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Seven Stories Press,U.S. The Fruit Of All My Grief
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Melville House Publishing Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed:
Book SynopsisIn a world in which we can t trust politicians to save us, this book argues for the crucial importance of new countercultures at the local, national, and global levels.
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Counterpoint Generation Rx
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Responding to Domestic Violence: Emerging
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include: - the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage; - emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and- barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people. By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice.Trade ReviewA particular strength is the breadth of the collection which includes incisive accounts of research processes, training, policy and service development. The book will provide an invaluable resource for all those who work or study in the field of domestic violence. -- Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Part I: The policy framework for responding to domestic violence in Europe. 1. Domestic violence - a rights-based response: Drawing on results from the FRA's violence against women survey - Joanna Goodey, Head of the Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria. 2. Development, coordination and implementation of national strategies for the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland: Lessons learned and unlearned - Philip McCormack, Cosc - The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, Dublin, Ireland. Part II: Children's experiences of domestic violence. 3. Mother-child relationships in the context of intimate partner violence - Zuzana Ocenasova, Coordination and Methodological Centre for Prevention of Violence against Women, Bratislava, Slovakia and Hana Smitkova, Department of Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4. Voice, agency power: A framework for young survivors' participation in national domestic abuse policy-making - Claire Houghton, Researcher and Expert Adviser, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5. Including children and young people in domestic violence research: When myths and misconceptions compromise participation - Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 6. Research on teenage intimate partner violence within a European context: Findings from the literature - Sibel Korkmaz, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden. 7. Fear of double disclosure and other barriers to the help seeking: An intersectional approach to address the needs of LGBT teenagers experiencing teenage relationship abuse -Maria Pentaraki, Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 8. Caring dads, safer children: Using a focus on fathering to respond to domestic violence - Nicola McConnell, Senior Evaluation Officer, NSPCC, United Kingdom, Julie Taylor, Professor of Child Protection, University of Birmingham/ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom and Matt Barnard, Head of Crime, Justice and Communities, NatCen, United Kingdom. Part III: New understandings on domestic abuse and violence. 9. Strength through solidarity: Practitioners and parents resisting child to parent violence and abuse in Ireland - Declan Coogan, Lecturer in Social Work, NUI Galway, Ireland. 10. Digital intimate partner violence and abuse among youth: A systematic review of associated factors - Per Moum Hellevik, PhD Candidate, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway. 11. Human trafficking and gender based violence: From life and limb to hearts and minds - Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Manager, Immigrant Council of Ireland and Gloria Kirwan, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 12. Female genital mutilation: Results from the Portuguese prevalence study - Dalila Cerejo, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICSNOVA- FCSH/NOVA) New University of Lisbon, Portugal. 13. Force marriage in Europe: The case of Belgium - Els Leye, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Belgium. Part IV: Responding to domestic violence and abuse. 14. Models on treatment of intimate partner violence: Gender based and trauma informed work at Alternative to Violence in Norway - Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Clinical Psychologist, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway and Marius Råkil, Director, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway. 15. Healthcare responses to domestic violence: Why and how? - Lucy Potter, Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom and Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 16. Older women's experiences of domestic abuse - Elizabeth Martin, PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Gemma Carney, Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 17. Whose movement is it anyway? Reflections from the field - Davina James-Hanman, Independent Violence Against Women Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal. Conclusion: Progressing the debate on domestic violence in Europe - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Swedenand Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Hidden Cameras: Everything You Need to Know About
