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Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Book 34)

Victoria E. Bonnell - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes...
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The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition

Richard Stites - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all...
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The Encomienda in New Spain: The Beginning of Spanish Mexico

Lesley Byrd Simpson - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime

Richard Herr - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

Sabine MacCormack - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian...
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Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. (A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Vol. III) (California ... Studies in the History of Science Book 4)

Richard G. Hewlett - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Republican Rome: The Army and the Allies

Emilio Gabba - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Religion and Political Culture in Kano

John N. Paden - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918

Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback

Maintain isolation - practice good hygiene - wear a mask - be kind. We all know these methods of fighting COVID-19, but this prescription comes from the 1918 experience of Dr. Pierre Sartor, who battled the worldwide influenza pandemic in his small town of Titonka, Iowa. Dr. Sartor wrote...
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City Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves: Lesbian And Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972

Marc Stein - Temple University Press
Format: Paperback

Marc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well...
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