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| 81. |  | Title: Traveling in Mark Twain  Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Literature Matches in book (12): ...about the English presence in India. Given this education in complexity, Mark... Similar Items...shooting, and stabbing (305–7). In India, two chapters' worth of detailed... ...Mutiny" among the native garrisons of India again provided Twain with ample... |
| 82. |  | Title: The feminine sublime: gender and excess in women's fiction Author: Freeman, Barbara Claire Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual di . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...and Suleri, The Rhetoric of English India , 24-74. For a comprehensive overview... Similar Items...Oxford University Press, 1965). For Burke's India writings see the Bohn Standard... ...and Burke's "Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill" in The Complete Works of the... |
| 83. |  | Title: Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | South Asia Publisher's Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tra . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...for Religious Education in Modern India. Modern Asian Studies 12 (1). Mills,... Similar Items...Deoband or from any other madrasa in India would be appointed as judges by the... ...British Commonwealth—from Scotland to India to Malaya to Australia—and his show... |
| 84. |  | Title: The tireless traveler: twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury Author: Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Letters Matches in book (12): ...British owners are concerned, from India and the East also, at Point de Galle,... Similar Items...into the island from the coasts of India, which are but a few miles distant, and... ...fastnesses by fresh invaders from India. The earliest kings of whom we know—... |
| 85. |  | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century . London:... Similar Items...from some earlier reconnaissance missions in India. 77. See, for example, L.C.... ...Great Game on the frontiers of India and indications of comparable stratagems... |
| 86. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...sobre los comercios de las dos Indias, [1622], ed. Moïse Bensabat Amzalak (... Similar Items...y hechicera X 1713 "La Lora" india partera, cambia voluntades X ... ...1800 Juana María Apodaca "La Chalis" india? curandera supersticiosa X se... |
| 87. |  | Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies | African History | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in India and Africa. London: I. B. Taurus,... Similar Items...and the Social Sciences. Delhi, India, 15–17 January 1997. Worboys, Michael .... ...Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... |
| 88. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Views of the 19th Century. Ahmedabad, India: Mappin Publishing. Aksüt, Sadun .... Similar Items...1981. Umrao Jaan (Dear Umrao) . India: Integrated Films. Badr Khan, Ahmad .... ...of Communalism in Colonial North India . Delhi: Oxford University Press.... |
| 89. |  | Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Public Policy | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...25 Ickes, Harold, 79 , 130 , 237 India, 10 , 11 , 15 , 52 , 76 , 91 Ingersoll,... Similar Items...of manganese and shellac from India or graphite from Ceylon and Madagascar to... ...Far East, especially Southeast Asia and India (whose exports were often shipped... |
| 90. |  | Title: Evolution of sickness and healing Author: Fabrega, Horacio Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medicine | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...C. V. 1984. Madness in ancient India: Concept of insanity in Charaka Samhita (... Similar Items...Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions. Boston:... ...of medicine, such as those of China, India, and the ancient Mediterranean... |
| 91. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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] Matches in book (12): ...Darsan: Seeing and Divine Image in India . 2d ed. Chambersburg, Penn. : Anima... Similar Items...Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East 1680–1880 . Trans. Gene... ...of themselves. Schlegel and Novalis add India and the Near East respectively to... |
| 92. |  | Title: Observations in Lower California Author: Baegert, Jacob 1717-1772 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | Californian and Western History Matches in book (13): ...of missions, 189 Hospitium de las Indias (Cadiz), Baegert at, xii Hostel, Father... Similar Items...in the Tanjore district of Madras, India. Tranquebar was once owned by a Danish... ...to the Danish colony of Tranquebar, India, in 1705, to establish a mission. He... |
| 93. |  | Title: Socialization as cultural communication: development of a theme in the work of Margaret Mead Author: Schwartz, Theodore Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Matches in book (13): ...1965. The Bonnet Macaque in South India, Primate Behavior (Irven DeVore, ed. ),... Similar Items...1966. The Rajputs * of Khalapur, India. John Wiley and Sons. Ritchie, Jane.... ...Argentina Chile East Pakistan India Israel Nigeria 1. Formal education .60 c .51... |
| 94. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, no. 97 (55364) (Bushire, 8 August... Similar Items...Major J. Ramsay to Government of India, no. 93 (Baghdad, 14 September 1908).... ...Colonel Ramsay to the Government of India (Baghdad, 19 October 1908). Enclosed... |
| 95. |  | Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India." Current Anthropology 30.4:413-35.... Similar Items...1975. "Gifts and Affines in North India." Contributions to Indian Sociology 9:... ...1984. "Bridegroom Price in Urban India: Class, Caste and 'Dowry Evil' among... |
| 96. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...90. "Forestry in the Colonies and in India." Proceedings of the Royal Colonial... Similar Items...and Practices in Colonial and Postcolonial India." Society and Space 13: 67-90.... ...Richard Tucker, "The Depletion of India's Forests under British Imperialism," in... |
| 97. |  | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...autobiographers as far afield as India (al-‘Aydarūs; d. 1628) and Morocco (Ibn ‘... Similar Items...of Arabian origin, born and lived in India. His autobiography is included under... ...François de . Burzōy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalīlah wa... |
| 98. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...108 , 131 , 137 , 138 n53, 279 -82, 292 India, 199 , 200 -201, 202 , 203 -4... Similar Items...In Hebrew] Kalota, N. S. 1978 India as Described by Megasthenes. Delhi. Kamal,... ...New York. McCrindle, J. W. 1877 Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and... |
| 99. |  | Title: Essays in population history: Mexico and the Caribbean Author: Cook, Sherburne Friend 1896-1974 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: Latin American Studies Matches in book (11): ...1646. 32 ff. Archivo General de Indias, Seville (abbreviated in the text as AGI)... Similar Items...López de. Historia general de las Indias, "Hispania victrix," cuya segunda parte... ...Historia general y natural de las Indias . Ed. by Juan Pérez de Tudela Bueso. 5... |
| 100. |  | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth cen . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...in the 1930s is very similar to that estimated for post-independence India. 14... Similar Items...25–51. I. Z. Bhatty, "Inequality and Poverty in Rural India," in Poverty and... ...Income Distribution in India , ed. T. N. Srinivasan and P. K. Bardhan (Calcutta,... |