UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Heritage of China: contemporary perspectives on Chinese civilization Author: Ropp, Paul S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enri . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	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] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	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 \| Politics Publisher'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] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions Author: Schmidt, James Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History \| German Studies Publisher's Description: This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern France Author: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Apocalypse and/or metamorphosis Author: Brown, Norman Oliver 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| Psychology \| History Publisher's Description: Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body , this collection of eleven essays b . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| European History \| Jewish Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	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 Biographies Publisher'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] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The New World of the gothic fox: culture and economy in English and Spanish America Author: Véliz, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the devel . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| History of Science \| Psychology \| Social Problems \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization Author: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century Author: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history 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] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hellenistic constructs: essays in culture, history, and historiography Author: Cartledge, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wi . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The eye expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman antiquity Author: Titchener, Frances B 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Art and Architecture \| Classical Politics \| Classical Religions \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence society. In this they were representative of a widespread consensus in ancient culture. Cultural and political impulses informed the fine arts, and these in turn shaped - and were . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Haiti, history, and the gods Author: Dayan, Joan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Folklore and Mythology \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction a . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Judaism \| Jewish Studies \| European History \| Law \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more] Similar Items