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


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1.	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
2.	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	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
5.	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
6.	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
7.	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
8.	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Popular Culture \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	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
11.	Requires cookie*	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 History Publisher'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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of a heretic: gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy Author: Burrus, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion \| Religion \| Christianity \| Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Changing fortunes: biodiversity and peasant livelihood in the Peruvian Andes Author: Zimmerer, Karl S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Geography \| Ecology \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Two of the world's most pressing needs - biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World - are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in th . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	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
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Social Science \| French Studies \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century Author: Frängsmyr, Tore 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Intellectual History Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Translating property: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 Author: Montoya, María E 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Law \| Latino Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Economics and Business \| European History \| Sociology \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items