University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Mabiki
Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and...
Tropics of Savagery
The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed...
Hiroshima Traces
Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 1999
Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved...
by Robert Creeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles...
A Bat Man in the Tropics
Chasing El Duende
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world’s leading bat biologists, wonderfully conveys...
Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What...
Metropolis in the Making
Los Angeles in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original...
Ride, Boldly Ride
The Evolution of the American Western
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens. While providing fresh perspectives on landmarks such as Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers,...
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four...
by Jeremy Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the...
The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.
In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot...
Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became...
Sand
The Never-Ending Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense...
Rome and Environs
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with clear maps, drawings, and plans, Rome...