University Of California Press: 1479 books
Dangerous Pregnancies
Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two...
Mediterranean Encounters
Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters...
Envisioning Power
Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1999
With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the...
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis *in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached...
The Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool...
Alexander to Actium
The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1990
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few...
City and Empire in the Age of the Successors
Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the...
Ghosts of Futures Past
Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence...
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
Failure of Empire
Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among...
by Salim Tamari
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos,...
Tales of the Ex-Apes
How We Think about Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates...
In Your Eyes a Sandstorm
Ways of Being Palestinian
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Who are the Palestinians? In this compelling book of interviews, Arthur Neslen reaches beyond journalistic clichés to let a wide variety of Palestinians answer the question for themselves. Beginning in the present with Bisan and Abud, two traumatized children from Jenin’s refugee camp, the book’s...