University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
After the Grizzly
Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from...
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl
The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’...
by Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Spotting an animal’s fresh footprints in the wild can conjure a world for the hiker: Why did the deer tracks disappear? Where did the cougar turn off the trail? What does it mean when two sets of footprints seem to coincide? This beautifully illustrated field guide, the first devoted to the tracks...
Orderly Anarchy
Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity...
Chuckwalla Land
The Riddle of California's Desert
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California—its desert, the driest and hottest environment...
El Cinco de Mayo
An American Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American...
States of Delinquency
Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency...
Paradise Transplanted
Migration and the Making of California Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California...
Dying on the Vine
How Phylloxera Transformed Wine
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine’s worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south...
Weed Land
Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, is the...
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Complete Reader's Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children’s books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of violent encounters with Europeans on her home...
by Robert Sommer, Mike Davis, John Menge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
California and the Western States are rich in abundant and diverse species of mushrooms. Amateur mushroom collectors and mycologists alike will find over 300 species of the region’s most common, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms profiled in this comprehensive field guide. It provides...
Agrarian Dreams
The Paradox of Organic Farming in California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental and health problems, but Guthman refutes popular portrayals...
by Sara Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three—Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself—from their first meeting in 1962, through the events...