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121. | | Title: Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideologyAuthor: Thomas, Julia Adeney 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Intellectual History | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changin . . . [more]Similar Items | 122. | | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more]Similar Items | 123. | | Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial RussiaAuthor: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more]Similar Items | 124. | | Title: Early modern JapanAuthor: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | JapanPublisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more]Similar Items | 125. | | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more]Similar Items | 126. | | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papersAuthor: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more]Similar Items | 127. | | Title: Rethinking American history in a global ageAuthor: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | HistoriographyPublisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more]Similar Items | 128. | | Title: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in ChinaAuthor: Hinsch, Bret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices - and with it the justification for . . . [more]Similar Items | 129. | | Title: Louis XIII, the JustAuthor: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and BiographiesSimilar Items | 130. | | Title: Of one blood: abolitionism and the origins of racial equalityAuthor: Goodman, Paul 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays . . . [more]Similar Items | 131. | | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more]Similar Items | 132. | | Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern FranceAuthor: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Art History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more]Similar Items | 133. | | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary FranceAuthor: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more]Similar Items | 134. | | Title: Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies | CriminologyPublisher's Description: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and . . . [more]Similar Items | 135. | | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | MusicPublisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more]Similar Items | 136. | | | 137. | | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more]Similar Items | 138. | | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century IndiaAuthor: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | HistoryPublisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more]Similar Items | 139. | | Title: Dreams of difference: the Japan romantic school and the crisis of modernityAuthor: Doak, Kevin Michael Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of moderni . . . [more]Similar Items | 140. | | Title: Sex seen: the emergence of modern sexuality in AmericaAuthor: Ullman, Sharon R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popul . . . [more]Similar Items |
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