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| 101. |  | Title: Native place, city, and nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937  Author: Goodman, Bryna 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose Author: Logan, Peter Melville 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Literary Theory and Criticism | Victorian History | English Literature | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: Nothing but history: reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics Author: Roberts, David D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: What is the role of history in our "postmetaphysical" age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual trad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | 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 Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: An obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and The diary Author: Graver, Lawrence 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | History | European History Publisher's Description: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Oil and revolution in Mexico Author: Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Anyone contemplating the consequences of foreign investment in Latin America will profit from reading this book. As Jonathan Brown shows, the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the domination of foreign capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring, conditions similar to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | 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. Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: One king, one faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century Author: Roelker, Nancy L. (Nancy Lyman) Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | European Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: Ordering the world: approaches to state and society in Sung Dynasty China Author: Hymes, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | 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 |
| 113. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Owen Lattimore and the "loss" of China Author: Newman, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | United States History | Politics Publisher's Description: In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | South Asia | Language and Linguistics | Asian History | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Peasants and king in Burgundy: agrarian foundations of French absolutism Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | French Studies Publisher's Description: The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society. Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies | Hinduism Publisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Political economy and the rise of capitalism: a reinterpretation Author: McNally, David Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business | History Similar Items |