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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hegel's ethics of recognition Author: Williams, Robert R 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics Publisher's Description: In this significant contribution to Hegel scholarship, Robert Williams develops the most comprehensive account to date of Hegel's concept of recognition ( Anerkennung ). Fichte introduced the concept of recognition as a presupposition of both Rousseau's social contract and Kant's ethics. Williams sh . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Signs of recognition: powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society Author: Keane, Webb 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indone . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Picturing Casablanca: portraits of power in a modern city Author: Ossman, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Electronic Media \| Media Studies Publisher's Description: In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand e . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern France Author: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Cultural Anthropology \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| Theatre \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Green thoughts, green shades: essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric Author: Post, Jonathan F. S 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the gr . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China Author: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphy Author: Kraus, Richard Curt Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Art Publisher's Description: Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship betw . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Archaeology \| European History \| European History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world Author: Goldstone, Jack A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Political Theory \| European History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhel . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside the American couple: new thinking/new challenges Author: Yalom, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| Women's Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at lea . . . [more] Similar Items