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1. | | Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North AmericaAuthor: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Pacific Rim StudiesPublisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in MadagascarAuthor: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Geography | African History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Nietzsche, genealogy, morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of moralsAuthor: Schacht, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | European History | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an il . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of rememberingAuthor: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Art | Media Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | 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 | 8. | | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Touching liberty: abolition, feminism, and the politics of the body Author: Sánchez-Eppler, Karen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In this striking study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Academic freedom and the Japanese imperial university, 1868-1939Author: Marshall, Byron K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | EducationPublisher's Description: Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II.Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to provide their new government with necessary te . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual cultureAuthor: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social SciencePublisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | RhetoricPublisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: A different shade of colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the SudanAuthor: Powell, Eve Troutt Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The mind's pastAuthor: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Psychology | Cognitive Science | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled ageAuthor: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Islam | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans MemorialAuthor: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War IAuthor: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History | European Literature | Print MediaPublisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | |
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