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University of California Press The Trial of Madame Caillaux
Book SynopsisA reconstruction of the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a French cabinet minister who murdered one of her husband's enemies - Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette - on the eve of World War I. The study draws a portrait of Belle Epoque politics and cultural mores.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Henriette Caillaux and the Crime of Passion 2. Joseph Caillaux: The Politics of Personality 3. Henriette Caillaux: Femininity, Feminism, and the Real Woman 4. Berthe Gueydan: The Politics of Divorce 5. Judge Albanel: Masculinity, Honor, and the Duel 6. Gaston Calmette: The Power and Venality of the Press Epilogue Notes Index
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University of California Press Unbound Feet A Social History of Chinese Women in
Book SynopsisStarting with the crippling custom of footbinding, this work presents a study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, it shows the stages of 'unbinding' that occurred between the turn of the century and the end of World War II.Table of ContentsTERMINOLOGY AND TRANSLITERATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction I Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century 2 Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929 3 First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s 4 Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s 5 In Step: The War Years, 1931-1945 EPILOGUE APPENDIX NOTES GlOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in
Book SynopsisFeatures the essays that consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Susan Porter Benson Sue Bowden Rachel Bowlby Erica Carter Belinda Davis Victoria de Grazia Ellen Furlough Anna R. Igra Jennifer Jones David Kuchta Avner Offer Kathy Peiss Erika Rappaport Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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University of California Press The Middling Sort Commerce Gender and the Family
Book SynopsisTo be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.
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University of California Press Dangerous Pleasures
Book SynopsisDrawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting PART II • PLEASURES Chapter 3. Rules of the House Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade Chapter 6. Careers PART III • DANGERS Chapter 7. Trafficking Chapter 8. Law and Disorder Chapter g. Disease PART IV• INTERVENTIONS Chapter 10. Reformers Chapter 11. Regulators Chapter 12. Revolutionaries PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS Chapter 13. Naming Chapter 14. Explaining Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia APPENDIX A: TABLES APPENDIX B: POEMS NOTES GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press The Myth of Continents A Critique of
Book SynopsisA re-examination of the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, this work challenges the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. The authors argue that East versus West and First World versus Third World are simplistic and misconceived.Trade Review"The very fact that their work stimulates such questions is a tribute to the authors. In The Myth of Continents, Lewis and Wigen have written an entertaining and informative account of the way our maps show us the world that we want to see." * New York Times *"A solid and useful contribution." * Journal of World History *
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University of California Press The Struggle for the Breeches Gender and the
Book SynopsisLinking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, it contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction PART ONE WOMEN AND MEN IN PLEBEIAN CULTURE 2 Setting the Stage: Work and Family, 1780-1825 3 Men and Women Together and Apart: Plebeian Culture and Communities 4 Plebeian Sexual Morality, 1780-1820 5 The Struggle for the Breeches: Conflict in Plebeian Marriage PART TWO THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS 6 Sin and Salvation: Men, Women, and Faith 7 The Struggle over the Gender Division of Labor, 1780-1826 8 Manhood and Citizenship: Radical Politics, 1767-1816 9 A Wider Vision of Community, 1815-1820 PART THREE DOMESTICITY AND THE MAKING OF THE WORKING CLASS, 1820-1850 10 Sexual Radicalism and the Pressure of Politics 11 Equality or Domesticity: the Dilemma for Labor 12 Chartism: Domesticity and Politics 13 Chartism and the Problem of Women Workers 14 A Difficult Ideal: Domesticity in Popular Culture and Practice 15 Conclusion Appendix on 1841 Glasgow Census Sample Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Loose Change
Book SynopsisAn account of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the 60s. It chronicles the hopes, confusion and disillusionment of a generation whose rites of passage defined one of the most contentious decades of this century.Table of ContentsPrologue I. California Girls (1943-1963) II. Blowing in the Wind (1963-1965) III. Dawning of the Age (1965-1967) IV. Fighting in the Street (1968-1969) V. Busy Being Free (1969-1971) VI. The Day the Music Died (1971-1973) VII. Winterlude (1973-1976)
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University of California Press Stalins Forgotten Zion
Book SynopsisExplores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. This book presents the story of the Soviet Zion. It sheds light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture.
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University of California Press Taste and Power
Book SynopsisThis work explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-17th to the early-20th century. Analyzing furniture makers, sellers, buyers and arbiters, the book reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as economic and social transformations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life PART ONE The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits 1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism 2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church 3· Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power PART TWO From Style to Taste:Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime 4· Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime 5· The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge 6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor PART THREE The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday 7· The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic 8. Style in the New Commercial World 9· After the Culture of Production:The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: EPILOGUE The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer Bibliography General Index Index of Names
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University of California Press Haiti History and the Gods
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University of California Press Spectacular Realities
Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that spectacular realities are part of the foundation of modern mass society.
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University of California Press Framing American Divorce From the Revolutionary
Book SynopsisExploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization. It analyzes the legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them.Trade Review"Anyone who imagines social lament over divorce to be a very recent phenomenon should read Norma Basch's book, which tells a fascinating set of stories about law and about culture in the United States, from the forging of divorce provision in the Revolutionary era to the moral ambiguities and acknowledged hypocrisies it caused a century later. Tacking between the social facts of rising divorce and the alarmed or enthusiastic commentary on it, Framing American Divorce guides us through the social landscape of nineteenth-century America, a tour of shifting hierarchies in which anxieties about increasing personal freedom were as powerful as desires for it." - Nancy Cott, author of The Grounding of Modern Feminism
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University of California Press Chinese American Voices From the Gold Rush to
