California Press: 1495 books
Encountering Poverty
Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools...
The Nature of the Beasts
Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden....
Moral Ambition
Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as...
From Jeremiad to Jihad
Religion, Violence, and America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion...
Profane
Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning...
Eco-Alchemy
Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking. Yet the spiritual practice of anthroposophy remains unknown...
Traumatic Imprints
Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. *Traumatic Imprints *traces the development of psychiatric...
Hotel Mexico
Dwelling on the '68 Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the country’s rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement...
Songs of Seoul
An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style...
Grit and Hope
A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
*Grit and Hope *tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country’s worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. This year they must keep up their...
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1
Selected Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the...
Wayward Shamans
The Prehistory of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the...
by Edward Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture.
Historians across Borders
Writing American History in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries.
Arguing that historical writing is...