Collection: University of California Press
-
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 -
Maiden voyage
After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan’s immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the fast-changing globa...
Read MoreRegular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit 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 -
Mercury in the environment
Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing countries. In response to a growing need for understanding the cycling of this ubiquitous pollutant, the science of mercury has grown rapidly to inclu...
Read MoreRegular price $100.00Sale price $100.00 Regular price $100.00Unit price per -
The curious humanist
During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unkn...
Read MoreRegular price $70.00Sale price $70.00 Regular price $70.00Unit 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 -
Making roots
When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integra...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Orderly anarchy
Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social c...
Read MoreRegular price $70.00Sale price $70.00 Regular price $70.00Unit price per -
The final leap
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It’s also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It’s also the only international landmark withou...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit 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 -
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 $70.00Sale price $70.00 Regular price $70.00Unit price per -
Wetland habitats of north america
Wetlands are prominent landscapes throughout North America. The general characteristics of wetlands are controversial, thus there has not been a systematic assessment of different types of wetlands in different parts of North America, or a compendium of the threats to their conservation. Wetland ...
Read MoreRegular price $150.00Sale price $150.00 Regular price $150.00Unit 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 -
American rhone
"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal "This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic, scholarly but accessib...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per
