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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin America Author: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History \| Politics Publisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fear at the edge: state terror and resistance in Latin America Author: Corradi, Juan E 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.The c . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin American vanguards: the art of contentious encounters Author: Unruh, Vicky Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism - a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers - was stimulated by the Eur . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: What justice? whose justice?: fighting for fairness in Latin America Author: Eckstein, Susan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Economics and Business \| Conservation \| Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies \| Anthropology \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The New World of the gothic fox: culture and economy in English and Spanish America Author: Véliz, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the devel . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Books of the brave: being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World Author: Leonard, Irving Albert 1896- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas a . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Foundational fictions: the national romances of Latin America Author: Sommer, Doris 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| Philosophy \| Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| United States History \| Intellectual History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History \| Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reclaiming America: Nike, clean air, and the new national activism Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies \| Politics \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Have activists taken the bumper-sticker adage "Think Globally, Act Locally" too literally? Randy Shaw argues that they have, with destructive consequences for America. Since the 1970s, activist participation in national struggles has steadily given way to a nearly exclusive focus on local issues. Am . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present Author: Arkush, R. David 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| United States History \| China \| American Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 year . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dr. Strangelove's America: society and culture in the atomic age Author: Henriksen, Margot A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove , would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's thr . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latinos: remaking America Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crack in America: demon drugs and social justice Author: Reinarman, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Jewish Studies \| Sociology \| Judaism Publisher's Description: This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over . . . [more] Similar Items