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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding Vietnam Author: Jamieson, Neil L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering Author: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Art \| Media Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wars we took to Vietnam: cultural conflict and storytelling Author: Bates, Milton J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Popular Culture \| American Literature Publisher's Description: What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vietnam 1945: the quest for power Author: Marr, David G Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History \| Politics Publisher's Description: 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia \| Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar Author: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Geography \| African History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| History \| Architectural History \| European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The mind's past Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Psychology \| Cognitive Science \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Islam \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History \| European Literature \| Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Demography \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art History \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memories of Chicano history: the life and narrative of Bert Corona Author: García, Mario T Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Autobiography \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication - the . . . [more] Similar Items