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| 281. |  | Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | European Studies | Literature in Translation | Autobiography | European History | Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 282. |  | Title: The invention of Argentina Author: Shumway, Nicolas Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 283. |  | Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 284. |  | Title: History, religion, and antisemitism Author: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism | Sociology | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 285. |  | 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 |
| 286. |  | Title: Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy Author: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 287. |  | Title: The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 Author: Hunt, Margaret R 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | Social Science Publisher's Description: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 288. |  | Title: The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 Author: Duus, Peter 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Japan | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 289. |  | Title: The culture of pain Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Literature | History Similar Items |
| 290. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 291. |  | Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third Republic Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 292. |  | Title: Law and disorder on the Narova River: the Kreenholm strike of 1872 Author: Zelnik, Reginald E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Labor Studies | European History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 293. |  | Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | History | Politics | Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 294. |  | Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 295. |  | Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Law Publisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 296. |  | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 297. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 298. |  | Title: Henry Edwards Huntington: a biography Author: Thorpe, James Ernest 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: A legendary book collector, a connoisseur of fine art, a horticulturist, and a philanthropist, Henry Edwards Huntington is perhaps best known as the founder of the world-renowned Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. James Thorpe's comprehensive biography . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 299. |  | Title: Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I Author: Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | European History | Middle Eastern Studies | Classics | Art History Publisher's Description: Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the con . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 300. |  | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items |