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Church and Parliament $17.59 Olive J Brose Book This is the first modern, objective study of the Church of England's struggle against disestablishment in the nineteenth century, a struggle that resulted in a Church-State relationship that has remained substantially the same up to the present day. For over three decades some of the most lively minds in England were engaged in the controversy. The repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, Roman Catholic emancipation in 1829, and the Reform Bill of 1832 signified a change in the historical link of Church and State. It is shown that the response of the Church to these events was a thoroughgoing administrative reform and a program of social adaptation. The work of the Ecclesiastical Commission is examined in great detail and is viewed as a part of the general Benthamite emphasis of the age on administrative efficiency. Emphasis is placed upon the political context in which this reshaping of the Establishment took place, and on the roles of Sir Robert Peel and Bishop Blomfield as creators and shapers of the policy. The prolonged struggle over education provides an instance of the essential ambiguity of a national church in a society whose center was no longer the Christian Church. The changed relationship between Church and State in the post-Reform years symbolized a change in men's thinking all along the line about the Church's place an its relation to society. The Church as an Establishment, as also the Monarchy before it, went through a metamorphosis instead of dying out. In explaining how and why tis metamorphosis took place, the author analyzes not only the particular administrative changes made, but their intimate relation to the patterns of thought prevailing in the government, the Church, and society at large. Dr. Brose is a member of the History Department of Brooklyn College. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Olive J. Brose Author Church And Parliament Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 0804705720, 9780804705721 Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Unexpected Revolution Social Forces in the Hungarian $15.82 Paul Kecskemeti Book Why did Hungary's Communist regime, backed by seemingly impregnable power, succumb almost immediately to an uprising of popular forces in October 1956? Does this successful revolt (successful in the sense that it could be overthrown only by Soviet military intervention) have any implications for the future of other Communist satellites? Specifically, are there factors of political instability that can be said to be inherent in all Communist regimes - indeed in totalitarian governments in general? A number of clear and convincing answers to these questions are offered in this study of how Hungary upset the longstanding myth that successful mass revolution was impossible in a totalitarian police state. The record of dictatorial rule not only in the Soviet Union but in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany generally seemed to indicate the impossibility of even the mildest manifestations of anti-regime feelings, let alone of large-scale revolt. The political history of the smaller Central European states that had been turned into satellites of the Soviet Union seemed to furnish additional proof of this thesis, since in each of these countries the Communists represented only a small and unpopular minority. Yet massive police power eventually gave them uncontested dominance. An analysis of the impact of totalitarianism upon the various social groups in Hungary - Communist intellectuals, non-Party intelligentsia, workers, peasants, and students - yields many of the reasons why the Hungarian revolt ellite countries failed. A savage intra-Party purge, carried out between 1949 and 1951, seemingly established the unchallenged supremacy of the Stalinist leader, Mâtyâs Râkosi. After Stalin's death, however, disruptive tendencies began to manifest themselves, with the new leadership in Moscow playing off one Hungarian Communist faction against another. In the concluding chapters the events in Hungary are compared with the milder uprisings that occurred in several other European satellite countries between 1953 and 1956, and some general observations are made concerning the conditions under which revolution may break out in states where political power is highly centralized. Mr. Kecskemeti is a Senior Research Associate of The RAND Corporation, and the author of Strategic Surrender (Stanford, 1958) This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The unexpected revolution: social forces in the Hungarian uprising Rand Research, The Rand Corporation Author Paul Kecskemeti Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961 Length 178 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Secrets of the Kingdom $24.55 Richard L. Greaves Book Secrets of the Kingdom British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89 Richard L Greaves This volume completes a trilogy that explores the history of British political and religious radicalism - in England, Scotland, Ireland, and British exile communities on the Continent - from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the Revolution of 1688-89. The trilogy underscores both the continuity and the geographical range of dissident activity in all three kingdoms over nearly three decades. Much of the present volume deals with the controversial conspiracies collectively (and misleadingly) known as the Rye House Plot. Whether these conspiracies actually existed has been disputed since the 1680's, and the problem of evaluating the evidence regarding them is complicated by the fact that both Whigs and Tories freely engaged in subornation, severely undermining the credibility of many accounts, not to mention the integrity of the judicial system. The book traces the complete history of the Rye House Plot, including the general uprising planned by Monmouth and his associates, the schemes to assassinate Charles and James, and the trials of a number of conspirators. The author concludes that, on balance, the evidence affirms the existence of conspiracies against the crown. The author describes and analyzes several other instances of radical activity: the assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Bothwell Bridge rebellion, the Argyll and Monmouth rebellions, and the involvement of the radicals in the events leading up to the revolution of 1688-89. Historiographically, the book is part of a major reassessment of the late Stuart period which accords greater attention to the significance and contribution of British radicals. It is now clear that radical activity continued throughout the British Isles during the reigns of Charles II and James II, and even beyond, and that Restoration Nonconformists were not uniformly quiescent and passive. The first volume in the trilogy, Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1663, was published in 1986 by Oxford University Press. The second volume, Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677, was published in 1990 by Stanford University Press. Richard L. Greaves is Robert O Lawton Distinguished Professor of History and Courtesy Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He is the author of editor of more than a dozen books. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Secrets of the kingdom: British radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689 Author Richard L. Greaves Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804720525, 9780804720526 Length 465 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Socialists of Rural Andalusia Unacknowledged Revolutionaries of The Second Republic $18.16 George A. Collier Book A new perspective on the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War emerges from this study of the Socialists of a western Andalusian town. Although Andalusian Socialists contributed substantially to the radicalization of the Spanish countryside, they have been largely ignored by scholars, who have concentrated instead on the activities of the anarchists. This book studies the Socialists of one particular pueblo, examining their considerable accomplishments in the Second Republic, their repression in and after the Civil War, and their place in postwar Spanish historical memory. It views the radicalization of Socialists as stemming, not primarily from frustration over their failure to bring about land reform, which is the usual interpretation, but just as much from their success in revolutionizing labor relations. As ethnography, this study is experimental, focusing on a group of people and what happened to them through time rather than on a community or place. Its method may be characterized as serial ethnography, drawing upon oral history, family history, newspapers, and analysis of town archives to reconstruct the pueblo Socialists' experience of the Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship. It interprets pueblo experience in terms of Andalusian concepts of autonomy, hope, kinship, patronage, and politics. Throughout, the author relates the conflict and change experienced in one pueblo to the experience of other locales similarly situated in the broader dynamic of Spanish national politics. The book includes 18 illustrations and 7 maps. George A. Collier is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, and the author of The Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Socialists of rural Andalusia: unacknowledged revolutionaries of the Second Republic Author George Allen Collier Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804714118, 9780804714112 Length 253 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Transmemberment of Song $19.36 Lee Edelman Book "The first criticism I've read of Crane that describes the poetry I know and love." -- Harold Bloom, Yale University Drawing on the techniques of rhetorical and post-structuralist theory, this extended reading of Hart Crane's major poetry goes beyond apparent thematic concerns to read instead of the narrative generated by Crane's rhetorical or figural counterplot -- the narrative of his struggle to achieve a transformation, or, to use his own word, a "transmemberment," of the language of modern poetry itself. The author argues that Crane's distinctively difficult rhetoric embodies a mode of cognition through which we can read Crane's way of understanding and experiencing the relation between word and world. In careful unfoldings of Crane's tropological strategies, this book explores Crane's narratives as displaced or allegorical interpretations of the rhetorical processes through which not only the poem but the subjectivity of the poet is constituted. The interplay of Crane's literary self-consciousness and his distinctive figural structures is outlined in the first chapter, beginning with some early poems and culminating in a reading of "Legend." Subsequent chapters examine Crane's three major sequences: "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen," "Voyages," and The Bridge. Moving between Crane's rhetorical figures in relation to the narratives that he evolves from them as thematic analogues or allegories, the author tells the story of Crane's exacting meditation on the nature and authenticity of his poetic language, revealing how the violence and extravagance of Crane's tropology becomes the means for seeking a new literary language within and American Poetic tradition replete with new beginnings. Lee Edelman is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Transmemberment of song: Hart Crane's anatomies of rhetoric and desire Author Lee Edelman Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804714134, 9780804714136 Length 295 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Land of Fair Promise Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941 $18.88 Judith Rosenberg Raftery Book Land of Fair Promise Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941 Judith Rosenberg Raftery This book uses a case study of education and educational reform in Los Angeles as a lens for viewing a wide range of political and cultural questions involved in urban development in the American West, notable the manner and motives of those who changes school policy. Rapid population growth after 1885 and the recognition that large numbers of school children were either non-white or non-English-speaking compelled Western Progressives to reestablish order and end corrupt schoolboard practices. Drawing on the ideas of Jane Addams and John Dewey, reformers made the Los Angeles school system an instance of apparently effective reform, not only in educational terms, but also administratively and in the broad range of social services provided under school direction -- penny-lunch programs, after-hour playgrounds, day-care centers, adult classes, and home classes for shut-in mothers. But these achievements bore increasingly equivocal results as industrialization, immigration, and urbanization contributed to immense social and economic problems, and reformers intensified programs to Americanize immigrant children. More complicated and divisive progressive politics vied increasingly with professionalization and grassroots pressure from immigrant groups to determine education policy. Many of the leading Los Angeles reformers were women, newly empowered by suffrage, who expanded their campaigns for social change. Also, since women composed most of the teaching force, they began to see themselves as professional educators. But professionalization proved to be a double-edged sword. Better trained than their predecessors, women nevertheless had to fight to hold on to their status as the school system became more efficient, more structured, and more impersonal. Professionalization also led to clashes between professionals; psychologists introduced IQ measurement, and many classroom teachers found mental testing unreliable and sought alternate methods to evaluate the abilities of children. Reformers, educators, and ethnic organizations worked assiduously to modify the social behavior of the now-diverse school population. Despite differences, these groups together built a new social fabric, a patchwork shaped by the unrelenting realities of twentieth-century America. the book is illustrated with 14 photographs. Judith Rosenberg Raftery is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Chico. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Land of fair promise: politics and reform in Los Angeles schools, 1885-1941 Author Judith Rosenberg Raftery Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804719306, 9780804719308 Length 284 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Enemies Under His Feet $20.17 Richard L. Greaves Book Most historians have hitherto assumed that militant Protestantism was nearly extinct during the Restoration -- that radical opponents of the government of Charles II, apart from a handful of fanatics, were thoroughly demoralized by their defeat at the hands of Royalists and Churchmen, and either shed their radicalism entirely or else turned their zeal inward toward quiteism. The author convincingly shows that this accepted view has greatly underestimated the extent to which organized opposition to the restored Stuart regime was present in the 1660's and 1670's. Much of the material in this book, drawn almost exclusively from rarely used archival material in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands will be new to students of the period. But it was familiar enough to Charles II and his advisers, whose agents uncovered everything from assassination plots to seditious conspiracies and planned rebellions. The author's detailed account shows that radical dissent, far from dying out, simply went underground. The author also looks at the problem of toleration for nonconformists, and shows how this issue was directly related to the activities of radical militants. The book covers radical activity in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was well as in exile communities in the Netherlands and Switzerland, seeking to determine not only what the radicals were doing but what connections existed among them. What emerges is a vivid account of the tangled web of conspiracy, idealism, frustration, resiliency, and ineptitude in the far flung radical community. We also gain insight into the place of that community in the broader world of nonconformity. The government had difficulty understanding this world, but it expended considerable effort to develop and implement policies to deal with the militants. To overlook this fact is to omit a fundamental aspect of Charles II's reign, and thus distort our understanding of it. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Enemies under his feet: radicals and nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677 Author Richard L. Greaves Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717753, 9780804717755 Length 324 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Contents Dutch War I xiv Radicals on the Eve of the Dutch War 3 The Exile 15 The Scots and the Galloway 49 Hot Fiery Young Teachers 86 Physical Assaults on Scottish Clergy 96 Radical Political 103 Irish Security 109 Nonconformists in Ireland 112 The Nonconformist Challenge 121 The Radical Press 5 Kidnappers and Crown Jewels 191 Kidnapping 204 The Theft of the Crown Jewels 215 Radicalism and the Policy of Indulgence 224 Notes 253 Index 307 Copyright Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950 $18.88 Susan Mann Book How did China's stable agrarian society accommodate centuries of dynamic commercial expansion? This study shows how the government policies of High Qing times supported an unprecedented commercial expansion by holding the bureaucracy in check, keeping markets taxes low, and farming those taxes to local merchants. When fiscal crises in the mid-nineteenth century forced the government to reach deeper into the pockets of local traders, the guilds and brokers organized to resist, demanding increased tax-farming powers. These merchants used their expanded power to protect their own capital, to lobby for tax privileges, and to limit competition -- in turn inviting more government intervention. Conflicts over taxation between local merchants and the state bureaucracy sharpened throughout the Republican era. The author demonstrates in a concluding chapter that these historic conflicts have resurfaced in the 1980's, as the Communist government attempts once again to pull the bureaucracy back out of local markets. Overall, the book presents compelling new evidence for a fundamental reassessment of the importance of local merchants and trade organizations in traditional China, and a new perspective from which to explore state intrusions into local society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Mann is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Local merchants and the Chinese bureaucracy, 1750-1950 Author Susan Mann Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804713413, 9780804713412 Length 278 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa $28.69 Virginia Thompson, Richard Adloff Book This is the first book in English dealing with the vast area of French Equatorial Africa, out of which have now been created the four autonomous republics, of Gabon, Tchad, Central Africa, and the Congo. The authors' emphasis is primarily on the current problems and recent history of the four new republics. Not the least of these problems is the political ferment in the surrounding territories. The two northern republics, Tchad and Central African Republic, are adjacent to the Arab League countries of Sudan and Libya. Along the western flanks of Tchad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic are the former trust territory of Cameroun, now in a state of unrest; the republic of Niger, which may unite with the Ivory Coast and Volta republics; and Nigeria. In the south, the Congo Republic will inevitably be deeply affected by the profound changes taking place in the Belgian Congo. In Part I the authors examine the former federation of states and analyze its administrative practices, civil and judicial institutions, political organizations, rural economy, industry and labor, communications, and welfare. Part II studies the political and economic development of the territories and the emergence of the four republics. Uncertainty surrounds the future of all these new republics. The principal question is in regard to the shape that their former unity will take, should it survive. The present leaders of the four republics have refused to re-create a strong federal executive, but they have agreed to maintain a loose form of economic and technical cooperation, as well as some of the established cultural and judicial institutions. It remains to be seen whether this trend to cooperation will be strong enough to counteract the older, centrifugal forces of disunity. Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff are the authors of French West Africa (Stanford, 1958), and several other books. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa Authors Virginia McLean Thompson, Richard Adloff Edition 2, illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1960 ISBN 0804700516, 9780804700511 Length 595 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Byron $18.04 Andrew Rutherford Book Byron's poetry has only recently begun to receive the critical attention that is its due. His adventurous life and complex personality have nearly always tended to distract attention from his literary works, and most of the books so far written about him have been largely or wholly biographical in intention. The object of this study, on the other hand, is "to offer an account of Byron's career and achievement as a poet" and it presents no biographical material that is not strictly relevant to a critical assessment. Mr. Rutherford, however, combines the methods of traditional scholarship with those of modern criticism to show how the strengths and weaknesses of Byron the man are mirrored in his works, and how our understanding of his poetry is increased if we see it in the context of his other interest and ambitions. The book gives an authoritative survey of Byron's poetic development, a searching critique of the romantic works that made him famous in his own day, and a sustained analysis of the great verse satires of his maturity -- Beppo, Don Juan, and The Vision of Judgement. In the course of this discussion Mr. Rutherford examines Byron's claims to greatness as a romantic and as a satiric poet, and fully substantiates his view that many of the characteristics of Byron's best poetry are due largely to the nature of his social experience -- to the fact that he was primarily "no mere man of letters and romantic poet, but a sophisticated man of the world, a Regency aristocrat." Mr. Rutherford is Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Byron: a critical study Author Andrew Rutherford Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961 ISBN 0804700710, 9780804700719 Length 253 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan $19.00 J. Russell Andrus, Azizali F. Mohammed Book Nearly all challenges, frustrations and triumphs which characterize economic processes in the developing countries are represented in Pakistan. There are acute problems of population pressure, illiteracy, lack of modern skills and shortage of capital and balance of payments deficits. But Pakistan also has its share of positive factors: a government and people with vision and determination, a willingness to study, learn and exert the necessary effort to win a respected place among modern nations. Of great importance is its climate of receptiveness to foreign enterprise, skills and ideas, and a determination to search everywhere for techniques in order to master them and use them in achieving a self-sustaining rate of progress. Both authors have been closely associated with development in Pakistan and other countries for many years through living and studying in Burma, Pakistan and several other Asian countries, as well as through research for national and international agencies. Businessmen, bankers and economists wishing to secure an up-to-date account of Pakistan's trade and payments, banking and public finance and its plan for economic growth will find this book useful. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan Authors James Russell Andrus, Azizali F. Mohammed Contributor Azizali F. Mohammed Publisher Stanford University Press, 1966 ISBN 0804701261, 9780804701266 Length 289 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Television in the Lives of Our Children $20.08 Wilbur Schramm, Jack Lyle, and Edwin B. Parker Book The average North American child, from age 3 to age 16, spends one-sixth of his waking hours on television. This is as much time as he spends in school, more time than he devotes to any other activity except sleep and play. Here is a report of the first major study on the North American continent of the complicated way in which television operates in the lives of children. It represents three years of research on 6,000 children, and is also based on information obtained from 2,300 parents, teachers, and school officials. The book begins with a consideration of the part televisions plays in the lives of children, then fills in the basic facts -- how much children use television at different ages under different conditions, what kinds of programs they watch, and what they think of them. Then it examines t he chief variables--intelligence, social backgrounds, and home and peer-group relationships--which, along with age and sex make it possible to predict generally what use a child will make of television. One interesting finding is that children