California Press: 1495 books
by Richard Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow...
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally...
Doctrine and Power
Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book,...
Crisis of Empire
Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics—John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor—to determine the Church’s power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion....
When I Wear My Alligator Boots
Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought...
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary...
An Unfinished Republic
Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural...
Seeking Refuge
Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and...
From the Jaws of Victory
The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known...
Living Letters of the Law
Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically...
by Kerwin Lee Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies through the dynamically shifting cultural, political,...
Memory for Forgetfulness
August, Beirut, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged...
Letters from Langston
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.