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1. | | Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the HouseAuthor: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | 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 | 4. | | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish CommunistAuthor: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920sAuthor: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communismAuthor: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | HistoryPublisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's RomaniaAuthor: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | European History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: One step from the White House: the rise and fall of Senator William F. Knowland Author: Montgomery, Gayle B 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: During the Cold War years of the 1950s, William F. Knowland was one of the most important figures in American politics. As the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, the wealthy California newspaper heir was recognized and respected by millions. His influence with President Eisenhower led to Earl War . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890Author: Johnson, David Alan 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold o . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | 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 | 16. | | Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest villageAuthor: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | Social SciencePublisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French StudiesPublisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese secret serviceAuthor: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual historiesAuthor: Wang, Zheng Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | China | Women's Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a ge . . . [more]Similar Items |
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