California Press: 1495 books
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael L. Conniff, Susan M. Gauss
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include...
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...
Forgotten Peace
Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society’s attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere’s worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial...
Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab
The Emergence of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This illuminating book reveals the full extent of their...
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.
Lula of Brazil
The Story So Far
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil—and the world. This compelling work is the first major English-language biography of the metalworker who became president of Latin America's...
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...
Spider Eaters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from...
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...
by Joan Dayan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction...
Grand Canyon For Sale
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research,...
David Brower
The Making of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.
Frequently compared to John Muir, David...