California Press: 1495 books
Why Did They Kill?
Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation...
Ancestral Leaves
A Family Journey through Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese—reveal the human side of...
Religion
Material Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious...
Rifle Reports
A Story of Indonesian Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch...
The Fear of French Negroes
Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical...
Cannabis
Evolution and Ethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks,...
by David R. Schiel, Michael S. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the...
Treatise on Musical Objects
An Essay across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the...
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The Pacific is not only the world’s largest body of water; its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galápagos west of the Americas. The isolation of these islands and the...
Making Japanese Citizens
Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces...
Japan's Total Empire
Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects"...
Race for Empire
Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T....
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur....
The Gods Left First
The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
At the time of Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed,...