in a town with television are about a year more advanced in vocabulary when they enter school than are children in a town without television. It appears, however, that the learning advantage is not maintained for more than a few years. The book then considers the chief effects which have been ascribed to television, such as delinquency and debasement of taste, and tests the validity of these claims. It sums up everything so far discovered by research concerning the effects of television on children, and the conclusions that can now safely be drawn. An interesting feature is a detailed analysis of a typical week (five weekdays) of the television fare seen in a major city during the period from 4:00 to 9:00 P.M., the so-called "children's hour." The results showed that more than half the 100 hours monitored was given to programs in which extreme violence (murders, stranglings, suicides, etc.) played an important part. In conclusion, t he authors suggest some things that parents, schools, and broadcasters can do to keep televisions from possibly having a harmful effect on children. An eminent professor of psychiatry, Dr. Lawrence Z. Freedman, has contributed a paper giving a psychiatric view of the problem. Detailed statistics and tabulations are given tin the Appendixes, which also contain information about related topics (such as children's use of other mass media). Mr. Schramm is Director of the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University. Mr. Lyle is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Parker is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Televisión in the lives of our children Authors Wilbur Lang Schramm, Jack Lyle, Edwin B. Parker, Lawrence Z. Freedman Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961 ISBN 0804700621, 9780804700627 Length 324 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The First Russian Revolution 1825 $19.90 Anatole G. Mazour Book The First Russian Revolution 1825 Anatole G. Mazour A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less know, is the so-called decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December 1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russia intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations. "Notwithstanding the importance o f the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject...The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces it background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of t he rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, then Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in Siberia." -- The Annals. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: The first Russian revolution, 1825: the Decembrist movement, its origins, development, and significance Anatole Gregory Mazour Stanford University Press, 1937 ISBN 0804700818, 9780804700818 324 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time $14.86 Sadaie Fujiwara, Fujiwara Teika, Robert H. Brower, Earl Miner Book Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time A Thirteenth-Century Poetic Treatise and Sequence Translated and with an Introduction by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner This is a complete translation of an important document of traditional Japanese poetics: the Kindai Shuka of Fuiwara Teika (1162-1241), one of the greatest of Japanese poets and critics. The work consists of a short critical essay by Teika and a carefully arranged sequence of eighty-three poems by other hands. His essay discusses the state of poetry in the early thirteenth century and offers advice and standards for aspiring poets: the sequence of poems teaches the same standards by example. Despite the title, the poems are taken from the full range of Japanese poetry to Teika's time, with emphasis on the preceding three centuries. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the sequence is its unique construction. As the translators demonstrate in their Introduction and commentary, the poems are linked by subtle techniques of association and progression into a unified whole that can be read as a single long poem of more than 400 lines. The poems are given in romanization and in translation, and are fully annotated. Robert H. Brower is Professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan, and Earl Miner is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. They are the authors of Japanese Court Poetry. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Fujiwara Teika's Superior poems of our time: a thirteenth-century poetic treatise and sequence Authors Sadaie Fujiwara, Fujiwara Teika, Robert H. Brower, Earl Miner Editor Sadaie Fujiwara Translated by Robert H. Brower, Earl Miner Compiled by Sadaie Fujiwara Publisher Stanford University Press, 1967 ISBN 0804701717, 9780804701716 Length 148 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Tales of the Pioneers $14.64 W. A. Chalfant Book W.A. Chalfant, dean of California newspaper editors, has chronicled the history of the California-Nevada border as he himself heard it recounted or saw it occur during his fifty-five years of continuous service as editor of The Inyo Register of Bishop, California. The author tells of the country, of its inhabitants, of the ups and downs of some of the camps, of its prospectors, of the luck, good or bad, rather than recounting only the deeds and activities of a few of the "headline" characters of the old days. Chalfant's anecdotes are not the "tall tales" that grow taller with each retelling, and are probably the more interesting for that reason. One that appealed particularly to the publishers is in the chapter on "Law as It Was Administered." We hope you like it: It is related that magistrates of the early courts of the Far West included men of widely varying character and ability, from men who were very capable "to the Bodie justice of rabbit-like powers of decision who, after prolonged arguments by opposing attorneys, threw the issue back in their laps with the statesmen: 'You'll have to settle it between yourselves; I can't make heard nor tail of it.' " The author: W. A. ("Bill") Chalfant was born in Virginia City, Nevada, and has lived all of his life in the high Sierra country. In 1885 his family moved to Bishop, and there in 1885 started The Inyo Register. His life has been full of action, of editorial battles fought and won, of civic leadership that is typical of a man who knows well whereof he speaks -- and writes. For years he has been gathering the material which is included in this book. