California Press: 1495 books
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling...
The Darjeeling Distinction
Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule.
In this nuanced ethnography,...
Nimo’s War, Emma’s War
Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq...
Maneuvers
The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones—executives and factory floor workers who make fighter...
Black Elephants in the Room
The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party?
Black...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.
A...
Ties That Bind
The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together...
This City Belongs to You
A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later...
Body of Victim, Body of Warrior
Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history...
Divided Rule
Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881–1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty’s treaties with other European powers, with some of their imperial rivals. This "indirect" form of colonization was intended to prevent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors...
It's Not Like I'm Poor
How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. For many working parents this one check is like hitting the lottery, offering...
Gaza
An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky
"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."
—The Intercept
The...