California Press: 1495 books
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
Flavors of Empire
Food and the Making of Thai America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and America’s culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community....
Parting Ways
New Rituals and Celebrations of Life's Passing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Denise Carson contrasts her father’s passing in the 1980s, governed by the structures of institutionalized death, with her mother’s...
A Global History of War
From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective. A Global History of War is one of the first works to focus not on the impact of war on civilizations, but rather on how civilizations impact the art and execution of war. World-renowned...
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
Between Art and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their...
Late Antique Letter Collections
A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary...
After the Massacre
Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an...
Vietnamese Colonial Republican
The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
This volume is a comprehensive study of Vietnam’s greatest and most controversial 20th century writer who died tragically in 1939 at the age of 28. Vu Trong Phung is known for a remarkable collection of politically provocative novels and sensational works of non-fiction reportage that were banned...
by Pierre Asselin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading...
Archaeology
The Discipline of Things
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage...
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination
Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination*,* Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since producing the first fully computer-animated feature...
Critical Landscapes
Art, Space, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and...
The Nature of Race
How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas...
Theater in a Crowded Fire
Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expression,...