Name: Beyond the Codices
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Edited by Arthur J. O. Anderson Frances Berdan and James Lockhart

Beyond the Codices

$39.95

Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico explores a lesser-known yet rich corpus of Nahuatl texts that reflect the dynamic cultural and social changes experienced by indigenous communities in colonial Mexico. While much of classical Nahuatl scholarship has focused on pre-Columbian legends, annals, and poetry—often presented in elaborately illustrated "codices"—this study turns its attention to everyday records such as wills, land transactions, municipal council minutes, tax records, and petitions. These documents provide a more immediate and practical perspective on post-conquest life, revealing how indigenous communities navigated the colonial system and adapted their traditions to new realities.

The book seeks to make these scattered, unpublished, and linguistically challenging records more accessible by presenting a selection of transcribed, translated, and annotated texts. This "second world" of Nahuatl documentation, though initially daunting due to its standardized and legalistic forms, can be understood more easily once a single model document is mastered. Drawing on key sources such as the Coyoacan papers from Mexico's Archivo General de la Nación and UCLA's McAfee Collection, the authors aim to provide scholars with the tools to unlock this overlooked repository of indigenous colonial history. Their work underscores the importance of these texts in broadening our understanding of the complex interplay between indigenous and colonial cultures.

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 1976.

Bruce Berglund

The Fastest Game in the World

$24.95

The untold story of hockey's deep roots from different regions of the world, and its global, cultural impact.

Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries––between Canada and the United States, across the Atlantic, and among different regions of Europe. It has been a political flashpoint within countries and internationally. And it has given rise to far-reaching cultural changes and firmly held traditions.

The Fastest Game in the World is a global history of a global sport, drawing upon research conducted around the world in a variety of languages. From Canadian prairies to Swiss mountain resorts, Soviet housing blocks to American suburbs, Bruce Berglund takes readers on an international tour, seamlessly weaving in hockey’s local, national, and international trends. Written in a lively style with wide-ranging breadth and attention to telling detail, The Fastest Game in the World will thrill both the lifelong fan and anyone who is curious about how games intertwine with politics, economics, and culture.

Donald Cameron Watt

Too Serious a Business

$39.95

Too Serious a Business reframes the road to 1939 by shifting the spotlight from cabinet rooms to General Staffs. Donald Cameron Watt argues that, unlike 1914—when belligerent militaries hustled civilians toward war—the late-1930s saw the reverse: senior officers across Britain, France, Germany, and Italy warned of disaster, resigned in protest, or quietly conspired to avert catastrophe while civilians pressed forward. From General Beck’s break with Hitler and Vuillemin’s grim air-power assessments to Pariani’s pessimism and the British Chiefs of Staff’s pre-Munich gloom, Watt reconstructs a Europe in which professional soldiers hesitated—even as civil societies slid toward confrontation. Setting the Second World War’s opening phase within what contemporaries felt as a pan-European “civil war,” he traces how interwar paramilitaries, ideological polarizations, and the collapse of shared diplomatic conventions eroded a once-cohesive civitas Europae.

Marrying high politics with institutional and intellectual military history, Watt examines four interlocking questions: how General Staffs related to fractured domestic orders; how well they adapted doctrine to rapid technological change (tanks, aircraft, radio, radar); how they read enemies and threats; and, crucially, what advice they actually gave in the climacteric of 1938–40. The result is a comparative anatomy of armed forces under strain—from strategy papers and war plans to the moral economies of officer corps—set against the failing League order and the eclipse of Europe’s pre-1914 elite networks. Rejecting tidy ideological explanations, Watt’s narrative shows how misaligned strategic assumptions and uneven modernization—rather than simple bellicosity—shaped the march to war and the stunning defeats of 1940. Written with breadth and archival rigor, Too Serious a Business will engage scholars of military and diplomatic history, students of interwar Europe, and readers seeking a bracing account of how institutions built to prevent disaster can become its reluctant midwives.

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 1975.

Frank O. Miller

Minobe Tatsukichi

$49.95

Minobe Tatsukichi and the Evolution of Japanese Constitutionalism examines the life, work, and enduring impact of Minobe Tatsukichi, a pivotal figure in Japanese constitutional theory. While Minobe is often referenced in Western literature, his contributions have frequently been reduced to his association with the "emperor-organ theory" and his brief, dramatic clash with militarist factions during the 1935 Minobe Affair. This book seeks to expand beyond those limited narratives, exploring the depth and complexity of Minobe's scholarship, his influence on the interpretation of the Meiji Constitution, and his role in shaping modern Japanese political thought.

The study provides a detailed analysis of Minobe’s constitutional theories, tracing their implications for both prewar and postwar Japan. It situates Minobe as a key player in the evolution of liberal constitutionalism and its tensions with authoritarianism in Japan's modern era. By reevaluating Minobe's ideas in the context of Japan's political transitions—including the post-1945 constitutional reforms—the book sheds light on his lasting relevance. The narrative also addresses Minobe’s ambivalent position during the Occupation period, where his opposition to constitutional revision under American oversight marked a complex and often misunderstood chapter in his career. Through a comprehensive review of Minobe's writings, theoretical contributions, and historical impact, the book enriches our understanding of Japanese constitutional development and the intellectual currents that have shaped it.

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 1965.

Herman Bengtson Translated by R. I. Frank and Frank D. Gillard

Introduction to Ancient History

$39.95

For two decades Professor Hermann Bengtson's Emfübrung in die alte Geschichte (Munich 1949; ed. 6, Munich 1969) has been the standard introduction for German university students of ancient history. No comparable manual has been available in English.

This translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind. Further, the system of abbreviations has been changed throughout to follow the usage of the Oxford Classical Dictionary and L'année philologique. The most common abbreviations used in ancient studies, as well as those used in this book, have been listed in the appendix.

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 1970.

Edited by Lynn White, Jr.

The Transformation of the Roman World

$49.95

The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon’s Problem after Two Centuries, edited by Lynn White, Jr., revisits one of the most enduring questions in historical scholarship: how to understand the decline and transformation of the Roman Empire. Sparked by Edward Gibbon’s monumental The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, this volume gathers leading historians to reflect on what has changed in two centuries of research, interpretation, and historical consciousness. By juxtaposing what we now know of the late Roman world with Gibbon’s own intellectual framework and with our modern perspectives, the collection creates a dialogue across time about the nature of historical inquiry itself. The essays address the interplay between fact, interpretation, and self-understanding, showing how each generation rewrites the fall of Rome in its own image.

The volume moves across three distinct but interwoven layers: first, a reassessment of what actually occurred in the centuries of Rome’s transformation, illuminated by modern scholarship in archaeology, social history, and late antiquity studies; second, an exploration of Gibbon himself, examining how Enlightenment rationalism, personal temperament, and eighteenth-century assumptions shaped his account; and third, a consideration of the present, reflecting on why contemporary historians perceive the past differently. In combining these vantage points, The Transformation of the Roman World demonstrates that the study of Rome’s decline is not simply an antiquarian pursuit but a mirror through which we see our own intellectual traditions and cultural anxieties. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and readers of Gibbon alike, offering both an updated account of late antiquity and a meditation on history as a discipline of self-discovery.

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 1966.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages

$49.95

Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages explores the complex relationship between orthodoxy and heresy, focusing on the ways in which dissent shaped the religious and intellectual landscape of medieval Europe. The book examines key moments in the early Middle Ages, such as the trial and execution of Ramihrd in 1077, to demonstrate the brutal repression faced by those who deviated from accepted Catholic teachings. By tracing the motivations behind dissent, whether rooted in reform, moral critique, or intellectual independence, the author sheds light on how both heretics and the Church viewed the tensions between right belief and right conduct. Dissenters, despite often facing violent repression, were frequently driven by a deep moral or spiritual commitment, challenging the orthodoxy that sought to maintain control over religious thought and practice. This study offers a historical perspective on how dissent was not only an opposition to Church authority but also an integral part of the medieval intellectual and social fabric.

The book also delves into the different types of dissent that emerged during this period, such as Reformists, Eccentrics, and Catharists, each of whom presented alternative theological or moral viewpoints that threatened the Church’s established doctrines. The term heretic is interrogated within the historical and political context of the time, as dissent was often seen as a moral or social threat rather than purely a theological deviation. By identifying the various movements of dissent and reform, the study connects these figures and their beliefs to broader changes in medieval thought and society, highlighting the ways in which nonconformity both challenged and contributed to the development of Christian doctrine. Through this lens, the book examines the intersection of faith, power, and intellectual inquiry in shaping medieval Christianity, offering insight into the pivotal role that dissent played in the evolution of Western religious and cultural history.

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 1965.

Shankar Nair

Translating Wisdom

$34.95

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia’s past but also its present.

Peter Kenez

Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920

$49.95

The Russian Civil War, a multifaceted struggle between the Bolsheviks and their opponents, offers a profound lens into the dynamics of power, ideology, and societal upheaval. At its core, the war was more than a military contest—it was a political battle for the hearts and minds of a fragmented nation. While the Bolsheviks demonstrated superior political strategy, organization, and adaptability, the Whites floundered due to their inability to construct effective institutions or garner widespread legitimacy. This failure, compounded by their reliance on outdated systems and resistance to political engagement, critically undermined their capacity to govern and mobilize support. Despite the seeming advantages of Allied aid and a pool of experienced administrators, the Whites' internal divisions and lack of cohesive vision rendered their efforts increasingly ineffectual.

This study delves into the political, administrative, and ideological shortcomings of the White movement, particularly in South Russia, as it evolved from initial optimism to ultimate collapse. By examining the policies, social structures, and leadership dynamics within the White territories, the analysis reveals a pattern of disconnection between central authority and local implementation. Through a comparative approach, the book highlights how the Bolsheviks' ability to align their actions with the aspirations of the masses starkly contrasted with the Whites' entrenched elitism and detachment. While military operations and Allied involvement feature as important elements, the primary focus lies on the political dimensions and institutional weaknesses that defined the conflict and determined its outcome. Ultimately, the Whites' defeat underscores the essential interplay of legitimacy, force, and political engagement in shaping the trajectory of civil wars.

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 1977.

Aili Mari Tripp

Changing the Rules

$39.95

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania provides a comprehensive examination of Tanzania's informal economy, highlighting its critical role as both a survival mechanism and a force for political and economic change. Amid the economic crises of the 1980s, Tanzanians increasingly turned to informal activities to bridge the vast gap between formal wages and the cost of living. This shift not only redefined economic participation but also challenged the statist and socialist frameworks that had dominated Tanzania's post-independence policies. The book explores how the informal economy reshaped dependencies, strengthened grassroots initiatives, and exerted pressure on the state to adapt through liberalization and reform.

