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| 1. |  | Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia  Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley Author: Shulman, George M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | European History Publisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | European History Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | European History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Dryden in revolutionary England Author: Bywaters, David A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European History Publisher's Description: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's depos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | European History Publisher's Description: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece . . . [more] Similar Items |