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Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad

Author: Edwards, David B

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Abstract: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghani…

Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front

Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya

Publisher: University of California Press, 1974

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Horace and the gift economy of patronage

Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961-

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Abstract: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in…

Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands

Author: Healey, Christopher J

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

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Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia

Author: Schroeder, Richard A

Publisher: University of California Press, 1999

Abstract: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflic…

Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C

Author: Reger, Gary

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions…

The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760

Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Abstract: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith.…

Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state

Author: Carrier, James G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Abstract: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innova…

A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau

Author: Peletz, Michael G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1988

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The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China

Author: Zelin, Madeleine

Publisher: University of California Press, 1984

Abstract: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economi…