California Press: 1495 books
by Steven E. Sidebotham
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500...
America's Lone Star Constitution
How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe...
Ghosts of Futures Past
Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence...
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
Greek Gods Abroad
Names, Natures, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting...
Failure of Empire
Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among...
by Salim Tamari
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos,...
Tales of the Ex-Apes
How We Think about Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates...
In Your Eyes a Sandstorm
Ways of Being Palestinian
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Who are the Palestinians? In this compelling book of interviews, Arthur Neslen reaches beyond journalistic clichés to let a wide variety of Palestinians answer the question for themselves. Beginning in the present with Bisan and Abud, two traumatized children from Jenin’s refugee camp, the book’s...
by Clifford Ando
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller...
From a Trickle to a Torrent
Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents’ motivations...
The Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical...
On the Road of the Winds
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue...