California Press: 1495 books
Prophets and Patriots
Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life. In the wake of the Great Recession and amid rising discontent with government responsiveness to ordinary...
Pedagogy for Religion
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s...
by Edward J. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated...
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries...
Stranger Intimacy
Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought...
Heroes of the Age
Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure...
Playing to Win
Raising Children in a Competitive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess.
Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family...
The Red Sea
In Search of Lost Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world’s most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water...
Waste of a White Skin
The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early twentieth century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation’s study of race in South Africa, the Poor White Study,...
Crowded by Beauty
The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and ’60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, his presence...
Giving to God
Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Giving to God examines the everyday practices of Islamic giving in post-revolutionary Egypt. From foods prepared in Sufi soup kitchens, to meals distributed by pious volunteers in slums, to almsgiving, these acts are ultimately about giving to God by giving to the poor. Surprisingly, many who practice...
Sanitized Sex
Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I
The Old and Middle Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
Reproducing Women
Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She...