Book SynopsisDescribed by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and as successful and exemplary, the Chinese in America have rarely been asked to describe themselves in their own words. This title provides an intimate and textured history of the Chinese in America from their arrival during the California Gold Rush to the present.Trade Review"Skillfully selected, translated, and annotated, this compelling compendium of voices bear witness to the diversity and depth of the Chinese American experience and, significantly, its indispensable centrality to American life and history." - Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History "Here at last is a wide-ranging record of Chinese American experiences from the viewpoints of the players. Chinese American Voices is an impressive feat of scholarship, an indispensable reference, and a compelling read." - Ruthanne Lum McCunn, author of Thousand Pieces of Gold and The Moon Pearl "This anthology offers a virtual "Gam Saan" (Gold Mountain) of original sources. The stories burst with telling and re-affirm a vision of men and women as actors in history, who made themselves as Chinese Americans as they helped to make America itself." - Ronald Takaki, author of Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans "This is a superb collection." - Roger Daniels, author of Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882"Table of Contentslist of illustrations preface acknowledgments part i: early chinese immigrants, 1852--1904 Songs of Gold Mountain Wives Norman Asing, To His Excellency Governor Bigler (1852) The Founding of Golden Hills News (1854) Sing Kum, Letter by a Chinese Girl (1876) Documents of the Chinese Six Companies Pertaining to Immigration A Memorial from Representative Chinamen in America (1876) A Memorial to the State of California to Bar Prostitutes (1868) A Letter Writing Campaign to Discourage Immigration (1876) The Second Exhumation and Return of the Remains of Our Departed Friends to the Homeland (1876) Wen Bing Chung, Reminiscences of a Pioneer Student (1923) Wong Hau-hon, Reminiscences of an Old Chinese Railroad Worker (1926) Huang Zunxian, Memorandum No. 29 to Envoy Zheng (1882) Memorial of Chinese Laborers at Rock Springs, Wyoming (1885) Saum Song Bo, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty (1885) Huie Kin, Reminiscences of an Early Chinese Minister (1932) Bow On Guk (Protective Bureau) (1887) Wong Chin Foo, Why Am I a Heathen? (1887) Yan Phou Lee, Why I Am Not a Heathen: A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo (1887) Jee Gam, The Geary Act: From the Standpoint of a Christian Chinese (1892) Elizabeth Wong, Leaves from the Life History of a Chinese Immigrant (1936) Kam Wah Chung Letters (1898--1903) part ii: life under exclusion, 1904--1943 Ng Poon Chew, The Treatment of the Exempt Classes of Chinese in the U.S. (1908) Detention in the Wooden Building (1910) Chin Gee Hee, Letter Asking for Support to Build the Sunning Railroad (1911) Chinese-American Citizens' Alliance, Admission of Wives of American Citizens of Oriental Ancestry (1926) Gong Yuen Tim, "Just plain old luck and good timing:" Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Man (1988) Helen Hong Wong, "I was the only Chinese woman in town:" Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Woman (1982) Pardee Lowe, Second-Generation Dilemmas (1930s) Anna May Wong, I Am Growing More Chinese--Each Passing Year! (1934) Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (1933) Chinese Women's Association Condensed Report for the Years 1932--1936 Happy Lim, Song of Chinese Workers (1938) Lim P. Lee, Chinatown Goes Picketing (1938) Liu Liangmo, Paul Robeson: The People's Singer (1950) Jew Baak Ming, The Founding of McGehee Chinese School (1944) Eddie Fung, "There but for the grace of God go I:" The Story of a POW Survivor in World War II (2202) Gilbert Woo, One Hundred and Seven Chinese (1943) part iii: becoming an integral part of america, 1943--2003 000 Chinese News Service, San Francisco Chinese Papers Blame Immigration Practices in Suicide of Chinese Woman (1948) Eddie Gong, I Want to Marry an American Girl (1955) Hsue-shen Tsien, My Bitter Experience in the United States (1956) Maurice Chuck, Father and Son (1995) Ah Quon McElrath, "We gave workers a sense of dignity:" The Story of a Union Social Worker (1982) Sheila Chin Morris, "All the daddies were Chinese and all the mommies were white:" Growing Up Biracial in Minnesota (2002) Bonnie C. Lew, "I always felt out of place there:" Growing Up Chinese in Mississippi (1998) Johnny Wong, "It was not a winnable war:" Remembering Vietnam (1998) Jeffery Paul Chow, "I am a Chinaman:" An Interview with Frank Chin (1970) L. Ling-chi Wang, Major Education Problems Facing the Chinese Community (1972) On the Normalization of Relations Between China and the U.S. Proclamation by the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco (1971) Gilbert Woo, A Turning Point in Chinatown (1979) Sadie Lum, Asian American Women and Revolution: A Personal View (1983) Shui Mak Ka, "In unity there is strength:" Garment Worker Speaks Out at Union Rally (1982) Kitty Tsui, The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire (1983) Helen Zia, The New Violence (1984) Lily Wang, A Journey of Bitterness (1999) Fu Lee, Immigrant Women Speak Out on Garment Industry Abuse (1993) Jubilee Lau, Chinese and Proud of It (1996) Marilee Chang Lin, Learning to See the Man Himself (1997) Ellen D. Wu, The Best Tofu in the World Comes from ... Indiana? (1998) Binh Ha Hong, Reflections on Becoming American (1999) Chang-Lin Tien, Affirming Affirmative Action (1995) Alethea Yip, Countering Complacency: An Interview with OCA Director Daphne Kwok (1996) "One mile, one hundred years:" Governor Gary Locke's Inaugural Address (1997) Kristie Wang, A Second-Generation Call to Action (1999) Cheuk-Yin Wong, The Los Alamos Incident and Its Effects on Chinese American Scientists (2000) David Ho, "We are Americans:" The Story behind Time Magazine's Man of the Year (2003) chronology of chinese american history chinese glossary bibliography index
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University of California Press Americanizing the Movies and MovieMad Audiences
Book SynopsisAnalyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. This book talks about the history of the film industry, and about the process of imaging a national community.Trade Review"Like all of Richard Abel's previous works, this book is characterized by careful marshalling of data and the exploration of new sources. There is a wealth of extremely important, instructive information, and the book provides an encyclopedic treatment of film exhibition in the early 1910s and the key film genres of the period. This will be an important book for film studies." - Lea Jacobs, University of Wisconsin, Madison"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments "L'Envoi of Moving Pictures," Motion Picture Story Magazine (June 1912) Introduction "Signs of the Times," Motion Picture Story Magazine (February 1912) Chapter 1 : American Variety and/or Foreign Features: The Throes of Film Distribution Document: "The Backbone of the Business," Motography (20 September 1913) "The Power of a Nickel," Motion Picture Story Magazine (March 1912) Entr'acte 1: Mapping the Local Terrain of Exhibition Document: "Moving Pictures and Their Audiences," Moving Picture News (16 September 1911) "My Picture Girl," Motion Picture Story Magazine (June 1912) Chapter 2: The "Usable Past" of Westerns: Cowboy, Cowboy Girl, and Indian Pictures, Part 1 Document: "The 'Bison-101' Headliners," Moving Picture World (27 April 1912) "Bein' Usher in a Motion Picture Show," Motion Picture Story Magazine (June 1912) Entr'acte 2: Moviegoing Habits and Everyday Life Document: "Some Picture Show Audiences," Outlook (24 June 1911) "The Motion Picture Cowboy," Motion Picture Story Magazine (August 1912) Chapter 3: The "Usable Past" of Westerns: Cowboy, Cowboy Girl, and Indian Pictures, Part 2 Document: "Latest Snapshots Local and Worldwide," Cleveland Leader (2 March 1913) "In a Minor Chord," Moving Picture News (25 November 1911) Entr'acte 3: A "Forgotten" Part of the Program: Illustrated Songs Document: "Unique Effects in Song Slides," Film Index (6 May 1911) "A Dixie Mother," Motion Picture Story Magazine (July 1911) Chapter 4 : The "Usable Past" of Civil War Films: The Years of the "Golden Jubilee" Document: "Sundered Ties," Moving Picture World (14 September 1912) Document: "Feature Films: The Battle of Gettysburg," New York Dramatic Mirror (11 June 1913) "He's Seen a Lot," New York Morning Telegraph (8 September 1912) Entr'acte 4: Another "Forgotten" Part of the Program: Nonfiction Document: "Reviews of Special Feature Subjects," New York Dramatic Mirror (24 April 1912) "The Maid of the Movies," New York Morning Telegraph (14 December 1913) Chapter 5: The "Usable Present" of Thrillers: From the Jungle to the City Document: "Advertising and Criticising," Moving Picture World (23 November 1912) "The Photoplayers," Photoplay Magazine (July 1913) Entr'acte 5: Trash Twins: Newspapers and Moving Pictures Document: "Moving Picture Sections," Motography (5 April 1913) "The M.P. Girl," New York Dramatic Mirror (12 June 1912) Chapter 6: "The Power of Personality in Pictures": Movie Stars and "Matinee Girls" Document: "Personality a Force in Pictures," New York Dramatic Mirror (15 January 1913) Document: "{hrs}'Miss Billie Unafraid'--Torn by a Tiger but Nervy as Ever to Act the Most Daring Things Ever Seen on the Stage!--Heroine of Movies," Des Moines News (17 November 1912) Document: "Sees the Movies as Great, New Field for Women Folk," Toledo News-Bee (30 March 1914) Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Crime of My Very Existence
Book SynopsisInvestigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. This book traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on Jewish criminality from the 18th century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews.Trade Review"Making excellent use of rich archival resources, Berkowitz has constructed a tightly argued study... A worthwhile, suggestive investigation that belongs in every library." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Above Suspicion? Facts, Myths, and Lies about Jews and Crime 2. The Construction of "Jewish Criminality" in Nazi Germany 3. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Ghettos 4. Inverting the Innocent and the Criminal in Concentration Camps 5. Re-presenting Zionism as the Apex of Global Conspiracy 6. Lingering Stereotypes and Jewish Displaced Persons 7. Jewish DPs Confronting the Law: Prescriptions, Self-Perceptions, and Pride of Self-Control Epilogue: The Estonia Enigma Notes Index
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University of California Press Uncanny Bodies
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that the coming of sound inspired more in the massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. This book makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends.Trade Review"Rich, insightful book... A poetic and clever analysis, presenting impressive historical scholarship with panache." Choice "Well-researched and persuasive... Uncanny Bodies impressively persuades one to think anew about films." Film Quarterly "Original and stimulating." -- Anneleen Masschelein Image & Narrative "Spadoni's analysis is intriguing." Metro Newspapers "Contributes substantially to the history of film sound as well as the history of classic horror cinema... Lucid, accessible prose." Hist Journal Of Film, Rad, TV "Profoundly original ... Thanks to Robert Spadoni we can now see and hear Dracula and Frankenstein in a fresh light." Music, Sound & The Moving Image "Readers interested in the transition from silent to sound film will find Uncanny Bodies intriguing for its focus specifically on horror films... [He offers a] tight argument and detailed background information on the period." -- Steffen Hantke Film CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. THE UNCANNY BODY OF EARLY SOUND FILM The Shrinking of Personality The Return of the Medium-Sensitive Viewer The Complexion of the Thing Shadows in Three Dimensions A Modality 2. LUDICROUS OBJECTS, TEXTUALIZED RESPONSES Films as Mirrors of Viewer Response The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Two Ventriloquism Films Svengali 3. THE MYSTERY OF DRACULA Real Emotional Horror Kick The Mystery of Dracula? The Vampire's Hiss and the Madman's Laugh 4. DRACULA AS UNCANNY THEATER Figure Ground 5. FRANKENSTEIN AND THE VATS OF HOLLYWOOD Strong Meat and Monster Food Frankenstein and the Uncanny of Early Sound Film Frankenstein and the Uncanny of Silent Film From Modality to Monad Conclusion Notes Bibliography Films Cited Index
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University of California Press Playing Americas Game Baseball Latinos and the
Book SynopsisLatinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. This study on Latinos and professional baseball since the 1880s tells a story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn - passing as 'Spanish' in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues.Trade Review"Fascinating" New York Times "If you want to understand the Latino experience in baseball, read this book." Slate Magazine "The best book yet on the history of Latinos in American baseball." Beyondchron "Burgos does a thorough job of describing this system of skirting the color line, as well as its effects." -- Stephen Ellsesser Mlb.com "Superb and, in many ways, path breaking ... A must-read for any serious fan of baseball." San Francisco Chronicle "Excellent book." -- Dan Brown San Jose Mercury News "Burgos has written a well-conceptualized, prodigiously researched, and cogently argued book." Journal Of American History "An enlightened look at Latino players in baseball and their underappreciated efforts in defeating the sport's 'color line.'" Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Well organized and expertly referenced, this is a book for anyone interested in the history of race in the US, ethnic relations, and, of course, baseball." Choice "Burgos [uses] baseball to provide a more sophisticated and subtle account of the intersections between race and culture in America." -- Braham Dabscheck Labour History "A groundbreaking work." Centro: Journal Of Ctr For Puerto Rican StdTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introductions: Latinos Play America's Game PART ONE: THE RISE OF AMERICA'S GAME AND THE COLOR LINE 1. A National Game Emerges 2. Early Maneuvers 3. Holding the Line PART TWO: LATINOS AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE 4. Baseball Should Follow the Flag 5. "Purest Bars of Castilian Soap" 6. Making Cuban Stars 7. Becoming Cuban Senators 8. Playing the World Jim Crow Made PART THREE: BEYOND INTEGRATION 9. Latinos and Baseball's Integration 10. Troubling the Waters 11. Latinos and Baseball's Global Turn 12. Saying It Is So-sa! Conclusion: Still Playing America's Game Appendix: Pioneering Latinos Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press From Settler to Citizen New Mexican Economic
Book SynopsisAn analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century.
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University of California Press Cartographies of Desire
Book SynopsisA study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history. It explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. It opens with speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality.Trade Review"This is scholarship at its best. Gregory Pflugfelder' s wide-ranging study of male-male sexuality in Japan is brilliantly conceived and scrupulously argued. He shows how cultural constructs shaped the ways in which Japanese have conceptualized male-male sexuality from the Edo period through the early twentieth century. Wisely he takes as his subject discourse about sexuality, not sexual activity. He examines popular, legal, and medical dimensions of this discourse, noting the interaction among these domains and the impact on them of foreign ideas and larger changes in Japanese society." * Monumenta Nipponica *"The book has great merit. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it stands as a foundational piece of scholarship, one that future studies of Japanese sexualities and masculinities will respond to for years come. That, in itself, is a singular accomplishment, and one that is achieved by very few scholars." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Cartographies of Desire is the best book on the topic of nanshoku to date, not only in English, but in any language, and it is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. . . . It combines meticulous research and superb analysis, and is indeed a theoretically nuanced discussion of representations of male-male sexuality that renders justice to the scope and significance of the topic." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Japan's history. Pflugfelder's analysis of discourses on homosexuality in the Edo period (1600-1868) is vastly superior to any we have seen before . . . Pflugfelder offers important insights into the reasons why homosexuality in Japan manifests itself as it does today, with popular culture again providing the major discourse." * Social Science Japan Journal *"A meticulous and brilliantly argued piece of scholarship and should become the definitive work on early-modern Japanese male homosexuality." * Culture, Health & Sexuality *"This book is an extraordinary contribution to the substantial, growing amount of English-language scholarship on the history of homosexuality in Japan. . . . This is an indispensable work, there being nothing comparable even in Japanese, and it will have a major impact on studies of male-male sexuality in global perspective." * American Historical Review *"A landmark book. It deserves reading and rereading, not only for its theoretical sophistication and wealth of historical detail, but also for the clear proof it offers that the study of sexuality has the potential to generate important insights about vast areas of the human past." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction 1. Authorizing Pleasure: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Popular Discourse 2. Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Legal Discourse 3. The Forbidden Chrysanthemum: Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Legal Discourse 4. Toward the Margins: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Popular Discourse 5. Doctoring Love: Male-Male Sexuality In Medical Discourse From the Edo Period Through the Early Twentieth Century 6. Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality In Early Twentieth-Century Popular Discourse Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Japan in Print
Book SynopsisConsiders the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores 2. The Library of Public Information 3. Maps Are Strange 4. Blood Right and Merit 5. The Freedom of the City 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy 7. Nation Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A History of Wine in America From the Beginnings
Book SynopsisThe Vikings called North America 'Vinland', the land of wine. The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of American origins and of American enterprise in microcosm. This title offers a comprehensive account of winemaking in the US, from the Norse discovery of native grapes in 1001 AD, through Prohibition, and up to the present.
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University of California Press Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese
Book SynopsisFeatures a story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians.
