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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rise of the Paris red belt Author: Stovall, Tyler Edward Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Social Science \| French Studies Publisher's Description: From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stov . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Popular Culture \| French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Broken tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix Author: Ribner, Jonathan P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| French Studies \| European Literature \| European History \| Law Publisher's Description: In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used i . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Publishing and cultural politics in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 Author: Hesse, Carla Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Print Media \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary civilization - authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and publishing world fro . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art \| Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Social Theory \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of revolutionary Paris Author: Garrioch, David Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 Author: Everist, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Opera \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to t . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The French Revolution as blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 Author: Pressly, William L 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 , and Celebrating over the Bodi . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding heart disease Author: Selzer, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Publisher's Description: Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prema . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 Author: Benjamin, Roger 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris Author: Kete, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourg . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| French Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought Author: Jay, Martin 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Intellectual History \| French Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to p . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French reformist socialism Author: Vincent, K. Steven Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoît Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of age under the Second Empire, Malon was . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris Author: Walz, Robin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provoc . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Women's Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Jews of modern France Author: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| French Studies \| European Studies \| History \| European History \| Judaism \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid . . . [more] Similar Items