Collection: University of California Press
-
Assimilating seoul
Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Fluid borders
This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective on the factors affecting the political engagement of a segment of the population that is now the nation's largest minority. Drawing from one hundred in-depth interviews, Lisa Gar...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Unprepared
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Precarious creativity
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglo...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Foreigners and their food
Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Vietnam 1946
Based on multiarchival research conducted over almost three decades, this landmark account tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Stein Tønnesson was one of the first historians to delve into scores of secret French, British, and American political, military, a...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Regulating style
Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. Fashion companies have taken notice, ensuring that international trade agreements include stronge...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The music of tragedy
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestur...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Overthrowing geography
This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of th...
Read MoreRegular price $36.95Sale price $36.95 Regular price $36.95Unit price per -
Hotel mexico
In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the country’s rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement ...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Sal si puedes (escape if you can)
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Card-carrying christians
In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfina...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Taiko boom
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japa...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The history of the church
Eusebius’s groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature. His iconic story of the church’s origins, endurance of persecution, and ultimate triumph—with...
Read MoreRegular price $17.95Sale price $17.95 Regular price $17.95Unit price per -
The age of irreverence
The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called “histories of laughter.” In the first years of the Republic, noveli...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Curried cultures
Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon. Curried Cultures–a wide-ranging collection of essays–explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through ...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per
