University Of California Press: 1479 books
Profane
Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning...
Eco-Alchemy
Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking. Yet the spiritual practice of anthroposophy remains unknown...
Grit and Hope
A Year with Five Latino Students and the Program That Helped Them Aim for College
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
*Grit and Hope *tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country’s worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. This year they must keep up their...
by Edward Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture.
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance:...
Incarcerating the Crisis
Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urban poverty, and mass homelessness have also become permanent features of the political economy. These developments are without historical precedent, but...
Immigrant America
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.
Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...
Life Beside Itself
Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the unnatural” came to inscribe certain...
Argentina's Missing Bones
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba,...
The Monster Within
The Hidden Side of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Mixed feelings about motherhood—uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one’s own children—are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light....
Canned
The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship
A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking root, few consumers trusted packaged foods. Americans had just begun to shift away from eating foods that they grew themselves or purchased from...
Following the Leader
Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes...
Finding Women in the State
A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People’s Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices,...