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Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt 

Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations…

Japan's administrative elite 

Author: Koh, Byung Chol
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track…

The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry 

Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1993
Abstract: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biograp…

Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 

Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of …

Refuge of the honored: social organization in a Japanese retirement community 

Author: Kinoshita, Yasuhito 1953-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1993
Abstract: Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 populatio…

Citizenship, gender, and work: the social organization of industrial agriculture 

Author: Thomas, Robert J
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: Why do farm workers earn less and have a lower status than blue-collar employees in comparable job…

Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business 

Author: Gerlach, Michael L
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are c…

Aging in the past: demography, society, and old age 

Author: Kertzer, David I 1948-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is inc…

Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance 

Author: Scaglione, Aldo D
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages…

The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain 

Author: Boyden, James M 1954-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain i…
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