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| 41. |  | Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics  Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Matches in book (93): ...a place of importance in the Comintern's project for revolution in India.... Similar Items...History of the Communist Party of India . 8 vols. New Delhi: 1971-82. Adibekov,... ...ibn-Saud, Abdul-Aziz, 180 -81 India: and Comintern, 77 -79; government... |
| 42. |  | Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Matches in book (75): Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (82): ...Yagoda, G. G. , 244 , 277 Young India (periodical), 119 , 121 , 129 , 132... Similar Items...in, 148 , 190 relations of, with India, 135 socialists in, 137 Tagore's visit... ...Untermeyer, Oswald Garrison-Villard. India: Ananda Coomaraswamy, Rabindranath... |
| 44. |  | Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more] Matches in book (75): ...India (1989)... Similar Items...in southern China, Indochina, Burma, and India. Snow, Lois Wheeler. Edgar Snow's... ...a ship bound for the Philippines or India. Attractive journalistic opportunities... |
| 45. |  | Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal Author: Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac) 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Tibet | Hinduism | Asian History Publisher's Description: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu . . . [more] Matches in book (106): ...Kusa: thar , 83 Kwa Puja [77], 412 -413, 656 Kwane. See India Kwaphaegu , 470... Similar Items...as a result of the dislocations produced by the Islamic invasions of India.... ...97 , 107 , 702 n. 35 conquest of N. India by the, 618 -619, 704 n. 55 Mustard... |
| 46. |  | Title: Books of the brave: being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World Author: Leonard, Irving Albert 1896- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas a . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...relación de la destrucción de Indias, by Las Casas, 1 , 150 Buenos Aires,... Similar Items...de leyes de los reinos de las Indias, libro I, título XXIV, ley VI. 14.... ...prohibidos y se pueden llevar a Indias. El doctor Luciano dc Negron. En ... [... |
| 47. |  | Title: Background to discovery: Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook Author: Howse, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Travel | Geography Publisher's Description: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime explorati . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...169 Frederick the Great, 109 French East India Company, 108 , 109 , 111 Frézier,... Similar Items...Imperialism, 34 , 40 , 49 n53 India, 11 , 13 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 30 , 50 n57, 89 ,... ...wise. 22 But as a result the Dutch East India Company, like the Spanish Empire,... |
| 48. |  | Title: The snow lion and the dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Tensions over the "Tibet Question" - the political status of Tibet - are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...Kegan Paul. ———. 1989. Tibet, China and India, 1915–1950: A History of Imperial... Similar Items...interests of their powerful neighbor, India. 40. He would also have to agree to... ...not only in China but also in India (Ladakh, Sikkim, northern Uttar Pradesh, and... |
| 49. |  | Title: Heroes of the age: moral fault lines on the Afghan frontier Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure from thi . . . [more] Matches in book (58): ...A Passage To India... Similar Items...of the Foreign Department, Government of India, August 8, 1897, Punjab Civil... ...Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.... |
| 50. |  | 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 History Publisher'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] Matches in book (53): ...such master of poetry being born in India. For he was the nightingale of a... Similar Items...to the West: Muslim Historiography in India, 1857-1914 . Islamabad: National... ...Literary Study and British Rule in India . New York: Columbia University Press,... |
| 51. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Matches in book (62): ...India, vii -xii, xvi , xviii -xix, xxiii , 25 , 34 , 104 Indra, 21 , 53 , 54 ,... Similar Items...Drstivada?" German Scholars in India , vol. I, pp. 1-5. Varanasi: Chowkhambha... ...of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India . Vol. 1, Balakanda . Princeton, N.J. :... |
| 52. |  | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...and illustrated in M. Taddei, Archaeologia mundi: India (Geneva, 1970), 48– 76.... Similar Items...by Everard Flintoff, “Pyrrho and India,” Phronesis 25 (1980): 88–108; he is... ...W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India , 2d ed. (Cambridge, 1951), 193. Cf.... |
| 53. |  | Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more] Matches in book (45): ...informants uniformly put it down to India’s regional diversity. Native Banarasis... Similar Items...Chaudhuri, Thy Hand, Great Anarch! : India 1921–52 (London: The Hogarth Press,... ...projecting this prejudiced image of India he was also saving so much money. I... |
| 54. |  | Title: On account of sex: the politics of women's issues, 1945-1968 Author: Harrison, Cynthia Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. Matches in book (47): ...commission perform the function India Edwards had fulfilled for Truman. But... Similar Items...31 July 1981. Arlington, Virginia. India Edwards. Interview with Patricia... ...Catherine East. Arlington, Virginia. India Edwards. Lyndon Baines Johnson... |
| 55. |  | Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, ed. Juan Pérez de Tudela and Emilio López... Similar Items...Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y Tierra firme del Mar Oceano (... ...1979. Durán, Diego. Historia de las Indias de Nueva España y Islas de Tierra... |
| 56. |  | Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Matches in book (52): ...East India Company, 2 Education, Rana policy on, 2 -3 Eliot, T. S. , 85 , 85 n,... Similar Items...into Hindi for publication in India, and a slim volume of poems "adapted" by the... ...introduction was published in Jaipur, India, in 1987. Most of Bainira Giri's... |
| 57. |  | Title: The nuclear seduction: why the arms race doesn't matter and what does Author: Schwartz, William A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Public Policy | Science Matches in book (39): ...India and Pakistan, 1971... Similar Items...of them (Israel, South Africa, and India) have regular troops fighting outside... ...at the time, would characterize India as having been a proxy for the Soviet... |
| 58. |  | Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African Studies | Sociology | Law Publisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...people crossed the borders between India and Pakistan in a population transfer... Similar Items...82 ; ethnicity in, 50 –51, 140 Dutch East India Company, 9 , 24 , 76 . See also... ...Africa was founded by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century... |
| 59. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Matches in book (63): ...Kashmir that is claimed by both India and Pakistan and is currently administered... Similar Items...1885-86 Hari Ram of the survey of India passes through Khumbu en route to Tibet.... ...Basham, A. L. 1985 The Wonder That Was India . 3d rev. ed. London: Sidgwick and... |
| 60. |  | Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...452, 463, 473. 17. Schäfer, El consejo de Indias, 2: 473, 503, 511, 512. 18. For... Similar Items...394, 416). 52. Schäfer, El consejo de Indias , 2: 151, 482, 487, 492, 516. Blas... ...Martínez, José Luis. Pasajeros de Indias: Viajes transatlánticos en el siglo... |