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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| African Studies \| African History \| Politics Publisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources Author: Miller, Stephen G Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| History \| Ancient History \| Sports Publisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources - Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on lite . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Sports Publisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vessels Author: Shaughnessy, Edward L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| China \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic struct . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cicero's social and political thought Author: Wood, Neal Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect ex . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Law \| United States History Publisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| Women's Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: God, humanity, and history: the Hebrew First Crusade narratives Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Comparative Literature \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly suggests. The three surviving Hebrew accounts of the crusaders' devastating assaults on Rhineland J . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents Author: Hubbard, Thomas K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Classics \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Gre . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The private orations of Themistius Author: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Classical History \| Classical Politics \| Classical Religions \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: A companion to California wine: an encyclopedia of wine and winemaking from the mission period to the present Author: Sullivan, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Viticulture \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Wine Publisher's Description: California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. But until now there has been no comprehensive guide to California wine and . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Literature \| Politics \| History \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| African American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Italo Balbo: a Fascist life Author: Segrè, Claudio G Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshi . . . [more] Similar Items