University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings...
Migrating Tales
The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nuanced...
Trespassers?
Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly...
Epiphanius of Cyprus
A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual...
After Camp
Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on...
Living at the Edges of Capitalism
Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. As capitalism developed, people tried to escape capitalist constraints connected with state control. This powerful book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in...
by Srikanth Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Srikanth Reddy’s second book of poetry probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling...
by Stephen T. Ross Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view...
We Sell Drugs
The Alchemy of US Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied...
Dangerous Games
What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous...
by John Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain—generally, blacks, American Indians, and some Hispanics fare...
Climbin' Jacob's Ladder
The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
This book collects for the first time the black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell and restores one of the great unsung heroes of the civil rights movement to his rightful place in the historical record. Climbin' Jacob's Ladder puts O'Dell's historically significant essays in context and reveals...
by Albie Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery...
Barrio Rising
Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion.
Based...