University Of California Press: 1479 books
Sacred Founders
Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through Early Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Diliana Angelova argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of “sacred founders”—articulated in artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environment—helped legitimize the authority of the emperor and his family. The discourse coalesced around the...
Edge of Empire
Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires....
Lost World of the Golden King
In Search of Ancient Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative...
Governing Systems
Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not...
Big Ecology
The Emergence of Ecosystem Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem—a local biological community and its interactions with its environment—has given...
The Poems of Hesiod
Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried...
Some Trouble with Cows
Making Sense of Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1994
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.
Using first-person...
The Social Space of Language
Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2010
This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in...
Liberalism in Empire
An Alternative History
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy...
Life and Words
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das...
Infections and Inequalities
The Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2001
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of...
Reproducing Race
An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public...
Black and Blue
The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially...