California Press: 1495 books
Catholic Vietnam
A Church from Empire to Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
In this important new study, Charles Keith explores the complex position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into broad and powerful economic and institutional structures, Keith...
The Poems of Hesiod
Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages,...
Colonising Egypt
With a new preface
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1991
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried...
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters...
Some Trouble with Cows
Making Sense of Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1994
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.
Using first-person...
The Social Space of Language
Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2010
This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in...
Liberalism in Empire
An Alternative History
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy...
Margins of the Market
Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we have come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what...
Life and Words
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das...
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American...
Infections and Inequalities
The Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2001
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of...
Reproducing Race
An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public...
Black and Blue
The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially...