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Saad Abdullah Sowayan

Nabati Poetry

$95.00

Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia. Rooted in the central region of Najd, Nabati poetry serves as a vernacular artistic expression of the Arabian Peninsula, blending historical narrative, tribal ethos, and personal emotion into its verse. This book illuminates the profound role Nabati poetry has played as a form of communication, social commentary, and historical documentation, transcending the boundaries of formal literary traditions. Through its study of the poetic forms, cultural context, and oral transmission, the book provides a window into the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity, as Nabati poetry grapples with the rapid transformations of Arabian society.

The work is structured to address the aesthetic, linguistic, and historical dimensions of Nabati poetry. It delves into the composition and performance of this art form, highlighting the oral traditions that have preserved its vitality while examining its connections to classical Arabic poetry. By drawing comparisons between Nabati and classical traditions, the book situates this vernacular form within the broader framework of Arabic literature. The final sections provide an urgent call for the preservation of this fading art form, emphasizing its significance as both a historical record and a cultural treasure. Rich with poetic examples and insightful analysis, Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia is an essential resource for understanding the poetic soul of premodern Arabia.

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.

William A. Lyell, Jr.

Lu Hsun's Vision of Reality

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Lu Hsün’s Vision of Reality delves into the revolutionary shifts in modern Chinese fiction during the early 20th century, spotlighting Lu Hsün (pen name of Chou Shu-jen) as a pioneering figure in the short story genre. His seminal collections, Call to Arms (1923) and Wandering (1926), are celebrated as enduring classics, encapsulating the socio-political upheavals of the time. The book contextualizes Lu Hsün’s works within the rich cultural and historical backdrop of his hometown, Shaohsing, a city renowned for its clever inhabitants and steeped in memories of rebellion and resilience. Through vivid depictions of Shaohsing’s traditions, landscapes, and the remnants of the Taiping Rebellion, the study connects Lu Hsün’s literary vision to his roots, offering readers insights into the shaping of his critical perspective on Chinese society.

This comprehensive introduction serves both seasoned scholars and new readers, balancing an accessible narrative with in-depth analysis of Lu Hsün’s stories and their broader implications. It combines personal history, cultural critique, and literary examination, illustrating how Lu Hsün’s upbringing in a storied yet turbulent environment influenced his masterful storytelling and unflinching critique of Chinese tradition. Through translations, detailed descriptions, and scholarly commentary, the book invites readers to appreciate the depth of Lu Hsün’s contributions to modern Chinese literature and the universal themes embedded in his tales of human struggle and societal change.

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.

Steven Cassedy

Flight from Eden

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Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern criticism—from structuralism to postmodern criticism—rests on a faith in an "Eden," an irreducible essence, a myth, like the common myth that there is an intrinsic distinction between "poetic" language and "ordinary" language. The modern critic attempts to abandon all mystical faith; this is the "flight from Eden." But it is always in vain.

It is traditionally assumed that modern literary criticism and theory came from France, and relatively recently. In fact, according to Cassedy, the entire modern critical consciousness was already formed by the early twentieth century in the minds of writers who were primarily neither professional critics nor philosophers, but poets. Some were French (Mallarmé, and Valéry); others were not (Rilke, Bely, and the Russian avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov). In them we find the same Edenic faith, the same effort to abandon it, and the same failure of that effort.

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.

Mark D. Meyerson

The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel

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The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of Granada, and the conversion of the Muslims of Granada and Castile? In explanation, Mark Meyerson achieves the first thorough analysis of Fernando and Isabel's policy toward both Muslims and Jews. His findings will stimulate much discussion among Hispanists, Arabists, and historians.

Meyerson argues that the key to the persistence of Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia lies in the hitherto unexamined differences between the royal couple concerning matters of religion. More than a study of the minority policy of the Catholic Monarchs, however, The Muslims of Valencia is an exemplary analysis of the economic life of Valencia's Muslims and the complex institutional and social network that held them suspended "between coexistence and crusade."

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 1991.

The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel

Jeffrey K. Sawyer

Printed Poison

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Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle for domination of Louis XIII's government. In response more than 1200 pamphlets—some printed in as many as eighteen editions—were produced and distributed. These pamphlets constituted the political press of the period, offering the only significant published source of news and commentary.

Sawyer examines key aspects of the impact of pamphleteering: the composition of the targeted public and the ways in which pamphlets were designed to affect its various segments, the interaction of pamphlet printing and political action at the court and provincial levels, and the strong connection between pamphlet content and assumptions on the one hand and the evolution of the French state on the other. His analysis provides new and valuable insights into the rhetoric and practice of politics.

Sawyer concludes that French political culture was shaped by the efforts of royal ministers to control political communication. The resulting distortions of public discourse facilitated a spectacular growth of royal power and monarchist ideology and influenced the subsequent history of French politics well into the Revolutionary 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 1990.

Stuart L. Bernath

Squall Across the Atlantic

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Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy by Stuart L. Bernath traces the fraught intersection of international law, naval power, and diplomacy during the Civil War. Focusing on the Union Navy’s seizures of neutral vessels, Bernath reconstructs the “prize cases” that tested the limits of blockade enforcement, contraband trade, and the rights of neutral shipping. From incidents like the Peterhoff and Springbok cases to disputes over continuous voyage and violations of neutral waters, the book demonstrates how these maritime controversies strained Anglo-American relations and brought Britain and the United States perilously close to open conflict.

Meticulously researched from American and British archives, Bernath situates courtroom rulings and diplomatic correspondence within the larger stakes of Union strategy and international law. His analysis highlights the paradox of the United States, long a defender of neutral rights, now pressing belligerent claims against Britain, the “Mistress of the Seas.” By showing how the prize cases forced courts, naval officers, and statesmen to balance military necessity with diplomatic restraint, Squall Across the Atlantic illuminates both the international dimensions of the Civil War and the evolution of maritime law in the modern 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 1970.

Myron Simon

The Georgian Poetic

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T. S. Eliot, in his 1961 address "To Criticize the Critic," admitted that his early critiques of Georgian poetry were partly motivated by a desire to defend the Modernist poetry he and his peers championed. This personal insight reflects a broader pattern where critics, advocating for successive waves of "new" poetry in the 1920s through 1940s, often targeted the Georgians as symbols of outdated literary styles. Figures like Day Lewis used dismissive caricatures of Georgian poets, such as calling them writers of "very low vitality," to promote revolutionary poetic movements, reducing the Georgians to mere counterexamples in Modernist polemics. Over time, distinctions between Edward Marsh’s original Georgian circle and John Squire’s Neo-Georgians blurred, and the widespread disdain for Georgian poetry became an unquestioned axiom. However, the 1950s brought a reassessment through biographies, editions, correspondence, and histories that highlighted the Georgians’ pivotal role in shaping twentieth-century English poetics. The scholarship of Christopher Hassall and Robert H. Ross corrected earlier misjudgments and provided a foundation for deeper understanding, which this book aims to expand by refining their findings and exploring overlooked aspects of the Georgian poetic legacy.

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.

Viola L. Hagopian

Italian Ars Nova Music

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The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music. This revised and expanded second edition reflects the vibrant and ongoing exploration of fourteenth-century Italian music, building on decades of meticulous scholarship. Originally compiled by Viola Hagopian, this guide has become a cornerstone in musicology, offering a comprehensive classification and concise descriptions of the wealth of materials related to this transformative period in music history.

The Italian Ars Nova, marked by its intricate melodic structures and the rise of the madrigal, remains a field of dynamic research, as new manuscripts and interpretations continue to emerge. With significant contributions from international scholars and institutions like the Centro di Studi sull'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, this volume contextualizes the music within its cultural and historical framework. This edition not only revisits earlier discoveries but also incorporates new findings, making it a crucial tool for navigating the rich and ever-expanding scholarship on this 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 1973.

Rosalie L. Colie Edited by Barbara K. Lewalski

The Resources of Kind

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The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance, edited by Barbara K. Lewalski, presents the four Una’s Lectures delivered at Berkeley in 1972 by Rosalie Littell Colie, whose sudden death prevented their further expansion into the major study she had planned. Even in this form, the essays offer a landmark contribution to Renaissance literary history and critical theory. With Colie’s characteristic erudition and elegance, they emphasize the richness and flexibility of Renaissance genre, challenging the modern prejudice that genre constrains originality. Instead, she shows how genres act as frames of communication and metaphors for human understanding, shaping both literature and the apprehension of reality itself.

Colie identifies a central tension in Renaissance genre theory between the strict differentiation of kinds and the conception of literature as a totalizing paideia that could incorporate all knowledge. This tension opened the way for the elevation of “minor” or unconventional forms—emblems, epigrams, prose fiction, philosophical poems, dialogues—and for the invention of new forms like the essay, the picaresque novel, and the historical epic. Her lectures trace the assimilation of small forms into larger works and demonstrate how masterpieces such as Paradise Lost and King Lear achieve greatness through their encyclopedic blending of multiple genres, presenting the full range of human experience. Though unfinished, these lectures encapsulate Colie’s wide-ranging scholarship and her enduring influence, offering both new insights into Renaissance genre and a model of intellectual speculation that continues to shape the field.

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.

Sherburne F. Cook and Woodrow Borah

Essays in Population History, Volume Three

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Essays in Population History: Mexico and California, Volume Three is the final volume of the Cook and Borah Essays, marking the conclusion of the collaborative work of Sherburne F. Cook, who passed away in 1974. This volume features three essays that continue the research into the impact of European contact on indigenous populations, a theme central to Cook’s academic work. The first chapter focuses on determining the low point of the indigenous population of central Mexico, illustrating the dramatic population decline following the Spanish Conquest. The chapter draws from a key document that not only provides demographic data but also sheds light on the royal fiscal system, contributing to a deeper understanding of Mexico's colonial-era administration.

The second chapter revisits the socio-economic conditions of central Mexico during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, particularly food production and nutrition. This essay builds on earlier anthropological studies and offers a revised theory on the widespread undernutrition experienced by the majority of the population. The final chapter shifts the focus to northern California, where Cook had long wished to apply the demographic analysis techniques used for Mexican materials. This chapter examines the registers of eight northern California missions, providing a truncated but insightful exploration of the impact of European colonization on the Costanoan Indians and other groups in the region. Although the study was not completed, it lays the groundwork for further research into the functioning of the California missions and their demographic effects. This volume, while concluding Cook’s work, also opens the door for future scholars to expand upon these findings.

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 1979.

Essays in Population History, Volume Three

Edited with an Introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee

Lu Xun and His Legacy

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Lu Xun and His Legacy explores the profound and complex impact of Lu Xun, a towering figure in modern Chinese literature, whose influence has extended far beyond his writings. Hailed as a revolutionary thinker and a literary pioneer, Lu Xun's works, including Call to Arms and Wild Grass, were instrumental in shaping the intellectual and cultural landscape of 20th-century China. The book examines the dichotomy between his public persona as a revered advocate of social reform and his private struggles with self-doubt and existential anguish. It delves into the Chinese Communist Party's canonization of Lu Xun, framing him as an ideological forerunner to Mao Zedong, while critically assessing the simplifications and distortions that resulted from this state-sponsored idealization.

The collection features interdisciplinary essays that dissect Lu Xun's literary genius, political engagement, and lasting cultural legacy. It investigates his innovative narrative techniques, his nuanced critique of Chinese society, and the tensions between his humanistic morality and revolutionary ideals. The book also highlights the varied global reception of Lu Xun's works, from Japan's deep intellectual engagement to Western scholars' burgeoning interest. Through a blend of historical context, literary analysis, and cultural commentary, Lu Xun and His Legacy offers an indispensable resource for understanding the life and works of one of China's most iconic and enigmatic figures, while charting new directions for scholarly discourse.

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. E. Watts

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar. Written in elegant Latin hexameter, the poem stands as both a monumental work of storytelling and a comprehensive study in literary artifice. Across its fifteen books, Ovid captures the essence of change in all its forms, presenting gods, mortals, and nature as interconnected forces subject to perpetual metamorphosis. This narrative, filled with wit, paradox, and evocative imagery, is also a compendium of the cultural and philosophical beliefs of the Graeco-Roman world, making it a cornerstone of classical literature.

In translation, Metamorphoses continues to challenge and inspire. Translators have long grappled with the dual task of preserving Ovid’s poetic form and rendering his complex narrative accessible to contemporary readers. While the heroic couplet remains a favored medium, capturing the rhythm and authority of the original, translators also strive to convey the poem's vivid tension and stylistic intricacies. A.E.Watt's modern rendition, for example, seeks to balance fidelity to Ovid’s vision with a clarity and immediacy that resonate with today’s audience. This enduring work, at once an epic of myth and a celebration of storytelling, remains a vibrant bridge between the ancient and modern worlds, inviting readers to explore the timeless themes of transformation and creativity.

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 1954.

Robert M. Adams

The Roman Stamp

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The Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism by Robert M. Adams investigates how modern writers, artists, and thinkers have repeatedly turned to Rome as both a model of authority and a stage set for self-fashioning. Adams traces how figures from Mantegna and Scaliger to Swift, Piranesi, and Johnson appropriated Roman ideals—law, order, grandeur, severity—not merely as passive inheritances but as active instruments for rebirth, critique, or parody. With clarity and wit, he shows that neo-classicism was never just a glaze of marble columns or Latin tags but a creative struggle with the Roman stamp: a masculine, disciplined style imposed on the accidents of nature and personal history.

