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| 101. |  | Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Islam | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914  Author: Neuberger, Joan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual histories Author: Wang, Zheng Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | China | Women's Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a ge . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: The deficit and the public interest: the search for responsible budgeting in the 1980s Author: White, Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | American Studies Publisher's Description: Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues - the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyz . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: To the Right: the transformation of American conservatism Author: Himmelstein, Jerome L Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Politics | Public Policy | American Studies Publisher's Description: In this timely book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over the past decades, showing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Civic innovation in America: community empowerment, public policy, and the movement for civic renewal Author: Sirianni, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Print Media | Environmental Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/dev . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | 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 |
| 110. |  | Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | China | Popular Music | Ethnomusicology | Politics | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Ancient History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Healing the masses: Cuban health politics at home and abroad Author: Feinsilver, Julie Margot Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Medicine | Public Policy Publisher's Description: How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for power Author: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Asian History | Politics Publisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Choosing justice: an experimental approach to ethical theory Author: Frohlich, Norman Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social Theory | Ethics Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: Rickshaw Beijing: city people and politics in the 1920s Author: Strand, David Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Rich democracies: political economy, public policy, and performance Author: Wilensky, Harold L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social Theory | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this landmark work, the culmination of 30 years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of 19 rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: (1) What is distinctly modern about modern societies--in what ways are they becoming alike? (2) How do variations in types of political economy sha . . . [more] Similar Items |