University Of California Press: 1479 books
Society of the Dead
Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts...
Lines in the Water
Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters,...
Mosquito Trails
Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches...
A Free Will
Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness...
The Road to 9/11
Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the...
Tibetan Diary
From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2004
In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically Tibetan enclave of Nubri, Childs provides a vivid...
Speaking to History
The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans—even students and specialists of this era—have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History, Paul A. Cohen opens...
Why Busing Failed
Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale,...
The Making of Modern Colombia
A Nation in Spite of Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1993
Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells...
The General’s Slow Retreat
Chile after Pinochet
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In her acclaimed book Soldiers in a Narrow Land, Mary Helen Spooner took us inside the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Carrying Chile’s story up to the present, she now offers this vivid account of how Chile rebuilt its democracy after 17 years of military rule—with the former dictator...
Dignity and Defiance
Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens,...
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael L. Conniff, Susan M. Gauss
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include...
Forgotten Peace
Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society’s attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere’s worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial...
Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab
The Emergence of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This illuminating book reveals the full extent of their...