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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Politics \| California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: To craft democracies: an essay on democratic transitions Author: Di Palma, Giuseppe Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| History Publisher's Description: Is democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so many dictatorships in the last few years - first in Southern Europe, then in Latin America, now in Eastern Europe - opens new, more optimistic perspectives on democratic development. The crises of dictator . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: A river and its city: the nature of landscape in New Orleans Author: Kelman, Ari 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Environmental Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orle . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Murder in New York City Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| Psychology \| Criminology \| United States History Publisher's Description: Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other do . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Japan \| Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: New York, the politics of urban regional development Author: Danielson, Michael N Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Urban Studies Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Picturing Chinatown: art and orientalism in San Francisco Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| California and the West \| Asian American Studies \| Photography \| Art History Publisher's Description: This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and ma . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: New York by gas-light and other urban sketches Author: Foster, George G d. 1856 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Print Media \| Urban Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower st . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The color of gender: reimaging democracy Author: Eisenstein, Zillah R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Gender Studies \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law , Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abo . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York City Author: Sánchez Korrol, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latino Studies \| United States History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements - "colonias" . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representation of places: reality and realism in city design Author: Bosselmann, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how t . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance Author: Gruber, Judith Emily Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics \| Politics Publisher's Description: How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico Author: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies \| Sociology \| Law Publisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Honky Author: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities, 1917-1940 Author: Glasser, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Music Publisher's Description: Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of th . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Habermas on law and democracy: critical exchanges Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Law \| Politics Publisher's Description: In the first essay, Habermas himself succinctly presents the centerpiece of his theory: his proceduralist paradigm of law. The following essays comprise elaborations, criticisms, and further explorations by others of the most salient issues addressed in his theory. The distinguished group of contrib . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| Women's Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items