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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: Keeper of concentration camps: Dillon S. Myer and American racism Author: Drinnon, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Nati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Sentinel for health: a history of the Centers for Disease Control Author: Etheridge, Elizabeth W Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Medicine Publisher's Description: In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secret . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Christianity Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Printing, propaganda, and Martin Luther Author: Edwards, Mark U Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Martin Luther, the first Protestant, was also the central figure in the West's first media campaign. But to what extent was the Reformation a "print event"? And what, finally, was Luther's role in the movement? With Mark Edwards's study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in the early yea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world Author: Tucker, Richard P 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Ecology Publisher's Description: In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Chinese local elites and patterns of dominance Author: Esherick, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China Publisher's Description: This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to villag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Baʾal Shem Tov Author: Rosman, Murray Jay Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Judaism Publisher's Description: This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity | History Publisher's Description: One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 Author: Urdank, Albion M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: During the English Industrial Revolution, the Vale of Nailsworth was a rural-industrial settlement and a center of evangelical Nonconformity. Why did the transition to the factory system bring deindustrialization and social decline rather than long-term advancement? Albion Urdank investigates the mo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |