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| 141. |  | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest  Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 142. |  | 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 |
| 143. |  | Title: Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 144. |  | Title: Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Religion | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the intrigues of the great families, like the Orsini and Colonna, the reader is guided through . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 145. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 146. |  | 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 |
| 147. |  | Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 148. |  | Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 149. |  | Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Christianity Similar Items |
| 150. |  | 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 Similar Items |
| 151. |  | Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items |
| 152. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 153. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 154. |  | Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 155. |  | 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 |
| 156. |  | Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 159. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 160. |  | 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] Similar Items |