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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: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | History of Science | Psychology | Social Problems | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Random violence: how we talk about new crimes and new victims Author: Best, Joel Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Nothing bad happens to good girls: fear of crime in women's lives Author: Madriz, Esther 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Women's Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing." - 40-year-old womanThis is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary France Author: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Big money crime: fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisis Author: Calavita, Kitty Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Economics and Business | Criminology Publisher's Description: At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Print Media | Education | United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The Western university on trial Author: Chapman, John William 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Social Science Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D Author: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Gender trials: emotional lives in contemporary law firms Author: Pierce, Jennifer L 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Law | Sociology | Social Problems | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Socialization as cultural communication: development of a theme in the work of Margaret Mead Author: Schwartz, Theodore Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Joyce in America: cultural politics and the trials of Ulysses Author: Segall, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature Publisher's Description: When James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in America, it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the modern age. Jeffrey Segall skillfully demonstrates how various political, ideological, and religious allegiances influenced the critical reception and eventual canonization of wha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items |