University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Reversible Destiny
Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive...
The Next American Revolution
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical,...
Beyond the Walled City
Colonial Exclusion in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
One of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from...
Getting It Wrong
Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Many of American journalism’s best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute to the news media and their practitioners far more power and influence than they truly exert. In Getting It Wrong, writer and scholar W. Joseph...
by Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.
Kitchens
The Culture of Restaurant Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting...
Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher...
The Big Push
Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. “Sexual harassment” has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and...
Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights...
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport
Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling...
From Savage to Negro
Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine...
The Last Great Strike
Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as “Little Steel.” The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two...
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions. Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges,...
Surfaces
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato...