Collection: University of California Press
-
Millennial monsters
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute charac...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
The quiet hand of god
Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism—a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, at...
Read MoreRegular price $33.95Sale price $33.95 Regular price $33.95Unit price per -
Buddhism in contemporary tibet
Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Luminous passage
In Luminous Passage a well-known Buddhologist and longtime observer of Buddhism in the United States presents the first comprehensive scholarly study of American Buddhism in nearly two decades. Charles S. Prebish revisits the expanding frontier of the fastest growing religion in North America an...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
The 1972 munich olympics and the making of modern germany
The 1972 Munich Olympics—remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team—were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Pales...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Building a better race
Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during...
Read MoreRegular price $30.95Sale price $30.95 Regular price $30.95Unit price per -
A very dangerous citizen
When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled "a very dangerous citizen" by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer, radio and television scriptwriter, film directo...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
The social space of language
This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in...
Read MoreRegular price $85.00Sale price $85.00 Regular price $85.00Unit price per -
Paradise in ashes
Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz—an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatema...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Geology of the sierra nevada
Writing with verve and clarity, Mary Hill tells the story of the magnificent Sierra Nevada—the longest, highest, and most spectacular mountain range in the contiguous United States. Hill takes us from the time before the land which would be California even existed, through the days of roaring vol...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Food and fantasy in early modern japan
How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questio...
Read MoreRegular price $85.00Sale price $85.00 Regular price $85.00Unit price per -
The erotic whitman
In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in propo...
Read MoreRegular price $31.95Sale price $31.95 Regular price $31.95Unit price per -
Is he dead?
The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark T...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Sale price $23.95 Regular price $23.95Unit price per -
American medicine and the public interest
The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. Updated with an extensive new introduction and a new bibliography, Stevens's book chronicles the development of the medical...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Sale price $41.95 Regular price $41.95Unit price per -
Roughing it
Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Rou...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Beyond structural listening?
In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques “structural listening” as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume, prominent young music historians and theorists writing on repertories ranging f...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per
