Collection: University of California Press
-
Language, nation, race
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Wester...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Man and the word
This fully annotated volume offers the first English translation of the orations of Himerius of Athens, a prominent teacher of rhetoric in the fourth century A.D. Man and the Word contains 79 surviving orations and fragments of orations in the grand tradition of imperial Greek rhetoric. The speec...
Read MoreRegular price $85.00Sale price $85.00 Regular price $85.00Unit price per -
Curtain, gong, steam
In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required ...
Read MoreRegular price $70.00Sale price $70.00 Regular price $70.00Unit price per -
Moral wages
Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research o...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Crystal land
Crystal Land: Artifice in Nabokov's English Novels is an in-depth exploration of Vladimir Nabokov's use of artistry and the theme of art across his English-language novels. The book investigates how Nabokov crafts intricate worlds where fiction mirrors the creative process itself. From playful wo...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
The hudson primer
This succinct book gives an intimate view of the day-to-day functioning of a remarkable river that has figured prominently in history and culture—the Hudson, a main artery connecting New York, America, and the world. Writing for a wide audience, David Strayer distills the large body of scientific...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
From cuba with love
From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the vi...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Tilak and gokhale
Stanley Wolpert’s study reframes India’s independence as the culmination of a long gestation rather than a sudden post-1947 birth, arguing that the intellectual and organizational groundwork for nationalism was laid well before Gandhi and Nehru. Centering on Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Krishna ...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
A prophet has appeared
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. T...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Militarized maternity
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet, few discussions have focused on the U.S. military, where many of the latest policy changes focus on these very issues. Despite the armed...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Identity and territory
Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel—of both the land itself and its shifting frontiers and border...
Read MoreRegular price $95.00Sale price $95.00 Regular price $95.00Unit price per -
Dividing paradise
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying to remake rural America in its own image, and the resistance is telling. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining, fa...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Inventing leonardo
As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.
Regular price $33.95Sale price $33.95 Regular price $33.95Unit price per -
Rifle reports
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutc...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
The fishmeal revolution
Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating one of the world’s most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. When the region’s teeming populations of fish were converted into a key ingredient in animal feed—fishmeal...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Expression and truth
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per