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University of California Press California Vieja Culture and Memory in a Modern
Book SynopsisReveals that the origins of Spanish influences in Southern California were not solely rooted in the Spanish colonial period, but arose in the early twentieth century, when Anglo residents recast the days of missions and ranchos as an idyllic golden age of pious padres, placid Indians, dashing caballeros and sultry senoritas.Trade Review"Excellent and well-researched... Enthralling." FolkloreTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Locating the Past 1. Los Dias Pasados: Tales from Nineteenth-Century California 2. The Road: El Camino Real and Mission Nostalgia 3. The Fair: Panama-California Exposition and Regional Ambitions Part Two: Living with the Past 4. The Home: Rancho Santa Fe and Suburban Style 5. The Market: Olvera Street and Urban Space 6. Conclusion: The Trouble with Red-Tile Roofs Notes Index
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University of California Press Shanghai Splendor A Cultural History 18431945 A
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Focusing on Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, this book sketches the rise of a maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Material Turn 2. The State in Commerce 3. Visual Politics and Shanghai Glamour 4. The Clock and the Compound 5. Enlightened Paternalism 6. Petty Urbanites and Tales of Woe 7. From Patriarchs to Capitalists Epilogue: The Return of the Banker Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
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University of California Press The Gastronomica Reader
Book SynopsisOffers a sampling from the pages of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture - including essays, poetry, interviews, memoirs, and a selection of the artwork that has made Gastronomica so distinctive. This book investigates topics from early hominid cooking to Third Reich caterers to the Shiite clergy.Trade Review"A volume to browse and absorb." New York Times "This volume should absorb anyone with an appetite for unconventional food writing." STARRED REVIEW Publishers Weekly "It is easy to get quickly drawn in and once you do, it is difficult to put this book down." -- Andrea Rappaport San Francisco Book Review "Delights in manners ranging from the poetic to the political." Bookforum "The gloriously illustrated Gastronomica reader is a every bit as good as it looks." Times Literary Supplement (TLS)Table of Contents Contents Editor’s Introduction appetites Women Who Eat Dirt | Susan Allport Badlands: Portrait of a Competitive Eater | John O’Connor “Don’t Eat That”: The Erotics of Abstinence in American Christianity | R. Marie Griffith A Shallot | Richard Wilbur the family table Delicacy | Paul Russell The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine | A. Marin One Year and a Day: A Recipe for Gumbo and Mourning | James Nolan The Prize Inside | Toni Mirosevich Messages in a Bottle | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett dinner, 1933 | Charles Bukowski social constructs Otto Horcher, Caterer to the Third Reich | Giles MacDonogh The Cooking Ape: An Interview with Richard Wrangham | Elisabeth Townsend How Caviar Turned Out to Be Halal | H. E. Chehabi “La grande bouffe”: Cooking Shows as Pornography | Andrew Chan Recipe for S&M Marmalade | Judith Pacht the art of food Man Ray’s Electricité | Stefanie Spray Jandl Food + Clothing = | Robert Kushner Vik Muniz’s Ten Ten’s Weed Necklace | Vanessa Silberman Zhan Wang: Urban Landscape | John Stomberg The First Still Life | Lawrence Raab personal journeys Waiting for a Cappuccino: A Brief Layover along the Spice Trail | Carolyn Thériault Include Me Out | Fred Chappell Evacuation Day, or A Foodie Is Bummed Out | Merry White Ripe Peach | Louise Glück how others eat My McDonald’s | Constantin Boym Great Apes as Food | Dale Peterson The Bengali Bonti | Chitrita Banerji The Best “Chink” Food: Dog Eating and the Dilemma of Diversity | Frank H. Wu close to the earth Organic in Mexico: A Conversation with Diana Kennedy | L. Peat O’Neil Mr. Clarence Jones, Carolina Rice Farmer | Jennie Ashlock “GM or Death”: Food and Choice in Zambia | Christopher M. Annear Wine, Place, and Identity in a Changing Climate | Robert Pincus Episode with a Potato | Eric Ormsby technologies A Plea for Culinary Modernism: Why We Should Love New, Fast, Processed Food | Rachel Laudan The Patented Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: Food as Intellectual Property | Anna M. Shih The Clockwork Roasting Jack, or How Technology Entered the Kitchen | Jeanne Schinto Grinding Away the Rust: The Legacy of Iceland’s Herring Oil and Meal Factories | Chris Bogan pleasures of the past A la recherche de la tomate perdue: The First French Tomato Recipe? | Barbara Santich The Egg Cream Racket | Andrew Coe Frightening the Game | Charles Perry Alkermes: “A Liqueur of Prodigious Strength” | Amy Butler Greenfield Food for Thought | Eamon Grennan Acknowledgments Contributors Illustration Credits
£32.40
University of California Press Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Book SynopsisPresents the history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor. This work argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism.Trade Review"Leaves the reader longing to know more, and regretting that the author is no longer here to help us satisfy that wish." Japanese Studies "This is a book not just for Japan specialists, but for anyone interested in a history of cosmopolitism and modern life." Journal Royal Anthro InstTable of ContentsList of Illustrations By Way of a Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. JAPANESE MODERN TIMES Japanese Moddern within Modernity PART II. JAPANESE MODERN SITES 1. The Modern Girl as Militant (Movement on the Streets) 2. The Cafe Waitress Sang the Blues 3. Friends of the Movies (From Ero to Empire) 4. The Household Becomes Modern Life PART III. ASAKUSA--HONKY-TONK TEMPO 1. Asakusa Eroticism 2. Down-and-Out Grotesquerie 3. Modern Nonsense List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
University of California Press Divided by Borders
Book SynopsisProbing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, this title offers an account of the lives of families divided by borders. It shows that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect.Trade Review"Dreby analyzes these themes through a transnational lens. In doing so, she offers new and important insights into the lives of immigrant families." Journal Of Sociology "Offers insightful analysis." Choice "An excellent introduction to immigration, globalization, gender, childhood, immigration policy, and transnational family issues." Journal Of Marriage & Family "An important contribution to immigration scholarship." Social Forces "Provides a compassionate lens for analysing migration, a lens that is frequently missing from conventional discussions of Mexican-American migration." -- Alexandra Shaheen Journal Of Ethnic & Migration Stds "Illuminating... An important addition to both family and migration scholarship." -- Jessica M. Vasquez Du Bois Review & TransitionTable of ContentsPreface: Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Families Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos 1. Sacrifice 2. Ofelia and German Cruz: Migrant Time versus Child Time 3. Gender and Parenting from Afar 4. Armando Lopez on Fatherhood 5. Children and Power during Separation 6. Middlewomen 7. Cindy Rodriguez between Two Worlds 8. Divided by Borders Appendix A: Research Design Appendix B: Family Descriptions Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Cuisine and Empire
Book SynopsisTells the story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines - from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present. This book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.Trade Review"During my forty year culinary career, there have been a select number of books that became touchstones, volumes that seemed to arrive just when inspiration was needed or direction was appropriate, books that somehow enhanced my sense of having found my calling. The newest addition to the list is a work of culinary history by Rachel Laudan." -- Virginia B. Wood The Austin Chronicle, on the range "It seems like every time you hear someone mention processed food, it's accompanied with the words 'bad' or 'unhealthy,' plus a shaking finger. Unless you're author Rachel Laudan." Los Angeles Times Daily Dish "Magnificent ... Some of Laudan's 'diffusion maps' of particular styles of cuisine are miniature masterpieces of cultural history." TLS "Epic in range... Its solidity and substance make a change from the day-to-day scatter of information delivered and consumed in tweets and sound bites." The Daily Spud "A fascinating account of the rise and fall of cuisines... Touching on all parts of the globe, Rachel explores human development through the vastly understated tool of food." Blue Lifestyle Minute "A new standard for global culinary history." Repast "To her impressively thorough research Laudan brings a lifetime that has included practical experience on the farm, in the kitchen, and in the classroom. This means that her exposition is as lucid as it is authoritative. Her bibliography and notes bear witness to her deep learning, and her book, in its scope and originality, gives deserved prominence to a long-neglected theme in world history. It is a triumph, pointing the way to a wholly new kind of historiography that can hold its own with more familiar work on political, economic, social, and intellectual history." -- G. W. Bowersock New York Review of Books "A remarkably detailed, generously illustrated and professionally written nonjudgmental history of the evolution of the world's cuisines ... Laudan enlivens the pages with specifics of familiar and unfamiliar foods." -- Harvey Finkel Massachusetts Beverage Business "Laudan has found not just a new way of telling some familiar stories but a whole new historiographical approach to what is now a copious literature, in a dynamic and exciting book written with the kind of crispness, concision, and eloquence that will make you squirm with delight... A triumphant historical synthesis." The World of Fine Wine "Innovative narrative... Impressively detailed, extraordinarily well-written, deftly organized and presented. Cuisine and Empure: Cooking in World History is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship, remarkably informed and informative." -- Helen Dumont The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mastering Grain Cookery, 20,000--300 B.C.E. 2. The Barley-Wheat Cuisines of the Ancient Empires, 500 B.C.E.