Building home [[electronic resource] ] : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / / Eric John Abrahamson |
Autore | Abrahamson Eric John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina |
332.3/2092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Mortgage loans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Savings and loan associations - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century American Dream - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century america
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ISBN |
1-283-86030-9
0-520-95342-8 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Father as Mentor -- 2. Among the Lotus Eaters -- 3. Undertaker at a Plague -- 4. The Common Experience -- 5. Building Home -- 6. Scaling Up -- 7. Home and the State -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Big Business -- 10. The Crest of a New Wave -- 11. Southland Patrician -- 12. Influence -- 13. Short of Domestic Bliss -- 14. Breakdown of Consensus -- 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy -- 16. A New Way of Life -- 17. A Personal Epic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786583103321 |
Abrahamson Eric John
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Entrepreneurial president : Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003 / / Patricia A. Pelfrey |
Autore | Pelfrey Patricia A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
378.0092
B |
Soggetto topico | Nuclear energy - Research - Laboratories - Management |
Soggetto non controllato |
affirmative action history
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ISBN |
1-280-11666-8
9786613520951 0-520-95221-9 |
Classificazione | EDU000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- About This Book -- 1. The Evolution of a Crisis -- 2. The Education of a Chancellor -- 3. Who Runs the University? -- 4. Seventeenth President -- 5. A Problem in Search of a Solution -- 6. "A More Inclusive Definition of Merit" -- 7. Reinventing the Economy -- 8. An Idea and Its Consequences -- 9. History's Coils -- 10. Presidents and Chancellors -- 11. Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Regents' Resolutions SP-1, SP-2, and RE-28 -- Appendix 2. Atkinson Presidency Timeline -- Appendix 3. University of California Indicators, 1995-2003 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790015403321 |
Pelfrey Patricia A
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Flesh and fish blood : postcolonialism, translation, and the vernacular / / S. Shankar |
Autore | Shankar Subramanian <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 pages) |
Disciplina | 891/.1 |
Collana | Flashpoints |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - Translations - History and criticism
Indic literature - 20th century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in motion pictures - India Postmodernism (Literature) - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
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ISBN |
1-280-76997-1
9786613680747 0-520-95234-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Midnight's Orphans, or the Postcolonial and the Vernacular -- 2. Lovers and Renouncers, or Caste and the Vernacular -- 3. Pariahs, or the Human and the Vernacular -- 4. The "Problem" of Translation -- Conclusion: Postcolonialism and Comparatism -- Note -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790303003321 |
Shankar Subramanian <1962->
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Frontier figures [[electronic resource] ] : American music and the mythology of the American West / / Beth E. Levy |
Autore | Levy Beth E (Beth Ellen), <1972-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (471 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.5/9 |
Collana | California studies in 20th-century music |
Soggetto topico |
Music - United States - 20th century - History and criticism
Legends - West (U.S.) - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
aaron copland
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ISBN |
0-520-95202-2
1-280-11656-0 9786613520852 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Course of Empire -- Part One. Arthur Farwell's West -- Part Two. Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others -- Part Three. American Pastorals -- Part Four. Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope -- Part Five. Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | American music and the mythology of the American West |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786712603321 |
Levy Beth E (Beth Ellen), <1972->
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Polymorphous domesticities [[electronic resource] ] : pets, bodies, and desire in four modern writers / / Juliana Schiesari |
Autore | Schiesari Juliana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (143 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93362 |
Collana | Flashpoints |
Soggetto topico |
Animals in literature
Human-animal relationships in literature Pets in literature Sex (Psychology) in literature Social structure in literature Social values in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
american and european culture
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ISBN |
1-283-42595-5
9786613425959 0-520-95231-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton -- 2. Colette at Home -- 3. Romancing the Beast: J. R. Ackerley's Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex -- Notes -- Bibliography |
Altri titoli varianti | Pets, bodies, and desire in four modern writers |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791955103321 |
Schiesari Juliana
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