The study delves into the socio-political dynamics underlying this transformation, from the emergence of new economic practices to the state’s reluctant acknowledgment of these activities. By documenting the interplay between everyday resistance and policy shifts, the book reveals how informal economic strategies undermined restrictive state norms and forced significant institutional changes. Through chapters that analyze household dynamics, gendered economic roles, and shifting state-society relations, the author presents a nuanced picture of how Tanzanians redefined survival and governance. This book is essential for understanding how grassroots economic adaptations can drive systemic transformation in developing nations.

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 1977.

Terrence J. McDonald

The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy

$49.95

The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860–1906 explores the intricate relationship between politics, socioeconomic development, and fiscal policy in a rapidly urbanizing San Francisco. Initially conceived as a social history, this work evolved into a nuanced examination of how municipal fiscal policies were shaped not only by structural socioeconomic forces but also by the strategies and ideologies of political actors. With a focus on municipal expenditures, taxation, and revenue, the book reveals how political culture and competition defined the parameters of fiscal decisions, challenging the assumption that urban public sectors are mere reflections of socioeconomic trends.

Through a combination of quantitative analysis and political history, the book uncovers surprising insights, such as the reluctance of 19th-century San Francisco politicians to expand public services, driven by an ingrained low-tax ethos and electoral strategy. This dynamic changed with the rise of progressive reformers in the 1890s, who reshaped fiscal policy to prioritize public investment. By bridging the "old" political history's focus on personalities and institutions with the "new" social history's structural analysis, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of how fiscal policy both reflected and influenced the city’s transformation during a pivotal era.

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 1986.

Robert A. Huttenback

British Relations with Sind 1799 - 1843

$39.95

British Relations with Sind 1799-1843: An Anatomy of Imperialism explores the complex and evolving dynamics of British policy and intervention in Sind during a critical period of imperial expansion. This meticulously researched volume examines the shifting priorities of the British East India Company, from initial commercial interests to broader geopolitical strategies shaped by fears of invasion and global rivalries. It uncovers the nuanced interactions between British officials and the ruling Talpur dynasty, culminating in the annexation of Sind under Sir Charles Napier—a pivotal event often mythologized in British imperial history.

This work situates the annexation within the broader context of 19th-century British imperialism, interrogating the paradox of territorial expansion despite official opposition to it. Rich with historical detail, it delves into the region's strategic significance, tracing its history as a contested crossroads of invasion and culture. By providing a compelling narrative and analysis of British motivations, strategies, and outcomes, the book offers valuable insights into the anatomy of imperial expansion in South Asia and beyond. Essential reading for scholars of British imperial history and South Asian studies, this book sheds light on a critical episode in the shaping of the modern subcontinent.

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 1962.

Boris Gasparov

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume I

$39.95

This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'—the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the project.

Volume I

Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages

Edited by Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

Volume II

Russian Culture in Modern Times

Edited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno

Volume III

Russian Literature in Modern Times

Edited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

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 1993.

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume I

Compiled by William Matthews

British Diaries

$49.95

William Matthews’ British Diaries 1442–1942: An Annotated Bibliography offers an unparalleled exploration of British diary literature spanning five centuries. This meticulously compiled resource catalogs diaries from diverse perspectives—ranging from monarchs to farmers, scholars to soldiers, and clergy to craftsmen—providing a comprehensive cross-section of British society across eras. With annotations that highlight the unique content and context of each diary, the bibliography serves as an invaluable guide for scholars of history, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies.

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 1950.

Kathryn Norberg

Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600 - 1814

$49.95

Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600–1814 reframes early modern French poor relief as an analytical lens on social structure, culture, and economic change. Rejecting siloed treatments of institutions, attitudes, or “the poor” as separate objects of study, Kathryn Norberg reconstructs the shifting relationship between elites and the indigent at their point of closest contact. Set within a single city of average size and typical trajectories, the book contests the homogenizing “Old Regime” frame by tracing long-run transformations across confessional revival, Enlightenment, and Revolution. Post-Tridentine Catholicism, confraternal activism, and the punitive humanitarianism of the seventeenth century (“seigneurial” charity) give way to eighteenth-century institutional retrenchment and new sensibilities toward poverty—culminating in a politically driven renaissance of relief after 1789. Throughout, Norberg integrates institutional history (hospitals, workhouses, dépôts de mendicité), elite discourse, and popular culture to show how religious imaginaries, economic dislocation, crime, illegitimacy, and mobility interacted to reshape the moral economy of assistance.

Methodologically, the study is notable for its mixed archival and quantitative design. Norberg mobilizes an unusually rich evidentiary base—criminal court dossiers, bread-distribution rolls, registers of beggars and inmates—and, crucially, some 5,000 last wills and testaments. By pairing qualitative readings with statistical tools (including multiple regression and tobit analysis) and converting monetary values to constant livres, she tracks rates and meanings of charitable giving, distinguishes bequests to the poor from gifts to the Church, and gauges the reach of Counter-Reformation devotion and the impact of Enlightenment critiques. Key findings include a late-seventeenth-century surge in almsgiving absent any decline in poverty or crime; an eighteenth-century rise in illegitimacy amid falling violence; and an Enlightenment “modernization” of relief that narrowed rather than expanded aid. For historians of France, social welfare, religion, and the history of quantification, this is a model city study that restores poor relief to the center of debates on culture, inequality, and state formation.

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 1985.

Aldo Ferrer

The Argentine Economy

$39.95

Argentina poses a challenge to economists, economic historians, political scientists, and other concerned with the interrelationship of political and economic forces in developing nations. Although possessed of most of the attributes generally thought necessary for rapid and self-sustaining development, her economy has barely kept up with the population increase, and living standards of large segments of the population have not advanced. The causes of this paradox have never been adequately explained.

Ferrer interprets the economic stagnation of Argentina in historical terms, tracing the evolution of the country's economy through four separate stages, beginning with the colonial era in the sixteenth century. Most attention is given to the period of "nonintegrated industrial economy," from 1930 to the present. According to Ferrer, modern Argentina was formed in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the country was integrated into the world economy as a large producer and exporter of agricultural products. The great influx of immigrants and foreign capital led to a rapid disintegration of the traditional society, which had been composed of isolated regional economies with a low level of economic and social development. The Pampa area, an "open space" that had been largely uninhabited, became the nucleus of the subsequent expansion because of its rich land resources and humid and temperate climate.

The dislocation of the international economy after the world economic crisis of the 1930's and the rigidity of the Argentine agricultural economy, confronted the country with need to industrialize and diversify its economic structure. Some progress has been made along this road, but Ferrer attributes Argentina's postwar difficulties to the lack of proper answers to the problems of an agricultural economy in transition to a modern industrial society.

The author relates economic data to the broader social and political issues. He forsees a definitive confrontation between two social and economic forces: one favoring maintenance of the status quo, the other advocating an enlightened policy of basic industrial growth. The outcome of this confrontation will have a profound impact on the future of Argentina and, indeed, all Latin America.

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 1967.

Herbert R. Southworth

Guernica! Guernica!

$55.00

Guernica! Guernica! A Study of Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda, and History offers a riveting exploration of one of the most infamous events of the Spanish Civil War—the bombing of Guernica on April 26, 1937. Through meticulous research and an incisive critique of historical narratives, Southworth unpacks not only the event itself but also the layers of controversy, propaganda, and misinformation that have surrounded it for decades. His work shines a light on how journalism, political agendas, and historical memory converge to shape our understanding of such tragedies.

Southworth approaches his subject with a passion for uncovering truth amid the fog of war and propaganda. He delves into primary sources, including press dispatches, diplomatic archives, and firsthand accounts, while scrutinizing the mechanisms of censorship and misinformation. The book is structured in two major parts: "The Event," which examines the facts surrounding the destruction of Guernica, and "The Controversy," which traces the enduring debates and manipulations that have kept this tragedy at the forefront of historical and political discourse. As Southworth reveals, Guernica was not just a military event but a symbolic one, reverberating globally as a testament to the horrors of modern warfare and the power of propaganda. This work is a masterful combination of historical scholarship and media analysis, offering profound insights into the complexities of documenting and interpreting history.

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 1977.

Kenneth Bourne

Britain and the Balance of Power in North America 1815-1908

$49.95

Kenneth Bourne’s Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815–1908 offers an incisive analysis of British defense and foreign policy as shaped by the complex dynamics of Anglo-American relations. Rather than a conventional history of diplomatic interactions, this volume explores the strategic considerations and defense planning that underscored British policy towards the United States during periods of tension and transition. Bourne examines how the specter of potential conflict influenced British statesmen and military strategists, focusing on pivotal moments of crisis and the evolving balance of power across the 19th century.

Drawing on extensive archival research, including previously underexplored military and naval documents, Bourne reveals the interconnectedness of British defense priorities with broader imperial policies. The book highlights the shifts in defense strategy brought about by technological advancements, changing geopolitical realities, and the rise of American power. With its rich documentation and thoughtful synthesis, Britain and the Balance of Power in North America is an essential resource for scholars of military history, diplomatic relations, and 19th-century geopolitics. This meticulously crafted study illuminates the enduring complexities of transatlantic relations and their profound impact on British imperial strategy.

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 1967.

Paul Metzner

Crescendo of the Virtuoso

$49.95

During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization.

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 1999.

Edited by Andrew C. Janos and William B. Slottman

Revolution in Perspective

$39.95

Revolution in Perspective: Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, edited by Andrew C. Janos and William B. Slottman, brings together a distinguished group of scholars to reassess one of modern Europe’s most enigmatic revolutions. Arising in the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic lasted just 133 days, yet its legacy continues to spark debate. This collection, the outcome of a landmark Berkeley conference, approaches the 1919 regime not as an isolated Hungarian episode but as part of broader patterns of political collapse, social mobilization, and revolutionary ferment across Central and Eastern Europe. Essays examine the breakdown of oligarchic politics before 1918, the coalition between Socialists and Communists, agrarian dissent, Romania’s and Austria’s reactions, and the movement’s ties to international communism.

By weaving together domestic, regional, and transnational perspectives, the volume illuminates the complexities of coalition politics, the limits of revolutionary legitimacy, and the shifting ideological currents of the European Left. Rather than offering a single interpretation, the essays highlight tensions between local circumstances and global revolutionary aspirations, situating Hungary’s upheaval within the larger story of twentieth-century communism and nation-state formation. Revolution in Perspective thus serves both as a case study in the fragility of post-imperial societies and as a critical intervention in comparative revolutionary history—indispensable for scholars of Eastern Europe, socialism, and the contested legacies of 1919.

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 1971.