Book SynopsisThe complete and authoritative guide to the use of hidden cameras to expose abuse or wrongdoing.Secret filming is no longer the preserve of specialists, professional journalists and private investigators. Drawing on the author's own experience producing undercover documentaries and wearing secret cameras, this book explains covert recording for the general public, including specific advice on the practicalities of using a phone or covert camera to record evidence. It considers the legal and ethical issues and provides vital information for anyone who may use or encounter secret filming, including the people or organisations that might be filmed, regulators, social workers, local government officials and anyone who may encounter it in court. It also looks to the future of covert filming and the implications of technological advances, such as drone cameras.Trade ReviewIn the wrong hands, secret cameras can ruin lives - but they can also prove wrong-doing and do good. BBC Panorama producer Joe Plomin takes the reader through the ethical minefields in this ground-breaking book. -- John Sweeney, BBC reporterJoe Plomin is one of the most thoughtful and dedicated journalists with whom I have had the honour of working. These are qualities that shine through in this book. The stories based on his years of using secret cameras to expose wrongdoing make this a very human exploration of covert filming. It is a master-class not just in how to use the technology, but also in the ethical considerations and careful thinking that should lie behind every decision to switch on a hidden camera. -- Alison Holt, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent, Royal Television Society Specialist Journalist of the Year, 2015 and Winner of the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, 2015No one understands secret filming like Joe Plomin. This book is essential reading for all those trying to hold power to account in the digital age. -- Paul Mason, journalist and broadcasterI recommend that everyone, whether in favour, sympathetic or fundamentally opposed to covert filming, read this enlightening and incredibly human story. Plomin mixes his experiences and stories of his own undercover work with the history of covert investigative journalism from its infancy in 1997 to the present day, referencing the revelation of such injustices as the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 summit protests seven years ago. Importantly, too, he relates the stories of families, so worried about the care of their love ones that they resort to hidden cameras. There is also information for anyone with thoughts of undertaking covert filing about how to ensure it is bout legal and ethical, as well as consideration of where surveillance may be in the future. The book is easy to read, balance, professional and heartfelt. it is a very important contribution to the debate on this emotive subject. -- Lynne Phair, independent consultant nurse * The Journal of Dementia Care *Hidden Cameras is eminently readable and takes you through the history of undercover reporting, what equipment to use, and the ethical and moral issues that are raised when secretly filing vulnerable people and their carers. The section on what to do with footage obtained by secret filming is particularly thought-provoking. Covert filming is always a last resort that families feel they have reached when their concerns about quality of care have not been addressed... This is an excellent book written by someone who has been instrumental in the use of undercover cameras an secret filming. This subject is here to stay, and we need to understand and debate its use. -- Jane Buswell, independent nurse consultant * Nursing Older People *Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How Did We Get Here?: The History of Covert Recording. Undercover Tales: Real Families Doing Secret Filming. 2. 'Proper' Secret Cameras: Secret Filming Using a Covert Camera. Undercover Tales: Eek! Nearly Being Discovered. 3. Using a Phone Camera, Secretly: Covert Recording Using a Mobile or Cellular Telephone. Undercover Tales: Sneaky Phone Filming. 4. Do You Really Have To?: Ethical Dilemmas - Privacy, the Public Interest and Deception. Undercover Tales: Victorian Infiltrations: Heroes and Anti-Heroes. 5. Do People Get in Trouble?: Secret Filming and the Law. Undercover Tales: Whistleblowers: Threats and Fears. 6. What You Don't Realise...: The Challenges That Most Often Surprise People. Undercover Tales: Stories of Physical and Emotional Pain. 7. What Do You Do With It?: What Happens Next, After the Camera is Switched Off. Undercover Tales: Secret Filming in Care Homes. 8. How's It Gonna End?: The Next Generation of Covert Cameras, and the Future of Secret Filming. Undercover Tales: Back to the Future: Old Problems, New Cameras.
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AK Press Nine-tenths Of The Law: Property and Resistance
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AK Press Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the
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AK Press Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from
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AK Press Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the
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Tufnell Press Youth And Work Transitions In Changing Social
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Bookmarks Publications Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Option
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Bookmarks Publications A Very Capitalist Condition: A history and
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Qualitatsmanagement - Qualitatsentwicklung
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Bloomsbury Academic Before Their Crimes
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Disability and Social Justice in Kenya
Book SynopsisPresents the first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today, in light of the country’s longer history of disability and the wide range of local practices and institutions.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface (Kimani Njogu) “Kinga na kinga ndipo moto huwakapo”: Disability in Kenya (Rebecca Monteleone and Nina Berman) From Human Rights to Disability Rights Disability and Social Justice: Persons with Disabilities and the Quest for Inclusion and Constitutional Reforms in Kenya (Patrick “Paddy” Onyango) Access to Justice as a Tool for Social Inclusion: An Overview of Legal Frameworks for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya (Fredrick Collins Omondi) International and Domestic Legal Protection Against Violence for Girls and Women with Disabilities in Kenya (Arlene S. Kanter and Everlyn Milanoi Koiyiet) Disability Activism and Medical Genetics: Shaping the Emerging Landscape (Rebecca Monteleone) Access and Inclusion Claiming our Space: A Political Economy of the Dis-Citizenship of Disabled Kenyans (Theodoto Ressa) Disability and Poverty in Kenya (Samuel Odawo) Anayevaa kiatu, hujua kinapomfinya (The wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches) (Christopher Odinga) Education and the Media Special Needs Education in Kenya: Progress since Independence (Sheilah Mukholi Lutta) Girl Child Network’s Best Practices for Inclusive Education: Access to Education for Learners with Disabilities (Nathaniel Murungi and Collins Ombajo, with Mercy Musomi and Dennis Mutiso) Children with Disabilities in Kenyan Media: Lessons from the Abled Differently Programme (John Ndavula and Jackline Lidubwi) Reconceptualizing Advocacy Work Toward Improving Educational Provisions for Children with Disabilities (Lubna Mazrui and Margaret Murugami) Stigma and Culture Psychosocial-Economic Challenges of Parents of Children with Disabilities and Psychological Well-Being in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya (Prisca Kiptoo-Tarus, William Kurumei, and Stephen Ngososei) Heroin Addiction as Socially Induced Disability (Nina Berman) Changing Cultural Perceptions of Disability through Empowerment of Families and Local Leaders (Cynthia Rose Bauer and Leonard Mbonani, with Jessica Charles) Epilogue
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University of California Press How We Forgot the Cold War
Book SynopsisHours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era is being remembered. The author's journey provides a history of the Cold War, one that turns many conventional notions on their heads. In an engaging travelogue that takes readers to sites such as the life-size recreation of Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie at the Reagan Library, the fallout shelter display at the Smithsonian, and exhibits about Sgt. Elvis, America's most famous Cold War veteran, Wiener discovers that the Cold War isn't being remembered. It's being forgotten. Despite an immense effort, the conservatives' monuments weren't built, their historic sites have few visitors, and many of their museums have now shifted focus to other topics. Proponents of the notion of a heroic Cold War victory failed; the public didn't buy the official story. Lively, readable, and well-informed, this book expands current discussions about memory and history, and raises intriguing questions about popular skepticism toward official ideology.Trade Review“As popular reading, it's got the humor and wit of Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation and James Loewen's Sundown Towns and DJ Waldie's Holy Land. By which I mean it's witty and kinda mean, and exhilarating bad fun.” -- Andrew Tonkovich * Oc Weekly: Orange County News, Arts & Ent *“Wiener’s wit and deft grasp of geopolitics make for one of the season’s most intriguing historical books.” -- Andrew Milner * Philadelphia City Paper *“Who knew the Cold War was funny? Wiener’s adventures in American historical memory are surprisingly lively.” -- Sarah Rothbard * Zocalo Public Square *“A provocative and fascinating new book.” -- Andrew Gumbel * Los Angeles Review Of Books *“A political argument masquerading as a travel yarn. . . . Wiener’s accounts of his trips to nuclear test sites, missile-launching control centers and fallout shelter exhibits contrast the guides’ cheerful patter with the prospect of Armageddon.” -- Joshua Hammer * New York Times Book Review *“A splendid tour de farce of the museums and other memory palaces established largely by the American right in honor of the greatest triumph in human history, the winning of the... oh, remind me, what was it?” * Tomdispatch *"...An account of memory laced with irony and wit..." -- Kevin Temple * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture *"Wiener is a sharp observer." -- Patrick Hagopian * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War Part One. The End 1. Hippie Day at the Reagan Library 2. The Victims of Communism Museum: A Study in Failure Part Two. The Beginning: 1946--1949 3. Getting Started: The Churchill Memorial in Missouri 4. Searching for the Pumpkin Patch: The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark 5. Naming Names, from Laramie to Beverly Hills 6. Secrets on Display: The CIA Museum and the NSA Museum 7. Cold War Cleanup: The Hanford Tour Part Three. The 1950s 8. Test Site Tourism in Nevada 9. Memorial Day in Lakewood and La Jolla: Korean War Monuments of California 10. Code Name "Ethel": The Rosenbergs in the Museums 11. Mound Builders of Missouri: Nuclear Waste at Weldon Spring 12. Cold War Elvis: Sgt. Presley at the General George Patton Museum Part Four. The 1960s and After 13. The Graceland of Cold War Tourism: The Greenbrier Bunker 14. Ike's Emmy: Monuments to the Military-Industrial Complex 15. The Fallout Shelters of North Dakota 16. "It Had to Do with Cuba and Missiles": Thirteen Days in October 17. The Museum of the Missile Gap: Arizona's Titan Missile Memorial 18. The Museum of Detente: The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda Part Five. Alternative Approaches 19. Rocky Flats: Uncovering the Secrets 20. CNN's Cold War: Equal Time for the Russians 21. Harry Truman's Amazing Museum Conclusion: History, Memory, and the Cold War Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Coastal Sage Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save
Book SynopsisThere are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. Coastal Sage chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving executive director of the California Coastal Commission. For nearly three decades, Douglas fought to keep the California coast public, prevent overdevelopment, and safeguard habitat. In doing so, Douglas emerged as a leading figure in the contemporary American environmental movement and influenced public conservation efforts across the country. He coauthored California's foundational laws pertaining to shoreline management and conservation: Proposition 20 and the California Coastal Act. Many of the political battles to save the coast from overdevelopment and secure public access are revealed for the first time in this study of the leader who was at once a visionary, warrior, and coastal sage.Trade Review"A succinct, engaging analysis of the issues that define California coastal preservation." * Environmental History *"Coastal Sage will be of great interest to scholars working on California environmental history and coastal history and, perhaps more importantly, to California environmental activists." * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1 • Few Safe Harbors: Peter M. Douglas’s Formative Years 2 • California’s Coast: Its Origins and Pre-Commission Development 3 • Sea Change: California’s Environmental Surge 4 • Coastal Conservation, Politics, and a New Commission 5 • High Tide: Th e Executive Director Years 6 • Ebb Tide: Th e Receding Years 7 • Footprints in Sand: Peter Douglas’s Legacy Appendix A: A Selected Time Line: California Coastal Conservation and Peter Douglas Appendix B: A Selected List of Peter Douglas’s Accomplishments and Honors Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press From Mission to Microchip A History of the
Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX
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University of California Press From Mission to Microchip A History of the
Book SynopsisThere is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference?Trade Review"[Glass] takes on California's industrial history, the whole beastly golden expanse of it, and tries to figure out what connects the struggles of workers across time and space... [he] has managed to catalogue the most meaningful moments for working people in the biggest state in the union." East Bay Express "Use this book. Read it and teach the young. Our future will be better if you do." -- Bill Morgan California Federation of Teachers "Anyone involved in social justice work sooner or later finds her interests intersect with the labor movement ... There's no better roadmap to this complex animal than Fred's book ... it's inspiring for the work ahead of us now." -- Lincoln Cushing California Studies Association "In this comprehensive look at California workers-their job experiences and living conditions, antagonisms among them and with the powers that be, their leaders and the rank and file, politicians who claimed to speak for them and some who actually did, their unions and allies, and much more-Fred Glass does for [labor] history what Taylor Branch did in his trilogy of the civil rights movement, The King Years. From Mission to Microchip is filled with stories, analysis, history and data. It is a good and important story, well told." Boom CaliforniaTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: WHY CALIFORNIA LABOR HISTORY? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I:BEFORE THE BEGINNING PART II:EARLY DAYS PART III:FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM PART IV:DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR PART V:THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM PART VI:REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR AFTERWORD: A PLACE IN THE SUN LIST OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ACRONYMS BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE SOURCES INDEX
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University of California Press The Tide Was Always High
Book SynopsisIn 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album, and along with it, the cover The Tide Is High originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. With percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran L.A. session musician Alex Acuna and horns and violins that were pure L.A. mariachi by way of Mexico, The Tide Is High demonstrates just one example of the ways in which the music of Los Angeles and Latin America have been intertwined since the birth of the city in the 18th century. The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and analysis from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, the book shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city's culture, from Hollywood film sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Perez Prado and Juan Garcia Esquivel.Trade ReviewBest Latino/Latin American History Books of 2017 * Remezcla *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Tide Was Always High Josh Kun 1. Mexican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles before 1950 John Koegel 2. Rumba Emissaries Alexandra T. Vazquez 3. Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard: Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music Walter Aaron Clark 4. Walt Disney’s Saludos Amigos: Hollywood and the Propaganda of Authenticity Carol A. Hess 5. A Century of Latin Music at the Hollywood Bowl Agustin Gurza 6. Voice of the Xtabay and Bullock’s Wilshire: Hearing Yma Sumac from Southern California Carolina A. Miranda 7. Musical Anthropology: A Conversation with Elisabeth Waldo Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker 8. Esquivel! Hans Ulrich Obrist 9. Listening across Boundaries: Soundings from the Paramount Ballroom and Boyle Heights David F. Garcia 10. Studio Stories: Interviews with Session Musicians Betto Arcos and Josh Kun 11. From Bahianas to the King of Pop . . . : A Speculative History of Brazilian Music into Los Angeles Brian Cross 12. Heroes and Saints Luis Alfaro 13. Staging the Dance of Coalition with Versa-Style and CONTRA-TIEMPO Cindy García 14. Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles: Gender and the Transnational Zapotec Philharmonic Brass Bands Xóchitl C. Chávez 15. Caminos y Canciones en Los Angeles, CA Martha Gonzalez List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Badges without Borders
Book SynopsisFrom the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistanceand how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A smoking gun book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, law and order politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.Trade Review"In his distressing and erudite history, Schrader documents how many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. His argument, which Badges Without Borders persuasively demonstrates, is that the era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state." * Bookforum *"Badges Without Borders helps us to better understand the nature of police power and the dangerous allure of reform." * Punishment & Society *"Shows how the logic of policing and counterinsurgency, as developed in interlinked ways both and home and abroad, were and remain inseparable from racialized logics that see empowerment of non-whites as inherently subversive of the established order." * Small Wars Journal *“This is a meaningful addition to the literature on law, criminology, sociology, political science, and history. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Schrader’s new history of the carceral state is an important resource for scholars, public policy reformers, and political activists alike." * Boston Review *"Badges without Borders makes a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on the carceral state." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Rethinking Race and Policing in Imperial Perspective 2 • Byron Engle and the Rise of Overseas Police Assistance 3 • How Counterinsurgency Became Policing 4 • Bringing Police Assistance Home 5 • Policing and Social Regulation 6 • Riot School 7 • The Imperial Circuit of Tear Gas 8 • Order Maintenance and the Genealogy of SWAT 9 • “The Discriminate Art of Indiscriminate Counter-revolution” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Tiny You A Western History of the AntiAbortion
Book SynopsisCaroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History David J. Weber Prize 2021, Western History Association W. Turrentine Jackson Prize 2021, Western History AssociationTiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states since the 1960sturning to the fetal pins passed around church services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the fetus dolls given to children in schoolshe argues that activists made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.Trade Review"Holland’s work is full of both brand-new insights and sideways confirmation of aspects of the history of reproductive rights that a few experts have previously brought to light. . . . a remarkable study." * California History *"Tiny You is now required reading for those seeking to understand the incremental losses of bodily autonomy in a dying democracy." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1 • Rolling across Party Lines 2 • Imagining Life 3 • Claiming Religion PART TWO 4 • Redefining Women’s Rights 5 • Politicizing the Young 6 • Making Family Values Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Empires Tracks Indigenous Nations Chinese
Book SynopsisEmpire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, ManuKaruka situates the railroad within the violent global histories ofcolonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative,military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains theimperialfoundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisitedinterdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionaryborder policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism.This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how thetranscontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire. Trade Review"Empire’s Tracks comes at a critical juncture, which only compounds its appeal. It is a moment where monopolies breathe new life as seemingly benevolent multinational, e-commerce corporations; when oil pipelines continue to cut through North America despite opposition from Indigenous peoples (amongst others); and when threats of mass deportations emanate from the highest political offices. . . .Karuka’s sincere meditation on the historicity of war, finance and countersovereignty is deeply welcomed as it sensitises readers to the tragically unexceptional reality of the present." * LSE Review of Books *"A timely and provocative book, creating new ideas with which to re-examine the well-worn story of the railroad." * Society & Space *".Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history. Karuka concludes with a meditation on present-day U.S. imperialism and a call for Indigenous, feminist modes of decolonization: an urgent project with deep roots in Indigenous histories, cultures, and economies. Historians would do well to pay close attention." * Western Historical Quarterly *"This is an impressive piece of scholarship. While Karuka’s argument that US imperialism predates 1898 is not new, his sophisticated interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on the historical intersection of capitalism and imperialism. It will prompt readers to think critically about historical interpretation and responsibility, and the future consequences of our exploitative political economy." * Journal of Cultural Economy *"Empire’s Tracks powerfully and effectively portrays how US countersovereignty uses the railroad to stop the unraveling of its own claims to land and space through an unceasing campaign of extirpation and violence. Its contributions to critiques of settler colonialism and racial capitalism are substantial and are sure to be influential in years to come." * Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Challenges existing scholarship and fields of study in profound ways. He transforms what, on its surface, appears to be a national American story into one of international, imperialist, and colonial history by reading contingency against assumed outcomes; decentering national creation myths; and foregrounding alternative Indigenous, Chinese, and other voices. In this, Karuka offers a case study for scholars of diplomatic history or international relations to turn inward to national histories they might otherwise overlook and consider new ways of bringing their expertise to seemingly domestic stories." * H-Net *"This fascinating, sophisticated book on the transcontinental railroad will produce more critical thinking on the part of readers than any railroad history they have ever read. Manu Karuka exposes the pageant of American exploration, expansion, engineering, and entrepreneurship as an imperialist project fueled by disturbing historical processes—Indigenous land expropriation, immigrant labor exploitation, and a “war-finance nexus”—but mythologized for a century thereafter as national destiny and Yankee ingenuity." * Journal of Arizona History *"Empire’s Tracks is impressive in its complexity, ambition, and ability to intertwine multiple processes in nineteenth-century continental history." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Empire’s Tracks serves as an invitation to recontextualize colonial narratives within the silences and erasures inherent in these narratives, uncovering and decolonizing communities of knowledge and relationship through the careful study of archives, rumors, oral histories, literary representations, maps, and collective memories." * Great Plains Quarterly *"Karuka provides an essential critique of U.S. political economy, adding layers to Asian settler colonial history and the Chinese railroad worker narrative." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Karuka’s account refuses the more familiar liberal historiography of American exceptionalism that promises freedom through liberal democracy and progress through capitalist development, and in doing so, the author advances a number of bold arguments." * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1 • The Prose of Countersovereignty 2 • Modes of Relationship 3 • Railroad Colonialism 4 • Lakota 5 • Chinese 6 • Pawnee 7 • Cheyenne 8 • Shareholder Whiteness 9 • Continental Imperialism Epilogue: The Significance of Decolonization in North America Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Braided Waters Environment and Society in
Book SynopsisBraided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resourcesespecially waterin a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern erasa case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.Trade Review"Compellingly argued, theoretically robust, and deeply researched, Braided Waters is an invaluable contribution to the historical literature about Molokai and the Hawaiian Islands in general that deserves a wide readership. Hopefully, it will spark more research into the environmental history of these stunningly beautiful and ecologically ravaged islands." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Braided Waters represents the first deeply researched history of Molokai (or Moloka‘i), whose enigmatic history fully merits the supple treatment Graham gives it." * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000–1778 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange,and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778–1848 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845–1869 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870–1893 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai‘i: Making an American Molokai, 1893–1957 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of “the Most Hawaiian Island” Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£50.15
University of California Press A Nationality of Her Own
Book SynopsisIn 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and immigration policy in the United States during the late Progressive and interwar years, placing the history and impact of derivative citizenship within the broad context of the women's suffrage movement. Making impressive use of primary sources, and utilizing original documents from many leading women's reform organizations, government agencies, Congressional hearings, and federal litigation involving women's naturalization and expatriation, Candice Bredbenner provides a refreshing contemporary feminist perspective on key historical, political, and legal debates relating to citizenship, nationality, political empowerment, and their implications for women's legal status in the United States. This fascinating and well-constructed account contributes profoundly to an important but little-understood aspect of the women's rights movement in twentieth-century America. This title is part of UC Press'sVoices Revivedprogram, which commemorates University of California Press'smissionto seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,Voices Revivedmakes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.This title was originally published in 1999.
£28.90
University of California Press America Becomes Urban
Book SynopsisAmerica's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
£28.90
