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141. | | Title: Dryden in revolutionary England Author: Bywaters, David A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's depos . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...us little of that Rinaldo d'Estè who Conquers Jerusalem in Tasso . He might be a Champion of the... Similar Items | 142. | | 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 | PoliticsPublisher'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]Matches in book (1):...former member of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, was able to build up a popular following and... Similar Items | 143. | | Title: California's spiritual frontiers: religious alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910 Author: Frankiel, Sandra Sizer 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | ChristianityPublisher's Description: In this fascinating work, Frankiel examines California's rich, multi-faceted religious history during the period in which the state was taking shape on the American landscape. Matches in book (1):...Himalayas, the carpenter Jesus, the crowds in Jerusalem, and the westward march of humanity. Even... Similar Items | 144. | | Title: The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth Author: Ross, Charles Stanley Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | European History | English Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...Normandie (1194-1223), the Assises de Jérusalem , the Coutumier d'Amiens , and another thirteenth-... Similar Items | 145. | | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...time Dean Mahomet began his enterprise, the Jerusalem Coffee House (in Cornhill, far closer to the... Similar Items | 146. | | Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art CriticismPublisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...Beirut, which he will enter as Christ entered Jerusalem, except that he enters like a rock star, his... Similar Items | 147. | | Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Political Theory | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...compromise." Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (London: Fontana/Collins, 1999, pp. 519-520.... Similar Items | 148. | | Title: A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England Author: Hansen, Karen V Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men - both white and black - n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary co . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...phenomenon, see Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth... Similar Items | 149. | | Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European HistoryMatches in book (2):...29 reales (2 EFW) to "the holy places of Jerusalem." Payment in lieu of tithes on exempt lands owned......14 Bula de la cruzada –4 "Holy places of Jerusalem" –2 Church purchases and payments outside the... Similar Items | 150. | | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...which like Solomon's work on the temple at Jerusalem (1 Kings 6:7) proceeds silently, this education... Similar Items | 151. | | Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European Literature | Intellectual HistoryMatches in book (1):...to follow in Chateaubriand's footsteps (to Jerusalem) and aspire to high literature, even to poetry,... Similar Items | 152. | | Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...général de l'ordre des hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem: 1100–1310. Paris, 1894–1906. Di Nicola,... Similar Items | 153. | | Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...1969), and Egyptian Guilds in Modern Times (Jerusalem: Israel Oriental Society, 1964); Helen Rivlin,... Similar Items | 154. | | Title: Social change and modernity Author: Haferkamp, Hans 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | PoliticsMatches in book (1):...and directions of a research program . Jerusalem: Hebrew University. Evans, Peter B. , Dietrich... Similar Items | 155. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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]Matches in book (1):...the Sacred Struggle to Liberate Karbala and Jerusalem. He insisted he had initiated the interview to... Similar Items | 156. | | Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Media Studies | Gender Studies | Cognitive Science | Social and Political Thought | Art | SociologyPublisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...doom of endless sorrow," the Jew expelled from Jerusalem and De Quincey cut off from the presence of... Similar Items | 157. | | Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...minority in Palestine since the destruction of Jerusalem two millenniums ago is acknowledged, the “... Similar Items | 158. | | Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | Law | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...1961), designated as PF; and Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York: Viking Press, 1963), designated as EJ.... Similar Items | 159. | | Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...Renault, " in Gestes d'amour et de guerre: "La Jérusalem délivrée" du Tasse , ed. Giovanni Careri (... Similar Items | 160. | | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more]Matches in book (1):...Street. 15. Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem is a particularly appropriate iconographic... Similar Items |
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