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Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre 

Author: Rosand, Ellen
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and e…

Getting to be Mark Twain 

Author: Steinbrink, Jeffrey
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every Amer…

Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories 

Author: Gorkin, Michael
Publisher: University of California Press,  1996
Abstract: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three o…

Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation 

Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965-
Publisher: University of California Press,  2001
Abstract: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the…

Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 

Author: Neuberger, Joan
Publisher: University of California Press,  1993
Abstract: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuber…

The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae 

Author: Ōsugi, Sakae 1885-1923
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imaginat…

Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 

Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's wri…

Changing the rules: the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania 

Author: Tripp, Aili Mari
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to day w…

Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic 

Author: Tracy, James D
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern …

Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia 

Author: Kassow, Samuel D
Publisher: University of California Press,  1989
Abstract: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational in…
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