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41. | | Title: Ordering the world: approaches to state and society in Sung Dynasty China Author: Hymes, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a r . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more]Similar Items | 43. | | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | PoetryPublisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. | | | 45. | | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. | | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. | | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 48. | | Title: Silence at Boalt Hall: the dismantling of affirmative action Author: Guerrero, Andrea 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | African American Studies | Asian American Studies | Politics | Gender Studies | Law | Politics | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 49. | | Title: The chances of rhyme: device and modernity Author: Wesling, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Literature | English LiteratureSimilar Items | 50. | | Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography | California and the West | Marine and Freshwater Sciences | Geology | EcologyPublisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. | | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. | | Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more]Similar Items | 53. | | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more]Similar Items | 54. | | Title: American sensations: class, empire, and the production of popular culture Author: Streeby, Shelley 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | Californian and Western History | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncov . . . [more]Similar Items | 55. | | Title: The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifest . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. | | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | MusicPublisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. | | Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. | | Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | PoetryPublisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more]Similar Items | 60. | | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more]Similar Items |
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