California Press: 1495 books
AIDS and Accusation
Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic...
Democratic Insecurities
Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized...
by Getzel M. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen’s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...
Blood and Water
The Indus River Basin in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social,...
Race Women Internationalists
Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective,...
Pilgrim Stories
On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried....
The Mathers
Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1999
In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers—Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather—in...
Food in Time and Place
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing...
Dacha Idylls
Living Organically in Russia's Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring...
Latinos, Inc.
The Marketing and Making of a People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing...
Why Latin American Nations Fail
Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in the region. With new ideas have come new strategies...
Gentlemen and Amazons
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate...
Politicking and Emergent Media
US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Presidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory. In Politicking and Emergent Media, distinguished historian Charles Musser looks at four US presidential campaigns during the long 1890s (1888–1900)...