California Press: 1495 books
Dangerous Pregnancies
Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two...
by Martha Biondi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed...
The Transplant Imaginary
Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for...
The Zero Trimester
Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction—even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy...
Mediterranean Encounters
Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters...
by Mark Elmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, *Becoming **Religious **in **a **Secular *Age...
Envisioning Power
Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1999
With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the...
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis *in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached...
The Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool...
Alexander to Actium
The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1990
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few...
City and Empire in the Age of the Successors
Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the...
Boycott!
The Academy and Justice for Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an...
Between Two Worlds
The Construction of the Ottoman State
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1995
Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious,...