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201. | | Title: Rainbow's end: Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985Author: Erie, Steven P Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociolog . . . [more]Similar Items | 202. | | Title: The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemyAuthor: Hollander, Jack M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Politics | Social Science | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl . . . [more]Similar Items | 203. | | Title: Reclaiming America: Nike, clean air, and the new national activismAuthor: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Have activists taken the bumper-sticker adage "Think Globally, Act Locally" too literally? Randy Shaw argues that they have, with destructive consequences for America. Since the 1970s, activist participation in national struggles has steadily given way to a nearly exclusive focus on local issues. Am . . . [more]Similar Items | 204. | | Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more]Similar Items | 205. | | Title: Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 Author: Doumani, Beshara 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by in . . . [more]Similar Items | 206. | | Title: Regarding politics: essays on political theory, stability, and change Author: Eckstein, Harry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: After World War II political science, especially comparative politics, was transformed by a "scientific revolution." Harry Eckstein, an influential spokesman in the revolution's forefront, went on to make a great variety of contributions in subsequent decades. These eleven essays, written over thirt . . . [more]Similar Items | 207. | | Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | LawPublisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more]Similar Items | 208. | | Title: Re-imaging Japanese womenAuthor: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | JapanPublisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more]Similar Items | 209. | | Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in ZaireAuthor: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | African History | Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more]Similar Items | 210. | | Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Politics | History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Classical Literature and LanguagePublisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more]Similar Items | 211. | | Title: Republic of fear: the politics of modern IraqAuthor: Makiya, Kanan Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1968 a coup d'état brought into power an extraordinary regime in Iraq, one that stood apart from other regimes in the Middle East. Between 1968 and 1980, this new regime, headed by the Arab Ba'th Socialist party, used ruthless repression and relentless organization to transform the way Iraqis thi . . . [more]Similar Items | 212. | | Title: Rethinking the American race problem Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | Law | Politics | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more]Similar Items | 213. | | Title: Reversible destiny: mafia, antimafia, and the struggle for PalermoAuthor: Schneider, Jane 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Politics | Criminology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive . . . [more]Similar Items | 214. | | 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 | 215. | | Title: Rich democracies: political economy, public policy, and performanceAuthor: Wilensky, Harold L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social Theory | Public Policy | Economics and Business | SociologyPublisher's Description: In this landmark work, the culmination of 30 years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of 19 rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: (1) What is distinctly modern about modern societies--in what ways are they becoming alike? (2) How do variations in types of political economy sha . . . [more]Similar Items | 216. | | Title: Rickshaw Beijing: city people and politics in the 1920sAuthor: Strand, David Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | ChinaSimilar Items | 217. | | Title: The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" Author: Widner, Jennifer A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatt . . . [more]Similar Items | 218. | | Title: The romance of American psychology: political culture in the age of experts Author: Herman, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | American Studies | Politics | Psychology | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most . . . [more]Similar Items | 219. | | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonologyAuthor: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more]Similar Items | 220. | | Title: Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernityAuthor: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Economics and Business | Middle Eastern History | SociologyPublisher's Description: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series o . . . [more]Similar Items |
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