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1. | | Title: International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledgeAuthor: Cooper, Frederick 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Social Science | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | PoliticsPublisher's Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | Demography | Japan | Asian History | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items | 4. | | Title: African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development Author: Leonard, David K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent pu . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | | 6. | | Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the marketAuthor: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Anthropology | Labor Studies | Demography | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910Author: Duus, Peter 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Japan | East Asia OtherPublisher's Description: What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United StatesAuthor: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Asian Studies | South AsiaPublisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Homer the theologian: Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic traditionAuthor: Lamberton, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nat . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: A golden state: mining and economic development in gold rush California Author: Rawls, James J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West | American Studies | Natural History | Geography | Californian and Western History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: California's storied Gold Rush triggered momentous changes not only for the state, but also for the nation and the world. The economic impact of that epoch-making event is the focus of the second volume of the California History Sesquicentennial Series. The chapter contributors offer a range of pers . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: The triumph of Venus: the erotics of the marketAuthor: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Social and Political Thought | Economics and Business | Gender Studies | LawPublisher's Description: The theory of law and economics that dominates American jurisprudence today views the market as rational and individuals as driven by the desire to increase their wealth. It is a view riddled with misconceptions, as Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder demonstrates in this challenging work, which looks at cont . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century KoreaAuthor: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian Literature | South AsiaPublisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and JapanAuthor: Ko, Dorothy 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | East Asia Other | Japan | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canoni . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: the autobiographical writings of a Crown Princess of eighteenth-century KoreaAuthor: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi 1735-1815 Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Autobiography | Women's Studies | East Asia OtherPublisher's Description: Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean propor . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle FranceAuthor: Tiersten, Lisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Consumerism | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societiesAuthor: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | European History | Social Theory | Political Theory | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies , drawing on original . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Democracy and moral development Author: Norton, David L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Political Theory | EthicsPublisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: America becomes urban: the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980 Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an u . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemyAuthor: Hollander, Jack M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Politics | Social Science | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl . . . [more]Similar Items |
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