Moving across art history, literary polemic, and intellectual genealogy, Adams situates neo-classicism as both a vital energy and a contested masquerade. Whether in the martial self-discipline of Mantegna’s art, the biting authority of Scaliger’s scholarship, or the ironic inversions of Swift and Johnson, Rome offered a repertoire of forms through which moderns dramatized self-creation. By charting these variations—rebirth, war, seduction, diffusion—The Roman Stamp reframes “neo-classicism” not as a tired formula but as a set of crisis encounters with Rome’s enduring authority. The book will appeal to readers interested in classical reception, Renaissance and Enlightenment culture, and the uneasy legacy of antiquity in modern imagination.

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.

B.M. Khaketla

Lesotho 1970

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Lesotho 1970: An African Coup Under the Microscope provides a gripping examination of a pivotal moment in the political history of Lesotho, a small but culturally rich nation nestled within South Africa. This book delves into the January 1970 coup, when Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan suspended the constitution and declared a state of emergency, disrupting the democratic process and altering the nation’s trajectory. Through a detailed narrative, the author, Bennett Makalo Khaketla, offers a rare insider's perspective on the intersection of colonial legacy, political dynamics, and resistance movements in Lesotho. The work provides historical context, from the rise of Moshoeshoe I to Lesotho's struggles with economic dependence on South Africa, painting a vivid portrait of a nation grappling with external and internal pressures.

Khaketla, a prominent political figure and Secretary-General of the Marematlou Freedom Party, brings unparalleled insight to the analysis of Lesotho’s political, economic, and social fabric. The book contextualizes the country’s political instability within broader regional and historical frameworks, exploring the implications of the coup on governance and democracy in post-colonial Africa. With Khaketla’s unique blend of political experience, literary prowess, and cultural engagement, Lesotho 1970 offers an invaluable resource for understanding the challenges of state-building and legitimacy in a divided and economically constrained 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 1972.

David G. Marr

Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885-1925

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Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925 traces the roots of modern Vietnam’s revolutionary politics back to the decades when French colonial control was consolidated and Vietnamese resistance first assumed organized forms. Against the backdrop of France’s long-term project of exploitation, the book focuses not on collaborators but on those who resisted—sometimes clandestinely, often at great personal risk. By examining proclamations, poems, essays, autobiographies, and oral accounts, alongside French archival sources, the study reconstructs the diverse anticolonial voices that shaped Vietnam’s political consciousness well before the rise of the Indochinese Communist Party or the Viet Minh.

A central argument is that one cannot understand the successes of twentieth-century revolutionary movements in Vietnam—or why non-communist nationalists faltered—without beginning in 1885. The book emphasizes the importance of Vietnamese-language sources, many only published after 1954, and compares materials produced in both North and South Vietnam, highlighting the interpretive tensions between Marxist scholarship and more traditionalist perspectives. While much of the narrative is necessarily descriptive, bringing forward figures, ideas, and movements largely unknown outside Vietnam, the study insists on the need to delineate process and structure in Vietnamese history and to integrate cultural and intellectual dimensions into the analysis of resistance. By situating early anticolonialism within the longue durée of Vietnamese political struggle, Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925 reframes the origins of modern revolution and challenges readers to see how myths, memory, and ideology shaped a movement whose reverberations defined Vietnam’s twentieth century.

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.

Daniela Weinberg

Peasant Wisdom

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Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of Bruson, a small Alpine village in the canton of Valais, as it negotiates the pressures of modernization while holding fast to an enduring ideology of “peasant wisdom.” Drawing on nineteen months of fieldwork in the late 1960s, Daniela Weinberg traces how households, kinship networks, and village institutions adapt to shifting agricultural economies, federal subsidies, and the lure of wage labor without losing the cultural continuities that tie contemporary Brusonins to their medieval forebears. Her richly detailed account examines everything from inheritance disputes and cooperative dairying to the rituals of communal eating and the symbolic weight of family names, showing how local practices sustain a sense of autonomy and identity within Switzerland’s nested federal system.

At once a study of cultural resilience and of subtle transformation, Peasant Wisdom challenges prevailing models of rural decline and “exode rural” by documenting how Bruson reframes its agricultural base, embraces tourism, and maintains vibrant communal ties. Weinberg demonstrates that regulation and adaptation are not opposed processes but overlapping strategies by which mountain villagers balance change with continuity. This nuanced case study contributes to debates in anthropology, European studies, and political sociology, illuminating the ways in which peasant societies endure as active participants in modern democratic states while preserving their distinctive worldviews.

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.

Susan Kaufman Purcell

The Mexican Profit-Sharing Decision

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The Mexican Profit-Sharing Decision: Politics in an Authoritarian Regime offers an incisive exploration of the mechanisms and implications of decision-making within the unique political structure of mid-20th-century Mexico. The book delves into President López Mateos’s decision to implement the profit-sharing provisions outlined in Mexico’s 1917 Constitution, a redistributive policy that aimed to allocate a portion of industrial profits to workers. This decision is not only significant in its immediate economic and social impacts but also in the light it sheds on Mexico’s broader authoritarian regime, where power flows from the executive rather than grassroots demands. Through this case study, the book examines the interaction between key interest groups—organized labor, private sector business leaders, and the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)—within the tightly controlled political framework.

Drawing on a combination of official documents, unpublished communications, and interviews with key stakeholders, the author offers a detailed reconstruction of the decision-making process. The study underscores the tension between inclusivity and control in Mexico’s authoritarian system, where the PRI simultaneously incorporated labor movements into its structure while maintaining executive dominance. This case provides broader insights into the symbolic and practical roles of political legitimacy, economic redistribution, and the strategies used to manage conflicts in an ostensibly non-repressive authoritarian regime. As a result, the book contributes not only to the understanding of Mexican politics but also to the study of authoritarian systems worldwide, offering valuable lessons on the dynamics of governance, economic reform, and the role of symbolic politics in sustaining regime stability.

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.

Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft

Expositions and Developments

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Expositions and Developments brings readers into the collaborative reflections of Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, offering an intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers. Organized as extended dialogues, the book intertwines personal recollections, musical commentary, and cultural history. Stravinsky recalls formative childhood impressions in St. Petersburg, the artistic ferment of pre-revolutionary Russia, and the cosmopolitan encounters that shaped his career. Craft’s questions draw out the composer’s wit and candor, yielding vivid accounts of friendships with figures such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Ravel, and Diaghilev, as well as reflections on performers, conductors, and the evolution of Stravinsky’s own aesthetic. Together, these conversations provide a rare blend of autobiography and critical exegesis, anchored in the contexts that produced The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and later neoclassical and sacred works.

At once memoir, interview, and cultural document, this volume illuminates the intersections of music, literature, religion, and politics across Europe and America from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Appendices include Stravinsky’s own compositions—such as the Berceuse and a choral work with text by T. S. Eliot—alongside a checklist of Tchaikovsky sources for Le Baiser de la fée, underscoring the depth of Stravinsky’s dialogue with past masters. Richly illustrated with photographs spanning his life and career, Expositions and Developments offers scholars, performers, and general readers an indispensable resource: an insider’s perspective on the creative processes, cultural milieus, and personal experiences that shaped modern music.

