University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Daniel O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism’s founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O’Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British...
The Snow Lion and the Dragon
China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict?...
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3
The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950’s. The third volume in Melvyn Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, The Calm before the Storm, examines the critical years of 1955 through 1957. During...
by David Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
First published in 2005, Understanding Jihad unravels the tangled historical, intellectual, and political meanings of jihad within the context of Islamic life. In this revised and expanded second edition, author David Cook has included new material in light of pivotal developments such as the extraordinary...
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
Material Culture of the Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples...
Dear Mark Twain
Letters from His Readers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world—children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates...
Performing Ethnomusicology
Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays...
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2
Selected Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This second volume of Alfred Hitchcock’s reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema contains material long out of print, not easily accessible, and in some cases forgotten or unknown. Edited by Sidney Gottlieb, this new collection of interviews, articles with the great director's byline,...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1966
All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the...
In Search of Lost Meaning
The New Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe’s leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique,...
Downcast Eyes
The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity...
by Myung Mi Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until...
by Robert Creeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing...
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these...