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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 201 - 220 of 816 book(s) | |
| 201. |  | Title: A heart at fire's center: the life and music of Bernard Herrmann Author: Smith, Steven C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Contemporary Music | Composers Publisher's Description: No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C. Smith explores the interrelationships between Herr . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...the ending of the aristocracy in Russia? Nothing! But to the studio it's great!... Similar Items...Their collectivism threatened by Russia's anti-Semitic Alexander III, the East... ...Herrmann), came not from the slums of Russia's Pale of Settlement but from... |
| 202. |  | Title: I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked Author: Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Autobiography | American Studies Publisher's Description: Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.Using his "End Poverty in California" movement (more commonl . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Vell, his system worked veIl in Russia, vy can't it vork here?" "All these '... Similar Items...even came from abroad, but none from Russia, be it stated! The Rt. Hon. Charles... ...and the hammer-and-sickle of Soviet Russia, and a ringing call to the voters to... |
| 203. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city  Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...and Horace W. Dewey . Byzantine Models for Russia’s Literature of Divine Folly (... Similar Items...1987) . Thompson, Ewa . Understanding Russia: The Holy Fool in Russian Culture .... ...and Horace W. Dewey, “Byzantine Models for Russia’s Literature of Divine Folly (... |
| 204. |  | Title: The origins of the Boxer Uprising Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from ear . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...had begun. In the following months Russia would seize Dalian (Dairen) and Port... Similar Items...Rong-lu, 286 , 306 Ruan Zu-tang, 111 Russia, 124 , 128 , 129 -130, 170 , 183 ,... ...one prize of her victory over China, Russia, Germany, and France had combined to... |
| 205. |  | Title: City of stone: the hidden history of Jerusalem Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...assisted the Turks in the war against Russia (the Crimean War of 1853–56), the... Similar Items...supporter in the form of Czarist Russia. During the eighteenth and nineteenth... ...Sepulchre and other sites to the Latins. Russia vigorously opposed this demand,... |
| 206. |  | Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...not. The fate of the German people, Russia, and, ultimately, the entire world,... Similar Items...need land and should take it from Russia, as Hitler explains at length in the... ...PPS 153). England is the servant of Russia. Germany, France, and Italy have been... |
| 207. |  | Title: Cholera in post-revolutionary Paris: a cultural history Author: Kudlick, Catherine Jean Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Medicine Publisher's Description: Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. Its symptoms were gruesome, its sources were mysterious, and it tended to strike poor neighborhoods hardest. In this insightful cultural history, Catherine Kudlick explores the dynamics of class relatio . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...80 La Ruche populaire (periodical), 98 Russia, 44 ; sentiment against, 188 , 262... Similar Items...and Regime Brutality in Tsarist Russia: The Iuzovka Cholera Riots of 1891,"... ...and Regime Brutality in Tsarist Russia: The Iuzovka Cholera Riots of 1891."... |
| 208. |  | Title: Althusser and the renewal of Marxist social theory Author: Resch, Robert Paul Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...15; Structural Marxism and, 29 Russia: Revolution, 16 -17, 368 n.9; transition... Similar Items...Tony. 1974. State Capitalism in Russia . London: Pluto. Cohen, G. A. 1978. Karl... ...Kerblay, Basile. 1989. Gorbachev's Russia . New York: Pantheon. Kern, Stephen.... |
| 209. |  | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFK Author: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Pocket Books, 1964. Richards, Guy. "Russia's School for Assassins—and the Oswald... Similar Items...institutions, much like the KGB in Russia, and other such institutions in other... ...linked to Oswald. 28 Guy Richards, "Russia's School for Assassins—and the Oswald... |
| 210. |  | Title: Endless night: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories Author: Bergstrom, Janet 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Art Theory | Psychology Publisher's Description: The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness that these two disciplines face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This collection emphasizes the history of theory to demonstrate that film theory must be written with a strong sense of historical conscious . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...between the Western great powers and Russia: in accordance with the silent pact... Similar Items...regulating this relationship, Western states treat Russia as a great... ...power on condition that Russia doesn't (effectively) act as one. One can see how... |
| 211. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...with industrialization in Japan, Russia, Sweden, and Germany in his classic The... Similar Items...Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia [Berkeley: University of California Press,... ...18 But it may also be that Spain, like Russia on the other end of the continent,... |
| 212. |  | Title: The city in literature: an intellectual and cultural history Author: Lehan, Richard Daniel 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | Urban Studies | Intellectual History | Geography Publisher's Description: This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...increased with finds in California, Russia, and South Africa. And as Britain... Similar Items...Patusan, and the tyranny in Razumov's Russia do not suggest progress. Built into... ...had seen in France and Chekhov in Russia—both of whom seemed to have had little... |
| 213. |  | Title: Driven into paradise: the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States Author: Brinkmann, Reinhold 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Musicology | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The forced migration of artists and scholars from Nazi Germany is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this eminent collection, which approaches the . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...score, 225 Russell, George, 280 , 294 Russia: "bourgeois, formalist modernism"... Similar Items...was proscribed by Communist Russia as "bourgeois, formalist modernism." This... ...constructed on the pattern adopted in Russia and other such places" (Schoenberg... |
| 214. |  | Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Luke, 89 Rumoi fishery, 43 , 112 -13 Russia, 19 , 40 , 41 Ryohamagumi 32 -33... Similar Items...initial object of the buffer was not Russia but rather the Jurchens, whose Qing... ...to deal with the threat posed by Russia. Moreover, the Ainu uprising of 1789 had... |
| 215. |  | Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre Publisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...of China, Battle for Britain, Battle of Russia, War Comes to America, etc. Pearl... Similar Items...temples. . . . It doesn't look like Russia." The Russian cultural committee,... ...is all this bullshit about going to Russia? What! Are you crazy? Is it going to... |
| 216. |  | Title: An unmastered past: the autobiographical reflections of Leo Lowenthal Author: Lowenthal, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought Matches in book (7): ...role of proletariat, 61 , 265 ; in Russia, 34 -35, 38 -39, 88 . See also China;... Similar Items...127 , 165 , 170 Rosenzweig, Franz, 20 , 21 , 49 , 112 , 205 , 219 , 232 Russia.... ...See Revolution: in Russia; Soviet Union... |
| 217. |  | Title: The emancipation of writing: German civil society in the making, 1790s-1820s Author: McNeely, Ian F 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European History | Sociology | Political Theory | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Through Law in the Germaniesand Russia, 1600–1800 (New Haven, Conn. : Yale... Similar Items...Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia, by Samuel D. Kassow 6. The New... ...The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia, by Lynn Mally 10. Bread and... |
| 218. |  | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca : Cornell University Press ,... Similar Items...Property, and Law in Late Imperial Russia. Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1994 .... ...their wouldbe conquerors—Japan, Britain, Russia, France, Germany, and the United... |
| 219. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...oppression and poverty of Tsarist Russia (and of eastern Europe in general) by... Similar Items...supported by most Zionist activists in Russia, where the movement had its mass... ...prohibitions on the entry of Jews from Russia and Austria to Eretz Yisra’el are... |
| 220. |  | Title: The making of Elizabethan foreign policy, 1558-1603 Author: Wernham, R. B. (Richard Bruce) 1906- Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (4): ...de, 40 Rijmenant, battle of, 53 Rouen, 76 -81 Russia, 31 . See also Alexander I... Similar Items...later toward Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the policy that he described as "... ...purposes the Muscovy Company, trading to Russia through the White Sea, had been... |