Beverley Bowen Moeller

Phil Swing and Boulder Dam

$39.95

Phil Swing and Boulder Dam is an exploration into the legislative and political intricacies surrounding the creation of Hoover Dam, focusing on the contributions of California Congressman Phil Swing. This study sheds light on Swing's pivotal role in advancing the Boulder Canyon Project Act, while also revisiting widely accepted narratives, particularly Herbert Hoover's claimed influence over the legislation. Through meticulous examination of primary sources, including Swing's papers and Hoover's presidential library records, the book uncovers discrepancies in Hoover's memoirs and other historical accounts, highlighting Swing's earnest advocacy for resource conservation and his clashes with Hoover's preference for private-sector control. The research also delves into the broader socio-political climate of the 1920s, such as the Teapot Dome scandal and the rising progressive movement, which shaped public and legislative attitudes toward hydroelectric power and national resource management.

The book contextualizes the Boulder Canyon project within its era, addressing the economic, political, and environmental debates it ignited. It revisits the project's unforeseen outcomes, from its pivotal role in supporting Southern California's war industries during World War II to the subsequent disputes over water allocation between Arizona and California. By tracing the legislation's trajectory and its impact, this study offers a nuanced perspective on the intersection of public policy, conservation, and political maneuvering. For readers interested in the history of American infrastructure, environmental policy, or 20th-century western development, this book provides a compelling addition to the historical discourse, framed by a careful reassessment of the individuals and ideas that brought one of the country's most iconic engineering marvels to life.

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 1971.

Eddy U

Creating the Intellectual

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, "the intellectual" was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profoundly affected patterns of domination, interaction, and rupture within the revolutionary enterprise. Drawing on a wide range of data, Eddy U takes the reader on a journey that examines political discourses, revolutionary strategies, rural activities, urban registrations, workplace arrangements, organized protests, and theater productions. He lays out in colorful detail the formation of new identities, forms of organization, and associations in Chinese society. The outcome is a compelling picture of the mutual constitution of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution, the legacy of which still affects ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and feeling in what is now a globalized China.

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

In the Vortex of Violence

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In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why lynching became a persistent practice during a period otherwise characterized by political stability and decreasing levels of violence. It explores how state formation processes, as well as religion, perceptions of crime, and mythical beliefs, contributed to shaping people’s understanding of lynching as a legitimate form of justice. Extending the history of lynching beyond the United States, this book offers key insights into the cultural, historical, and political reasons behind the violent phenomenon and its continued practice in Latin America today.

Bradford Perkins

Prologue to War

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Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812 offers a fresh and compelling reevaluation of the diplomatic tensions that culminated in the War of 1812. While numerous studies have explored aspects of this conflict, few have synthesized its various causes in a comprehensive manner since the work of Henry Adams. This volume seeks to fill that gap by drawing upon previously untapped manuscript materials, contemporary newspapers, and political pamphlets, with a particular focus on British policy—a dimension often oversimplified in American historiography. The study challenges prevailing interpretations that prioritize rational and material causes, arguing instead that emotion, national pride, and diplomatic missteps played equally decisive roles in shaping U.S.-British relations during this period.

The book positions the War of 1812 within a broader narrative of America's evolving quest for national identity and independence from European influence—an aspiration extending beyond mere recognition of statehood in 1783. By examining this struggle from 1805 to 1812, and ultimately into the postwar years, the study reveals the deep-seated tensions that influenced American foreign policy, from the frustrated ambitions of Jefferson and Madison to the more pragmatic approach of Monroe and John Quincy Adams. With its rigorous scholarship and critical reassessment of Anglo-American relations, Prologue to War offers essential reading for historians and political scholars seeking to understand the complex forces that shaped early U.S. diplomacy and national development.

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 1961.

Anand A. Yang

The Limited Raj

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The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793–1920 offers a detailed exploration of the interplay between colonial governance and local power structures in rural Bihar. Focusing on Saran District, the book examines the British administration's reliance on informal alliances with zamindars, taluqdars, and village notables to maintain control over vast rural populations. This collaborative system of governance, termed the "Limited Raj," highlights the limited penetration of colonial institutions into the countryside, leaving much of the rural population under the influence of entrenched local elites. The author explores how these dual systems of control—colonial authority and zamindari networks—shaped agrarian relations, with peasants caught between the demands of landholders and the policies of an alien state.

Through meticulous archival research, the book investigates the mechanisms of power that sustained both British rule and local dominance, from economic extraction to social and normative control. It sheds light on how colonial policies reinforced existing inequalities, shaping the rural economy and society in profound ways. By situating Saran's experience within broader debates about colonialism's impact, including deindustrialization and the integration of India's economy into global capitalism, the book bridges local history with macroeconomic theories. The Limited Raj is a compelling analysis of colonial governance, providing fresh insights into the lasting legacies of empire in South Asia.

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 1989.

Loren D. Lybarger

Palestinian Chicago

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Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these changes and the multiple effects they have had on identity across religious, political, class, gender, and generational lines. The perspectives that emerge through this rich ethnography challenge prevailing understandings of secularity and religion, offering critical insight into current debates about immigration and national belonging.

Jan Breman

Patronage and Exploitation

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Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India delves into the evolving relationships between landowners and landless laborers in rural India, focusing on the Anavil Brahmans and the Dublas in South Gujarat. Despite significant urbanization, India remains a predominantly agrarian society, yet much of its rural social structure has been overlooked by researchers. Jan Breman bridges this gap by tracing the historical development of agrarian labor systems, particularly the hali system, a form of bonded labor. Through a combination of meticulous fieldwork and historical research, Breman uncovers how these systems have shaped and been reshaped by broader socio-economic changes. By examining the local impact of national trends like the "green revolution," the book sheds light on the resilience of historical inequalities amid modern agricultural transformations.

This richly detailed study is organized chronologically, offering insights into the continuity and shifts in power dynamics between landlords and laborers from the early 19th century to the 1970s. Breman’s work combines sociological analysis with historical depth, drawing on archival sources, personal fieldwork, and interviews conducted across two decades. By integrating themes of caste, labor, and economic development, the book provides a compelling narrative of exploitation and resistance, making it an essential read for those interested in rural India, agrarian studies, and the enduring challenges of social inequality.

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 1974.

Richard Kieckhefer

European Witch Trials

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European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 explores the intricate dynamics of witchcraft accusations and trials during the medieval period, seeking to untangle the roots of these phenomena in both popular and learned cultures. The author critiques the anthropological approach to the European witch trials, noting that while European society differed significantly from non-Western societies, the mechanisms behind witch beliefs and persecutions seem to transcend these cultural distinctions. Despite societal differences, both European and primitive cultures exhibited a fluidity in their understanding of causality, where magical, natural, and religious explanations coexisted without conflict, providing fertile ground for witch accusations.

The book delves into the challenge of discerning the true nature of witch beliefs in early European society, particularly the distinction between learned and popular traditions. Many scholars have proposed various foundations for witch beliefs—some argue that these beliefs were born of learned theological concepts, while others suggest they were rooted in popular folklore or even illicit practices. The author discusses these differing perspectives, offering a framework for distinguishing between sorcery, invocation, and diabolism, the core components of witchcraft, while acknowledging the blurring of these concepts in historical documents. By focusing on the period between 1300 and 1500, the work highlights the geographical regions most affected by witch trials, primarily in England, France, Italy, and Germany, offering a nuanced exploration of how these trials were influenced by societal anxieties and cultural tensions of the late medieval period.

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 1976.

Karl-Eugen Wädekin, Edited by George Karcz, Translated by Keith Bush

The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture

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The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wadekin provides a deep and meticulous analysis of a paradox within the Soviet economic system: the enduring role of private agricultural production in a system ostensibly built on complete collectivization. Through extensive research, Wadekin illustrates the complexities, contradictions, and shifting policies that have shaped the uneasy coexistence between state-controlled farming and privately cultivated plots. Despite decades of efforts to centralize agriculture under state and collective farms, the private sector remained indispensable, producing a significant share of essential foodstuffs, particularly vegetables, meat, and dairy products. The book exposes the ideological tensions and practical necessities that have forced Soviet planners to tolerate, and at times even encourage, private agricultural activity to sustain food supply and rural livelihoods.

Wadekin’s study stands out for its methodological rigor, overcoming the challenges posed by the Soviet Union’s reluctance to disclose comprehensive data on private production. By piecing together fragmented and often misleading official reports, he constructs a nuanced picture of how the private sector functions within and alongside the socialist economy. The book also examines the policy oscillations between repression and accommodation, reflecting broader debates on economic pragmatism versus ideological purity in Soviet governance. With its combination of historical depth and economic insight, The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture remains a critical resource for scholars of Soviet economic history, comparative agriculture, and the persistent role of informal economies within planned systems.

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 1973.

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

The Teaching of Charles Fourier

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Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to particular segments of his teaching. Consequently he is known only in one or another of the roles to which biographers or commentators have assigned him, such as that of a social critic, a precursor of Marx, a theoretician of the cooperative movement, or even a progenitor of today's worldwide revolutionary turmoil.

Riasanovsky points out that two considerations make an adequate presentation of Fourier's ideas unusually difficult. For one thing, his thought was all of a piece, organically united in a multibranched universal formula so that it is virtually impossible to do justice to a period, a part, or a particular aspect of his teaching without dealing with the whole. For another, this formula was essentially mad and encompassed extremely bizarre and eccentric elements. Most writers have been unprepared to admit, let alone accept, the totality of his teaching.

The primary purpose of this book is to state Fourier's system in its own terms, not in terms of its possible contribution to a different intellectual orientation. Riasanovsky succeeds admirably in this task, summarizing for the first time within one volume the essence of Fourier's ideas, which are of an almost overwhelming profusion in their original form. He also examines the relation of Fourier's views to the general currents of modern thought, and delineates his place on the intellectual map of the modern world.

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 1969.

Ainslie T. Embree

Utopias in Conflict

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This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the just society has determined the social and political life of India. In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth century, religions legitimized violence as people struggled for what they regarded as their legitimate claims upon the future. As examples of the tension between religious and nationalist visions of the good society, Embree examines two explosive cases—one involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the separatist movement of the Sikhs. Thought-provoking and searching, Utopias in Conflict should interest anyone concerned about fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics and religion in the Third World.

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 1990.

John C. Bollens

Special District Governments in the United States

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Special District Governments in the United States by John C. Bollens provides the first comprehensive analysis of one of the least understood but most rapidly expanding elements of American governance. Special districts—independent, single-purpose governments created to provide services such as water, sewage, fire protection, housing, irrigation, and education—have proliferated in both metropolitan and rural contexts, yet they have often remained obscure even to students of public administration. Bollens situates these units within the larger framework of American federalism, distinguishing them from dependent authorities and clarifying their legal, fiscal, and administrative independence. Drawing upon legislation, court cases, Census Bureau classifications, field interviews, and case studies from across the country, he traces how special districts have arisen in response to pressures of urban growth, suburban expansion, and rural modernization, as well as the technical demands of service delivery that general-purpose governments have struggled to meet. The book emphasizes the quantitative importance of these governments and their qualitative significance in revealing the service-oriented dimension of the modern state.

