University Of California Press: 1479 books
Holy Harlots
Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure...
by Kay Schiller, Chris Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The 1972 Munich Olympics—remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team—were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians...
Railtown
The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As...
Whitewashed Adobe
The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city—including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the...
Black and Brown in Los Angeles
Beyond Conflict and Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities...
Life in Crisis
The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest...
Metropolis Berlin
1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one...
Nature's Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now...
The Persistence of Sentiment
Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music...
The Maternal Factor
Two Paths to Morality
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously...
Bringing the War Home
The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle...
Counterplay
An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges,...
Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical...
The Untold History of Ramen
How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen has become an international symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly original account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan, George Solt traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor...