California Press: 1495 books
Imperial Benevolence
U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, *Imperial Benevolence *shows that American popular culture continuously suppresses awareness...
Genesis of the Salk Institute
The Epic of Its Founders
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Bourgeois crafts an engaging study that draws on her involvement with the Institute and on related archives, interviews, and informal conversations.
The volume discusses the people who...
Shaping the Sierra
Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever-growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III
The Late Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
The New Mediterranean Jewish Table
Old World Recipes for the Modern Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ball soup and knishes, brisket and gefilte fish. But Joyce Goldstein is now expanding...
by Loren Kajikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows...
The Stickup Kids
Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented...
New Orleans Suite
Music and Culture in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory...
by Anne Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and...
The Tide Was Always High
The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with...
Zorba the Buddha
Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931–1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the “sex guru” and the “Rolls Royce guru,”...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally...
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events—Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns—to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today.
With...
Seriously!
Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and...