At the core of Bollens’ analysis is a typology that encompasses metropolitan districts, urban fringe districts, coterminous districts, rural districts, and school districts, each with distinct origins, governance structures, and financial arrangements. He shows how districts both solve pressing service problems and complicate democratic accountability, as low-visibility boards wield taxing and borrowing powers with limited public oversight. Case studies of entities such as the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and Nebraska’s and Illinois’s contrasting school reorganization experiences illustrate the diverse ways in which districts adapt to local needs while fragmenting political authority. Bollens argues that these governments are “cutting edges” of functional expansion, revealing the tensions between efficiency, responsiveness, and coordination in American public administration. His study thus illuminates not only the rise of special districts but also the broader dynamics of institutional innovation and the evolution of American government.

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 1957.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Out of Our Minds

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"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life."—The Wall Street Journal

To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds.

Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps—from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans. A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat.

Barbara Daly Metcalf

Moral Conduct and Authority

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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 1984.

Robert I. Rotberg Foreword by Kenneth D. Kaunda

Black Heart

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Black Heart unveils the dual legacy of Stewart Gore-Browne, a remarkable figure whose journey intertwined with the colonial and post-colonial histories of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. On one hand, Gore-Browne was a statesman and advocate for African rights, championing progressive legislation and fostering dialogue that challenged the colonial status quo. As Northern Rhodesia’s representative at pivotal conferences, he tirelessly advanced African interests in imperial circles. On the other, he was a quintessential English squire, managing his sprawling Shiwa Ngandu estate while hosting an eclectic mix of titled guests, political figures, and African leaders—long before such integration was socially acceptable among the settler elite. His life exemplified the rare convergence of privilege, reformist ideals, and a profound commitment to equitable race relations in colonial Africa.

Drawing from an extraordinary archive of personal letters, diaries, and official documents, this biography sheds light on the forces that shaped Gore-Browne’s transformation from aristocratic officer to a pioneer of African nationalism. The work examines his family ties, his wartime experiences, and the moral convictions that led him to embrace African self-governance. Through interviews with key figures, including President Kenneth Kaunda, and meticulous research across continents, the book delves into Gore-Browne’s complex identity and enduring influence. Combining political history with personal narrative, Black Heart offers an intimate portrait of a man who stood out as both a settler and a champion of African liberation, making a profound impact on the trajectory of modern Zambia.

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 1977.

Caroline Ritter

Imperial Encore

$34.95

In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain’s imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses.

Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980s—the half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutions—the British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Press—integrated their work with British imperial aims, and continued this project well after the end of formal British rule. Tracing these institutions and the media they produced through the tumultuous period of decolonization and its aftermath, Ritter offers the first account of the global footprint of British cultural imperialism.

Susan J. Pharr

Political Women in Japan

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Drawing on interviews with one hundred young Japanese women engaged in a spectrum of voluntary political groups, Susan J. Pharr explores how politically active women overcome the constraints that bar or limit the political participation of the average woman. The book treats political volunteers as agents of social change in a process of role redefinition by which prevailing concepts of women's roles gradually adjust to accommodate political behavior. Tracing developments that led to the grant of suffrage and other political rights to women during the Allied occupation, Pharr sets the stage for an analysis of that process as it unfolds in the experience of individual women. She uses women's images of self and society and issues of political and gender role socialization, career and life expectations, and political role and participation to develop a three-fold typology for looking at political women in Japan. She examines both the satisfactions of political volunteerism—from the exhilaration of addressing a crowd from a sound truck to the pleasure of speaking "men's language"—and the psychological and social costs associated with it.

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 1981.

Erwin G. Gudde

Bigler's Chronicle of the West

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Henry William Bigler, a Mormon pioneer, documented key moments of his life in pocket diaries that have become invaluable historical records. His writings capture his conversion to the Church of the Latter-day Saints, the march of the Mormon Battalion, the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, and the final settlement of the Mormon community in Utah. These diaries also detail his missionary journeys to Hawaii and his return to California to mine gold for the Church. Although Bigler never intended to publish his diaries, their significance emerged after his article in the San Francisco Bulletin in 1870 drew the attention of historian Hubert Howe Bancroft. Bigler subsequently wrote an extended journal for Bancroft, forming the "Bancroft Version," which became the most complete and cohesive account of the critical years from 1846 to 1848. This version, now preserved in the Bancroft Library, serves as the core of his historical narrative.

Bigler’s diaries exist in several forms, each contributing to the preservation of his story. The "Huntington Version," stored in the Huntington Library, offers detailed but fragmented entries due to damage and its use as a scrapbook. The "Hittell Version," revised and published with historian John Shertzer Hittell in 1885, highlights Bigler's meticulous recollection of the discovery of gold, including his correction of Marshall's date of January 19 to January 24, 1848. In 1898, Bigler copied his diaries into a leather-bound "Ledger Version," now housed in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' archives. Additional fragments, such as the "Day Book" and "Huntington Fragment," provide further glimpses into his observations. These various versions underscore the literary and historical significance of Bigler’s work, offering detailed firsthand insights into pivotal moments in the history of California, the Mormon movement, and the American West.

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 1962.

Edited by Stephen Baxter

England's Rise to Greatness, 1660-1763

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In 1660 England was already prosperous, free, civilized, and the possessor of the makings of an empire. In the century to follow, the island nation became the world's greatest power. This cohesive collection of essays on a wide range of topics illuminates important facets of the political history of England from the Restoration to the American War of Independence.

Arthur J. Slavin of the university of Louisville discusses and important problem in legal history in his "Craw v. Ramsey: New light on an Old Debate." Jacob M. Price of the University of Michigan takes another look at the Excise Crisis. Ragnhild M. Hatton of the London School of Economics sheds new light on George I. Daniel A. Baugh of Cornell University considers "pauperism, Protestantism, and Political Economy: English Attitudes toward the Poor 1660 - 1800." Anglo-Savoyard relations are the topic of Geoffrey Symocox of the University of California, Los Angeles. The late Arthur M. Wilson of Dartmouth is represented by a wise and charming paper entitled "The Enlightenment Came First to England." Lois G. Schwoerer of George Washington University finds new perspectives while examining the Glorious Revolution. John Brewer of Harvard explains "the Number 45: A Wilkite Political Symbol." Clayton Roberts of the Ohio State University discusses "Party and the Patronage in Later Stuart England," while Stephen Baxter of the University of North Carolina takes up some aspects of the conduct of the Seven Years War. All of the contributions were originally delivered at the Wiliam Andrews Clark Memorial Library during Stephen Baxter's tenure as Clark Library Professor in 1977 - 1978.

Each of the essays will appeal to a learned audience of specialists, and the variety of topics will interest the general reader. This collection represents the leading scholarship on this remarkable period of English history.

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 1983.

Robert Serber

The Los Alamos Primer

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More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man, were introduced to the basic principles and goals of the project in March 1943, at a crash course in new weapons technology. The lecturer was physicist Robert Serber, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s protégé, and the scientists learned that their job was to design and build the world’s first atomic bombs. Notes on Serber’s lectures were gathered into a mimeographed document titled TheLos Alamos Primer, which was supplied to all incoming scientific staff. The Primer remained classified for decades after the war.

Published for the first time in 1992, the Primer offers contemporary readers a better understanding of the origins of nuclear weapons. Serber’s preface vividly conveys the mingled excitement, uncertainty, and intensity felt by the Manhattan Project scientists. This edition includes an updated introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes.

A seminal publication on a turning point in human history, The Los Alamos Primer reveals just how much was known and how terrifyingly much was unknown midway through the Manhattan Project. No other seminar anywhere has had greater historical consequences.

David G. Atwill

Islamic Shangri-La

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Islamic Shangri-La transports readers to the heart of the Himalayas as it traces the rise of the Tibetan Muslim community from the 17th century to the present. Radically altering popular interpretations that have portrayed Tibet as isolated and monolithically Buddhist, David Atwill's vibrant account demonstrates how truly cosmopolitan Tibetan society was by highlighting the hybrid influences and internal diversity of Tibet. In its exploration of the Tibetan Muslim experience, this book presents an unparalleled perspective of Tibet's standing during the rise of post–World War II Asia.

T.B.L. Webster

Athenian Culture and Society

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This work explores the dynamic relationship between Athenian culture and society, focusing on Athens between the Persian Wars (490–480 B.C.) and the rise of Alexander the Great in 336 B.C., a period marked by extraordinary cultural flourishing. Athens is identified as a hub of innovation in democracy, drama, philosophy, art, and science, with its achievements set against the backdrop of older traditions from the Minoan-Mycenaean world. The study examines the interplay of static traditions and dynamic cultural growth, with Athens serving as a case where philosophical, artistic, and political ideas evolved rapidly, shaped by its unique societal structure. This dynamic growth is attributed to the integration of ideas across disciplines, the receptiveness of its audiences, and the permeable boundaries between creators and society. Athens, characterized as both small and competitive, fostered an environment where new ideas, though simplified for broader accessibility, were widely and swiftly disseminated.

The text also investigates the societal framework that enabled such cultural achievements, including the roles of citizens, non-citizens, and slaves, as well as the spaces and institutions that facilitated public and private interactions. Particular emphasis is placed on how different aspects of Athenian life—education, law, religion, and art—intersected with and influenced culture. Drama, for example, reached mass audiences and served as a vehicle for disseminating complex philosophical and scientific ideas. Meanwhile, advancements in fields like medicine, philosophy, and mathematics often crossed into other domains, showcasing the interconnectedness of Athenian intellectual life. Ultimately, the author argues that Athenian culture’s genius lay in its intelligibility, driven by societal demands for simplicity and clarity, which allowed for a continuous and accessible evolution of ideas.

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 1973.

Edited by Edwin N. Wilmsen

We Are Here

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We Are Here: Politics of Aboriginal Land Tenure edited by Edwin N. Wilmsen brings together leading anthropologists to examine how indigenous systems of landholding have been understood, misrecognized, and increasingly asserted within the legal and political frameworks of modern nation-states. Long dismissed as “foragers” without institutions of tenure, Aboriginal peoples across Africa, Australia, and North America have faced the unique burden of proving that their land relations are legally commensurate with those of agricultural and pastoral societies. This volume traces both the colonial origins of this dichotomy and the contemporary efforts—by communities, courts, and anthropologists—to dismantle it. From Pintupi property claims in Australia to Cree negotiations in Canada and San land struggles in southern Africa, the essays demonstrate that indigenous tenure systems are coherent, dynamic, and integral to arguments for restitution and sovereignty.

At once a comparative study and a political intervention, the collection highlights how concepts of tenure emerge not as static “rules” but as embedded practices in extended social processes of cooperation, competition, and ritual life. Contributors probe the challenges of translating these practices into European-derived legal categories while showing how anthropologists themselves have been called to testify, mediate, and interpret in contested land claims. A recurring theme is the constructed opposition between “forager” and “husbandman” that has shaped colonial law and persists in policy debates today. By questioning the very terms in which rights to land are defined, We Are Here offers both a critique of liberal-democratic institutions and a defense of the inherent integrity of diverse attempts to live with land. Essential reading for anthropologists, legal scholars, and policymakers, this volume reframes land rights as not only a matter of law but of social justice and cultural survival.

