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| 141. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan  Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 142. |  | Title: The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedom Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | United States History | Religion | American Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge Joh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 143. |  | 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 |
| 144. |  | Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Economics and Business | Politics Similar Items |
| 145. |  | Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 146. |  | Title: Manufacturing militance: workers' movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985 Author: Seidman, G Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | African Studies | Labor Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies. Beginning with the 1960s, Seidman shows how both authoritarian states pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 147. |  | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | Politics Publisher'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 |
| 148. |  | Title: Marxist modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | History | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia - conducted over a twenty . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 149. |  | Title: Masquerade politics: explorations in the structure of urban cultural movements Author: Cohen, Abner Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 150. |  | Title: Material girls: making sense of feminist cultural theory Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | American Studies | Politics | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 151. |  | Title: Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century Author: Camp, Roderic Ai Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often over . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 152. |  | Title: "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!): nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 Author: Chávez, Ernesto 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Politics | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: ¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale - in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 153. |  | 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 |
| 154. |  | Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United States Author: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Environmental Studies | German Studies | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 155. |  | Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest village Author: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | Social Science Publisher'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 |
| 156. |  | Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects Author: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | China Publisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold War Author: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 159. |  | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 160. |  | Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items |