University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Transplant Imaginary
Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for...
The Zero Trimester
Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction—even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy...
by Mark Elmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival work, *Becoming **Religious **in **a **Secular *Age...
Boycott!
The Academy and Justice for Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an...
Between Two Worlds
The Construction of the Ottoman State
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1995
Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious,...
by Steven E. Sidebotham
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500...
America's Lone Star Constitution
How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe...
Greek Gods Abroad
Names, Natures, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting...
From a Trickle to a Torrent
Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents’ motivations...
The Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical...
Encountering Poverty
Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools...
Moral Ambition
Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as...
From Jeremiad to Jihad
Religion, Violence, and America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion...