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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland Author: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| European History Publisher's Description: In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this i . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Transforming settler states: communal conflict and internal security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe Author: Weitzer, Ronald John Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: European Studies \| Politics \| Sociology \| African Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Z . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Three Mile Island: a nuclear crisis in historical perspective Author: Walker, J. Samuel Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Technology and Instruments \| Environment \| Technology and Society \| United States History Publisher's Description: Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Native American Studies \| American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| Women's Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: On her their lives depend: munitions workers in the Great War Author: Woollacott, Angela 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I.Munitions work offered working-class women - for the first time - independe . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Amphibians and reptiles of Baja California, including its Pacific islands, and the islands in the Sea of Cortés Author: Grismer, L. Lee 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Natural History \| California and the West \| Herpetology Publisher's Description: The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer is not only the foremost authority on the amphibi . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Signs of recognition: powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society Author: Keane, Webb 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indone . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Behind the scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre Author: Frazier, Adrian Woods Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Poetry \| Theatre Publisher's Description: Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Military History \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Religion \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C Author: Reger, Gary Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Archaeology \| Economics and Business \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele Author: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Archaeology \| Ancient History \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Religion \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| South Asia \| Victorian History \| Travel \| European History \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Archaeology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European History \| Victorian History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Pacific Rim Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	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
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands, and Asia Minor Author: Cohen, Getzel M Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference wor . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity Author: Kaster, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Language and Linguistics \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and r . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migration Author: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	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