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1. |  | Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies | PoliticsSimilar Items | 2. |  | Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | EducationPublisher'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 | 3. |  | Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospectsAuthor: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | ChinaPublisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian ruleAuthor: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Rome and the enemy: imperial strategy in the principateAuthor: Mattern, Susan P 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Military History | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countries Author: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of StanfordAuthor: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the militaryAuthor: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | JudaismPublisher'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 | 10. |  | Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical GreeceAuthor: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | AgriculturePublisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History | European History | Military HistorySimilar Items | 12. |  | Title: Sex seen: the emergence of modern sexuality in AmericaAuthor: Ullman, Sharon R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popul . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hopeAuthor: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: From catastrophe to power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of IsraelAuthor: Zertal, Idith Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Judaism | HistoryPublisher's Description: In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and IranAuthor: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Gender differences at work: women and men in nontraditional occupationsAuthor: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are ent . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallionsAuthor: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Military History | Art and ArchitecturePublisher's Description: To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | LettersPublisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Asylia: territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic worldAuthor: Rigsby, Kent J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Politics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Classical PoliticsPublisher's Description: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coin . . . [more]Similar Items |
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