University Of California Press: 1479 books
Gypsy Law
Romani Legal Traditions and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2001
Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non-Gypsy...
by Andrew Warnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week’s food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines...
The Chosen Ones
Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by reaching out to other Black men, young and old,...
Foundational Films
Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent films released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational Films explores how the medium became implicated in a larger project to transform Brazil into a modern...
Lost Childhoods
Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible yet deep-seated connection between the...
Manufactured Insecurity
Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after...
by Richard Taruskin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some...
Sophisticated Giant
The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice...
by John Zarobell
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibitions; and the internationalization of the scope...
Hellboy's World
Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality....
Emerson
The Mind on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life...
by Robert Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive...
The Noodle Narratives
The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. The authors examine the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles. By...
Safe Food
The Politics of Food Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately...