UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Women's Studies \| Sociology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Islam \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Middle Eastern History \| Christianity \| Medieval Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Social Science \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state Author: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: An Ottoman tragedy: history and historiography at play Author: Piterberg, Gabriel 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Historiography \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-l . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Art \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular state Author: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Asian Studies \| Religion \| Social Problems \| Middle Eastern Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Author: Tucker, Judith E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Law \| Islam \| Women's Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam Publisher's Description: In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Literature \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: God, Harlem U.S.A.: the Father Divine story Author: Watts, Jill Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Christianity \| American Studies \| African American Studies \| African Studies Publisher's Description: How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious lea . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland Author: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| European History Publisher's Description: In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this i . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music \| Women's Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: True gardens of the gods: Californian-Australian environmental reform, 1860-1930 Author: Tyrrell, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to these challenges, environmental reformers at . . . [more] Similar Items