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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran Author: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion \| Sociology \| Social Theory \| Middle Eastern Studies \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal tradition Author: Pennington, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Law Publisher's Description: The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Antigonos the One-eyed and the creation of the Hellenistic state Author: Billows, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first d . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fulk Nerra, the neo-Roman consul, 987-1040: a political biography of the Angevin count Author: Bachrach, Bernard S 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Medieval Studies \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom. Descendant of warriors and administrators who served the French kings, Fulk in turn built the state that provided a foundation . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutions Author: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| China \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| French Studies \| European History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859 Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nomad: a year in the life of a Qashqa'i tribesman in Iran Author: Beck, Lois 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Borzu Qermezi was the headman and political leader of a group of nomadic pastoralists who were part of the Qashqa'i confederacy of southwest Iran. Proud, complex, strong-willed, witty, and cunning, Borzu successfully led his people on their annual migrations for many years. He regulated their travel . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Louis XIII, the Just Author: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Khubilai Khan: his life and times Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| Asian History \| China \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| African American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: One king, one faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century Author: Roelker, Nancy L. (Nancy Lyman) Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| European Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passi . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: the autobiographical writings of a Crown Princess of eighteenth-century Korea Author: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi 1735-1815 Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Autobiography \| Women's Studies \| East Asia Other Publisher'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
20.	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