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 1989.

James W. Wilkie

Contemporary Mexico

$85.00

Contemporary Mexico: Insights from the IV International Congress of Mexican History brings together an interdisciplinary collection of papers presented at the 1973 Congress held in Santa Monica, California. This landmark volume delves into the complexities of 20th-century Mexican history through diverse perspectives, including anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, and more. The contributors aim to provide a nuanced and comprehensive view of Mexico's modern developments, offering new interpretations, reevaluations, and a synthesis of the latest research. From pre-Hispanic themes to land reform, political transitions, and cultural shifts, this work captures the evolving scholarly focus on Mexico’s rich and multifaceted history, reflecting the growing maturity and internationalization of Mexican studies.

The book also highlights the transformation of the Congresses themselves, charting their evolution from a focus on U.S.-Mexico comparative history to a specialized exploration of Mexican realities. Featuring insights from distinguished scholars, including analysis of social dynamics, leadership roles, and international relations, Contemporary Mexico stands as a critical resource for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the historical forces shaping modern Mexico. The volume not only underscores the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration but also points toward future directions for Mexican studies in a global context.

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 1976.

Jeffrey Herbst

The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

$39.95

Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst describes the causes of Ghana's dramatic economic decline and reviews the politics of reform that began in 1983. Since Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest, the Ghanaian experience has profound ramifications for debates regarding stabilization and structural change across the continent.

Herbst devotes special attention to the interaction between the type of government and the politics of adjustment, the reaction of interest groups such as urban labor and the peasantry, and the relationship between economic and political change. His extended field research and sophisticated knowledge of the issues involved, both from the economic and political science literature, make this study of importance not only to Africanists, political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but also to government and financial leaders wrestling with economic reform in developing countries.

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 1993.

The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

Charles M. Wollenberg

All Deliberate Speed

$39.95

In All Deliberate Speed: Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools, 1853-1975, the author explores the long, complex history of racial integration and exclusion in California's public schools. Beginning with a parent’s hopeful statement in 1872 about the positive impact of school integration on racial equality, the book examines the enduring struggle to make that vision a reality. This historical study delves into California's educational system and its resistance to integration, as well as the ways in which schools and courts have both facilitated and obstructed progress toward racial equality. The author aims to provide a "usable history" to frame contemporary debates on issues like busing and ethnic balance within the broader context of past racial and educational dynamics.

The book also considers California's unique demographics and educational landscape, underscoring the state’s role as a battleground for integration policies due to its diverse ethnic composition. The state has a significant population of minorities, including people of Asian, Latin American, Polynesian, Black, and Native American descent, who have historically faced varying levels of discrimination in education. Unlike studies focused on Eastern states, this book highlights California's distinct educational challenges and offers a regional perspective on national integration issues. The narrative centers on how each ethnic group navigated these challenges, actively seeking ways to leverage the educational system for social mobility, while facing resistance that led them to turn to the courts for justice.

Despite the author’s personal belief in integration, the book refrains from presenting the subject as a clear moral dichotomy. Instead, it examines the varied motivations behind both integrationist and segregationist stances, revealing that intentions range from promoting equal opportunity to preserving community heritage or opposing enforced assimilation. The study frames California's educational history as a conflict between universalist ideals of national values and the particularist values of local communities. By viewing the ongoing battles for school desegregation as a reflection of deeply rooted beliefs in the power of education and the judiciary, the book ultimately underscores the enduring faith that Americans place in these institutions to shape a more equitable society.

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 1976.

Emilio Gabba Translated by P.J. Cuff

Republican Rome

$39.95

Republican Rome, the Army and the Allies by Emilio Gabba is a seminal collection of essays that redefines key debates about the late Roman Republic and the emergence of the Principate. Long influential in Italian scholarship and here made available in English translation, Gabba’s work examines the interplay between Rome’s military system, Italian society, and the political upheavals of the first century BCE. At its core are his classic studies of the professionalization of the Roman army, in which he argues that the so-called Marian reforms of 107 BCE were the culmination of over a century of gradual development rather than a dramatic turning point. He then traces how a standing army reshaped political life, both by creating opportunities for new Italian elites and by raising enduring challenges over veterans’ settlement.

The volume also includes Gabba’s influential account of the Social War, setting the conflict within the broader political struggles of the age and offering a close reading of Appian’s narrative. Additional essays address M. Livius Drusus and Sulla’s reforms, the equestrian class, and the lex Plotia agraria for Pompey’s veterans, while two incisive review-essays on Toynbee’s Hannibal’s Legacy and Badian’s Foreign Clientelae showcase Gabba’s critical precision. Distinguished by originality, disciplined imagination, and clear argument, these essays remain indispensable for students and scholars of Roman history. Republican Rome, the Army and the Allies offers English-speaking readers access to one of the most important voices in modern Roman historiography.

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 1976.

Christian P. Potholm

Swaziland

$39.95

Swaziland: The Dynamics of Political Modernization by Christian P. Potholm offers a compelling study of how a small Southern African kingdom navigated the turbulent transition from colonial dependency to modern nationhood. At its center is Sobhuza II, whose remarkable political skill enabled the Swazi monarchy not only to survive decolonization—a moment that spelled decline for many traditional African rulers—but to expand its authority into the structures of an independent state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Swaziland, Britain, and Ghana, Potholm examines how tradition, cultural cohesion, and strategic adaptation gave the monarchy unusual resilience in an era when nationalism and new political elites were expected to eclipse older forms of authority.

Tracing developments from the colonial encounter through independence in 1968, Potholm situates Swaziland’s experience within the broader patterns of Southern Africa, where apartheid South Africa and white-settler regimes in Rhodesia and Mozambique exerted constant pressure. The book’s analysis demonstrates how modernization did not automatically erode traditional authority but could, under certain conditions, reinforce and even strengthen it. By showing how Sobhuza II and the Swazi leadership transformed cultural institutions into effective tools of political consolidation, Swaziland challenges assumptions about African political change and offers a nuanced account of modernization that blends continuity and adaptation.

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 1972.

John Leddy Phelan

The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World

$39.95

The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World is John Leddy Phelan’s classic study of the Franciscan order’s apocalyptic imagination in colonial Latin America. First published in 1956 and revised in 1970, the book traces how friars like Gerónimo de Mendieta interpreted conquest and evangelization through the lens of biblical prophecy and medieval Franciscan mysticism. Phelan shows how figures such as Columbus and Hernán Cortés were recast in eschatological roles—Columbus as an instrument of divine providence and Cortés as a Mosaic liberator—while New Spain itself was imagined as both a restored Primitive Church and a foretaste of the millennium.

Written with both historical rigor and interpretive sensitivity, Phelan’s work reveals the intellectual, theological, and mystical currents that animated missionary enterprises in the sixteenth century. By linking Franciscan millenarianism with broader currents of European thought—from Joachim of Fiore’s prophecies to Counter-Reformation Catholicism—the book situates the Indian Church of New Spain within the longue durée of Christian eschatology. A landmark in the cultural history of religion, it remains essential reading for scholars of colonial Latin America, apocalyptic traditions, and the global intersections of conquest, theology, and empire.

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 1970.

Leonard H. Lesko

The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways

$39.95

This title is one of the earliest known "guides to the beyond," offering a spiritual map intended to help the deceased navigate the afterlife. Inscribed on the bottoms of noble coffins, the text’s intricate zigzagging routes symbolize the paths one must take to overcome various trials and reach a favorable afterlife. Throughout the Book of Two Ways, gods, demons, and gatekeepers populate the routes, with specific spells required to move past each obstacle. Unlike earlier Pyramid Texts exclusive to royalty, this guide represents a shift toward greater accessibility, symbolizing a "democratization" of the afterlife in Egyptian culture. By including spells and mythological guidance, the Book of Two Ways reflects the complex syncretism of Egyptian beliefs, combining regional deities and narratives into a cohesive, albeit challenging, spiritual map.

As part of a larger corpus of mortuary literature, the Book of Two Ways complements texts like the Coffin Texts and, later, the Book of the Dead, which add layers of moral and theological depth to the understanding of death and the afterlife. While the Book of Two Ways focuses less on morality and more on ritual knowledge, it still reveals shifting Egyptian views on divine order and the nature of the afterlife. Gods such as Re, Osiris, and Thoth each represent paths or destinations, suggesting varied and personalized goals for the deceased, whether joining the sun god or dwelling in Osiris' mansion. By blending cosmic and spiritual aspirations, the Book of Two Ways captures the Egyptians’ pursuit of eternal life through divine alignment, serving as both a guide and a symbol of evolving religious thought on life beyond death.

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 1977.

Edited by Robert P. Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer

Ordering the World

$49.95

The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in Ordering the World explore contemporary ideas underlying policies, programs, and institutions of the period and examine attitudes toward history and sources of authority. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of the neo-Confucian movement in Sung history and of the Sung in the history of Chinese ideas about politics and social action.

Contents:

Introduction by Conrad Schirokauer and Robert P. Hymes
“Su Hsun’s Pragmatic Statecraft,” by George Hatch
“State Power and Economic Activism during the New Policies, 1068–1085,” by Paul J. Smith
“Government, Society, and State,” by Peter K. Bol
“Chu Hsi’s Sense of History,” by Conrad Schirokauer
“Community and Welfare,” by Richard von Glahn
“Charitable Estates as an Aspect of Statecraft in Southern Sung China,” by Linda Walton
“Moral Duty and Self-Regulating Process in Southern Sung Views of Famine Relief,” by Robert P. Hymes
“The Historian as Critic,” by John W. Chaffee
“Wei Liao-weng’s Thwarted Statecraft,” by James T. C. Liu
“Chen Te-hsiu and Statecraft,” by Wm. Theodore de Bary

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 1993.

Jonathan Marshall

To Have and Have Not

$39.95

Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities—rubber, oil, and tin—that drew the United States into the conflict. Boldly departing from conventional wisdom, Marshall reexamines the political landscape of the time and recreates the mounting tension and fear that gripped U.S. officials in the months before the war.

Unusual in its extensive use of previously ignored documents and studies, this work records the dilemmas of the Roosevelt administration: it initially hoped to avoid conflict with Japan and, after many diplomatic overtures, it came to see war as inevitable. Marshall also explores the ways that international conflicts often stem from rivalries over land, food, energy, and industry. His insights into "resource war," the competition for essential commodities, will shed new light on U.S. involvement in other conflicts—notably in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf.

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 1995.

Tingyang Zhao

All under Heaven

$29.95

In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars to "rethink China." Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal "whirlpool" model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China’s tianxia (All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.

