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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: City steeple, city streets: saints' tales from Granada and a changing Spain Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European Literature Publisher's Description: Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusse . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Medieval History \| Renaissance History Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Islam \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Middle Eastern History \| Christianity \| Medieval Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Social Science \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain Author: Kagan, Richard L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| Women's Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher'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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Language and Linguistics \| Medieval History \| European History \| Education \| European Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Boundaries: the making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees Author: Sahlins, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| European History \| Geography \| French Studies Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| European History Publisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perfecting women: Maulana Ashraf ʿAlī Thanawi's Bihishti zewar: a partial translation with commentary Author: Thānvī, ʿAshraf ʿAlī Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Mus . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Postcolonial Studies \| French Studies \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Islam \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	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
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	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] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance History \| Christianity \| Rhetoric \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items