University Of California Press: 1479 books
Beyond Reason
Wagner contra Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:* Der Ring des Nibelungen*, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate...
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda—a country known...
Partner to the Poor
A Paul Farmer Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.
Earth Sound Earth Signal
Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph...
The War Comes Home
Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, levels...
The Art of Eating Cookbook
Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From his first newsletter, issued in 1986, through today’s beautiful full-color magazine, Edward Behr has offered companionship and creativity to avid culinary enthusiasts, including some of America’s most famous chefs. This book collects the best recipes of the magazine’s past twenty-five years—from...
Dude, You’re a Fag
Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and...
AIDS and Accusation
Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic...
Democratic Insecurities
Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized...
by Getzel M. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen’s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In...
Race Women Internationalists
Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective,...
Dacha Idylls
Living Organically in Russia's Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring...
Why Latin American Nations Fail
Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in the region. With new ideas have come new strategies...