . . [more] Similar Items