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| 181. |  | Title: Western music and its others: difference, representation, and appropriation in music Author: Born, Georgina Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how mus . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...a threat. The concurrent revolution in Russia also threatened the Franco-Russian... Similar Items...racially justified endorsement of Russia's militaristic expansion to the east."... ...musical Orientalism was Russian music, and Russia was the East. Diaghilev's ploy... |
| 182. |  | Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater Author: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology | Opera | Musicology | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...81–86. See Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically (Princeton: Princeton... Similar Items...286–302 . Taruskin, Richard. Defining Russia Musically . Princeton : Princeton... ...and the Subhuman,” chap. in his Defining Russia Musically (Princeton: Princeton... |
| 183. |  | Title: Lithuania awakening  Author: Senn, Alfred Erich Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika released new forces throughout Soviet society. In Lithuania this process resulted in a psychological-cultural revolution. Deep-rooted feelings, long suppressed, exploded, demonstrations and mass meetings ensued, and the face of the society changed. Although . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...treaty between Lithuania and Soviet Russia in 1920. Image Not Available. July ... Similar Items...existence inde- pendent of Russia, the other asserting that Lithuania's fate had... ...of the treaty between Soviet Russia and Lithuania in 1920 that recognized... |
| 184. |  | Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s Author: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...located in archives in Taiwan and Russia, my study is more comprehensive.... Similar Items...The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia . 46. Such ideas were expressed in... ...Women's Liberation Movement in Russia ; and Farnsworth, "Communist Feminism."... |
| 185. |  | Title: Rethinking American history in a global age Author: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | Historiography Publisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...the Diaspora," 10; Allison Blakely, Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian... Similar Items...York, 1996), 103–30; Edward T. Wilson, Russia and Black Africa before World War... ...imperialist encroachment in the region by Russia and Japan, the regime began to... |
| 186. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...trade, while others (for example, Russia, Eastern European countries, Burma, and... Similar Items...G. , 21 , 179 , 180 , 185 , 194 Russia fast-food restaurants in, 156 religious... ...such disparate nations as China, Russia, and the United States in a common... |
| 187. |  | Title: India Author: Wolpert, Stanley A 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert's India prov . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...171 Roy, Ram Mohun, 185 -186 Rudra, 77 Russia, Soviet, 224 , 236 , 241 -242... Similar Items...independence. Nehru first visited Soviet Russia in 1927 and was so impressed by... ...the open diplomatic arms of Soviet Russia. In August 1971, following months of... |
| 188. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German Studies Publisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...the search for common ground with Russia against the West. Der Arbeiter, that... Similar Items...Ordensburgen (and the Communist party in Russia) projects in molding Nietzsche's... ...Rosenthal, ed. , Nietzsche in Russia (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University... |
| 189. |  | Title: Musical meaning: toward a critical history Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues that humanistic, . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...340. Fay, Shostakovich , 220. Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically , 494. Wilson,... Similar Items...be read as unpatriotic in Stalin's Russia. See “Signature Event Context” in... ...be read as unpatriotic in Stalin's Russia. See “Signature Event Context” in... |
| 190. |  | Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Rodo sekai (Labor world), 17 , 59 Russia: 1917 revolution, 38 , 43 ; as failed... Similar Items...for the Working Class in Tsarist Russia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,... ...for the Working Class in Tsarist Russia . Ithaca: Cornell University Press,... |
| 191. |  | Title: Dr. Strangelove's America: society and culture in the atomic age Author: Henriksen, Margot A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove , would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's thr . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...never had to face before. War with Russia would be atomic war. And U.S. cities... Similar Items...out of ten bombers sent against us. Russia is separated from us by only four... ...the extremes to which we have gone. Russia knows of our hydrogen potentialities;... |
| 192. |  | Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (10): ...Studi di Pisa, n.d. Berti, Giuseppe. Russia e stati italiani nel Risorgimento .... Similar Items...1948. Giusti, V. "Il Progresso in Russia e l'agricoltura in Italia." Il... ...Growth and Development in Tsarist Russia." Journal of European Economic History... |
| 193. |  | Title: Survivors: an oral history of the Armenian genocide Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armen . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...with the Armenians indigenous to Russia, became part of the Republic of Armenia... Similar Items...Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia. The Armenians wished to remain... ...rewarded after the victory over Russia with additional territory. The Dashnaks... |
| 194. |  | Title: The bridge betrayed: religion and genocide in Bosnia Author: Sells, Michael Anthony Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Politics | European History | Islam | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...205 n.28 Rushdie, Salman, 202 n 17 Russia, 27 , 83 , 102 , 117 , 195 n.18. See... Similar Items...the U.S. , Canada, Germany, and Russia) to authorize NATO power to stop it or... ...Greek characters, used in Serbia and Russia today. The South Slavs were divided... |
| 195. |  | Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...rights—repeatedly breached by Russia (most recently in 1940)—over Bessarabia.... Similar Items...history: Soviet interpretations of Russia's past , ed. Cyril E. Black, 3–31. New... ...began from an expansionist Orthodox Russia, to emphasize the Roman rather than... |
| 196. |  | Title: Islam, politics, and social movements Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies.This collection is uniq . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...and demand of a powerful state like Russia." 70 He evoked the memory of this... Similar Items...opposition, rejected the ultimatum, and Russia was unable to do anything." In a... ...only China, Vietnam, and possibly Russia provide competition. Iran's two major... |
| 197. |  | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia . New York : Basic Books , 1994 .... Similar Items...of fascism? ” 6 Public controversies in Russia over historic artifacts from the... ...of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, who was executed along with his family... |
| 198. |  | Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Hungary; Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Protocols to the Règlement ; Russia... Similar Items...Polish independence movement against Russia, fled to Istanbul and entered the... ...the commitment Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia had made to back the... |
| 199. |  | Title: Marxist modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | History | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia - conducted over a twenty . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge... Similar Items...in, 15 -16 Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 183 Nigeria, missionaries in, 85 , 202... ...A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China . Cambridge: Cambridge... |
| 200. |  | Title: Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 Author: Schechter, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Intellectual History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusuall . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia , by Benjamin Nathans The View from... Similar Items...find themselves. ” The Holy Synod of Russia made the same connection, claiming... ...Did Napoleon have his rivals, Austria and Russia, in mind when he ostentatiously... |