University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Peter Boag
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying...
Crimes against Nature
Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing,...
LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Nationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many similarities exist between LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender intimate partner violence, research has illuminated a variety of unique aspects of LGBTQ intimate...
Slow Fade to Black
The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell’s richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period,...
by Stephen Rumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on...
by Richard A. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification...
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist
Reading the Hollywood Reds
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held...
Stealing the Show
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period—Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington,...
Houston Bound
Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.* Houston Bound* draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through...
Getting Sociology Right
A Half-Century of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons,...
Serendipity
An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
"Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science."—Jane Lubchenco, Nature
"Estes's refreshing narrative deftly weaves rigorous science with personal reflection to create an absorbing and introspective read that...
by Dr. Mark A. Colwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Shorebirds are model organisms for illustrating the principles of ecology and excellent subjects for research. Their mating systems are as diverse as any avian group, their migrations push the limits of endurance, and their foraging is easily studied in the open habitats of estuaries and freshwater...
Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon
The Memoirs of Bao Luong
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam’s first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just 18, Bao Luong left her village home to join Ho Chi Minh’s Revolutionary Youth League and fight both for national independence and for women’s equality. A year later, she became embroiled...
Chocolate Cities
The Black Map of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But imagine—what if current maps of Black life are wrong? Chocolate Cities offers a refreshing and persuasive rendering...