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 Alan A. Brown and Egon Neuberger

International Trade and Central Planning

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International Trade and Central Planning: An Analysis of Economic Interactions explores the intricate dynamics of foreign trade in centrally planned economies (CPEs) and its interplay with domestic economic planning. Unlike market-type economies (MTEs), where trade is largely guided by market forces, CPEs rely on direct government control, making their trade patterns and mechanisms distinct. This book highlights the historical neglect of CPE foreign trade in economic studies and addresses critical issues such as trade aversion, balance-of-payments pressures, and inefficiencies inherent in central planning. Through theoretical frameworks, empirical studies, and case-specific analyses, the book examines the bidirectional relationship between domestic plans and trade outcomes. It also underscores the challenges posed by institutional rigidity, state trade monopolies, and a focus on self-sufficiency, which often hinder CPEs from realizing the full benefits of trade.

The text provides a comparative perspective on trade patterns in CPEs and MTEs, demonstrating how CPEs’ lower trade-to-income ratios reflect a historical aversion to trade, even as their trade volumes have grown rapidly over time due to industrialization needs. Key topics include the structural imbalances caused by prioritizing machinery production over agriculture, the instability of trade composition and direction, and the difficulty of adjusting to external shocks. Additionally, the book delves into the long-term legacies of central planning, which continue to shape trade policies even during economic transitions. By presenting original research and stimulating further inquiry, the book bridges gaps in the study of centrally planned foreign trade and integrates it into broader international trade theory, offering valuable insights into this underexplored area of economic analysis.

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 1968.

Paul A. Jorgensen

Shakespeare's Military World

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Shakespeare’s Military World by Paul A. Jorgensen offers a penetrating study of how Shakespeare imagined and dramatized the life of war. Rather than focusing only on battles staged in the theater, Jorgensen explores the full breadth of Shakespeare’s military imagination—from the music of war and the hierarchy of ranks to the plight of common soldiers, the ideals of discipline, and the tensions between war and peace. Drawing deeply on Renaissance military treatises and contemporary debates, the book situates Shakespeare’s depictions of soldiers, armies, and strategy within the Elizabethan understanding of warfare, showing how the playwright reworked classical and contemporary sources alike to shape his characters and themes.

This study illuminates Shakespeare’s world by showing how the realities and metaphors of military life informed his plays across genres. Jorgensen traces how Shakespeare’s conception of war extended beyond literal battles to encompass broader cultural concerns—disorder and order, authority and insubordination, the soldier’s role in society, and the uneasy relation between martial glory and human cost. By treating war as both lived experience and imaginative framework, Shakespeare’s Military World offers scholars and students a compelling lens through which to view the histories, tragedies, and even comedies, grounding Shakespeare’s artistry in the military ideas of his time.

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.

Arthur Selzer

Understanding Heart Disease

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Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prematurely and their potential benefits exaggerated.

Written in clear, accessible language, this book presents an authoritative and balanced picture of how heart diseases are recognized and managed. From his many years of experience, Dr. Selzer believes a well-informed patient can cooperate more successfully with a physician, and his book includes information vital to anyone confronting heart problems and cardiac emergencies.

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.

Arnold Krupat

Ethnocriticism

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Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.

For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature have sought to represent the Indian in America. Krupat considers all these discourses and the ways in which Indians have attempted to "write back," producing an oppositional—or at least a parallel—discourse.

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.

Edited by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Gleb Struve, Thomas Eekman

California Slavic Studies, Volume IX

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California Slavic Studies, Volume IX, is a rich academic compilation published by the University of California Press. This volume delves into a range of thought-provoking topics, offering scholarly perspectives on significant aspects of Slavic literature, history, and culture. Featuring essays such as Michael Green's exploration of Kheraskov and Christian tragedy, and Donald C. Gillis's analysis of the Persephone myth in Mandelstam's Tristia, the book examines themes that bridge classical influences and Slavic traditions. Other notable contributions include investigations into Dostoevsky's letters and Merezhkovsky's religious view of historical processes, offering insights into the intersections of religion, literature, and politics in Slavic contexts.

Designed for scholars and enthusiasts of Slavic studies, this volume embodies the interdisciplinary spirit of the California Slavic Studies series. Each essay is grounded in meticulous research, enriched by references to both classic texts and contemporary interpretations. As part of a celebrated series edited by prominent scholars, including Nicholas V. Riasanovsky and Gleb Struve, this work continues to contribute to the understanding of Slavic intellectual and cultural history, serving as an invaluable resource for further academic exploration.

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.

Edited by Rudolf Carnap and Richard C. Jeffrey

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume I

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Rudolf Carnap and Richard C. Jeffrey’s Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume I gathers seminal work charting Carnap’s late-career re-architecture of inductive logic. Moving beyond the single preferred c\*-method of Logical Foundations of Probability (1950), this volume documents the shift to a “continuum” of c-functions and then to a still broader framework sensitive to analogy and similarity, informed by de Finetti’s representation theorem and contemporary probability/statistics. Anchored by Carnap’s “Basic System” (presented here in detail) and complemented by foundational essays—including the programmatic “Inductive Logic and Rational Decisions”—the collection recasts logical probability in the idiom of events, models, and conditionalization, aligning formal inductive methods with Bayesian decision theory while distinguishing logical from statistical notions of information and entropy.

Framed by Jeffrey’s editorial introduction and Carnap’s own historical notes, the book doubles as an intellectual roadmap through the 1950s–60s renaissance in formal epistemology: collaborations with John Kemeny, dialogue with Savage and Putnam, and the systematic adoption of mathematical tools that were absent from Carnap’s earlier work. For philosophers of science, statisticians, and decision theorists, Volume I offers both a definitive statement of Carnap’s mature foundations and a launch pad for the unfinished upper stories—issues of confirmation, learning from analogy, and representation—that Volume II continues. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to see how inductive logic became conversant with modern probability while retaining a distinctly logical—normative—conception of rational belief.

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.

Ronald C. Tobey

Saving the Prairies

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Ronald C. Tobey tells a new origin story for American ecology by relocating its birth from the campfire of nature romanticism to the laboratories, land-grant classrooms, and wind-scoured prairies of the Midwest. Saving the Prairies follows the founding school of plant ecologists—C. E. Bessey, Roscoe Pound, Frederic Clements, John E. Weaver, Paul Sears—whose shared apprenticeship and field experience forged a tightly knit research community and a powerful scientific paradigm: plant succession. From the sod-busting 1890s through the Dust Bowl and New Deal, Tobey shows how their theory migrated from botany into policy, shaping forest reserves, game management, agricultural programs, and, later, the language of environmental impact. Lyrical evocations of tallgrass resilience sit alongside debates over measurement, experiment, and utility, revealing how the prairies functioned simultaneously as object of study, moral touchstone, and political symbol.

