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181. | | | 182. | | | 183. | | Title: Political Islam: essays from Middle East reportAuthor: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | IslamPublisher's Description: The essays and case studies collected here - featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material - challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The auth . . . [more]Similar Items | 184. | | Title: The political logic of economic reform in ChinaAuthor: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more]Similar Items | 185. | | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980sAuthor: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more]Similar Items | 186. | | Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin AmericaAuthor: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more]Similar Items | 187. | | Title: The politics of duplicity: controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's RomaniaAuthor: Kligman, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarmi . . . [more]Similar Items | 188. | | Title: The politics of force: media and the construction of police brutalityAuthor: Lawrence, Regina G 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: When police brutality becomes front-page news, it triggers a sudden, intense interaction between the media, the public, and the police. Regina Lawrence ably demonstrates how these news events provide the raw materials for looking at underlying problems in American society. Journalists, policy makers . . . [more]Similar Items | 189. | | Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more]Similar Items | 190. | | Title: Postwar Japan as historyAuthor: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors des . . . [more]Similar Items | 191. | | Title: Poverty in America: a handbookAuthor: Iceland, John 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Economics and Business | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Politics | Urban Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same. In an in-depth look at trends, patterns, and causes of poverty in the United States, John Iceland combines the latest statistical information, historical data, and social scientific theory to provide a comprehensive picture of . . . [more]Similar Items | 192. | | Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more]Similar Items | 193. | | Title: Printed poison: pamphlet propaganda, faction politics, and the public sphere in early Seventeenth-century France Author: Sawyer, Jeffrey K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | Politics | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle for d . . . [more]Similar Items | 194. | | Title: The problems of a political animal: community, justice, and conflict in Aristotelian political thoughtAuthor: Yack, Bernard 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle . . . [more]Similar Items | 195. | | 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 | 196. | | Title: Punishment: theory and practice Author: Tunick, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | LawPublisher's Description: What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment.Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are . . . [more]Similar Items | 197. | | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more]Similar Items | 198. | | Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | California and the West | Latin American History | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Politics | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | Criminology | CriminologyPublisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more]Similar Items | 199. | | Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley Author: Shulman, George M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | European HistoryPublisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more]Similar Items | 200. | | Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Media Studies | Women's Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Radio Active tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. While cultural historians have seen this period as one of failed reform - focusing on the failure of activists to win significant changes for commercial radio - Kathy M. Newman a . . . [more]Similar Items |
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