Colin M. MacLachlan

Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

$39.95

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 1974.

Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

J.T. Way

Agrotropolis

$29.95

In Agrotropolis, historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns seen as quintessentially "rural" and showcases grassroots cultural assertiveness. In a post-revolutionary era, young people coming of age on the globally inflected city street used popular culture as one means of creating a new national imaginary that rejects Guatemala's racially coded system of castes. Drawing on local sources, deep ethnographies, and the digital archive, Agrotropolis places working-class Maya and mestizo hometowns and creativity at the center of planetary urban history.

Bernard H. Moss

The Origins of the French Labor Movement

$39.95

Many historians have examined the French labor movement, but few have gone beyond chronicling unions, strikes, and personalities to undertake a concrete analysis of workers’ aims in their historical context. Searching for what Marx called the “real movement” of the working class, Bernard H. Moss presents a sophisticated revisionist interpretation that uncovers a core ideology of social vision underlying the many changes and variations in French socialism.

To define this ideology and delineate its social base, Moss cuts through conventional distinctions between artisans and proletarians and between anarchism and socialism to derive an intermediate category, the federalist trade socialism of skilled workers. Originally manifested in the trade movement for producers’ associations and cooperatives, this socialism eventually found revolutionary expression in Bakuninism, possibilism, Allemanism, and revolutionary syndicalism. The social base of this movement was the skilled craftsmen undergoing a process of proletarianization.

In The Origins of the French Labor Movement, Moss rehabilitates ideology both as a vital force in history and as a serious subject for scientific history. He proposes important revisions in our understanding of French politics and society in the nineteenth century and suggests a new approach to socialist ideology, not as abstract theory, but as the result of historical experience and process.

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 1976.

The Origins of the French Labor Movement

R. L. Rike

Apex Omnium

$39.95

One of the masterpieces of Greco-Roman literature is the history written by Ammianus Marcellinus near the end of the fourth century A.D. His work bears unique witness to an empire struggling at once toward traditional and transformation, the old Rome of Augustus and the new Rome of Christ. Embodied within Ammianus's history is a universally admired spirit of independence that has, however, led to a steady denaturing of the historian's personal commitment to particular causes. At the hands of modern critics, Ammianus frequently seems to lose his character, and his frequently seems to lose his character, and his religion too vanishes. Rike reconstructs Ammianus's religion from the beginning and concludes that he was an enthusiastic pagan whose firm commitment to traditional beliefs cannot be understood without changing our usual conceptions of late Roman religion.

Rike's study widens our too narrowly philosophical sense of paganism; the historian's striving will remind us of the vital spiritual continuum which joined the ages of Augustus and Constantine. Accordingly, this book should itself serve as a useful bridge between students of Late Antiquity and traditional classicists.

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 1987.

Peter Hanns Reill

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism

$39.95

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and ideal of the Enlightenment from 1740 to 1790. Concentrating on the nature of their historical consciousness, Peter Hanns Reill addresses two basic issues in the interpretation of the Enlightenment: to what degree can one speak of the unity of the Enlightenment and to what extent can the Enlightenment be characterized as “modern”? Reill attempts to revise the traditional interpretation of the Enlightenment as an age insensitive to the postulates of modern historical thought and to dissolve the alleged opposition of the Enlightenment to later intellectual developments such as Idealism. He argues that German Enlightened thinkers generated the general presuppositions upon which modern historical thought is founded.

Asserting that the Enlightenment was not a unitary movement, Reill shows how each phase of it had unique elements and made contributions to Enlightenment thought as a whole. Exploring the forms of thought, the mental climate, and the different intellectual milieus in which the German thinkers operated, Reill demonstrates that they were confronted by two opposing intellectual traditions: German Pietism and rationalism. In attempting to reconcile both without submerging one into the other, these Enlightenment thinkers turned to historical speculation and learning. They discussed the relation between religious and rationalistic assumptions, the transformation of the concepts of religion and law, the interaction between aesthetic and historical thought, the creation of a theory of understanding to support the new idea of history, the use of causation in historical analysis, and the rediscovery of the Middle Ages. Reill reveals how they anticipated the work of more famous thinkers of the nineteenth century and establishes the conceptual similarities between thinkers generally thought to be more different than alike.

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 1975.

Charlotte Brooks

American Exodus

$29.95

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to China—a relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America’s image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land.

American Exodus is the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese Americans. Their exodus shaped Sino-American relations, the development of key economic sectors in China, the character of social life in its coastal cities, debates about the meaning of culture and “modernity” there, and the U.S. government’s approach to citizenship and expatriation in the interwar years. Spanning multiple fields, exploring numerous cities, and crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, international relations, immigration history, and Asian American studies.

Barry Siegel

Dreamers and Schemers

$24.95

How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation.

Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.

John Rosselli

Lord William Bentinck

$49.95

Lord William Bentinck 1774-1839: The Making of a Liberal Imperialist delves into the career of a transformative figure in British and Indian history. Far from a conventional biography or a straightforward history of his Indian administration, the book explores Bentinck’s life as part of the broader historical, social, and political currents of his time. It examines his tenure as Governor-General of India (1828-1835), while equally emphasizing his early governorship in Madras, his involvement in British and Italian affairs, and his role within the British landed aristocracy—a class navigating its relationships with emerging industrial and professional elites. Through thematic essays rather than strict chronology, the book offers a nuanced view of how Bentinck's career reflected and influenced the interplay of global imperial dynamics, administrative reform, and personal ambition.

The narrative is enriched by extensive use of Bentinck's private papers, supplemented by scholarly research and official documents, particularly regarding his contributions to judicial and social reforms in India and his diplomatic activities in Europe. The text considers his administrative philosophies, his struggles with the complexities of imperial governance, and his impact on broader historical debates, such as the evolving nature of liberal imperialism. By connecting the disparate threads of Bentinck’s career—from Sicilian politics to Indian land revenue systems—the book illuminates his unique role as a representative of an adaptable ruling class during a time of profound global and local transformation.

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 1974.

Edited by Richard T. Ashcroft and Mark Bevir

Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth

$34.95

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse.

Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth

Tanigawa Michio, Translated, with an Introduction, by Joshua A. Fogel

Medieval Chinese Society and the Local Community

$39.95

Medieval Chinese Society and the Local Community: Stagnation, Feudalism, and Periodization explores the rich complexities of Chinese history from the Six Dynasties through the Sui and Tang eras. This seminal volume by Tanigawa Michio reexamines the nature of Chinese society and its periodization through a critical lens, moving away from traditional Marxist interpretations that dominated postwar Japanese sinology. Through the innovative concept of kyodotai—a communitarian framework transcending simplistic class divisions—Tanigawa challenges the stagnationist narrative often applied to China's historical development. He argues that the ethical and social cohesion within local communities provided a foundation for China's distinctive form of "medieval" society, distinguishing it from Western feudalism and shaping its cultural and social trajectory.

This groundbreaking work not only critiques Marxist orthodoxy but also revisits and revitalizes the theories of earlier sinologists, such as Naitō Konan, to present a more nuanced understanding of China's historical evolution. By focusing on the Six Dynasties' social structures, Tanigawa reveals the enduring impact of literati-aristocratic leadership and the transformative integration of Confucian and Taoist ethics in governance. The book is an essential read for scholars of Chinese history, providing fresh perspectives on periodization debates and enriching the discourse on the interplay between class, community, and culture in medieval China.

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 1985.

A. J. Sherman

Island Refuge

$39.95

The acrimonious debate over the British policy toward refugees from the Nazi regime has scarcely died down even now, some forty years later. bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still leveled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion made that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and unworthy of her liberal traditions.

It has now become possible to investigate the truth of these charges and to analyse the reaction tin Britain to refugees from the Third Reich throughout the eventful years preceding the outbreak of war. Based on Government and private papers only recently released for public scrutiny, this book is the first authoritative study of the British response to a refugee crisis which posed many highly emotional and contentious issues in both domestic and foreign policy, and proved na acute irritant in Anglo-American relations.

There were no simple answers, no obvious or rapid solutions in a world which frequently seemed to have no room for refugees and but scant sympathy for their plight. Harassed by conflicting pressures form home and abroad, all too aware that greater generosity to refugees from Nazism might well inspire imitative mass expulsions from Eastern Europe, Whitehall officials struggled to maintain an older British tradition of political asylm while still avoiding, at a time of massive unemployment, a sudden large-scale influx of aliens. Initial caution, insensitivity and confusion gave way after the Anschluss to a greater awareness of the critical need, and ultimately to a large-scale modification, under the sheer pressure of refugee numbers, of polices which had virtually hardened into constitutional doctrine.

Britain's record concerning refugees from the Third Reich was a mixed one. Far less welcoming at first than a number of countries, but ultimately more generous than many, including the United States, Britain did grant asylum to a significantly large number of refugees in the crowded months before the outbreak of hostilities. The reasons for the dramatic turnabout in British refugee policy emerge clearly from this dispassionate and carefully documented study.

Inland Refuge sheds definite light on a largely unexplored and still highly controversial episode in twentieth-century history.

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 1973.

Boris Gasparov

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume III

$39.95

This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'—the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the project.

Volume I

Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages

Edited by Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

Volume II

Russian Culture in Modern Times

Edited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno

Volume III

Russian Literature in Modern Times

Edited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

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 1993.

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume III

Joseph Levenson

Revolution and Cosmopolitanism

$39.95

In 1965, Joseph R. Levenson began working on a new trilogy to follow his earlier study of modern Chinese intellectual history, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate. By 1969, he had already sketched out basic outlines of the work, which was to be called Provincialism, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism. It was to consist of three volumes: one sounding the general themes of the arrangement, and two other elaborating its motifs. Accidental death tragically cut short Levenson's life and the preparation of the work. He did leave behind, however, an embryo of it in the form of this book, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism.

Based upon a careful analysis of a wide selection of Western plays translated into Chinese during the twentieth century, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism tries to set the Communist Cultural Revolution into a new kind of historical perspective. Beginning with the demise of a Confucian China which "new youth" intellectuals found too provincial for their palates, Levenson shows how those same cosmopolitans in the 1920s and 1920s damed later Communist intellectuals of the 1950s for being to receptive to non-Chinese values. As Red Guards attacked symbols of a feudal Confucian past and a bourgeois foreign present, China slipped into a new sort of provincialism. Levenson analyzes their transformation with profound subtlety. Convinced that revolutionary China cannot forever seal itself off from universal cosmopolitan influences, he expresses sympathy throughout with the dilemma of rootless intellectuals in a society searching for a particular non-intellectual identity.

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 1971.

Michael B. Miller

Shanghai on the Metro

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Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, and con men—they all play a part in Michael B. Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, Shanghai on the Métro shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world wars, reflecting the atmosphere and concerns of these years.