Rejecting a simple history of ideas, Tobey offers a case study in scientific change—what he calls a microparadigm—guided by Kuhn and informed by the sociology of science. He reconstructs how the Nebraska-centered network secured intellectual authority through graduate training, institutional placement, coauthorship, and citation, and how the same social bonds constrained critical testing of cherished assumptions. The book’s pivot comes in the 1930s, when drought and economic crisis exposed the limits of an “inevitably progressive” succession and redirected the field toward active management; even allies like A. G. Tansley peeled away as philosophical and political winds shifted. Through meticulous archival work and innovative quantitative analysis, Saving the Prairies demonstrates that ecological knowledge is inseparable from institutional settings and civic purposes. It is both an intimate group biography and a bracing account of how a science that once promised to “approach the eternal” learned instead to live with contingency—and, in doing so, helped invent modern environmentalism.

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.

Leon Howard

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville: A Biography offers an in-depth exploration of the life and literary genius of the author behind Moby-Dick. Rooted in extensive research and collaboration, this biography provides a nuanced narrative of Melville’s life, contextualizing his experiences within the broader intellectual, cultural, and historical landscapes of 19th-century America. The book draws heavily on Jay Leyda’s groundbreaking Melville Log, combining the rigor of archival discoveries with a narrative that seeks to humanize the author. By emphasizing the relationship between Melville’s life events and his literary creations, the biography aims to restore the humanity often obscured in discussions of his works, revealing the motivations, influences, and processes that shaped his remarkable oeuvre.

This biography distinguishes itself by not only recounting Melville’s life but also treating his books as pivotal events within it. It examines how his personal experiences, literary inspirations, and creative struggles coalesced into the masterpieces that have stood the test of time. With a meticulous approach to documentation and inference, the book uncovers new insights into Melville’s life, from his travels and financial struggles to the inspirations behind his autobiographical works. Rich in collaboration and drawing on the expertise of leading Melville scholars, this biography serves as an invaluable resource for understanding one of America’s most enduring literary figures, bridging the gap between Melville’s humanity and his towering literary legacy.

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.

Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn

A Renaissance Likeness

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A Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael’s Julius II, by Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn, is both a focused study of one of Raphael’s most compelling portraits and a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural world it represents. At the center is Raphael’s Portrait of Pope Julius II, today in the National Gallery, London—a likeness created during a period of intense crisis and astonishing artistic achievement in early sixteenth-century Rome. Painted between 1511 and 1512, when Julius was facing military defeat, rebellion, and illness, the portrait captures not only the man but also the turbulent moment in which he ruled. Seen alongside Bramante’s architecture, Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling, and Raphael’s own frescoes in the papal apartments, the painting belongs to the great cycle of Julian projects that defined the High Renaissance.

Partridge and Starn use Raphael’s portrait as a point of entry into the wider cultural and historical setting of Julian Rome. They examine how Julius II’s image circulated in medals, chronicles, and satire; how his character as papa terribile inspired admiration, fear, and critique; and how art functioned within a dense web of patronage, politics, and theology. Moving between close visual analysis and cultural history, the authors highlight the interplay of form, content, and style with the circumstances of patronage and power. In doing so, they resist narrow readings that treat the work solely as art object or historical document, instead revealing it as a microcosm of Renaissance culture. Richly interdisciplinary, A Renaissance Likeness restores Raphael’s Julius to its rightful place as both masterpiece and cultural artifact, showing how, in the renewed radiance of this portrait, art and history illuminate each other.

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 1980.

David N. Lorenzen

The Kapalikas and Kalamukhas

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The Kapalikas and Kalamukhas delves into the mysterious histories and practices of the Kapalikas and Kalamukhas, two Śaivite sects that thrived in medieval India before fading into obscurity. Often misunderstood and depicted through the critical lenses of their adversaries or incomplete inscriptions, these sects provide a window into the diversity of Hindu religious traditions. The Kapalikas, known for their extreme asceticism and transgressive rituals centered on the Mahavrata (Great Vow), worshipped Śiva in his fierce forms and embraced practices involving cremation grounds and human skulls. In contrast, the Kalamukhas maintained a more structured presence, establishing monastic centers and temples, particularly in the Mysore region, where they flourished between the 10th and 13th centuries. Despite their doctrinal ties to the Paśupata lineage, the Kalamukhas have often been mischaracterized for their tantric associations, which this study reexamines with fresh evidence from epigraphic records.

Through a critical synthesis of literary sources, inscriptions, and theological critiques, this work reconstructs the doctrines, rituals, and social roles of these enigmatic sects. It challenges earlier scholarly biases that painted these groups as peripheral or extreme, emphasizing their contributions to the evolution of Śaivite thought and medieval Indian religious practices. By shedding light on their complex socio-religious contexts, this study not only rescues the Kapalikas and Kalamukhas from historical obscurity but also underscores their importance in understanding the pluralistic fabric of Indian spirituality.

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.

James C. King

The Biology of Race, Revised Edition

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James J. C. K.’s The Biology of Race offers a comprehensive and scientifically grounded exploration of human diversity, providing critical insights into the intricate relationships between genetic inheritance, individual variation, and cultural influences. This revised edition builds on the success of the original work, incorporating advancements in molecular biology and evolving perspectives on intelligence and heritability since the book’s initial publication. Through its detailed examination of biological and environmental interactions, this volume aims to guide readers in understanding the concept of race from a scientific lens, unearthing both the biological foundations and the sociocultural complexities intertwined with this sensitive topic.

Designed for readers across disciplines—including biology, genetics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology—the book begins with a dispassionate discussion of group differences in the animal world before extending these principles to the human species. The text moves through the scientific framework of species, subspecies, and genetic units, blending it with an analysis of cultural and emotional factors that challenge the objective study of human variation. With its accessible language, glossary of terms, and multi-disciplinary approach, The Biology of Race serves as an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and thoughtful lay readers seeking clarity amid contemporary debates on race, equality, and diversity.

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.

Sheila L. Weiner

Ajanta

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The Ajanta caves in Maharashtra, India, have been a subject of considerable fascination since their discovery by British officers in 1819. These thirty-one rock-cut caves, located along a dramatic ravine above the Waghora River, are known for their intricate Buddhist art spanning several centuries. The caves include monastic dwellings (vihāras) and prayer halls (caitya halls), some elaborately decorated with murals and sculptures. As these caves were carved out of the rock rather than being naturally occurring formations, they required immense effort and coordination to construct. Despite the number assigned to each cave by archaeologists, the order of their excavation remains uncertain, and many of them are left incomplete. This unfinished state, combined with stylistic diversity within individual caves, suggests the artists might have worked across different caves at varying times, possibly following the natural light throughout the day to guide their progress.

