California Press: 1495 books
A Geography of Digestion
Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical...
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
The Other Side of Assimilation...
Consecrating Science
Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology—a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality together—Lisa H. Sideris offers a searing critique of the movement’s anthropocentric vision of the world. In Consecrating Science, Sideris...
The Seer and the City
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s founder and his dependence on Delphi, the...
The Art of Connection
Risk, Mobility, and the Crafting of Transparency in Coastal Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringing...
Preaching Bondage
John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop. Chris L. de Wet examines the dynamics of enslavement in Chrysostom’s theology, virtue ethics, and biblical interpretation...
by Christopher Ehret
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly...
Email from Ngeti
An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as...
Death in a Church of Life
Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving...
Our Bodies Belong to God
Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformation—including...
More than Night
Film Noir in Its Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more...
Orientalist Aesthetics
Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives,...
The Trouble with Nature
Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...
Inventing Baby Food
Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of...