--400 C.E. 3. Buddhist Cuisines, 260 B.C.E.--4800 C.E. 4. Islam Transforms the Cuisines of Central and West Asia, 800--1650 C.E. 5. Christianity Transforms the Cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100--1650 C.E. 6. Prelude to Modern Cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650--1840 7. Modern Cuisines: The Expansion of Middling Cuisines, 1810--1920 8. Modern Cuisines: The Globalization of Middling Cuisines, 1920--2000 Notes Bibliography Index
£46.75
University of California Press Music and Politics in San Francisco
Book SynopsisCovers the San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923).Trade Review"Few histories or musicological studies provide as lively and entertaining reading as Music and Politics." San Francisco Classical Voice "A lively and compelling read." Forward "Solidly researched and of interest to a broad audience... Highly recommended." Choice "Solidly researched and of interest to a broad audience... Highly recommended." -- W. K. Kearns Choice "By inviting music into her study as circumscribed by time and place, rather than by style or genre, Miller presents a colorful tapestry of social relations mediated by the civic soundscape." Journal of the Society for American MusicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. The Paris of the West: San Francisco at the Turn of the Century Part One. From the Quake to the Crash 2. The Politics of Class: The San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the Lure of European Culture (1911-1930) 3. The Politics of Race: Chinatown, Forbidden and Alluring Interlude 1: Two Musical Tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown 4. The Politics of Labor: The Union(s), the Clubs and Theaters, and the Predicament of Black Musicians 5. Musical Utopias: Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory 6. Opera: The People's Music or a Diversion for the Rich? Part Two. The Depression and Beyond 7. The Despair of the Depression and the Clash of Race 8. Ultramodernism and Other Contemporary Offerings: Looking West, Challenging the East 9. The Politics of Work: Idealism Confronts Bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project Interlude 2: Highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project: Take Your Choice and Keeton's Concert Spirituals 10. Welcoming the World: San Francisco's Fairs of 1915 and 1939-1940 11. Aftermath Notes References Index
£46.75
University of California Press Teardown
Book SynopsisAfter living in San Francisco for 15 years, the author found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and star of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. This book reminds us that cities are defined by people, not politics or economics.Trade Review"A journalist living in San Francisco decides to move back to decrepit Flint, Mich., where he was born and raised... It matters because: As cities like Flint go, so goes much of the nation. Perfect for: The amateur urbanist who wants to go to Flint without actually having to leave the backyard." -- Alexander Nazaryan Atlantic Wire "A poignant, often funny look at an iconic Rust Belt city struggling to recover." -- Vanessa Bush Booklist "Teardown is a story, readable and affecting, sad and funny, animated by human impulse and the American preoccupation with real estate values ... it is a remarkably intereting read that is likely to resonate with anyone who has ever left home." -- Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat Gazette "Young has written this love poem to his arson-prone, deindustrialized hometown and its impoverished and traumatized citizenry using a snappy yet journalistically skeptical style... Even casual readers who have no experience with Rust Belt cities or real estate investment will find Teardown compelling and worth their attention." -- Jim Schulman Washington Independent Review of Books "Young shines a spotlight on a broken city and the efforts of those desperate to save it, but this is also the story of a man confronting a crisis of identity and finding hope where there seemed to be none." Publishers Weekly "The style of Teardown is Rolling-Stone-style journalism, relatively informal, strongly first person, loosely organized. But there is modern history, too, and wide-ranging inquiry into economics and (especially) politics. The strongest narrative interest, though, springs from Gordon's contacts with Flintites old and new, people doing what he is contemplating." -- Randall Mawer Lost Coast Review "While scholars and urban planners throughout the US and Europe debate strategies for revitalising former industrial cities that are "shrinking", "forgotten" or "failing", Young reminds us that storytelling, including the kind of inconclusive ending we might find in a contemporary novel, sometimes reveals more than the most careful study can. Better yet, a good story shows us why we should care, even if it doesn't provide any solutions." -- Sherry Lee Linkon Times Higher Education "One does not have to be from Flint to appreciate this book." -- Stephen High Middle West ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue: Summer 2009 Part One 1 Pink Houses and Panhandlers 2 Bottom-Feeders 3 Bourgeois Homeowners 4 Virtual Vehicle City 5 Bad Reputation 6 The Road to Prosperity 7 Bar Logic 8 Downward Mobility 9 Black and White 10 The Forest Primeval 11 The Naked Truth 12 The Toughest Job in Politics 13 Urban Homesteaders Part Two 14 Quitters Never Win 15 Burning Down the House 16 Emotional Rescue 17 Get Real 18 Living Large 19 Fading Murals 20 Gun Club 21 Bargaining with God 22 Psycho Killer Part Three 23 Winter Wonderland 24 Home on the Range 25 California Dreamin' 26 Thankless Task 27 Joy to the World Epilogue: Summer 2012 Updates Acknowledgments Notes Sources and Further Reading Index
£22.50
University of California Press Building Home
Book SynopsisIt is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. This biography weaves together three engrossing stories.Trade Review"An impressive biography." -- Robert Bruegmann Wall Street Journal "It's very easy to highly recommend Building Home ... an interesting and uplifting read." -- John Tamny Forbes "At heart, this is about a son surpassing his goal to earn back a family company lost when his father died, but Abrahamson's dense analyses make this study relevant to today's debates about how to fairly regulate the financial marketplace." Publishers Weekly "Despite the nation's now-reluctant familiarity with mortgage finance, it can be a hard topic to warm up to. Reading Building Home, one not only warms to the subject, but also to the argument that big businesses and the government can work together for the public benefit." -- Kim Velsey New York Observer "Enjoyable storytelling." Martin Brower's Oc Report "Ahmanson (who died in 1968) is remembered-if at all-through the cultural institutions he supported: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Music Center. Abrahamson makes a compelling case that Ahmanson ought to be better remembered-positively and negatively-as a man who made much of Los Angeles." -- D. J. Waldie KCET/SoCal Focus blog "[Abrahamson] does an impressive job under difficult circumstances of documenting Ahmanson's life--warts and all... Fascinating reading." -- William G. Hamm ABA Banking JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Father as Mentor 2. Among the Lotus Eaters 3. Undertaker at a Plague 4. The Common Experience 5. Building Home 6. Scaling Up 7. Home and the State 8. Political Economy 9. Big Business 10. The Crest of a New Wave 11. Southland Patrician 12. Influence 13. Short of Domestic Bliss 14. Breakdown of Consensus 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy 16. A New Way of Life 17. A Personal Epic Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Mediterraneans
Book SynopsisA study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region that offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism. It tells the story of countless migrants, travelers, and adventurers who traversed the Mediterranean, changing it forever.Trade Review"Exceptional and magisterial... This book is an embarrassment of riches." American Historical Review "The importance and relevance of this book cannot be underestimated." Reviews In History "The book is replete with fascinating details about life in a multicultural and politically precarious city." Choice "Clancy-Smith is forging new vistas and prospects for future historical research." Journal Of African History "There is little doubt that [this book] will become a standard for historical scholarship about the Maghrib and the Mediterranean." -- Brock Cutler Bltn Of Sch Of Oriental & African Stds "This book may well remain as a cornerstone for future research." -- Adam Mestyan European Review Of History/Revue Europeenne D'histoire "Julia A. Clancy-Smith deserves great credit... Mediterraneans is a work of fundamental importance." -- Christian Windler* Universitat Bern Journal Of Modern History "Clancy-Smith's remarkable monograph sheds light on the myriad facets that makes the area so beguiling." Journal Of Colonial & Colonialism HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Introduction: Peoplings 1. Arrival: Tunis the "Well-Protected" 2. Detours: Migrations in a Mobile World 3. Making a Living: Domestic Service and Other Forms of Employment 4. Making a Living: Petty Commerce, Places of Sociability, and the Down-and-Out 5. Making a Living: The Sea, Contraband, and Other Illicit Activities 6. From Protection to Protectorate: Justice, Order, and Legal Pluralism 7. Muslim Princes and Trans-Mediterranean Missionaries 8. Where Elites Meet: Households, Harim Visits, and Sea Bathing 9. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and a Mediterranean Community of Thought Epilogue: Fetched Up on the Maghrib's Shores Notes Glossary Select Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Beyond the Metropolis
Book SynopsisIn Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute the city took their characteristic modern shape.Trade Review"[A] fascinating and wide-ranging study... An enlightening message." -- Alexander Jacoby The Times Literary Supplement "Young's deeply layered work combining cultural and urban history is a remarkable achievement." American Historical Review "Stimulating... finely argued." -- Lori Watt Journal of Japanese Studies "Through clearly formulated and detaield discussions... [Young's] line of argument takes [her] to the edges of profound and highly contested dynamics in the historiography of twentieth-century Japan... illuminating work..." Pacific Affairs Book Review "Beyond the Metropolis offers the most thought-provoking and consequential treatment of Japanese urbanism in well over a decade." Monumenta NipponicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part One. Contexts Introduction: Urbanism and Japanese Modern 1. World War One and the City Idea Part Two. Geo-Power and Urban-Centrism 2. The Ideology of the Metropolis 3. Colonizing the Country Part Three. Modern Times and the City Idea 4. The Past in the Present 5. The Cult of the New Epilogue: Urbanism and Twentieth-Century Japan Notes Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press Tasting French Terroir
Book SynopsisExplores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution.Trade Review"An academic, meticulously researched, attentive journey through to the very complex roots of the concept of terroir ... If you're looking for a book that will both fascinate you and challenge all your preconceptions about terroir, France and the French, this is it." -- Tamlyn Currin JancisRobinson.com "Of great value to researchers ... Highly recommended." CHOICE connect "Admirable... Thomas Parker has greatly increased our understanding of the intellectual origins of terroir." Council for European Studies "This book can help the French to answer a question they sometimes ask about why other cultures and countries have not adopted the notion of terroir, even those who share with France the reality of terroir products." Review of Agricultural & Environmental Studies "Innovative and revealing... This is a wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, and well-articulated work." H-FranceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity 1. Rabelais's Table and the Poets of the Pleiade 2. The Plantification of People 3. Courtside Purity and the Academie Francaise's Attack on the Earth 4. France's Green Evolution: Terroir's Expulsion from Versailles 5. Saint-Evremond and the Invention of Geographical Connoisseurship 6. Terroir and Nation Building: Boulainvilliers, Du Bos, and the Case of Class 7. The Normalization of Terroir: Paris and the Provinces Conclusion: Terroir and Nation: From Geographic Identity to Psychogeography Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Tasting French Terroir
Book SynopsisExplores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution.Trade Review"An academic, meticulously researched, attentive journey through to the very complex roots of the concept of terroir ... If you're looking for a book that will both fascinate you and challenge all your preconceptions about terroir, France and the French, this is it." -- Tamlyn Currin JancisRobinson.com "Of great value to researchers ... Highly recommended." CHOICE connect "Admirable... Thomas Parker has greatly increased our understanding of the intellectual origins of terroir." Council for European Studies "This book can help the French to answer a question they sometimes ask about why other cultures and countries have not adopted the notion of terroir, even those who share with France the reality of terroir products." Review of Agricultural & Environmental Studies "Innovative and revealing... This is a wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, and well-articulated work." H-FranceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity 1. Rabelais's Table and the Poets of the Pleiade 2. The Plantification of People 3. Courtside Purity and the Academie Francaise's Attack on the Earth 4. France's Green Evolution: Terroir's Expulsion from Versailles 5. Saint-Evremond and the Invention of Geographical Connoisseurship 6. Terroir and Nation Building: Boulainvilliers, Du Bos, and the Case of Class 7. The Normalization of Terroir: Paris and the Provinces Conclusion: Terroir and Nation: From Geographic Identity to Psychogeography Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Untold History of Ramen
Book SynopsisOffers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. This book traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. National Food 1 1. Street Life: Chinese Noodles for Japanese Workers 2. Not an Easy Road: Black Market Ramen and the U.S. Occupation 3. Move On Up: Fuel for Rapid Growth 4. Like It Is, Like It Was: Rebranding Ramen 5. Flavor of the Month: American Ramen and "Cool Japan" Conclusion. Time Will Tell: A Food of Opposition Notes Works Cited Index
£42.50
University of California Press How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a convincing argument that reproductive labor is at the heart of all public conversation and policy over the past several decades. . . . She manages to pull off this extensive examination in just 212 pages, using language that is accessible to those who are new to the material, while also creating crucial new understanding for those who consider themselves informed on gender and politics and/or people who are examining ways to use public policies to create change as part of broader justice movements." * Rewire *"Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs." * Against the Current *"This engaging book covers feminist theory and how it views a divergence of issues since the 1970s. Excellent for collections on feminism, current affairs, and American politics." * Choice *"Briggs concludes dramatically that 'in the US . . . there is no outside to reproductive politics.' Until governments and business pay attention to this, the crises of our time will only deepen—and not just in the US." * Times Higher Education Supplement *“Offers readers a way to understand how neoliberalism’s solutions run absolutely counter to social needs.” * In These Times *"Makes a clear and significant contribution to our understandings of reproductive politics." * Gender and Society *"Briggs handles complex politics clearly and straightforwardly. Her text is well-suited for academics and activists alike." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt? 2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget 3. Offshoring Reproduction 4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality 5. Gay Married, with Children Epilogue: The Subprime Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Distant Strangers
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment.Trade Review"Commands-and deserves to command-the attention of scholars." -- Martin Hewitt American Historical Review "This is a project of great scope and ambition... [Vernon's] book ought to enthuse, stimulate, provoke." Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1 What Is Modernity? 2 A Society of Strangers 3 Governing Strangers 4 Associating with Strangers 5 An Economy of Strangers Conclusion Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Japanese for Sinologists
Book SynopsisFor many years it has been known that scholars of Chinese history and culture must keep abreast of scholarship in Japan, but the great majority have found that to be difficult. Japanese for Sinologists is the first textbook dedicated to helping Sinologists learn to read scholarly Japanese writing on China. It includes essays by eminent scholars, vocabulary lists with romanizations, English translations, grammar notes, and a wealth of general information not easily available anywhere. The reader will be introduced to a wide panoply of famed Sinologists and their writing styles. The first chapters introduce some basic information on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other resources for research on China in Japanese materials, including a list of names and terms from Chinese political, historical, and cultural events. The chapters cover a range of topics and time periods and highlight authors, all well-known Japanese scholars, with an appendix of English translations of all the articles. After completing this book, the user will be able to begin his or her own reading in Japanese Sinology without the extensive apparatus this volume supplies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Translation Tables for Sinologists a. Chinese Historical Eras b. Selected Chinese Place Names c. Historical Proper Nouns (through 1949) 2. Japanese Dictionaries Aimed at Sinologists 3. Oshima Toshikazu, “Qiu Jin” 4. Ono Kazuko, “Introduction: A History of Research on the Donglin Party” 5. Takeuchi Yoshimi, “Issues in Our View of Sun Yat-sen” 67 6. Shimada Kenji, “The Commoner Nature of Culture in the Ming Period” 7. Miyazaki Ichisada, “Was the Jingchu 4 Mirror a Product of the Daifang Commandery?” 8. Yoshikawa Kojiro a. “Du Fu: A Personal Account” b. “First Year of the Xiantian Era” 9. Niida Noboru, “Fengjian and Feudalism in Chinese Society” 265 10. Naito Konan, “Cultural Life in Modern China” Appendix of Translations
£50.15
University of California Press Americas Favorite Holidays
Book SynopsisWas Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? This book reveals answers to questions about each holiday's traditions.Trade Review"This slender book, which is adorned with whimsical drawings of Cupid and Santa Claus, is deceptively thought-provoking. Bruce David Forbes, a professor of religious studies, writes in a style that is more confessional than that of the typical academic... He excels in providing entertaining tidbits... The book is presented as light and entertaining, and Forbes readily delivers on this promise." -- Jennifer Jensen Wallach TLS "After you read all five chapters of 'America's Favorite Holidays' you will not only be more reflective, you will be poised to win the trivia contest at all of your holiday parties this year and beyond." -- Hilary Levey Friedman Providence Journal "This new book by Forbes discusses the particulars of our now widely accepted cultural practices surrounding Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. The nature of folk and cultural traditions is such that we often assume that present-day customs have always been the norm. Forbes presents a genial and ably written corrective to that tendency... This accessible work deserves a wide readership." -- Graham Christian Library Journal "This is a delightful book, full of history presented with a gracious and light touch-in other words, a perfect holiday present... Highly recommended." CHOICE connect "America's Favorite Holidays is an immensely readable book that provides a very engaging history of five widely-celebrated holidays in the United States." -- Samira K. Mehta Reading ReligionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Christmas 2. Valentine's Day 3. Easter 4. Halloween 5. Thanksgiving Afterword Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Loft Jazz
Book SynopsisThe New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. This is a study of this period.Trade Review"[Heller] paints a kaleidoscopic portrait... inherently fascinating." The Wire "Heller - through dozens of interviews and painstaking research that included full access to the ample personal archive of percussionist Juma Sultan, a pivotal figure in the movement - refreshingly moves beyond reductionist notions." Village Voice "Using interviews and archival research, Michael G. Heller examines the scene's rise and eventual fall from historical, pedagogical and sociological perspectives... [He] itemizes what differentiated Loft Jazz from other styles and how its creation, dissemination and demise affected innovative jazz." The New York City Jazz RecordTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives PART ONE: HISTORIES 2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements 3. The Jazz Loft Era PART TWO: TRAJECTORIES 4. Freedom 5. Community 6. Space 7. Archive 8. Aftermaths and Legacies Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Loft Jazz
Book SynopsisThe New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. This book-length study of this period, traces its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination.Trade Review"[Heller] paints a kaleidoscopic portrait... inherently fascinating." The Wire "Heller - through dozens of interviews and painstaking research that included full access to the ample personal archive of percussionist Juma Sultan, a pivotal figure in the movement - refreshingly moves beyond reductionist notions." Village Voice "Using interviews and archival research, Michael G. Heller examines the scene's rise and eventual fall from historical, pedagogical and sociological perspectives... [He] itemizes what differentiated Loft Jazz from other styles and how its creation, dissemination and demise affected innovative jazz." The New York City Jazz RecordTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table 1. Fragmented Memories and Activist Archives PART ONE: HISTORIES 2. Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements 3. The Jazz Loft Era PART TWO: TRAJECTORIES 4. Freedom 5. Community 6. Space 7. Archive 8. Aftermaths and Legacies Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Chicago on the Make
Book SynopsisHeralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling ChicTrade Review"Diamond skillfully weaves together economics, politics, and culture. . . . Wonderful, meticulously researched." * Choice *"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of America's most segregated cities. . . . A wealth of material." * New York Times Book Review *“One of its defining features is that it centers on Chicago’s history of racial conflict, tracing how the city’s transformation into a global metropolis systemically excluded blacks and perpetuated inequality.” * New York Times *"Readers who are unfamiliar with the myriad facets of Chicago politics and development will be richly rewarded by the account presented here." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Diamond stakes out a passionate critique of the political sources of injustice in Chicago, which should frame the debate over the city’s rebirth for some time to come." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 • Capital Order 2 • Black Metropolis 3 • White and Black 4 • Th e Boss and the Black Belt 5 • Civil Rights in the Multiracial City 6 • Violence in the Global City 7 • A City of Two Tales Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Stick to the Skin
Book SynopsisThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and performance artists working in the United States and Britain from 1965 to 2015. The artists featured in this book cut to the heart of hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories to tell stories that stick to the skin and arrive at a new Black lexicon of liberation. Informed by extensive research and invaluable oral testimonies, Celeste-Marie Bernier's remarkable text forcibly asserts the originality and importance of Black artists' work and emphasizes the need to understand Black art as a distinctive category of cultural production. She launches an important intervention into European histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture as well as into debates within African American studies, African diasporic studies, and Black British studies. Artists featured: Larry Achiampong Hurvin Anderson Benny Andrews Rasheed Araeen Jean-Michel Basquiat Zarina Bhimji Sutapa Biswas Frank Bowling Sonia Boyce Vanley Burke Chila Kumari Burman Eddie Chambers Thornton Dial Godfried Donkor Kimathi Donkor Sokari Douglas Camp Melvin Edwards Mary Evans Nicola Frimpong Joy Gregory Bessiey Harvey Mona Hatoum Lubaina Himid Lonnie Holley Gavin Jantjes Claudette Johnson Tam Joseph Roshini Kempadoo Juginder Lamba Hew Locke Steve McQueen Chris Ofili Keith Piper Ingrid Pollard Thomas J. Price Noah Purifoy Faith Ringgold Donald Rodney Betye Saar Joyce J. Scott Yinka Shonibare Gurminder Sikand Marlene Smith Maud Sulter Barbara Walker Kara Walker Carrie Mae Weems Deborah Willis Hank Willis Thomas Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeTrade Review"...