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| 161. |  | 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] Matches in book (4): ...eds. , Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,... Similar Items...eds. , Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,... ...eds. , Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,... |
| 162. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...greater part of his time was spent in India and Southeast Asia. Returning home... Similar Items...or twenty books on China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia, and in a number of... ...psychic phenomena, largely material from India, for his insights." And that "Don... |
| 163. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...das terras do preste João das Indias. Ed. Augusto Reis Machado. Divisão de... Similar Items...informação das terras do preste João das Indias . 81. "Praefatio scriptoris" 5.... ...is said to have been so amazed in India by the beauty of these birds that he... |
| 164. |  | Title: Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 Author: Urdank, Albion M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: During the English Industrial Revolution, the Vale of Nailsworth was a rural-industrial settlement and a center of evangelical Nonconformity. Why did the transition to the factory system bring deindustrialization and social decline rather than long-term advancement? Albion Urdank investigates the mo . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...See Truck, payment in; Wages East India Company, 171 , 174 , 221 East Riding,... Similar Items...of the French Wars, and the fall in East India Company exports, following its... ...loss of monopoly rights in India, precipitated the depressions of 1816 and 1819,... |
| 165. |  | Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China Publisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...work. He asked the same question of India, and like so many others he came up... Similar Items...In comparison to the caste hierarchy of India or the rigid status boundaries of... ...or to elites in caste societies like India. The European nobility, especially on... |
| 166. |  | Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Christianity | China Publisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...172 , 174 "Imagined community," 20 India, Basel mission churches in, 16 , 189 n.... Similar Items...Joe left to begin his own research in India, I had earned the reputation of a... ...Kong, Singapore, Sabah, Indonesia, Taiwan, India, and regions of Africa, South... |
| 167. |  | 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] Matches in book (6): ...left to serve with the YMCA in India. If Bob Hutchins remembered Oberlin, Ohio,... Similar Items...of the Friends of Freedom for India and the socialist League for Industrial... ...Indo-China, Africa, and, above all, India? Besides his commitment to national... |
| 168. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...dealing with, government leaders and India Company officials, were too conscious... Similar Items...and Chinese. The ancient languages of India entered into this only tangentially.... ...On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India," "On the Chronology of the Hindus,"... |
| 169. |  | 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 (6): ...To prove there was a shorter route from India to London than around the Cape of... Similar Items...a race. Two packet boats left from India, one going around the cape, and the... ...a very famous director of films made in India, but he also had the great idea of... |
| 170. |  | Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Harold L. , 16 Incres Line, 288 -89 India, 147 Indochina, 166 -67, 168 , 170 ;... Similar Items...Burma? To Siam? To Pakistan? And to India? Where do you draw the line? Is it now... ...Czechoslovakia) are Communist nations. One (India) has voted with the Communists... |
| 171. |  | Title: Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies Author: Morone, Joseph G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Politics Publisher's Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and gen . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India—the worst civilian technological... Similar Items...and the 1984 disaster at Bhopal, India, spotlighted the risks of chemical... ...As an example, consider the 1984 Bhopal, India, chemical plant disaster. 20 The... |
| 172. |  | Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Twain | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Pacific to Australia, New Zealand, India, and Africa. Clara recalled that people... Similar Items...Clara had especially vivid memories of India, where Twain lectured from January... ...in 1897 as Following the Equator. From India Sam, Livy, and Clara went to South... |
| 173. |  | Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and India. 2. Early in the occupation MacArthur... Similar Items...Association (IRAA), 77 , 338 n. 9 India, 284 -285, 302 Indochina, 225 , 242... ...Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and India was organized. An agreement with the... |
| 174. |  | Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...25, fig. 12 (drawing), 13 (detail: India). Cf. the annona sarcophagus from the... Similar Items...for the arena from Africa and Asia/India, personified at the ends; Wilson 1983,... ...238 n.85 incense box. See acerra India, 248 n.46 institional standardization,... |
| 175. |  | Title: The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science Author: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical History Publisher's Description: G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science. Matches in book (4): ...of Early Greek Astronomy from India." Journal for the History of Astronomy 7:... Similar Items...30 indemonstrables, 144 , 146 –47 India, 87 –88 induction, 143 n143, 186 , 202... ...other aspects of wisdom reported from India, Sumeria, Babylonia, and many other... |
| 176. |  | Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Public Policy Matches in book (4): ...product of the Republic of China, India or France is far greater than that of... Similar Items...N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1966), p. 65. In India, where interest group claims tend... ...joint-stock companies as the East India Company and the Royal African Company... |
| 177. |  | Title: Acts of implication: suggestion and covert meaning in the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen Author: Ehrenpreis, Irvin 1920- Published: University of California Press, 1981 Subjects: Literature Matches in book (3): ...Aureng-Zebe . This time the setting is India, at the court of the Great Mogul in... Similar Items...to the Bank of England and the East India Company (Apr. 19, p. 244). resisting... ...law or to find a post in the East India Company. The provincial tradesmen depend... |
| 178. |  | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...in The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2, c. 1757–c. 1970, edited by... Similar Items...D. R. 1965 . Women in the Working Force in India. Kunda Datar Memorial Lectures,... ...of an Industrial Labor Force in India: A Study of the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1854–... |
| 179. |  | Title: Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company Author: Musser, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | United States History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema - unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery , Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant c . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Cuba (1898), 131 My Friend from India (1914), 549 n.60 The Mysterious Cafe (... Similar Items...1914, NjWOE. 60. Although My Friend from India (August 1914), a special, 3½-reel... ...going to Europe), scenes showed natives of India ( Short Stick Dance ), Samoan... |
| 180. |  | Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Politics Matches in book (3): ...Development and Social Change in South India . Manchester: Manchester University... Similar Items...Furnivall, J. S. 1944. Netherlands India: A Study of Plural Economy . Cambridge:... ...J. 1952. Sanskrit in Indonesia . Nagpur, India: International Academy of Indian... |