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| 101. |  | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry  Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism Author: Crane, Gregory 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Politics | Political Theory | History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: To craft democracies: an essay on democratic transitions Author: Di Palma, Giuseppe Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | History Publisher's Description: Is democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so many dictatorships in the last few years - first in Southern Europe, then in Latin America, now in Eastern Europe - opens new, more optimistic perspectives on democratic development. The crises of dictator . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Public Policy | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | 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 |
| 107. |  | Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Politics | Social Problems | Economics and Business | Medicine | Environmental Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Transforming free speech: the ambiguous legacy of civil libertarianism Author: Graber, Mark A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | Politics Publisher's Description: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: Transforming settler states: communal conflict and internal security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe Author: Weitzer, Ronald John Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: European Studies | Politics | Sociology | African Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Z . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: The unchanging American voter Author: Smith, Eric R. A. N Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: Have the American people grown more politically sophisticated in the past three decades, or do they remain relatively ignorant of the political world? Did a "great leap forward" take place during the 1960s in which our citizenry became involved and adept voters? In this important book, Eric Smith ad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items |
| 113. |  | 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 | Islam Publisher'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 |
| 114. |  | Title: Voting at the political fault line: California's experiment with the blanket primary Author: Cain, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | California and the West Publisher's Description: California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the fron . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countries Author: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Asian History Publisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | 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 |
| 120. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items |