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Tales of the Pioneers Willie Arthur Chalfant Stanford University Press, 1942 129 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor $14.23 Anderson and Davidson Book Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources. Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years. The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter. Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement... Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson Stanford University Press, 1945 133 pages Politics and the Military in Modern Spain $28.93 Stanley G. Payne Book The Spanish military have been deeply involved in politics for a century and a half, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through the long rule of Francisco Franco that followed the Spanish Civil War. This is the first full-scale study in any language of the relation of the military to Spanish politics, government, and public issues in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The key period 1917-39 is given special attention. The military first intervened in domestic affairs in the early nineteenth century when neither the traditional monarchy nor the new liberal regime proved able to govern. The Army has played a crucial role note because of its efficiency or its leaders' wisdom, but simply because of its capacity to impose decisions on the intense, seemingly insoluble, factional struggles of Spanish politics. Though the focus of the book is on political relations, the military role of the Army is also considered, with emphasis upon such leading political generals as Weyler and Primo de Rivera. Certain standard ideas about the causes, nature, and objectives of military activity in politics are revised, and new data are presented on the military conspiracy of 1936 and the Civil War of 1936-39. Stanley G. Payne is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Falange: A History of Spanis Fascism. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Politics and the military in modern Spain Stanley G. Payne Stanford University Press, 1967 ISBN 0804701288, 9780804701280 574 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Jacksonian Democracy and the Working Class $20.14 Walter Hugins Book The relationship of the American workingman to Jacksonian democracy is part of a larger question that has caused great controversy among historians -- what kind of people were behind the Jacksonian movement? For the first time, the membership of the movement in one of the Jacksonian states has been systematically analyzed, so that we are now able to answer several key questions, at least for one important part of the whole: Who were t he Jacksonians? To what extent was the movement based on the working class and working-class leadership? If the Jacksonians were not workingmen, from what strata of society did they come? What light does their social status throw on their thinking? A survey of 850 men active in the movement is the basis of this study. Life histories of about fifty of these leaders are supplemented by an occupational tabulation of the entire group, based principally on newspaper accounts of party meetings and city directories. An amalgam of mechanics and tradesmen, this segment of the working class, rather than attacking the business community of which they considered themselves actual or potential members, were united in the desire to eliminate law-created privilege and to further the democratic movement of the times. A subject which as thus far been largely in the area of argumentation or only tangential proof has now been enlarged by a very substantial and interestingly developed piece of empirical proof. This biographical and occupational analysis of the source of Jacksonian electoral support sheds further light on the class basis of the movement, its relations with the New York Democratic and Whig parties, and it's contribution to the evolution of Jacksonian Democracy. Mr. Hugins is Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State College (California). Stanford Studies in History, Economics, and Political Science, XIX. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Jacksonian democracy and the working class: a study of the New York Workingmen's movement, 1829-1837 Walter Edward Hugins Published by Stanford University Press, 1960 ISBN 0804700265, 9780804700269 286 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Amiable Renegade $25.15 Peter Drake Book Published in Dublin in 1755, these gusty and thoroughly uninhibited memoirs were immediately confiscated and destroyed by the author's outraged family, only a few copies escaping their pious wrath. This is an important historical source, known heretofore only to a few scholars, and never before published in a modern annotated edition. The memoirs were written to entertain and are indeed superbly entertaining; but their great value to the historian lies in the fact that Peter Drake, though gentle-born, lived and recorded the life of a common soldier and adventurer in an age whose historical records are almost exclusively the work of scholars and literary men. The book furnishes, among other things, a worm's-eye view of the War of the Spanish Succession. As a veteran of four armies -- he switched from one to the other as expedience dictated -- Drake is able to tell us a great deal about various aspects of life that lay outside the experience of many of his contemporaries. There are colorful details on how recruiting was carried on, on petty graft in the army, on life in Marshalsea and Newgate prisons, on the tavern and gaming "businesses," on the eighteenth-century demi-monde in and out of military service -- all subjects Drake knew intimately. Paul Jordan-Smith's Foreword is concerned with the history and literary quality of the book, while Sidney Burrell, in his Introduction and Notes, deals with the historical background of the work and its value to historians. Mr. Burrell is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Amiable Renegade: The Memoirs of Capt. Peter Drake, 1671-1753 Peter Drake Published by Stanford University Press, 1960 ISBN 0804700222, 9780804700221 410 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The Economy of British Central Africa $19.69 William J. Barber Book In 1953 the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland embarked on a challenger