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Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe
Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970-
Published: University of California Press,  2004
Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European  History | European  History | Middle Eastern History
Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more]
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Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization
Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
Published: University of California Press,  1999
Subjects: Classics | European  History
Publisher's Description: For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority . . . [more]
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Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia online access is available to everyone
Author: Kassow, Samuel D
Published: University of California Press,  1989
Subjects: History | European  History
Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more]
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Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime online access is available to everyone
Author: Herr, Richard
Published: University of California Press,  1989
Subjects: History | European  History
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Title: Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 online access is available to everyone
Author: Urdank, Albion M
Published: University of California Press,  1990
Subjects: History | European  History
Publisher's Description: During the English Industrial Revolution, the Vale of Nailsworth was a rural-industrial settlement and a center of evangelical Nonconformity. Why did the transition to the factory system bring deindustrialization and social decline rather than long-term advancement? Albion Urdank investigates the mo . . . [more]
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Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history online access is available to everyone
Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923-
Published: University of California Press,  1990
Subjects: History | European  History
Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more]
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Title: King Charles I online access is available to everyone
Author: Gregg, Pauline
Published: University of California Press,  1984
Subjects: History | European  History
Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more]
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Title: The making of Elizabethan foreign policy, 1558-1603
Author: Wernham, R. B. (Richard Bruce) 1906-
Published: University of California Press,  1980
Subjects: History | European  History
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Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley online access is available to everyone
Author: Shulman, George M
Published: University of California Press,  1989
Subjects: Politics | European  History
Publisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more]
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Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement online access is available to everyone
Author: Fisher, David James
Published: University of California Press,  1988
Subjects: History | European  History
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Title: Letters from prison and other essays
Author: Michnik, Adam
Published: University of California Press,  1986
Subjects: Politics | European  History
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Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 online access is available to everyone
Author: LoRomer, David G
Published: University of California Press,  1987
Subjects: History | European  History
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Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago
Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968-
Published: University of California Press,  1998
Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European  History
Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more]
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Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade online access is available to everyone
Author: Meyerson, Mark D
Published: University of California Press,  1990
Subjects: History | European  History | Religion
Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more]
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Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars online access is available to everyone
Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945-
Published: University of California Press,  1995
Subjects: History | European  History | French Studies
Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more]
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Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 online access is available to everyone
Author: Reynolds, Christopher A
Published: University of California Press,  1996
Subjects: Music | Musicology | European  History
Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more]
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Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate online access is available to everyone
Author: Biddick, Kathleen
Published: University of California Press,  1989
Subjects: History | European  History | Medieval Studies
Publisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more]
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Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830
Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961-
Published: University of California Press,  2000
Subjects: History | European  History | French Studies
Publisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more]
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Title: The Sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective
Author: De Grazia, Victoria
Published: University of California Press,  1996
Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European  History
Publisher's Description: This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identiti . . . [more]
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Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 online access is available to everyone
Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann
Published: University of California Press,  1989
Subjects: History | European  History | Women's Studies
Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more]
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