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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plundering paradise: the struggle for the environment in the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Politics \| Southeast Asia \| Ecology \| Asian Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sugar and the origins of modern Philippine society Author: Larkin, John A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tena . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	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
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700 Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wagering the land: ritual, capital, and environmental degradation in the Cordillera of northern Luzon, 1900-1986 Author: Lewis, Martin W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Geography \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the Sea World experience Author: Davis, Susan G 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale - as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds - the park represents a careful coordination . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Sociology \| Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Home bound: Filipino lives across cultures, communities, and countries Author: Espiritu, Yen Le 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian American Studies \| Gender Studies \| United States History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen L . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The power of collective purse strings: the effects of bank hegemony on corporations and the state Author: Glasberg, Davita Silfen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Sociology Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Economics and Business \| Politics Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History \| European Literature \| Print Media Publisher'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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II Author: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| American Studies \| California and the West \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Disrupted lives: how people create meaning in a chaotic world Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medicine \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture \| European History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: film festivals and the world they made Author: Turan, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema ma . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: New world encounters Author: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter b . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands & around the world in the years, 1826-1829 Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard 1790-1849 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| United States History \| Literature in Translation \| Travel Publisher's Description: While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to trade he found it necessary to spend nearly two . . . [more] Similar Items