experiment in social relations, committing itself to pursuing a policy of "inter-racial partnership" among the area's multi-racial population. The ultimate success or failure of this policy, which may have a profound effect on the course of events throughout Africa, is closely linked with the economic performance of these territories. Like many other underdeveloped areas, the Federation encompasses two distinct forms of economic organization. One form, the Western money economy introduced with European trade and settlement, can be measured and analyzed in terms of the conventional concepts of aggregative economics. The other form, the indigenous economy, is based largely on traditional agriculture and cannot easily be assessed by conventional methods. By examining the interaction of the two economies, the author has attempted to fill a serious gap in our economic knowledge. Since the functioning of the Central African economic system cannot be fully understood apart from its non-economic context, the author considers certain political and social issues that have had a forceful impact on the Federation's economic life. Mr. Barber is Associate Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: The Economy of British Central Africa William J. Barber Published by Stanford University Press, 1961 271 pages

Birds of the West $24.19 Ernest S. Booth Book Whether you know a little or nothing at all about birds, this book is practically guaranteed to make you a bird fancier and promises to enrich many a country vacation. Children and adults should be able to spot birds, even at first sight, using only this guide, for it incorporates an amazingly simple system of keys that enables rapid and accurate identification of Western species. It can be used without help or guidance from anyone with experience and is based chiefly on sets of opposite statements in pairs. By the process of eliminating the inapplicable statement in each pair, the user is easily led to the correct name for the bird his is trying to identify. A description of each bird, the correct range for the entire year, notation on the nest and eggs, and a drawing accompany the keys. For the amateur photographer there is a particularly interesting section on bird photography, and appended material includes information on migration, nesting habits, reference books, and bird clubs. THE AUTHOR Dr. Booth is professor of zoology and head of the department of biological sciences at Walla Walla College, Washington. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Birds of the West Ernest S. Booth Published by Stanford University Press, 1950 402 pages The South Sea Bubble $21.28 John Carswell Book This is the first systematic account of the greatest financial crisis and public scandal in English history, placed in its European and historical context. After the Revolution of 1688, England advanced rapidly along the path of material progress. This advance, which the author has called the Commercial Revolution, was abruptly checked by the events of 1720, usually known as the South Sea Bubble. The bursting of the Bubble, an event that affected nearly every pocket of England, was followed by the long pause of the Augustan Age, a period of calm before the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But for this wave of cautiousness following "the shipwreck of the Year Twenty," as Gibbon called it, the Industrial Revolution might have begun forty or fifty years earlier. The South Sea Company was founded in 1711, and was granted a monopoly of the British trade with South America and Pacific islands. During the next few years the Company accomplished little and profits were meager. But beginning in 1719, a financial euphoria stemming from the boom of the Mississippi Bubble in France swept over Europe, and the price of South Sea stock surged skyward. A frenzy of wild speculation gripped the entire nation. In July of 1720, the price of South Sea stock stood at 1,000; four months later it had fallen to 135. The repercussions of the crash were widespread: hundreds of illustrious families were ruined or brought near to bankruptcy, many persons who were committed to heavy payments fled the country, the stock of the Bank of England itself fell from 263 to 145, food riots became a serious threat in London. An investigation was launched in the House of Commons, and the scandal that ensued rocked the throne itself. It was found t hat the company's books contained fictitious entries, and that favors secured from the State had been purchased by gifts to Ministers, some of whom had also made large sums of money by stock speculation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was found guilty of the "most notorious, dangerous, and infamous corruption," and was expelled from the House and imprisoned. The Postmaster-General committed suicide the day before he was to face charges against him. Mobs that formed outside Parliament were threatened with the imposition of the Riot Act. Whether judged from the point of view of historical importance or of sheer entertainment, the story of the South Sea Bubble is of extraordinary interest and curiosity. There are few historical events that illustrate more clearly the interdependence of economic, political, and social history. And the leading personalities of the Bubble form a vivid gallery of villains, eccentrics, and fools. John Carswell is the author of several books dealing with the eighteenth century, including The Romantic Rogue and The Old Cause. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: The South Sea bubble John Carswell Published by Stanford University Press, 1960 Original from the University of California Digitized Jun 13, 2008 314 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Virginia and Truckee $13.42 Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg, E. S. Hammack, Frederic Shaw Book The year 1896 saw the completion of the first transcontinental railroad and the birth of the Virginia & Truckee. While Central Pacific and Union Pacific approached their historic junction in Utah, another chapter in the railroading history of the American West was unfolding in Nevada. Modest only in length, the V & T was a short-line carrier of incredible treasure, taking out the ore of the Comstock Lode, the world's richest known silver deposit, It also delivered necessities and devisings of luxury for booming Virginia City, cosmopolis of the Comstock. The precipitous grades were thought unsafe for risking private cars but with the arrival in Virginia City of the celebrated car "Pullman" with its designer aboard, others soon followed, bering such notables as President Grant and General Sherman. The Carson & Colorado was built in the 1880's as a subsidiary line to connect with the new boom towns of Hawthorne, Candelaria, Bodie, Aurora, and Benton. The strikes at Tonopah and Goldfield were yet to come. "After the epic convulsions of the nineteenth century the V & T enjoyed briefly the heady excitements of the southern nevada bonanzas as long as they lasted." The Second World War enabled the V & T, like many another short line, to live a while longer on borrowed time. Here is its flamboyant history in words, maps, and contemporary drawings and photographs. