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| 201. |  | Title: A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau  Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Matches in book (3): ...data from societies in Africa, China, India, and Japan. As one illustration,... Similar Items...12). Representatives of the Netherlands East India Company entered into various... ...put an end to the Netherlands East India Company's monopolistic enjoyment of... |
| 202. |  | Title: Testing testing: social consequences of the examined life Author: Hanson, F. Allan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Psychiatry Matches in book (4): ...as when, again in a story from India, a false bride was undone when she was... Similar Items...identify a guilty party, reported from India, is to bring all those suspected of... ...civil service examinations both in India and at home were influenced by the... |
| 203. |  | Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...something similar for their troops in India for years. 6 On one hand, observers... Similar Items...Argentina, Egypt, Siam (Thailand), China, India, and the Philippines. The court... ...Independent prostitutes. See Odinochki India, 43 Industrialization: prostitution... |
| 204. |  | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...committees, 216 -217, 222 -223 India, 19 -20 Indian Point-1, 248 Induction, 3 -... Similar Items...through the plutonium byproduct. 20 India exploded its first nuclear bomb, for... ...in Canada, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain,... |
| 205. |  | 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 Problems Publisher'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] Matches in book (2): ...and environment debate: Lessons from India. Feminist Studies 18 (1) : 119–158.... Similar Items...protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India. In Liberation ecologies: Environment,... |
| 206. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Fourteen Jesuits went to Siam and India, twelve of them mathematicians; these... Similar Items...mathematical instruments. The Siam and India mission was equipped with eighty-... ...when overseas headquarters for the East India Company were established, see... |
| 207. |  | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...was based on the Criminal Code of India and “adapted to local conditions and... Similar Items...for example, Britain’s colonization of India. The paternalist ideology in Native... ...similar developments in colonial India, summarizes as “the scientific management... |
| 208. |  | Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Environmental Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...twenty-six hundred people in Bhopal, India. • In 1986 in the Soviet Union, a... Similar Items...Bernstein, Carl, 189 n.2 Bhopal, India, toxic chemical leak in, 2 , 11 , 20 ,... |
| 209. |  | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...entered stands the centre-table. On that are books, the beautiful India box, and... Similar Items...now the superb India bowl & pitcher, which Mr.... ...Hawthorne's father had made in India for himself. . . . In the corner aslant... |
| 210. |  | Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European Literature | Intellectual History Matches in book (3): ...devoted to visits to Persia and India. (See Arturo Cronia, La conoscenza del... Similar Items...written by people who went to Persia or India and crossed Muscovy on their way.... ...these facts and his "discovery of the Indias," which, for him, means the spread... |
| 211. |  | Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...and azaleas," literally transported from India to England by retired "merchant... Similar Items...the Orient, in Black Narcissus "India is not just a decor or a visual backdrop.... ...another of her experimental films, India Song (1976), itself reformulated from a... |
| 212. |  | Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Analysis of Gender and Body in South India and Melanesia . Journal of the Royal... Similar Items...for Western Africa, "hierarchy" for India, or "cosmocentrism" for Amazonia. That... ...Melanesia and Dumontian hierarchy and India. Accordingly, when we compare gender... |
| 213. |  | Title: The widening gate: Bristol and the Atlantic economy, 1450-1700 Author: Sacks, David Harris 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | United States History Matches in book (4): ...in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-west, A.D. 1576–8 , 2... Similar Items...joined the service of the East India Company as an agent. Perhaps through his... ...into adventures by sea, chiefly to the West India plantations and Spain. A poor... |
| 214. |  | Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Matches in book (3): ...as a demonstration of force against India." 42 The "primary goal" of... Similar Items...to Zhurkin, was "to exert pressure on India" by compelling it to withdraw ships... ...Pakistani front. "Moreover, clashes with India were not ruled out" nor was "the... |
| 215. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...37 Ilescu, Ion, 197 -200, 202 , 204 India, 11 Indochina, 12 INF (Intermediate... Similar Items...perception of it at the time. In 1971, India attacked Pakistan with Soviet... ...USSR consolidated its alliance with India, to the detriment of the interests of... |
| 216. |  | 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 | Politics Publisher'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] Matches in book (3): ...about it. Chawla was born an "untouchable" in India and was an avid supporter of... Similar Items...affirmative action. In India, "untouchables" were the lowest group in the caste... ...71 –72 Immigration Act (1965), 38 –39 India, affirmative action programs in, 116... |
| 217. |  | Title: Toward a new poetics: contemporary writing in France: interviews, with an introduction and translated texts Author: Gavronsky, Serge Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Writing | French Studies Publisher's Description: A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replac . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of a wholly other reality, for example, India [in the poem "Indostan"]. That was... Similar Items...didn't go there—but a perception of India; it was based on Indira Gandhi's trip... |
| 218. |  | Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...century collections of tales from India or the Middle East contain only the... Similar Items...periphery (Greece, Italy, Central Asia, India). References from culturally more... ...listed in AT are five versions from India. Dorson, however, in his introductory... |
| 219. |  | Title: Political criticism Author: Shapiro, Ian Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Philosophy | Sociology Matches in book (2): ...of Tradition: Political Development in India . Chicago: University of Chicago... Similar Items...but the examples on record—Poland, India, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and the West... |
| 220. |  | Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | Medicine Publisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...the other extreme, in countries like India and Egypt, partly from definition and... Similar Items...so much of his grown life outside of India (his multivolume auto- biography is... |