Ajanta is distinctive in the history of Indian art because it uniquely combines painting, sculpture, and architecture to showcase Buddhist art evolution from the early Hīnayāna aniconic tradition through to the Mahāyāna phase, where Buddha images and Bodhisattvas appear prominently. The artistic themes in Ajanta revolve around narrative portrayals and worship-focused iconography, with shrine figures embodying a massive, spiritual weightiness, in contrast to the more graceful or dwarfish depictions of demigods and figures in the Jātaka tales. This study explores the origins of this iconographic duality at Ajanta, examining how the artistic and religious traditions that shaped it developed internally and in relation to other sites, illuminating how the evolution of Buddhism itself is mirrored in its art and monuments.

Divided into three main parts, the study analyzes historical, architectural, and stylistic progressions that influenced Ajanta's art. The first section delves into historical contexts relevant to Buddhist development in the area, while the second investigates the architectural evolution of caitya halls and vihāras and the emergence of the Buddha image. The third section focuses on the stylistic progression of the narrative art at Ajanta, tracking the evolution of both the Buddha image and the surrounding decorative forms. Through synthesizing historical, paleographic, and iconographic evidence, the study aims to provide a cohesive understanding of Buddhist art’s evolution, specifically at Ajanta, over several centuries.

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.

Kathleen Kete

The Beast in the Boudoir

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Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie.

Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection.

Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class.

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.

Arthur Lipow

Authoritarian Socialism in America

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In Authoritarian Socialism Arthur Lipow raises important issues about the nature of democracy and defines the intellectual roots of the authoritarian side of the socialist tradition in America and distinguishes it from democratic socialism.

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 1982.

Michael G. Peletz

Reason and Passion

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This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symbols of "reason" and "passion" are deployed by Malay Muslims. Unlike many studies of gender, this book elucidates the cultural and political processes implicated in the constitution of both feminine and masculine identity. It also scrutinizes the relationship between gender and kinship and weighs the role of ideology in everyday life.

Peletz insists on the importance of examining gender systems not as social isolates, but in relation to other patterns of hierarchy and social difference. His study is historical and comparative; it also explores the political economy of contested symbols and meanings. More than a treatise on gender and social change in a Malay society, this book presents a valuable and deeply interesting model for the analysis of gender and culture by addressing issues of hegemony and cultural domination at the heart of contemporary 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 1996.

Jan Chryzostom Pasek Edited and Translated by Catherine S. Leach Foreword by Wiktor Weintraub

Memoirs of the Polish Baroque

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Memoirs of the Polish Baroque: The Writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, A Squire of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania is a vivid exploration of 17th-century life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as recounted by one of its most colorful figures. Pasek's memoirs blend humor, action, and sharp observation, offering readers an authentic glimpse into the world of the Polish gentry. His tales, rooted in the Baroque era's dynamic spirit, capture everything from military campaigns and courtroom feuds to the rich traditions of everyday life. Pasek’s natural storytelling, unburdened by rigid literary conventions, creates a lively narrative that has captivated generations of readers and significantly influenced Polish literary giants like Henryk Sienkiewicz. This collection of his memoirs stands as a testament to the era's cultural and social complexity, resonating with timeless themes of resilience, ambition, and identity.

Translator Catherine S. Leach skillfully preserves the richness of Pasek’s language, blending his colloquial idioms and rhetorical flourishes into an English style that remains true to the 17th-century spirit. This meticulously annotated edition includes maps, a glossary, and historical appendices, making it both an engaging read and a valuable resource for understanding the broader historical and cultural context. Beyond its historical significance, Memoirs of the Polish Baroque bridges centuries of storytelling, providing modern readers with a lively and deeply human connection to a bygone world. This edition not only revitalizes Pasek’s literary achievements but also underscores the enduring power of personal narratives to illuminate the past.

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.

Edited by Phillip E. Hammond

The Sacred in a Secular Age

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Sacred in a Secular Age, edited by Phillip E. Hammond, brings together leading scholars to reassess one of the most enduring assumptions in the sociology of religion: the secularization thesis. Long taken as conventional wisdom, the thesis posits an inexorable decline of the sacred as societies modernize. Yet the persistence—and even resurgence—of religion in new movements, conservative traditions, and political struggles around the world challenges the adequacy of this model. This volume explores these paradoxes, asking how the sacred endures, transforms, and reasserts itself within ostensibly secular contexts.

The essays span theory, method, and case studies, engaging topics from new religious movements to conservative Protestantism, from cultural institutions to private life and global politics. Contributors probe the distinction between “religion” and “the sacred,” a line blurred in much modern scholarship but central to the work of classical theorists like Durkheim and Simmel. By interrogating this distinction, the volume points toward more nuanced frameworks for understanding sacred phenomena in secular societies. Rather than discarding the secularization paradigm, the contributors refine and revise it, suggesting ways forward for a field in transition. A landmark in the sociology of religion, the collection maps both the challenges and the possibilities for the next generation of inquiry.

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.

R. F. Willetts

The Civilization of Ancient Crete

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The Civilization of Ancient Crete takes readers on a journey into one of history’s most fascinating cradles of civilization. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Crete served as a melting pot of cultural, scientific, and intellectual advancements that shaped the ancient world. The book explores the profound Greek concept of cosmos, denoting the ordered vastness of the universe, and its relevance to Crete's historical narrative. From the island's strategic geographic position, linking Europe, Asia, and Africa, to its role as a hub of maritime innovation and cultural exchange, Crete's story intertwines with the dawn of civilization itself. This narrative delves into Crete’s transformative influence during the Minoan Bronze Age—an epoch characterized by sophisticated artistry, architectural ingenuity, and pioneering societal structures that heralded Europe’s first major leap into advanced civilization.

Drawing on centuries of scholarly research, The Civilization of Ancient Crete presents a richly detailed account of the island's historical significance, from its Neolithic roots to the grandeur of the Minoan palaces at Knossos, Phaistos, and Zakro. The text highlights groundbreaking archaeological discoveries by figures like Sir Arthur Evans and subsequent researchers, shedding light on Crete’s unique ability to assimilate external influences while shaping its own distinctive cultural identity. Readers will uncover how Crete’s innovations in writing, trade, and governance contributed to the larger tapestry of the ancient Mediterranean world. Whether exploring Crete’s enduring mythology, its vibrant role in Hellenistic and Roman periods, or its artistic renaissance under Venetian rule, this book provides an invaluable lens into how this remarkable island bridged ancient civilizations and helped define universal 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.

Edited by John Whitney Hall and Toyoda Takeshi

Japan in the Muromachi Age

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The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation of the Muromachi age (1334?1573), which was among the most neglected and misunderstood chapters in Japanese history. Both Western and Japanese scholars looked upon the period chiefly as an interlude between a classical era (the Heian period) and an early modern age (the Tokugawa period), the interim being regarded as a time of social confusion and institutional decay. As they learned more, historians saw the Muromachi age giving rise to new patterns that became important elements in a distinctly Japanese tradition; e.g., the arts of noh drama, suiboku painting, landscape gardening and the tea ceremony were perfected during Muromachi times.The volume brings together the work of Japanese and American specialists and shows that many features of Edo-period culture were anticipated by Muromachi developments. Although the volume was first published nearly three decades ago, it remains of great interest for anyone wanting to know more about Japan's historical 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 1977.
The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation o

Edited with an Introduction by Susanna Barrows and Robin Room

Drinking

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Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History explores the complex and multifaceted role of alcohol in shaping cultures, societies, and behaviors throughout modern history. The book brings together diverse essays from historians and sociologists, examining how alcohol consumption has influenced daily life, social movements, and political ideologies. By exploring the material and symbolic significance of alcohol, the volume sheds light on its place in social history, drawing connections between drinking practices and broader societal changes. The book also delves into the responses to alcohol-related problems, from the temperance movements of the 19th century to modern-day medicalization and state interventions, showing how alcohol has been both a source of cultural identity and a focal point for social control.

Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the collection offers valuable insights into how alcohol consumption reflects and shapes power dynamics, class structures, and cultural norms. By analyzing drinking subcultures, the book uncovers the different ways alcohol has been consumed and understood across time and places, from working-class taverns to elite private rituals. The authors also explore how alcohol-related policies and societal reactions have evolved, offering a deep and thoughtful look into the complex relationship between alcohol and society. Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the social, cultural, and political dimensions of alcohol throughout modern 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 1991.

Jay Monaghan

Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849

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This compelling book delves into how the gold discovery reshaped economies, societies, and migration patterns in South America. Through vivid accounts, it examines the allure of California's riches that sent thousands of Chileans and Peruvians across treacherous seas, while highlighting the unique cultural exchanges that emerged in the mining camps. The narrative also captures the ripple effects back home, from economic booms to social challenges, as gold rush fever redefined global connections.

Rich in historical detail, this study also uncovers the ingenuity and resilience of Latin Americans who ventured to California, often facing prejudice and hardship. It provides a dual lens—charting their influence on California's development and the gold rush's transformative effects on Chilean and Peruvian economies. Essential reading for history enthusiasts, this work illuminates a fascinating chapter in the shared histories of the Americas, where ambition and opportunity bridged continents during one of the 19th century's most pivotal events.

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.

Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849

Jay Monaghan Foreword by Ray Allen Billington

Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy

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Jay Monaghan’s Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy is anything but the typical historian’s memoir. Rather than recounting the slow evolution of monographs or scholarly debates, Monaghan tells the story of his early life with the verve of a born storyteller and the authenticity of one who lived on the edge of the frontier. Before he became a distinguished historian of the Civil War and the American West, Monaghan spent his youth in pursuit of adventure, trading the quiet halls of Quaker schools for the rugged landscapes of Colorado, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a young Easterner who fell in love with the West, experiencing firsthand the challenges and exhilarations of ranch life, wild horse taming, and the camaraderie of cowhands with names as colorful as the land they roamed.

The centerpiece of the memoir is Monaghan’s extraordinary detour in 1911, when news of the Mexican Revolution lured him from his studies at Swarthmore into the turmoil of El Paso and Juárez. His eyewitness account of border skirmishes and revolutionary fervor carries the immediacy of a thriller, yet it is told with the reflective perspective of one who later devoted his career to preserving and interpreting the past. Though the book concludes with his return to college, it hints at the further exploits—ranching, wool growing, and teaching among Native communities—that preceded his eventual turn to professional history. Both adventure tale and cultural document, **Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy** captures a frontier world already vanishing, while offering insight into how lived experience shaped one of America’s most prolific historians of the West and the Civil War.

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.

Aldo Scaglione

Knights at Court

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Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A.D. 1000) to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Leading medievalist and Renaissance scholar Aldo Scaglione offers a sweeping sociological view of three geographic areas that reveals a surprising continuity of courtly forms and motifs: German romances; the lyrical and narrative literature of northern and southern France; Italy's chivalric poetry. Scaglione discusses a broad number of texts, from early Norman and Flemish baronial chronicles to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the troubadours and Minnesingers. He delves into the Niebelungenlied, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and an array of treatises on conduct down to Castiglione and his successors.

All these works and Scaglione's superior scholarship attest to the enduring power over minds and hearts of a mentality that issued from a small minority of people—the courtiers and knights—in central positions of leadership and power. Knights at Court is for all scholars and students interested in "the civilizing 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 1991.

Stanley Chodorow

Christian Political Theory and Church Politics in the Mid-Twelfth Century

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Gratian's Decretum, completed around 1140, represents a monumental development in the history of canon law and Christian political theory. As the foundational text for a new, systematic approach to Church law, Gratian’s work combined the ancient canons with innovative scholastic methods, reconciling contradictions and offering a cohesive legal framework. This Concordia discordantium canonum (Concordance of Discordant Canons) not only became the cornerstone for the study and practice of canon law but also influenced the broader legal and governmental systems of medieval Europe. The Decretum introduced methodological rigor reminiscent of Abelard's scholastic theology, creating a system for resolving conflicting canons through distinctions and contextual interpretations. Gratian's work was pivotal in shaping the legal culture of the Church, establishing him as the "father of the science of canon law."

This study delves into the Decretum’s historical context, arguing that its significance extends beyond its intellectual contributions to include its engagement with the political and ecclesiastical dynamics of the mid-twelfth century. Gratian’s efforts coincided with critical developments in Church reform, the assertion of papal authority, and debates over the relationship between spiritual and secular powers. Far from being an isolated academic exercise, the Decretum reflects a deliberate attempt to create a Christian theory of societal structure and governance. By considering its original purpose and comparing it with contemporary works, this analysis positions the Decretum as a key document in understanding the interplay of law, theology, and politics in medieval Christendom. Through this lens, Gratian’s work emerges not only as a legal text but as a significant contribution to the theory and practice of ecclesiastical and political 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 1972.

Christian Political Theory and Church Politics in the Mid-Twelfth Century

Edited by Burton R. Clark

The School and the University

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Burton R. Clark’s edited volume, The School and the University: An International Perspective, explores the enduring and evolving relationship between secondary and higher education across diverse national contexts. Clark frames this relationship as a two-way street: schools shape the flow of students toward higher education, while universities, through their requirements, teacher training, and curricular influence, shape the schools in return. This volume emphasizes how these interactions are never simple. Instead, they are mediated by historical traditions, examination systems, professional cultures, and broader social forces. The book situates recent anxieties—such as American concerns over national competitiveness or debates in Europe and Japan about selectivity—within a longer history of institutional linkage, tension, and reform.

The essays range widely across seven industrialized nations, Latin America, Africa, China, and the United States, providing cross-national comparisons that reveal both common dilemmas and distinctive solutions. Contributors analyze selective tracking in Europe, the examination culture in Japan, swings in policy in China, rapid expansion in Latin America, and educational crisis in Africa. Special attention is given to the mediating role of agencies that set examinations and administer transitions between levels. Two chapters focus on the United States, highlighting the decentralization of secondary education, the chronic problems of teacher preparation, and the growing ambiguity in school-university linkages. The concluding chapter identifies complexity as the defining global trend: as access expands and tasks multiply, the agendas of schools and universities diverge, making their relationship ever more contested. With its comparative scope and theoretical depth, **The School and the University** offers scholars and policymakers a framework for understanding how educational systems adapt—and often struggle—in the face of mass participation, rising expectations, and international scrutiny.

