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| 1. |  | Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa  Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies | African History | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Sociology | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems Publisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Nietzsche, genealogy, morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of morals Author: Schacht, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an il . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | French Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Life's origin: the beginnings of biological evolution Author: Schopf, J. William 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Paleontology | Astronomy | Evolution | Earth Sciences | Physical Sciences Publisher's Description: Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in this area have made remarkable progress, and an overall picture of how life emerged is coming more clea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective Author: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Postcolonial Studies | Urban Studies | Immigration | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | Psychology | African History | Medicine | Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Siting translation: history, post-structuralism, and the colonial context Author: Niranjana, Tejaswini 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwrit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions Author: Schmidt, James Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | German Studies Publisher's Description: This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India Author: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Genethics: moral issues in the creation of people Author: Heyd, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics Publisher's Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The worth of a child Author: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The Spanish redemption: heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande Author: Montgomery, Charles H 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Whose keeper?: social science and moral obligation Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Ethics | Politics | American Studies Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Postcolonial Studies | European History | African History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Doctors within borders: profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan Author: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | Asian History | Sociology Publisher's Description: This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths . . . [more] Similar Items |