California Press: 1495 books
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...
Uncertain Path
A Search for the Future of National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In this provocative walking meditation, writer and former park ranger William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for...
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...
Saints and Citizens
Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts...
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...
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi
A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details...
Sunshine Was Never Enough
Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the...
Haj to Utopia
How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as "mutiny"—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe,...
Rough-Hewn Land
A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million...
Caught Up
Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between “El Valle”...
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...
Women's Empowerment and Global Health
A Twenty-First-Century Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What is women’s empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women’s health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute’s (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has...