[A] welcome new volume . . . . [and] a Herculean effort of naming and contextualizing an array of vital and frequently overlooked practices and methods. Its power as an intellectual project and teaching resource is to work inductively, sidestepping theory and allowing artists’ words to elaborate the specificity of art making as a form of individual exploration and collective intervention." * caa.reviews - College Art Association *". . . a timely contribution to the field of Black diasporic art history. . . . Celeste-Marie Bernier offers respite from seemingly interminable institutional tendencies that continue to limit Black British and African American art to particular curatorial and art-historical jurisdictions. Whereas the former is often expediently defined within the historical parameters of the 1980s, the latter is rarely viewed in relation to other art histories, not least those of the United States. Stick to the Skin challenges these conventions and pathologies, bringing as it does a comparative study of the work of over fifty artists spanning half a century. . . . we can be grateful to Bernier who, as a UK-based academic, has taken it upon herself to produce a very tangible and substantial study on contemporary Black visual arts practice." * Burlington Magazine *"Throughout, Bernier examines how art can dismantle, disrupt and challenge the status quo. It can be a form of radical protest, used to confront racism and white privilege in a world that continues to be threatened by outsiders and “others”. This remarkable book makes very clear how and why this is important, more so today than ever." * Times Higher Ed *Table of ContentsFOREWORD Lubaina Himid PREFACE “WE WILL BE / WHO WE WANT / WHERE WE WANT / WITH WHOM WE WANT” ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION “Inside the Invisible” African American and Black British Artists and Art-Making Traditions 1 “Do Something with It” The Search for a New Critical Language in African American and Black British Art 2 “I’m Always Ready to Die” Memorializing Slavery and Narrativizing Freedom 3 “Lifting, Hanging, Burning” Defiance, Dissidence, and to Destroy Is to Create 4 “Branded, Raped, Beaten” Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness 5 “How to Paint Suffering” Anti-Portraiture, Anti-Product, and Anti-Painting 6 “Enter at Your Own Risk” Artist-as-Trickster-as-Prophet-as-Historianas- Witness-as-Freedom-Fighter-as-Artist 7 “BURIED, HIDDEN, AND DISGUISED” “Storying” in a State of Shock 8 “A FREAK IN THE BLIZZARD OF THE WHITE MAN’S GAZE” Black Absent Presences and Present Absences 9 An “Indelible Mark”? Autobiographies, Archives, and Amnesia 10 “I Was Branded” Spectacularized Histories, Serial Narratives, and Illicit Iconographies 11 “Power to the Powerless” Tracing Black Lives in Protest Portraits, History Paintings, and Radical Installations 12 “Hurting to Death” Struggle, Survival, and Storytelling in Salvaged Objects, Paint, Beads, and Steel CONCLUSION “Survivors of the Diasporic Journey” Past, Present, and Future Artists and Art-Making Traditions NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX
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University of California Press The Scholar Denied
Book SynopsisCalling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, the author uncovers the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a scientific sociology through a variety of methodologies and examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored Du Bois' work.Trade Review"A fascinating study." Publishers Weekly "The story of The Scholar Denied is much bigger than a professional insider's debate about founders; bigger than something that only the History of Sociology Section of the ASA should bother with. It is also bigger than questions about who to include on our syllabi, or what stories we tell of the University of Chicago. It is a wake up call about our own professional doxa. It is a call to be just a little more skeptical about those sociological standpoints that purport universality when are not-and can never be. And it is a call to be just a little more open to those standpoints that get occluded: standpoints which would otherwise lead us to real and valuable insights into the social world, just as did the work of Du Bois... The Scholar Denied is a powerful and persuasive plea to pay attention to those voices that might still be unwittingly relegated to the margins on the grounds of their ostensible particularism or subjectivism. And it is a reminder that the cost of such marginalization is not simply an ethical one, it is an epistemic one. And it is one that sociology cannot afford." -- Julian Go Berkeley Journal of Sociology "Aldon Morris takes a huge step forward in The Scholar Denied by placing Du Bois at the center of the sociological canon... Morris should be congratulated for providing us a mandate to both think differently about and conduct more work on the legacy of this brilliant scholar." -- Alford A. Young, Jr. Contexts "The Scholar Denied should be required reading for students of sociological theory and intellectual history. The book should spur new histories that do more than tack on Du Bois and other marginalized scholars as 'a kind of affirmative action,' but instead give their work its rightful, meaningful place in the canon... While Du Bois's relationship with academic sociology evolved over his nearly seven-decade career, at the end, his commitment to Truth remained. Morris deserves recognition for reminding us of this aspect of Du Bois's legacy, insisting that the discipline of sociology come to terms with its own truths." -- Monica Bell Los Angeles Review of Books "Morris's book The Scholar Denied affords us insight into a historical moment when white audiences-especially within academia-often ignored, rather than sought out, the experiential expertise of black intellectuals. In particular, Morris details how white sociological and public audiences marginalized the scientific contributions of the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois and other black social scientists working at the historically black Atlanta University in the early 1900s." -- Matthew Clair Public Books "Dr. Morris' The Scholar Denied is a raucous and, at times, sobering and maddening romp through a segment of intellectual life of the early 20th century that, even to the modern ears of The Diaspora, frequently sounds all too familiar." -- Black Kos Daily Kos "This well-crafted, meticulously researched, and theoretically serious work will command engagement from the disci- pline writ large... The Scholar Denied takes an enormous and sure-footed stride toward righting a great historic wrong." -- Lawrence D. Bobo The Du Bois Review "Groundbreaking ... A must-read ... the book promises to engender debate and discussion." -- Marshal Zeringue HEPPAS Books "Groundbreaking." -- Hilary Hurd Anyaso Northwestern "Helps rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the discipline." -- Diane Patrick Publishers Weekly "This book thus contributes to the sociology of knowledge, including baleful insight into the racist origins of the very discipline itself... Essential." CHOICE connect "An excellent addition to your library ... Morris has done outstanding work... I like to think that if DuBois were here, he would be proud to see it." -- Donna Davis Seattle Book Mama "Provides a fascinating and challenging introduction to one of the towering intellects of the twentieth century, himself a potent proof against the inherent inferiority of African Americans, an assumption he devoted his life to disproving." -- Christopher N. Breiseth WhoWhatWhy "Magisterial study of WEB Du Bois' impact on sociology" SageTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and the Birth of American Sociology 1. The Rise of Scientific Sociology in America 2. Du Bois, Scientific Sociology, and Race 3. The Du Bois--Atlanta School of Sociology 4. The Conservative Alliance of Washington and Park 5. The Sociology of Black America: Park versus Du Bois 6. Max Weber Meets Du Bois 7. Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School 8. Legacies and Conclusions Notes References Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Living at the Edges of Capitalism
Book SynopsisSince the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. This book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in Russia; Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; and prisoners in long-term isolation since the 1970s.Trade Review"Masterfully written... provides a superb analysis of exile and exilic societies." Anarchist Studies
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University of California Press American Studies
Book SynopsisAmerican Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. Despite being taught in universities around the world, American Studies has resisted developing a coherent methodology for fear of losing the flexibility and freedom to imagine new avenues of thought. But what if these fears are misplaced? Through a fresh look at the origins of the field, this book contends that a shared set of rules can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User's Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field, useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory, and case studies of American Studies in practice.Trade Review"This is a fun book that overwhelmingly proves quite dedicated to serious intellectual inquiry even when it goes for the cute way in to a topic or theme." * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Object of American Studies PART ONE: HISTORIES 1 • History and Historiography 2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes 3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?) PART TWO METHODS 4 • Methods and Methodology 5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit 6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit 7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit 8 • Power: A Th eoretical Toolkit PART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP 9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments 10 • Dispenser: A Case Study Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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