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Virginia & Truckee: a story of Virginia City and Comstock times By Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg, E. S. Hammack, Frederic Shaw Published by G. H. Hardy, 1949 Original from the University of California Digitized Apr 18, 2007 58 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Ben Jonson's Poems $20.38 Wesley Trimpi Book In this first definitive study of Jonson's poetry the emphasis is upon Jonson's rhetorical position as it is expressed in his collection of critical observations, Discoveries. A significant strain in classical and Renaissance rhetorical tradition -- the theory of the plain style -- is shown to form the basis for Jonson's poetic practice. From this tradition Jonson's poetry derives its characteristic genres, its choice of subject matter, its modes of procedure. Within this full and consistent context we can assess the strengths and weaknesses of the poems and answer such questions as: What kind of poetry is Jonson writing? Where does it originate? How faithful to his ideals is his practice? How does his poetry differ from that of his contemporaries? The poems -- epistles, satires, epigrams, odes, love poems, divine poems -- are extensively quoted and illuminatingly analyzed, not only as exemplifications of the classical tradition of the plain style but in and of themselves. A full account of the plain style is given, with consideration of its philosophical commitments, moral and aesthetic implications, and chief exponents, both classical and Renaissance. Mr. Trimpi is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Ben Jonson's poems: a study of the plain style By Wesley Trimpi Published by Stanford University Press, 1969 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Nov 13, 2006 292 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Contents DISCOVERIES 1 Sallust , Quintilian , Livy The Limitations of 41 Senecan , Cicero , Attic style The Epistolary Tradition 60 Plautus , Justus Lipsius , John Selden The Authority of NeoLatin Scholarship 76 Isaac Casaubon , neo-Latin , Persius POEMS 93 Puttenham , sonnet , Petrarch Jonson and the Native Tradition of the Plain Style 115 caesura , rhythmical unit , prosody Jonsons Poems in the Classical Genres of 136 caesuras , episde , Epig Poems in Other Than 191 Neoplatonic , Livy , Ben Jonson The Cross and the Fasces $18.55 Richard A. Webster Book The Italian Christian Democratic Party has emerged as one of the most important and enduring governing parties of postwar Europe, and a mainstay of the Western alliance. Since the proclamation of the Italian Republic in 1946, the party has dominated each successive government, giving the Catholic Church immense prestige and influence in Italian affairs. This is the first full-length study in English of the background of the party, and of the development of autonomous Catholic social and political movements in Italy. The first Catholic protest movements began in the nineteenth century, and continued until the failure of the Popular Party and the triumph of Fascism after World War I. Under the Fascist Regime, a new generation of Catholic leaders appeared, emerging from the Catholic Action groups. These groups enjoyed at best a grudging toleration, and were able to exist only under papal protection. Of particular importance to this new Catholic generation was the emergence as a strong leader of Alcide De Gasperi, the "exile of the Vatican." The narrative concludes with the rise of the new Christian Democratic Party of 1943 and the return of De Gasperi to Italian politics during World War II, as the fascist regime collapsed. A brief summary of the most important postwar developments in Italy has been provided to bring the story up to date. This study has implications reaching far beyond the limits of Italian history, reflecting as it does on such contemporary questions as the compatibility between Catholicism and modern democracy, and the possible ties between Catholic statesmen and the Church hierarchy. Mr. Webster is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: The cross and the fasces: Christian democracy and fascism in Italy By Richard A. Webster Published by Stanford University Press, 1960 ISBN 0804700435, 9780804700436 229 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Contents Chapter One ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF 3 Italian , Roman Question , Demochristians Chapter Two ITALIAN CATHOLICISM AND THE LIBYAN 26 Libyan War , Fascism , Italy Chapter Three THE CATHOLIC ALLIANCE WITH SALANDRA 38 Salandra , Filippo Corridoni , Christian Democratic Movements Chapter Five THE ITALIAN POPULAR PARTY SHORT 57 Fascist , Giolitti , Blackshirt Chapter Six THE DEATH OF THE POPULAR PARTY 78 Fascist , Trentino , Catholic Action THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY 107 Christian Democratic movement , Lateran Pacts , Third Reich Chapter Eight THE CLERICOFASCISTS AND THEIR 119 Alleanza Nazionale , Jesuit , corporativism FEDERATION 137 FUCI , Laureati , Monsignor Chapter Eleven SCATTERED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC 144 Guelf , Liguria , Christian Democratic Chapter Twelve FATHER GEMELLI AND THE CATHOLIC 153 Amintore Fanfani , internazionale , University of Milan Chapter Thirteen CATHOLIC PARTICIPATION IN 162 Italian Social Republic , Osoppo , Communist Epilogue THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY 178 Gasperi , Christian Democratic Party , Communist Appendix One CONCLUDING NOTE ON CHRISTIAN 187 Christian Democratic , Democrazia Cristiana , L'Eco di Bergamo Bibliography 215 Mezzogiorno , Fonzi , Bergamo

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