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Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism

Author: Crane, Gregory 1957-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Abstract: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the Europea…

Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub

Author: Byg, Barton 1953-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Abstract: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived a…

The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora

Author: Beinin, Joel 1948-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Abstract: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic…

Women and the war story

Author: Cooke, Miriam

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts…

Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex"

Author: Clarke, Adele

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Abstract: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for…

Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976

Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble

Publisher: Tofua Press, 1978

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A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society

Author: Horowitz, Donald L

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Abstract: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L…

The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767

Author: Ferry, Robert J

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

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A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England

Author: Hansen, Karen V

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's w…

Kinship with strangers: adoption and interpretations of kinship in American culture

Author: Modell, Judith Schachter 1941-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Adoption challenges our understanding of the core symbols of kinship in American culture - birth, …