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| 181. |  | | | 182. |  | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more]Similar Items | | 183. |  | Title: Islam, politics, and social movementsAuthor: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies.This collection is uniq . . . [more]Similar Items | | 184. |  | Title: The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Chirot, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest . . . [more]Similar Items | | 185. |  | Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more]Similar Items | | 186. |  | Title: There's something happening here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligenceAuthor: Cunningham, David 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Politics | Sociology | LawPublisher's Description: Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous co . . . [more]Similar Items | | 187. |  | Title: Moral vision in the Histories of PolybiusAuthor: Eckstein, Arthur M Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical Politics | Political Theory | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even "Machiavellian" one. Polybius particularly asks for "impro . . . [more]Similar Items | | 188. |  | Title: The unchanging American voter Author: Smith, Eric R. A. N Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Have the American people grown more politically sophisticated in the past three decades, or do they remain relatively ignorant of the political world? Did a "great leap forward" take place during the 1960s in which our citizenry became involved and adept voters? In this important book, Eric Smith ad . . . [more]Similar Items | | 189. |  | Title: Battling the inland sea: American political culture, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986Author: Kelley, Robert Lloyd 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after . . . [more]Similar Items | | 190. |  | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items | | 191. |  | Title: Drug war politics: the price of denialAuthor: Bertram, Eva Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law | Sociology | Medicine | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics . . . [more]Similar Items | | 192. |  | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century AthensAuthor: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical PoliticsPublisher's Description: Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistr . . . [more]Similar Items | | 193. |  | Title: Working hard and making do: surviving in small town AmericaAuthor: Nelson, Margaret K 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged emp . . . [more]Similar Items | | 194. |  | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFKAuthor: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more]Similar Items | | 195. |  | Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Religion | Sociology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more]Similar Items | | 196. |  | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more]Similar Items | | 197. |  | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminismAuthor: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more]Similar Items | | 198. |  | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiryAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more]Similar Items | | 199. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African HistoryPublisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more]Similar Items | | 200. |  | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more]Similar Items |
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