University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Joy H. Calico
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw—a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre...
1995
The Year the Future Began
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the...
Life along the Silk Road
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a...
Acting in the Night
Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863—with Abraham Lincoln in attendance—to explore this question and illuminate American art,...
The Devil in History
Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth...
The Last Gasp
The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada...
When Abortion Was a Crime
Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1997
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
Surgeon General's Warning
How Politics Crippled the Nation's Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
What does it mean to be the nation's doctor? In this engaging narrative, journalist Mike Stobbe examines the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, emphasizing that it has always been unique within the federal government in its ability to influence public health. But now, in their efforts to provide...
How We Forgot the Cold War
A Historical Journey across America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War...
A Critical History of Early Rome
From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2005
During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and military structure that would be the foundation of their spectacular imperial success. In this comprehensive...
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her...
Violette Nozière
A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely...
German Voices
Memories of Life during Hitler's Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
What was it like to grow up German during Hitler’s Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of age between 1933 and 1945. Tubach sets their recollections and his own memories into a broad historical...