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81. | | Title: Battling the inland sea: American political culture, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986Author: Kelley, Robert Lloyd 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after . . . [more]Similar Items | 82. | | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items | 83. | | Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African Studies | Sociology | LawPublisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworldAuthor: Kaplan, David E 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Japan | Politics | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFKAuthor: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more]Similar Items | 86. | | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth centuryAuthor: Milkman, Ruth 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | PoliticsPublisher's Description: This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's ext . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more]Similar Items | 90. | | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | | 92. | | Title: The vanguard of the Islamic revolution: the Jamaʿat-i Islami of Pakistan Author: Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | South Asia | IslamPublisher's Description: In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement's idealized vision . . . [more]Similar Items | 93. | | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminismAuthor: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more]Similar Items | 94. | | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more]Similar Items | 95. | | Title: The Shanghai Green Gang: politics and organized crime, 1919-1937Author: Martin, Brian G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics | CriminologyPublisher's Description: In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence - from diplomatic dispatches to m . . . [more]Similar Items | 96. | | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiryAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more]Similar Items | 97. | | Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the HouseAuthor: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more]Similar Items | 98. | | Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South AfricaAuthor: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Medical Anthropology | African Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more]Similar Items | 99. | | Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest villageAuthor: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | Social SciencePublisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more]Similar Items | 100. | | Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politicsAuthor: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more]Similar Items |
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