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1. | | Title: Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guideAuthor: Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History and Philosophy of Science | HistoryPublisher's Description: Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican , comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: For documentary: twelve essaysAuthor: Vaughan, Dai Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Anthropology | Photography | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: These essays, which span twenty-five years of writing and a lifetime of experience, offer fresh and challenging insights into documentary. Dai Vaughan, one of the most highly regarded documentary editors to have worked in Britain in recent decades, makes his starting point plain: "Most of us would f . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History | European History | Military HistorySimilar Items | 5. | | | 6. | | Title: Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century SpainAuthor: Kagan, Richard L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams an . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videosAuthor: Barbash, Ilisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Ethnic Studies | PhotographyPublisher's Description: This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail - information never before ass . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese villageAuthor: Hinton, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Inscribing the time: Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England Author: Mallin, Eric Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida , Hamlet , and Twelfth Ni . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance responseAuthor: Barnes, Bernadine Ann Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: ArtPublisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific NorthwestAuthor: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | Men and Masculinity | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary FranceAuthor: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Law | European History | European Literature | French StudiesPublisher's Description: From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution. Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San FranciscoAuthor: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | Women's Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Social SciencePublisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: The key to Newton's dynamics: the Kepler problem and the Principia: containing an English translation of sections 1, 2, and 3 of book one from the first (1687) edition of Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy Author: Brackenridge, J. Bruce 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Science | Physics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necess . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomalyAuthor: Prucha, Francis Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | LawPublisher's Description: American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today - hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Precious nonsense: the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night Author: Booth, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: LiteraturePublisher's Description: Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Keeper of concentration camps: Dillon S. Myer and American racismAuthor: Drinnon, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: HistoryPublisher's Description: Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Nati . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | ArchitecturePublisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more]Similar Items |
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