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In rome's long shadow
Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from the United States to France. Historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of these modern rep...
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Collateral damage
A riveting account of how the US criminal legal system punishes millions without conviction—asking us to rethink the freedoms we give up for the illusion of safety.Every encounter with the criminal legal system, from a traffic stop to a day in jail, carries a human cost. This cost rests on a frag...
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Afterplace
In this exquisitely crafted ethnography, Charline Kopf examines how and why railway workers in Senegal and Mali care for a suspended railway. Trains rarely run, yet men continue to attend to the everyday practices that keep the railway alive as a social and political space: they sweep floors, rep...
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Signs and meanings
Signs and Meanings explores the range of divinatory techniques that appear in Jewish texts of the Greco-Roman era, from lot oracles and death oracles to human physiognomy and use of the Scriptures. Pushing back against the view of divination as irrational and superstitious, Hanna Tervanotko looks...
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The sonic surrogate
Interrogating the recent proliferation of audio apps, smart speakers, sleep aids, and prenatal sound systems that promise a better life through sound, this book explores how these technologies came to be promoted as a cheap solution for capitalism’s inevitable crisis of reproduction. Marie Thomps...
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Dealing in human flesh
In the wake of World War I, the League of Nations and numerous investigative journalists went undercover to infiltrate sex-trafficking rings, conduct clandestine interviews with men and women participating in the vice trade, and identify the weak links in their operations in order to destroy this...
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Adolescent arrivals
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Unfamiliar with both the English language and the cultural norms of their new host country, immigrant teenagers in the United Sta...
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The world atlas of fermented foods and drinks
A global tour of the fascinating world of fermentation.The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks explores the many ways that people across the world use fermentation to transform their cuisines. Elegantly illustrated with beautiful photos and maps, this book provides a complete guide to 140 f...
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Not tiger moms
Reframing the cultural narrative of Asian American motherhood—through these mothers' own voices and experiences.The high stakes of motherhood today go beyond who qualifies as a good or bad mother, to who belongs and who is other. For Asian American mothers, these judgments have often been shaped ...
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The house that family money built
At both ends of the wealth spectrum, the laws governing credit and debt hardwire patterns of both privilege and poverty. They drive financial extraction by creating a flow of assets from the pockets of low-income families into the bank accounts of high-wealth ones. In short, some families are leg...
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Asylum is unavailable
Between 2014 and 2022, asylum seekers on mainland Greece had to initiate claims by calling the government on Skype, yet their calls were rarely answered. Written in Athens alongside asylum applicants as they called and called without reply, this book uncovers an eight-year human rights abuse that...
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Sugar coated
World-renowned food politics expert Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics. If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly an...
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Ecological demolition
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This book reveals how China’s celebrated green transition is built on the displacement and demolition of rural communities, lands...
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Our lives
Amid a volatile abortion landscape in the United States, Our Lives goes beyond polling and politics to uncover the raw messiness of everyday Americans' abortion attitudes. Drawing on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with a randomly selected, closely representative set of US residents in t...
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Imagination
In less than a century, South Korea has remarkably transformed its image from one of the world's poorest nations to a center of global influence. Not just one but a series of so-called modern miracles transformed the country into an exceptional case of national image-making and image-shifting. In...
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Stabilizing empire
In 2006, the United States Department of Defense for the first time authorized the use of FDA-approved psychiatric medications in the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. This policy change overturned a century of military psychiatry orthodoxy, which priori...
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Imagined environments
Casting light across the US-Mexico borderlands, Carlos Alonso Nugent reveals the region’s “imagined environments”—the frameworks through which its human groups have represented, related to, and resided in their more-than-human worlds. While these imagined environments can feel immersive and even ...
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Ill erotics
The convergence of the fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak, and landmark struggles for reproductive justice has illuminated interconnected health inequities faced by Black women globally. The first book-length ethnographic study to focus on Black girls and women living w...
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Care, kin, crack-up
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How does an environmental crisis become the impetus for a kind of caring that is also intense thinking? Care, Kin, Crack-Up exami...
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Beginning again
Thomas Trezise, a professor of French, was working on a book one morning in southern France when his wife, on a walk in the surrounding countryside, was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. Here Trezise revisits the challenges of supporting a survivor when his own life was forever changed by t...
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Far from the model minority
Far from the Model Minority centers the voices of five undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City and their sending communities in Fuzhou, China. Challenging dominant narratives about Chinese Americans and the model-minority myth, these families have experienced mul...
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Catching air
Catching Air documents the lives of diver fishermen navigating changing marine environments and shifting conservation policies in the Dominican Republic. As nearshore ecologies decline and conservation policies are enacted to protect them, commercial divers follow fish into deeper water, risking ...
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Policed
How policing has fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience.The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by experiences of criminalization and violence at the hands of law enforcement. Marisol LeBrón argues that policing has left an indelible mark on Lati...
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After the flush
Looking beyond current sanitation models in the US to develop new ways of managing human waste as a resource.What happens when you flush the toilet? Where does the waste go?In this engagingly written ethnographic study, Nick Kawa follows the trail of human bodily excrement as it travels through m...
