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| 21. |  | Title: The novel according to Cervantes  Author: Gilman, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | European History | Literature in Translation | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: "Beyond reasonable doubt" and "probable cause": historical perspectives on the Anglo-American law of evidence Author: Shapiro, Barbara J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | United States History | Rhetoric | Law Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | Latin American History | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | 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 |
| 25. |  | Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | 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 |
| 28. |  | Title: Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales Author: Kendrick, Laura Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Orphans of Petrarch: poetry and theory in the Spanish Renaissance Author: Navarrete, Ignacio Enrique 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Sociology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Print Media | Education | United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | French Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French Studies Publisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more] Similar Items |