University Of California Press: 1479 books
Seeking Refuge
Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and...
From the Jaws of Victory
The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known...
Living Letters of the Law
Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically...
by Kerwin Lee Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies through the dynamically shifting cultural, political,...
Memory for Forgetfulness
August, Beirut, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged...
Letters from Langston
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent...
The History of Terrorism
From Antiquity to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism’s complex history from antiquity to...
The People Want
A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
"The people want . . .": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by the protestors’ demands.
Simplistic interpretations of the uprising...
The Fate of Place
A Philosophical History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers,...
Possessing Nature
Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1994
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature,...
Not Fit for Our Society
Immigration and Nativism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over...
Sister of Wisdom
St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1998
Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the...
What Is Enlightenment?
Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 1996
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which...
Art of Suppression
Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have...