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| 1. |  | Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859  Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the House Author: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" Author: Widner, Jennifer A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Fear at the edge: state terror and resistance in Latin America Author: Corradi, Juan E 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.The c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran Author: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Transforming settler states: communal conflict and internal security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe Author: Weitzer, Ronald John Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: European Studies | Politics | Sociology | African Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Z . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Nothing bad happens to good girls: fear of crime in women's lives Author: Madriz, Esther 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Women's Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing." - 40-year-old womanThis is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 Author: Brook, Timothy 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Lise Meitner: a life in physics Author: Sime, Ruth Lewin 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Physics | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's Studies | History | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The private worlds of Marcel Duchamp: desire, liberation, and the self in modern culture Author: Seigel, Jerrold Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Konspira: Solidarity underground Author: Łopiński, Maciej Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Konspira bares the soul and mind of Solidarity not long before the movement's stunning emergence as Poland's political vanguard. Written while martial law still gripped the country, Konspira tells the inside story of this inspiring contemporary workers' movement. The authors taped, then consolidated . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Nomad: a year in the life of a Qashqa'i tribesman in Iran Author: Beck, Lois 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Borzu Qermezi was the headman and political leader of a group of nomadic pastoralists who were part of the Qashqa'i confederacy of southwest Iran. Proud, complex, strong-willed, witty, and cunning, Borzu successfully led his people on their annual migrations for many years. He regulated their travel . . . [more] Similar Items |