University Of California Press: 1479 books
Ancestral Leaves
A Family Journey through Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese—reveal the human side of...
Cannabis
Evolution and Ethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks,...
Treatise on Musical Objects
An Essay across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the...
Race for Empire
Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T....
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
Between Art and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their...
Late Antique Letter Collections
A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary...
by Pierre Asselin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading...
Archaeology
The Discipline of Things
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage...
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination
Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination*,* Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since producing the first fully computer-animated feature...
The Nature of Race
How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
What do Americans think "race" means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas...
American History Unbound
Asians and Pacific Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding...
While the City Sleeps
A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina’s leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a...
by Seth Brodsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage. Instead one finds Rostropovich playing Bach at Checkpoint Charlie; or Bernstein changing...
Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2000
In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted...