California Press: 1495 books
American History Unbound
Asians and Pacific Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding...
Chianti Classico
The Search for Tuscany's Noblest Wine
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“An important new book on Chianti Classico: Winners of the André Simon 2013 award for their book The World of Sicilian Wine, Nesto and Di Savino have produced the investigative, scholarly and detailed book that Chianti Classico has long deserved. Nesto and Di Savino are brilliant historic investigators....
Among Murderers
Life after Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and...
Crime and Punishment in Istanbul
1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years,...
While the City Sleeps
A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a...
Hoptopia
A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, Hoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late...
Global Outlaws
Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of...
The Railway Journey
The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development...
City of Demons
Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion...
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and...
by Seth Brodsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage. Instead one finds Rostropovich playing Bach at Checkpoint Charlie; or Bernstein changing...
Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2000
In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted...
Contesting Indochina
French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the...
Empire in Waves
A Political History of Surfing
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed...