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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Sociology \| Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business Author: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Intellectual History \| Media Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| Economics and Business \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| European Literature \| Poetry \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| French Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: A flowering tree: and other oral tales from India A.K. Ramanujan ; edited with a preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes Author: Ramanujan, A. K 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| Language and Linguistics \| Asian Literature \| Folklore and Mythology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plundering paradise: the struggle for the environment in the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Politics \| Southeast Asia \| Ecology \| Asian Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: California forests and woodlands: a natural history Author: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Science \| Ecology \| Biology \| California and the West Publisher's Description: From majestic Redwoods to ancient Western Bristlecone Pines, California's trees have long inspired artists, poets, naturalists - and real estate developers. Verna Johnston's splendid book, illustrated with her superb color photographs and Carla Simmons's detailed black-and-white drawings, now offers . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Information and organizations Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Economics and Business \| Labor Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Durable inequality Author: Tilly, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| History \| Politics \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exp . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Caught in the middle: Korean merchants in America's multiethnic cities Author: Min, Pyong Gap 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology \| Ethnic Studies \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| California and the West \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and L . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C Author: Reger, Gary Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Archaeology \| Economics and Business \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Business of the heart: religion and emotion in the nineteenth century Author: Corrigan, John 1952- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| American Studies \| United States History \| Christianity Publisher's Description: The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significanc . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Agriculture \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Public Policy \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia \| Economics and Business \| Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Similar Items