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| 1. |  | Title: Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Art | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Renaissance History | European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritage Author: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | Travel Publisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza Author: Lubkin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Society and individual in Renaissance Florence Author: Connell, William J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History Publisher's Description: Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The natural history of Big Sur Author: Henson, Paul 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | California and the West | Natural History | Ecology Publisher's Description: Each year millions of people visit the area of rugged California coastline and wild mountains known as Big Sur. Finally here is a book that is both a natural history of this beautiful region and an excellent guide to its extensive public lands. The first section introduces the area's geology, climat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I Author: Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | European History | Middle Eastern Studies | Classics | Art History Publisher's Description: Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the con . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | History | Intellectual History | European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking | Renaissance History | History of Science | History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: American bison: a natural history Author: Lott, Dale F Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Animals | Animal Behavior | Science | Natural History Publisher's Description: American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has stud . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation  Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Intellectual History | Politics | European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy Author: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Natural History | Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Postcolonial Studies | European History | African History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | 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 |