University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror—World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With The Third Reich Sourcebook, editors Anson Rabinbach and...
Henry Thoreau
A Life of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.
by Sarah Gridley
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley’s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley’s deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including...
The Age of Irreverence
A New History of Laughter in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Republic,...
Berlin Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial...
An Unfinished Republic
Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.
Education for Empire
American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism affect...
The Color Line and the Assembly Line
Managing Race in the Ford Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company’s rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential...
Distant Strangers
How Britain Became Modern
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern?
In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in...
Cinema and Experience
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography...
The Devil behind the Mirror
Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the adjacent...
Global Latin America
Into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside...
I've Got the Light of Freedom
The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.