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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The political logic of economic reform in China Author: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Renaissance History \| European History \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| European History Publisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Risk and rationality: philosophical foundations for populist reforms Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics \| Social Problems \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical Religions \| Classical Politics \| Christianity \| Ethics \| Social and Political Thought \| Ancient History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin America Author: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History \| Politics Publisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village Author: Hinton, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| China \| Anthropology \| Asian History Publisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History \| European History Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics Author: Waltz, Susan Eileen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| African History \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850 Author: Kuchta, David 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustr . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taming the elephant: politics, government, and law in pioneer California Author: Burns, John F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Taming the Elephant is the last of four volumes in the distinguished California History Sesquicentennial Series, an outstanding compilation of original essays by leading historians and writers. These topical, interrelated volumes reexamine the meaning of the founding of modern California during the . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its cen . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	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