California Press: 1495 books
Song Loves the Masses
Herder on Music and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he...
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These...
Lorine Niedecker
Collected Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home....
Trans
A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted...
Waste Away
Working and Living with a North American Landfill
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer...
Healing from Hate
How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
By the time Matthias was in seventh grade, he felt he’d better belong to some group, lest he be alone and vulnerable. The punks and anarchists were identifiable by their tattoos and hairstyles and music. But it was the skinheads who captured his imagination. They had great parties, and everyone...
India and Pakistan
Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots...
by Ted Berrigan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates...
Manners and Mischief
Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written...
by Nikhil Pal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis...
Acts of Faith
Explaining the Human Side of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...
The History of Human Rights
From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies...
Ancient Greek Epigrams
Major Poets in Verse Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually encompassed nearly every theme we now associate with lyric poetry in English. Many of the finest are on...
Eating Bitterness
Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China’s urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country’s staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants—including a vegetable vendor,...