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| 1. |  | Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730  Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London Author: Andrew, Donna T 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European Studies | European History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Where are you from?: Middle-class migrants in the modern world Author: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Earth Sciences | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | European Studies | South Asia | Immigration | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London Author: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | European History | Urban Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Masquerade politics: explorations in the structure of urban cultural movements Author: Cohen, Abner Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Intensive care: a doctor's journal Author: Murray, John F. (John Frederic) 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Medicine | Aging Publisher's Description: Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England Author: Hansen, Karen V Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men - both white and black - n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Renaissance Literature | European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files Author: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Dryden in revolutionary England Author: Bywaters, David A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European History Publisher's Description: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's depos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Prescription for profit: how doctors defraud Medicaid Author: Jesilow, Paul 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Medicine | Social Problems | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this explosive exposé of our health care system, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis uncover the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state, and private officials and extensive investigation of case files, they tell the stories of doctors who pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Social order/mental disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective Author: Scull, Andrew T Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Psychiatry | United States History | European History | Psychology Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Medieval History | European History Publisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: When a doctor hates a patient, and other chapters in a young physician's life Author: Peschel, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | Science Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Strategic bankruptcy: how corporations and creditors use Chapter 11 to their advantage Author: Delaney, Kevin J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In 1982 Johns-Manville, a major asbestos manufacturer, declares itself insolvent to avoid paying claims resulting from exposure to its products. A year later, Continental Airlines, one of the top ten carriers in the United States, claims a deficit when the union resists plans to cut labor costs. Lat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850 Author: Kuchta, David 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Good with their hands: boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust Belt Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Sociology | Literature | Labor Studies | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy G . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Political protest and cultural revolution: nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s Author: Epstein, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Disenchanted with the politics of both the mainstream and th . . . [more] Similar Items |