Miller argues that French fascination with intrigue between the wars reveals a far more assured and playful national mood than historians have hitherto discerned in the final decades of the Third Republic. But the larger history set in motion by World War I and the subsequent reading of French history into global history are the true subjects of this work. Reconstituting through his own narratives the histories of interwar travel and adventure and the willful turning of contemporary affairs into a source of romance, Miller recovers the ambience and special qualities of the age that produced its intrigues and its tales of spies.

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 1994.

Edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum

A Global History of Runaways

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During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.

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James Emerson Phillips

Images of a Queen

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Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-Century Literature explores the extensive body of literature that emerged in response to the life and legacy of Mary Queen of Scots between 1554 and 1603. This study aims to provide both a historical analysis of the literary works and a bibliographical record of the texts that shaped and were shaped by Mary’s image. The historical narrative delves into the circumstances and character of this "Marian literature," offering the general reader insight into the themes and influences that pervaded sixteenth-century depictions of Mary. Meanwhile, detailed bibliographical notes, interwoven with the text rather than relegated to a separate section, cater to specialists by providing technical details, contextual analysis, and chronological cataloging. This approach facilitates a nuanced understanding of how literary history and documentary evidence intertwine, culminating in a comprehensive index of titles and authors for reference.

The study incorporates seminal bibliographies, including John Scott’s A Bibliography of Works Relating to Mary Queen of Scots, 1544–1700, alongside its own expanded compilation of Marian literature. The research benefited from prestigious support, notably a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and contributions from leading libraries such as the British Museum and the National Library of Scotland. The author acknowledges a broad network of scholars, librarians, and critics who contributed valuable insights, including Lily B. Campbell and Helen Gardner, as well as the enduring support of his wife, to whom the work is dedicated. By meticulously examining both the content and context of Marian literature, this book offers a vital resource for understanding the complex portrayal of Mary Stuart in sixteenth-century thought and culture.

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 1964.

Philip M. Soergel

Wondrous in His Saints

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At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known pilgrimage literature yields a vivid portrait of religion before, during, and after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

These "advertisements," combining testimonies of miracles with fantastic legends about shrines, fueled the conflict between Catholics and Protestants and helped shape a distinctive Catholic historical consciousness. Soergel stresses the power of the printed word as a defense of traditional authority, testing other historians' assertions about the neglect of printing and literacy in the Counter-Reformation.

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 1993.

Fabricio Prado

Edge of Empire

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In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo’s autonomist projects.

These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.

Forrest D. Colburn

Managing the Commanding Heights

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Revolutions have often occurred in poor countries. Although triumphant revolutionaries may lack the resources to assume complete responsibility for their country’s economy, they do tend to nationalize what Lenin called the “commanding heights”—those enterprises that meet the strategic needs of the polity. How these enterprises are administered is consequential, and at times decisive, for the course of revolutionary change.

In Managing the Commanding Heights, Forrest D. Colburn explores the Sandinistas’ management of Nicaragua’s state enterprises, with an emphasis on the critical agrarian sector. Central to the book are three lively and instructive case studies that provide a penetrating glimpse into life in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. In analyzing these cases, Colburn explains the intentions of the Sandinista elite and links them with choices made at individual enterprises.

Colburn argues that state enterprises have been politically useful but economically unsuccessful. Even with the unseen political advantages of state enterprises, the pronounced financial losses of nationalized farms and factories exacerbate the economic—and ultimately political—vulnerability of a regime already weakened by counterrevolution. The evidence demonstrates trenchant limitations to a revolutionary state’s capacity to improve popular welfare. State capacity is undermined by multiple factors: international constraints on the autonomy of post-revolutionary regimes, sheer poverty, the unintended but inevitable political manipulation of the economy, the lack of managerial ability among even well-intentioned elites, and a revolutionary mentalité that erodes rationality. These same difficulties have bedeviled other post-revolutionary regimes, notably those in Africa.

Managing the Commanding Heights is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of revolutionary regimes and the possibilities for radical change in poor countries.

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 1990.

Kevin Grant

Last Weapons

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Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial networks among revolutionaries and civil-rights activists from Russia to Britain to Ireland to India and beyond. He shows how the significance of hunger strikes and fasts refracted across political and cultural boundaries, and how prisoners experienced and understood their own starvation, which was then poorly explained by medical research. Prison staff and political officials struggled to manage this challenge not only to their authority, but to society’s faith in the justice of liberal governance. Whether starving for the vote or national liberation, prisoners embodied proof of their own assertions that the rule of law enforced injustices that required redress and reform. Drawing upon deep archival research, the author offers a highly original examination of the role of hunger in contesting an imperial world, a tactic that still resonates today.

Steven E. Sanderson

Agrarian Populism and the Mexican State

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As oil-rich Mexico faces the 1980s, conflicts between agrarian populism and capitalist industrialization call for resolution. The internal peace and political stability that made the period between the late 1930s and the early 1970s so productive left many Mexicans—particularly the campesinos—marginal to the benefits of the economy. During this period of economic growth, agrarian reform, the trademark of the Mexican revolution, was relegated to a position of lesser importance in national politics. But with forty percent of the population still remaning in the countryside, it is clear that programs for rural development and land redistribution must again be given prominence.

In this study of Sonora—a key agricultural state in northwestern Mexico—Steven E. Sanderson examines in economic and political terms the post-revolutionary rise of agrarian reform and its decline, dividing the sixty years of change (from 1917 to 1976) into three periods. Agrarian populism dominated the first, which he calls a time of post-revolutionary consolidation (1917–1940). Then, during the "miracle years" of 1940–1970, the growing strength of capital and the success of state-led import substitution plans led to a counterreform in agrarian politics. In the final period, that of President Echeverria's populist resurgence (1970–1976), ambitious but flawed agrarian reform plans clashed with the sector that favored the increasing concentration of land, income, and political influence.

Sonora provides a particularly interesting view of these developments because of its political and geographical distance from metropolitan Mexico, its rich history of independence, its economic growth since the revolution, and the political sophistication of its residents. The events in this state exemplify the regional imbalances, the ideological biases, and the political manipulations contributing to the crisis in state legitimacy that dominated Mexican politics in the 1970s.

Using a combination of agrarian census materials, state archives, newspapers, records from relevant ministries, and selected interviews with participants, Sanderson presents the complex history of conflict between the political base supporting agrarian reform and the economic forces advocating industrialization and economic growth.

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 1981.

Amanda Ciafone

Counter-Cola

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Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world’s most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations—liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal—of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers’ rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism’s imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits.

Candice Lewis Bredbenner

A Nationality of Her Own

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In 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'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 1999.

J.D. Armstrong

Revolutionary Diplomacy

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From the Introduction:

The principal question that is posed in this study is, what has been the influence of Mao’s united front doctrine on China’s foreign policy? A related but secondary question is also considered: In what ways, if any, has China's participation in the international system caused Peking to revise its conception of a united front in world politics?

Insofar as Mao's thoughts about united fronts are part of the total array of theories and operational principles that make up the Chinese communist “ideology,” this essay considers one aspect of the relationship between ideology and foreign policy. Since this question has long been the subject of a mostly inconclusive and often circular academic debate, [Armstrong states his] reasons for returning to it here. The first is that the problem is no less important because it admits of no easy solution. Indeed, with the breakdown in the twentieth century of even the limited consensus over norms and values that permitted a great power concert to exist for part of the nineteenth, the question is clearly one of major significance in contemporary international relations. Since China has become in many ways a symbol of the postwar ideological challenge to the established order in world politics, the question is particularly relevant in a study of China’s foreign policy. Finally, by combining a strictly limited focus of enquiry with a systematic approach to the problem it may be possible to overcome some of the analytical difficulties that surround the larger issue of the relation of ideas to social practice.

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 1977.

Lina Britto

Marijuana Boom

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Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

Intimate Communities

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.

Edited by Kenneth G. Lieberthal and David M. Lampton

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China

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Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering among officials on the national, provincial, and local levels.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Nina P. Halpern

Carol Lee Hamrin

David M. Lampton

Kenneth G. Lieberthal

Melanie Manion

Barry Naughton

Lynne Paine

Jonathan D. Pollack

Susan L. Shirk

Paul E. Schroeder

Andrew G. Walder

David Zweig

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 1992.

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China

Steven A. Hoffmann

India and the China Crisis

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The earliest accounts of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute cast India as the victim of Chinese betrayal and expansionism, but a more favorable image of China vis-a-vis India has appeared since the 1970s. Since then, China has been portrayed as the victim of India's self-righteous intransigence, with the 1962 India-China war occurring because China was provoked into practicing a justifiable form of realpolitik. These two seemingly irreconcilable academic schools of thought still exist. In this case study of India's decision-making between the years of 1959 and 1963, the critical first years of its border conflict with China, Steven A. Hoffmann takes an important step in reconciling the conflicting views of the crisis and of the ascribed reasons for the war that ensued in 1962.

Drawing on interviews with Indian officials, military officers, and political leaders and on memoirs and other sources gathered during concentrated research in India, England, and North America between 1983 and 1986, the author provides previously unknown material on the perceptions and realities of Indian decision making.

A model for international crisis behavior, as proposed by Michael Brecher, is used to help establish a balanced treatment of information and offer insights into such questions as why India and China both failed to understand one another's frontier psychologies and strategies, and why the Nehru government did not succeed in managing the conflict. This richly detailed and carefully researched approach is invaluable in this time when India and China are once again exploring ways to establish a solid relationship.

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 1990.

Kieran Connell

Black Handsworth

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In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core influence on cultural and political life. Through rich case studies, including photographic representations of the neighborhood, Black Handsworth takes readers inside pubs, churches, political organizations, domestic spaces, and social clubs to shed light on the experiences and everyday lives of black residents during this time. The result is a compelling and sophisticated study of black globality in the making of post-colonial Britain.

Richard Lim

Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity

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Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and self-identification to a form of social competition and "winning over" an opponent. He demonstrates how the reception and practice of public debate, like other forms of competition in Late Antiquity, were closely tied to underlying notions of authority, community and social order.

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 1995.

Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity

Fariba Zarinebaf

Mediterranean Encounters

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Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters within the institution of ahdnames (commercial and diplomatic treaties), this thoughtful book offers a critical perspective on the existing scholarship. For too long, the Ottoman empire has been defined as an absolutist military power driven by religious conviction, culturally and politically apart from the rest of Europe, and devoid of a commercial policy. By taking a close look at Galata, Fariba Zarinebaf provides a different approach based on a history of commerce, coexistence, competition, and collaboration through the lens of Ottoman legal records, diplomatic correspondence, and petitions. She shows that this port was just as cosmopolitan and pluralist as any large European port and argues that the Ottoman world was not peripheral to European modernity but very much part of it.

Edited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume II

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This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'—the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the project.

