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| 101. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan  Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Protest and the Political Process in India." In Protest, Reform, and Revolt,... Similar Items...23 , 35 , 77 Buddhism and, 13 in India, 13 , 76 warrior, 24 ( see also Samurai).... ...76 n.3, 77 n.7. See also Burakumin India, 146 Industrialization, British, 212... |
| 102. |  | Title: The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767 Author: Ferry, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Latin American Studies Matches in book (12): ...Abreu y su extraordinaria misión en Indias. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Goya Artes... Similar Items...experience in the Archivo General de Indias. At the University of Colorado, Phil... ...Principal, and in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. Much of the analysis... |
| 103. |  | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Matches in book (9): ...appeared in 1949 as a maize weed in Kenya. It invaded southern India after 1960.... Similar Items...period to West and East Africa, India, and the East Indies; other people soon... ...Rajendra N. 1970. Tertiary floras of India and their bearing on the historical... |
| 104. |  | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias occidentales ó América. 5 vols.... Similar Items...de las cofradías y el rol de la nobleza india: El valle del Mantaro en el siglo... ...Maguiña, and Antonio Rengifo. Rebelión India. Lima: Editorial "Rikchay Perú,"... |
| 105. |  | Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recor . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...term "caste" derives from studies of India wherein individuals were born into a... Similar Items...of achieving a long-sought sea route to India. In anticipation of this, in the... ...years after Columbus's attempt to reach India by sailing west, the Portuguese... |
| 106. |  | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...her ideals. ” Jahangir, Mughal ruler of India, was “captivated” by Nūr Jahān's (... Similar Items...in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... ...spouse of the British governor in India), Baroness Bertha von Satz, and Lady... |
| 107. |  | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology Matches in book (5): ...99, 108 Imprinting, 48 Incest, 13 , 63 , 107 India, 16 , 76 Individualism, 99... Similar Items...be a sinologist; if he works on India he must learn the classical traditions of... ...Oceania, Indonesia, China, outer Asia, India, Ceylon; the Middle East and all of... |
| 108. |  | Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Ikarios, 125 , 128 India, 47 , 156 Isis, 91 , 108 , 131 Islam, 121 Isocrates, 30... Similar Items...subjects. He moves on to the Brahmans in India, among whom killing, fornication,... ...display, and some kind of fakir from India burned himself up in Athens, to the... |
| 109. |  | Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Haimendorf, Christoph 1982 Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival. Berkeley,... Similar Items...Gatherers of Nuclear South Asia,” Man in India 49:139–160. Fox, Robert B. 1952 “... ...von Fürer-Haimendorf's Tribes of India: The Struggle to Survive. And beyond... |
| 110. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Geraldine. 1979. “Women's Movements in India: Traditional Symbols and New... Similar Items...M. S. A. Rao (ed. ), Social Movements in India (vol. 2). Delhi: Manohar. Gailey,... ...to say that an Englishman in India or Egypt in the later nineteenth century took... |
| 111. |  | Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...duty to confer upon the natives of India those vast moral and material blessings... Similar Items...with imperial interests focused on India, and the Ottoman, with its center of... ...committees, British officials in India discovered in Hanafi manuals "a system... |
| 112. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...of Tradition: Political Development in India . Chicago: University of Chicago... Similar Items...of Tradition: Political Development in India; Ake, “Modernization and Political... ...and France. The government of India, which occupied Aden and had responsibility... |
| 113. |  | Title: Sugar and the origins of modern Philippine society Author: Larkin, John A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tena . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Brender, Lucio, 189 British East India Company (BEIC), 23 Brussels Convention (... Similar Items...Nationalism; Quezon, Manuel Luis India, 2 , 4 , 23 , 207 Industrial Revolution,... ...sacras, y reales del imperio de las Indias Occidentales, al mvy catolico . . .... |
| 114. |  | Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Japan | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called im . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...court morticians), 7 -8 Asoka, King of India, 95 Ato (trace), 64 Atsuta Shrine,... Similar Items...Magadha, the most powerful kingdom in India during Sakyamuni's time, was ruled... ...Magadha, the most powerful kingdom in India during Sakyamuni's time, was ruled... |
| 115. |  | Title: Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose Author: Logan, Peter Melville 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Literary Theory and Criticism | Victorian History | English Literature | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writin . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...light of the immense volume of the India-China trade, its crucial importance to... Similar Items...eighteenth century, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale... ...and production of all opium grown in India. Cultivation was centered in Bengal,... |
| 116. |  | Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Matches in book (12): ...while far more diverse groups—from India and Laos, China and the Philippines—are... Similar Items...Vietnam, South Korea, China, India, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Of these,... ...63,792 77,786 98,121 127,631 451,395 India 3,164 18,327 67,283 96,982 116,282... |
| 117. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Matches in book (8): ...process of penetration in colonial India, and relates it in a similar way to the... Similar Items...Representing authority in Victorian India' in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger,... ...of Europe, in places like Russia, India, North and South America, and Egypt.... |
| 118. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...of the nonviolent methods that Gandhi had employed in the liberation of India.... Similar Items...the United States, China, Japan, and India, Moore distinguished three different... ...dies hard, as the example of India's tortuous efforts to elevate the status of... |
| 119. |  | Title: Justice in South Africa, Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Law Matches in book (9): ...4 Dugard, J. , 26o, 277 Dutch East India Company, 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 23 , 26 ,... Similar Items...station established by the Dutch East India Company at the Cape in 1652. The... ...the many regions where the Dutch East India Company traded, while their number... |
| 120. |  | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...democratic states such as Turkey, apartheid-era South Africa, and India. 9... Similar Items...The world's largest democracy is India, but its war with Kashmiri separatists is... ...in Turkey, Kashmiri separatists in India, Chechen insurgents in Russia, and... |