California Press: 1495 books
by Ory Amitay
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus and to...
Sacred Founders
Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through Early Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Diliana Angelova argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of “sacred founders”—articulated in artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environment—helped legitimize the authority of the emperor and his family. The discourse coalesced around the...
Counting the Dead
The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia,...
Beyond the Vanguard
Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende’s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the...
Harassed
Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric,...
Edge of Empire
Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires....
Lost World of the Golden King
In Search of Ancient Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative...
Governing Systems
Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not...
Big Ecology
The Emergence of Ecosystem Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem—a local biological community and its interactions with its environment—has given...
The Mountains That Remade America
How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose...
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his...
Uruguay, 1968
Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these young-radical movements were inspired by the culture and politics of social movements burgeoning in Europe and the United States, youth activism developed...
Toxic Injustice
A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana...
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Ethnic Classification in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of...