University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Before Wilde
Sex between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era—changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's...
by Timothy J. Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations...
Menus for Movieland
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors,...
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases...
Hygienic Modernity
Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese...
Fruits of the Cross
Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri*—*sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly...
Trans Kids
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
*Trans Kids *is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...
Blood and Water
The Indus River Basin in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social,...
Pilgrim Stories
On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried....
The Mathers
Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1999
In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers—Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather—in...
Food in Time and Place
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing...
Latinos, Inc.
The Marketing and Making of a People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing...
by Ory Amitay
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus and to...