University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding...
Seeking Good Debate
Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In Seeking Good Debate, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale empirical analysis of some of our foremost religion and science debates with in-depth research into what...
Alef Is for Allah
Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, the book examines these materials to investigate concepts such as innocence,...
Black Market Capital
Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history of the Baratillo, the city’s infamous...
Farewell to the God of Plague
Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of Mao’s famous campaign against snail fever. Using newly available archives, Miriam Gross documents how economic, political, and cultural realities led to grassroots resistance. Nonetheless, the campaign...
Black Elephants in the Room
The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party?
Black...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors...
Profit and Passion
Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology...
The Global Turn
Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one’s work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for students and scholars across all areas of the...
States of Disease
Political Environments and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health...
Flawless
Understanding Faults in Wine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A New York Times Best Wine Book of 2018
Flawless is the first book of its kind dedicated to exploring the main causes of faults in wine. From cork taint, to volatile acidity, to off-putting aromas and flavors, all wine connoisseurs have encountered unappealing qualities in a disappointing...
by Michel Laurin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod...
The Trouble with Marriage
Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life...