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101. |  | Title: High culture fever: politics, aesthetics, and ideology in Deng's China Author: Wang, Jing 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian Literature | Asian History | Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 102. |  | Title: It did happen here: recollections of political repression in AmericaAuthor: Schultz, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country . . . [more]Similar Items | 103. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 104. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more]Similar Items | 105. |  | Title: The state must be our master of fire: how peasants craft culturally sustainable development in SenegalAuthor: Galvan, Dennis Charles Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the governmen . . . [more]Similar Items | 106. |  | Title: The paradox of plenty: oil booms and petro-statesAuthor: Karl, Terry Lynn 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically i . . . [more]Similar Items | 107. |  | Title: Healing the masses: Cuban health politics at home and abroadAuthor: Feinsilver, Julie Margot Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Medicine | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperat . . . [more]Similar Items | 108. |  | Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for powerAuthor: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Asian History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more]Similar Items | 109. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 110. |  | Title: Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industryAuthor: Rosen, Ellen Israel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Politics | Labor StudiesPublisher'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 | 111. |  | Title: Cultures in conflict: social movements and the state in PeruAuthor: Stokes, Susan Carol Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Anthropology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the pop . . . [more]Similar Items | 112. |  | Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacyAuthor: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | China | International RelationsPublisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more]Similar Items | 113. |  | Title: The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedomAuthor: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | United States History | Religion | American Studies | PoliticsPublisher'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 | 114. |  | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more]Similar Items | 115. |  | Title: Big money crime: fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisisAuthor: Calavita, Kitty Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Economics and Business | CriminologyPublisher's Description: At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received . . . [more]Similar Items | 116. |  | Title: Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords: resuming Arab PalestineAuthor: Brown, Nathan J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli . . . [more]Similar Items | 117. |  | 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 BusinessPublisher'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 | 118. |  | Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United StatesAuthor: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Environmental Studies | German Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 119. |  | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in BoliviaAuthor: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | MedicinePublisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more]Similar Items | 120. |  | Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in MexicoAuthor: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the polit . . . [more]Similar Items |
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