California Press: 1495 books
American Rhone
How Maverick Winemakers Changed the Way Americans Drink
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal **
"This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic,...
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern...
by Sara Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three—Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself—from their first meeting in 1962, through the events...
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left
Radical Activism in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective,...
The Hakka Cookbook
Chinese Soul Food from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple migrations. Beginning in her grandmother’s kitchen in California, Anusasananan travels to her family’s...
Offending Women
Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly...
Building Home
Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation‘s political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary...
by Adam Hochschild
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun...
Searching for Utopia
Universities and Their Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today’s research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the...
The Great Basin
A Natural Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental...
Gardening with a Wild Heart
Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic...
The Self-Help Myth
How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this eye-opening analysis, Erica Kohl-Arenas bores deeply into how these issues play out in California’s Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home...
An Uncommon Friendship
From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village’s Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family...
Los Angeles in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the...