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| 141. |  | Title: Natural conflict resolution Author: Aureli, Filippo 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Psychology | Cultural Anthropology | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 142. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform  Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 143. |  | Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Anthropology | Labor Studies | Demography | Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 144. |  | Title: Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 Author: Newman, Kathy M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Media Studies | Women's Studies | Politics Publisher'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 |
| 145. |  | Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 146. |  | Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar Japan Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Politics | Asian History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can bes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 147. |  | 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 |
| 148. |  | 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 |
| 149. |  | Title: The longest night: polemics and perspectives on election 2000 Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social and Political Thought | Law Publisher's Description: The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 150. |  | 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 |
| 151. |  | Title: Intimate enemies: Jews and Arabs in a shared land Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Pales . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 152. |  | Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 153. |  | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary world Author: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global Studies Publisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 154. |  | 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 |
| 155. |  | Title: Italo Balbo: a Fascist life Author: Segrè, Claudio G Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Politics Publisher's Description: Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthless squadrista whose blackshi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 156. |  | Title: Bureaucratic authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in comparative perspective Author: O'Donnell, Guillermo A Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United States Author: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Asian Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonology Author: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History Publisher'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 |
| 159. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 160. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons Author: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more] Similar Items |