Volume I

Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages

Edited by Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

Volume II

Russian Culture in Modern Times

Edited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno

Volume III

Russian Literature in Modern Times

Edited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes

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 1994.

Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume II

John C. Thibault

The Mystery of Ovid's Exile

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Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. The action presumably followed a secret hearing before the emperor, and the official reason given for the sentence was Ovid's authorship of a licentious work, the Ars amatoria, ten years earlier. The Mystery of Ovid's Exile is both a survey and an analysis of the literary detective work that has been devoted to explaining the cause of Ovid's banishment from Rome.

In poems composed during his exile, Ovid laments having written the Ars amatoria, but he obviously considers the poem to be merely a pretext for his punishment. His downfall appears to have been caused by his having witnessed, or in some fashion been implicated in, a crime committed either by the emperor himself or by an immediate member of the imperial family. However, it’s possible that Ovid's banishment may have been ordered merely because he was unwittingly in possession of the key to an embarrassing secret, the importance of which he might have realized had he remained in Rome.

John C. Thibault examines more than one hundred available hypotheses that have been advanced by inquisitive scholars from the Middle Ages to our own day. He demonstrates the unsoundness of each hypothesis in turn, and suggests that a solution to the problem of Ovid's exile is not possible given the available evidence. The Mystery of Ovid's Exil treats a controversy that will fascinate classical scholars as well as general readers interested in Roman manners and morals of the period.

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 1964.

Rajeev Kinra

Writing Self, Writing Empire

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence.

As a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way, Chandar Bhan’s experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history.

Butrus al-Bustani

The Clarion of Syria

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When Nafir Suriyya—“The Clarion of Syria”—was penned between September 1860 and April 1861, its author Butrus al-Bustani, a major figure in the modern Arabic Renaissance, had witnessed his homeland undergo unprecedented violence in what many today consider Lebanon’s first civil war. Written during Ottoman and European investigations into the causes and culprits of the atrocities, The Clarion of Syria is both a commentary on the politics of state intervention and social upheaval, and a set of visions for the future of Syrian society in the wake of conflict.

This translation makes a key historical document accessible for the first time to an English audience. An introduction by the translators sketches the history that led up to the civil strife in Mt. Lebanon, outlines a brief biography of Butrus al-Bustani, and provides an authoritative overview of the literary style and historiography of Nafir Suriyya. Rereading these pamphlets in the context of today’s political violence, in war-torn Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world, helps us gain a critical and historical perspective on sectarianism, foreign invasions, conflict resolution, Western interventionism, and nationalist tropes of reconciliation.

Gregor Benton

Dear China

$34.95

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.

Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.

Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, with a contribution by Lee Sherry

Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius

$49.95

The chaotic events of A.D. 395–400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long propose a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron and Long offer a vital new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans.

In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman Empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the preceding one hundred years. Not only did the death of Theodosius set off a struggle between Roman officeholders of the two empires, but it also set off renewed efforts by the barbarian Goths to seize both territory and office. Theodosius had encouraged high-ranking Goths to enter Roman military service; thus well placed, their efforts would lead to Alaric’s sack of Rome in 410. Though the authors’ interest is in the particularities of events, Barbarians and Politics at the Court Of Arcadius conveys a wonderful sense of the general time and place. Cameron and Long’s rebuttal of modern scholarship, which pervades the narrative, enhances the reader’s engagement with the complexities of interpretation. The result is a sophisticated recounting of a period of crucial change in the Roman Empire’s relationship to the non-Roman world.

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 1993.

Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius

Louise Nalbandian

The Armenian Revolutionary Movement

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This is the first comprehensive work in English dealing with the nineteenth-century Armenian revolutionary movement and the subsequent rise of Armenian political parties. It covers in details the history of the Armenian revolutionists' armed struggle against the government of the Ottoman Turks beginning with the first major uprising in 1862 and extending to the culmination of the Turkish Armenian massacres in 1896.

Incredibly daring yet loosely organized and sporadic uprisings directed by small secret societies characterized the early stage of Armenian political consciousness. But in 1885 the first Armenian political party, the Armenakan, was founded in Turkish Armenia, signaling the beginning of political maturity. Thereafter the leadership of the Armenian revolutionary forces passed into the hands of organized political parties; the Armenakan, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and the Hunchakian Revolutionary Party. These same parties, with some changes, continue to remain active through 1963.

Nalbandian analyzes the actions of the revolutionists within the framework of the political and intellectual history of the Armenians and endeavors to clarify the sources, objectives, and accomplishments of the Armenian political parties. The efforts of these groups were not immediately successful; the revolutionists' fight against the Ottoman regime took place against incredibly sever odds: they lacked sufficient manpower, materials, and economic strength to combat the powerful forces of the Ottoman Turks. They did, however, contribute to the ultimate disintegration of the corrupt Ottoman regime and server to further Armenian nationalism.

Because of the concern of most Armenian political leaders with the socio-economic theories of the day lead them to connect their own revolutionary movement with that of international socialism, Nalbandian examines the relationship of the Armenian parties to other nineteenth-century revolutionary movements in Western Europe, Russia, and the Balkans.

The author, drawing upon research she has done in Soviet Armenia and in Armenian centers in the United States, Europe, and the Near East, presents an organized survey and interpretation of nineteenth-century Armenian politics as an aid to understanding current international alignments.

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 1963.

Jennifer Adair

In Search of the Lost Decade

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In 1983, following a military dictatorship that left thousands dead and disappeared and the economy in ruins, Raúl Alfonsín was elected president of Argentina on the strength of his pledge to prosecute the armed forces for their crimes and restore a measure of material well-being to Argentine lives. Food, housing, and full employment became the litmus tests of the new democracy. In Search of the Lost Decade reconsiders Argentina’s transition to democracy by examining the everyday meanings of rights and the lived experience of democratic return, far beyond the ballot box and corridors of power. Beginning with promises to eliminate hunger and ending with food shortages and burning supermarkets, Jennifer Adair provides an in-depth account of the Alfonsín government’s unfulfilled projects to ensure basic needs against the backdrop of a looming neoliberal world order. As it moves from the presidential palace to the streets, this original book offers a compelling reinterpretation of post-dictatorship Argentina and Latin America’s so-called lost decade.

Charles F. Bahmueller

The National Charity Company

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At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructure the English Poor Law, a set of laws for the relief of poverty first codified under Queen Elizabeth. Bentham's plan was to dispense poor relief through a national network of workhouses (the National Charity Company) constructed on the basis of his famous Panopticon architectural principle and coordinated through a single centralized administrative system.

Charles F. Bahmueller analyzes the ethical, sociological, economic, and political aspects and implications of Bentham's proposal. Emphasizing that Bentham sought constantly to eliminate contingency from social life, Bahmueller shows how his scheme was a revealing harbinger of the modern welfare state.

The National Charity Company shows us eighteenth-century politicians, economists, administrators, and reformers wrestling with the problems of distributive justice, economic instability, and repressive socioeconomic modes of organization that are central to contemporary political debate. The poor must be fed and clothed and employed—but they must also be ruled, from Bentham's point of view: they must, above all, be controlled. This book reveals tensions between order and freedom, paternalism and individualism, and social security and market forces that are of undeniable relevance to modern life.

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 1981.

Ann E. Lucas

Music of a Thousand Years

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history.

Hilton L. Root

The Fountain of Privilege

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The Fountain of Privilege applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. In particular, it contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France’s political foundations while leaving those of Britain intact? Comparing the political and financial institutions of the two states, Hilton Root argues that the French monarchy’s tight control of markets created unresolvable social conflicts whereas England’s broader power base permitted the wider distribution of economic favors, resulting in more flexible and efficient markets.

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 1994.

Yang Kuisong

Eight Outcasts

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The 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China. Political, economic, ideological, and cultural movements galvanized the country, culminating in dramatic social transformations at all levels, including the persecution of hundreds of thousands of the country’s citizens. Based on normally inaccessible records of confessions, interrogations, trial transcripts, and depositions, Eight Outcasts tells the stories of eight victims of the Maoist dictatorship. It introduces readers to individuals accused of infractions such as corruption, political wrong thinking, homosexuality, illicit sexual activity, foreign ties, or “historical problems” (connections to the former Kuomintang regime) in the period between the revolution and Mao’s death in 1976. Each chapter brings stories of China’s voiceless citizens to light, broadening our knowledge of this important transitional period.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Translated by Kelly Barry

In a Cold Crater

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Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century—Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War—are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when the capital of the world's recently defeated public enemy assumed great emotional and symbolic meaning.

This is a story not of major intellectual and cultural achievements (for there were none in those years), but of enormous hopes and plans that failed. It is the story of members of the once famous volcano-dancing Berlin intelligentsia, torn apart by Nazism and exile, now re-encountering one another. Those who had stayed in Berlin in 1933 crawled out of the rubble, while many of the exiles returned with the Allied armies as members of the various cultural and re-educational units. All of them were eager to rebuild a neo-Weimar republic of letters, arts, and thought. Some were highly qualified and serious. Many were classic opportunists. A few came close to being clowns. After three years of "carnival," recreated by Schivelbusch in all its sound and fury, they were driven from the stage by the Cold War.

As Berlin once again becomes the German capital, Schivelbusch's masterful cultural history is certain to captivate historians and general readers alike.

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 1999.

Edited by Thomas G. Rawski and Lillian M. Li

Chinese History in Economic Perspective

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This volume marks a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. It arose from a realization that the economic history of China—as opposed to the history of the Chinese economy—had yet to be written. Most histories of the Chinese economy, whether by Western or Chinese scholars, tend to view the economy in institutional or social terms. In contrast, the studies in this volume break new ground by systematically applying economic theory and methods to the study of China. While demonstrating to historians the advantages of an economic perspective, the contributors, comprising both historians and economists, offer important new insights concerning issues of long-standing interest to both disciplines.

Part One, on price behavior, presents for the first time preliminary analyses of the incomparably rich and important grain price data from the imperial archives in Beijing and Taibei during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). These studies reveal long-term trends in the Chinese economy since the seventeenth century and contain surprising discoveries about market integration, the agricultural economy, and demographic behavior in different regions of China.

The essays in Part Two, on market response, deal with different aspects of the economy of Republican China (1912–49), showing that markets for land, labor, and capital sometimes functioned as predicted by models of economic "rationality" but at other times behaved in ways that can be explained only by combining economic analysis with knowledge of political, regional, class, and gender differences. Based on new types of data, they suggest novel interpretations of the Chinese economic experience.

The resulting collection is interdisciplinary scholarship of a high order, which weaves together the analytic framework provided by economic theory and the rich texture of social phenomena gathered by accomplished historians.

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 1992.

Maria Frederika Malmström

The Streets Are Talking to Me

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This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.

Edited by Masayuki Tanimoto and R. Bin Wong

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

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Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy?

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603–1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China’s economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry—early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management—to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.