University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
by Mark Traugott
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
"To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott...
Venice Incognito
Masks in the Serene Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison...
by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the "vague cadence" of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of...
The Other Shore
Essays on Writers and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic...
Civic Rites
Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy’s first leaders and...
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between...
The Three Failures of Creationism
Logic, Rhetoric, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is,...
The Curious Humanist
Siegfried Kracauer in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown...
by Richard Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow...
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity
The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally...
Doctrine and Power
Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the fourth century A.D., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Not only was the truth about God at stake, but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book,...
Crisis of Empire
Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics—John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor—to determine the Church’s power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion....
When I Wear My Alligator Boots
Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought...
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary...