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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutions Author: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religious nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India Author: Veer, Peter van der Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Hinduism \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines - anthropology, history, social theo . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacy Author: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| China \| International Relations Publisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!): nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 Author: Chávez, Ernesto 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| Sociology \| Politics \| Social Problems \| Immigration Publisher's Description: ¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale - in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular state Author: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| Religion \| Social Problems \| Middle Eastern Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nationalism and the Nordic imagination: Swedish art of the 1890s Author: Facos, Michelle Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated book is a lucid introduction to a largely neglected manifestation of Modernism that came out of fin-de-siècle Sweden. Michelle Facos presents the first study in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. Her work is especially valuable in . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dilemmas of enlightenment: studies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology Author: Kenshur, Oscar 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History Publisher's Description: Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory.While striving to re . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Manchurian myth: nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China Author: Mitter, Rana 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| China \| Japan Publisher's Description: A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows h . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Social Theory \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| South Asia \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items