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Preprogrammed
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text...
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From mimesis to myth
From Mimesis to Myth traces the transformation of a Greek account of the life of Cyprian of Carthage into the legendary tale of Cyprian of Antioch as a means of exploring how late antique Christian authors and audiences interpreted the fictional qualities of hagiographic narratives. Through close...
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Bananapocalypse
Existential crises hang over the producers of the world's food. In Bananapocalypse, Alyssa Paredes reveals how many dilemmas facing Big Ag come from self-inflicted wounds. Philippine banana plantations exporting to Japan—a network dubbed “Asia’s banana republic”—unleash chemical drift, food waste...
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Revolution in the sheets
Issues of sexuality were in an uneasy relationship with the working-class politics of the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing organizations throughout much of the twentieth century. Rather than attributing this tension solely to ideological conservatism, Revolution in the Sheets reinterpr...
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Ghosts of bandung
Ghosts of Bandung makes the major new argument that the fates of the Black and Palestinian revolutions were bound together through the rise and fall of a larger Third World political project. Drawing on English and Arabic archives, Derek A. Ide shows how Afro-Arab solidarities shaped and were sha...
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Affect's engine
Affect’s Engine is an immersive ethnography of queer people of color on the social media platform Tumblr during its “peak” years, 2010–2015. Alexander Cho tells the story of Tumblr users and the hurricane of content that they circulated—and that circulated around them. Chronicling a formative tim...
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Queer resistance
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Queer Resistance examines transformations in intimate lives in post-socialist China through the experiences and resistance of LGB...
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Unforgivable
The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders. Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops moving credibly accused priests not simply between parishes but also across international borders. Un...
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The first woman judge
The story of Florence Allen, the first woman judge in the United States, and women’s transformation of the legal system.Florence Allen was the first woman judge many times over—first federal appellate court judge, first elected to a state supreme court, and first shortlisted for the U.S. Supreme ...
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Antiracist curriculum development
Antiracist legal education stands at a crossroads. As law schools confront racial inequities embedded in pedagogy and institutional structures, incremental reform is no longer enough. Developed in collaboration with the Antiracist Development Institute at Penn State Dickinson Law, Antiracist Curr...
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When healing harms
The legal case that changed psychiatry and forced a reckoning within the profession.In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital, expecting world-class care for his severe depression. Instead, he was confined to a locked ward, denied medicat...
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Latter-day pamphlets, part ii
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist’s most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1...
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Animation thinks
Animation Thinks charts a fragmentary history of Chinese animation from the 1920s to the present. Focusing on animation's encounters with other art forms, including photography, painting, calligraphy, and porcelain, Panpan Yang examines contemporary Chinese animation trans-spatially, tracing how ...
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The making of the houston martyrs
Retelling the story of the largest group murder trial in American history—that of the 110 Black soldiers convicted by court-martial in the aftermath of the so-called Houston Riot of 1917—The Making of the Houston Martyrs uncovers the meaning of justice in a time of war. In centering the ambiguiti...
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Ghost animation
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This is the first book in any language to examine the animated works of the Manchukuo Film Association, known as Manying in Chine...
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Bridge to an unseen shore
An audiovisual journey into the visionary heart of New Age musicToday, with Spotify “Relaxation” playlists and 24-hour YouTube ambient streams, New Age music feels ubiquitous and familiar. But its roots are stranger than is commonly known, tracing back to the spiritual exploration of the 1970s, w...
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Broken tropics
Broken Tropics examines contemporary art installations, performances, photography, and street art from three primary sites of compounding vulnerability: Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Guillermina De Ferrari poses two central questions: How does contingency affect our humanness, and what does art m...
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Hit doctors
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors offers a crucial on-the-ground perspective pointing to a humane future.Finding a vein is difficult. As veins collapse and scar over, it becomes almost impossible. For the millions...
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Diversityland
Fort Bend County, Texas, looks like the America we claim to want: a suburb where Black, White, Asian, and Latinx families share cul-de-sacs, schools, and celebrations. Residents trade dishes, honor one another's traditions, and take pride in their community's diversity. Yet beneath this harmony l...
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Sonic infrastructures
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Sonic Infrastructures traces how sound shaped the transregional movement of cinema across the Middle East and South Asia from ...
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India in the persianate age
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultu...
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Living power
Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in the decades leading to the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920. Artists and activists in this period envisioned, and even materialized, new forms of inclusive, modern political citizenship. ...
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Claiming the nation
Time and again, in heated debates over Brazil's political economy and democracy, one disputed concept emerges: nationalism. Claiming the Nation traces the contested history of the nationalist label in twentieth-century Brazil, examining how both progressive and conservative forces invoked nationa...
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A. p. giannini
Perhaps more than any other individual, Amadeo Peter Giannini brought California into the twentieth century. Extending credit to ordinary working people, creating a financial empire through his branch banks, this son of Italian immigrants enabled California to advance faster than any other state ...
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How economics discovered women
Rethinking the economics of gender.In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The result was the rise of gender economics, now a major subfield with powerful data and new methods comparing the econo...
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The chosen race
From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and ...
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