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| 361. |  | Title: Welcoming the undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish question  Author: Lesser, Jeff Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Jewish Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future." What motivated the Brazilian government, he asks, to create a secret ba . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 362. |  | 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 |
| 363. |  | Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Similar Items |
| 364. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 365. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 366. |  | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 367. |  | Title: Visionary Women: ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England Author: Mack, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Women's Studies Similar Items |
| 368. |  | Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 369. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 370. |  | Title: The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world Author: Richards, J. F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Asian Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 371. |  | Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Media Studies | Women's Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform - focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio - Kathy M. Newman a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 372. |  | Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 373. |  | Title: Authoritarian Argentina: the Nationalist movement, its history, and its impact Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century Ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 374. |  | Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Islam | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 375. |  | Title: Marcus Garvey, life and lessons: a centennial companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies Publisher's Description: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves." - Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 376. |  | Title: The frontier in American culture: an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995 Author: White, Richard 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 377. |  | Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History | European Literature | Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 378. |  | Title: Beethoven and the construction of genius: musical politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 Author: DeNora, Tia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | History | Sociology | Composers | European History Publisher's Description: In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 379. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 380. |  | 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 |