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.

Nathan S. Rosenstein

Imperatores Victi

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Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since no professional bureaucracy directed public affairs and no salary was attached to any public office. But as Rosenstein adeptly shows, competition appears to have been surprisingly limited, in ways that curtailed the possible destructive effects of all-out contests between individuals.

Imperatores Victi examines one particularly striking case of such checks on competition. Military success at all times represented an abundant source of prestige and political strength at Rome. Generals who led armies to victory enjoyed a better-than-average chance of securing higher office upon their return from the field. Yet this study demonstrates that defeated generals were not barred from public office and in fact went on to win the Republic's most highly coveted and hotly contested offices in numbers virtually identical with those of their undefeated peers.

Rosenstein explores how this unexpected limit to competition functions, reviewing beliefs about the religious origins of defeat, assumptions about common soldiers' duties in battle, and definitions of honorable behavior of an aristocrat during a crisis. These perspectives were instrumental in shifting the onus of failure away from a general's person and in offering positive strategies a general might use to win glory and respect even in defeat and to silence potential critics among a failed general's peers. Such limits to competition had an impact on the larger problems of stability and coherence in the Republic and its political elite; these larger problems are discussed in the concluding chapter.

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.

Howard Wolpe

Urban Politics in Nigeria

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Urban Politics in Nigeria: A Study of Port Harcourt by Howard Wolpe probes a central question for postcolonial Africa: does modernization dilute communal politics—or intensify it? Focusing on Port Harcourt—an industrial boomtown created in 1913 and, by the 1960s, Nigeria’s second port and petroleum hub—Wölpe tracks how rapid migration, unemployment, and urban crowding produced new lines of cleavage even as “modern” roles spread. Rejecting simple tradition/modernity binaries, he shows communalism as a flexible, adaptive vehicle for competition over scarce resources—wealth, status, and power—in a culturally plural city. Ibos, non-Ibos, Catholics, Protestants; sub-regional Ibo factions; labor and managerial blocs: Port Harcourt mirrors Eastern Nigeria’s wider tensions while revealing how communal and noncommunal loyalties can coexist within the same actors and organizations.

Through a rigorously structured historical and sociological analysis—covering city formation under colonial rule, African political consolidation, enfranchisement, and the combustible decade before the Nigerian–Biafran war—Wölpe demonstrates how modernization reorients diverse populations toward common rewards, heightening interaction, insecurity, and mobilization. Case studies of elections, labor struggles, religious confrontation, and the campaign for a Rivers State centered on Port Harcourt ground the book’s broader claims about mutable group boundaries and the emergence of new communal formations under modern pressures. Illuminating the much-discussed Ibo capacity for organizational innovation—at once “cosmopolitan” and “parochial”—this study reframes urban political development as a contest among overlapping identities activated by shifting situations. Urban Politics in Nigeria is essential for scholars of African politics, urban studies, and ethnicity, offering a clear theoretical alternative to dichotomous models and a compelling portrait of a city whose economic centrality made it pivotal to both Eastern Nigerian and federal political trajectories.

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.

Paul Petit Translated by James Willis

Pax Romana

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Pax Romana: The High Point of Roman Civilization explores the Roman Empire's flourishing period between 31 B.C., following the Battle of Actium, and A.D. 193, when the Severans came to power. Often hailed as the Empire's "golden age," this era is marked by monumental achievements in literature, arts, and governance. However, this book challenges the traditional romanticization of this epoch, revealing that even periods of apparent stability and prosperity carried significant complexities and contradictions. Rather than offering a chronological recounting of emperors and events, the book focuses on the structures and systems that underpinned Roman society, examining political, social, and economic dynamics across the Empire.

In its second part, the book delves into the deeper questions surrounding life in the early Empire, focusing on regional distinctions, economic frameworks, and societal hierarchies. It confronts both Marxist critiques of Roman society as a flawed, "slave-owning" system and overly optimistic bourgeois narratives, providing a balanced analysis of the period’s strengths and limitations. Notably, topics like military strategy, administrative structures, and religion are selectively addressed, while Christianity is excluded as a subject for separate consideration. By blending traditional historical perspectives with modern analytical techniques, Pax Romana offers a nuanced view of Rome's zenith, making it an essential resource for understanding the interplay of power, culture, and economics during this transformative 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 1967.

Edited by William David Schaefer

The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery

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The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson (B.V.), edited by William David Schaefer, offers the first truly representative collection of Thomson’s prose, rescuing a neglected body of work from obscurity and scattered editions. While Thomson’s poetry—most notably The City of Dreadful Night—has ensured him a place in Victorian literature, his prose has long remained inaccessible, surviving mainly in rare volumes or ephemeral periodicals such as the National Reformer, the Secularist, and Cope’s Tobacco Plant. Previous collections, whether Bertram Dobell’s ill-chosen Biographical and Critical Studies or Foote’s narrowly focused Satires and Profanities, presented only partial and often misleading portraits of Thomson’s achievement. By gathering sixteen previously uncollected writings with sixteen of his strongest earlier pieces, Schaefer creates a comprehensive edition that illuminates the full range of Thomson’s secularist satire, social criticism, literary essays, and prose phantasies.

The volume situates Thomson within the turbulent intellectual climate of nineteenth-century free thought and secular radicalism, highlighting his evolution from Christian-influenced idealist to uncompromising atheist and cultural pessimist. Thomson’s caustic critiques of religion and society, his meditations on literature from Blake and Shelley to Leopardi and Whitman, and his haunting imaginative prose works reveal a writer both steeped in Victorian debates and profoundly ahead of his time. Schaefer’s editorial arrangement—grouping the texts by theme while providing historical notes—underscores the coherence of Thomson’s intellectual development while preserving the diversity of his prose forms. More than a supplement to his poetry, this collection establishes Thomson’s prose as a vital expression of Victorian radical thought and a compelling record of one man’s struggle with faith, art, and the human condition.

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.

A. L. Kroeber Foreword by Milton Singer

An Anthropologist Looks at History

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This title compiles influential essays by Alfred Kroeber, written in the last decade of his life, reflecting his deep exploration of human culture, civilization, and history through an anthropological lens. Curated by Milton Singer and Theodora Kroeber, this collection showcases Kroeber's unique perspective on the intersections of anthropology, history, and the humanities. Rather than focusing solely on ethnology or linguistic analysis, Kroeber broadens his scope to address questions about style, civilization patterns, and the historical continuity of cultures. His view of anthropology as a young, evolving science with ancient philosophical roots demonstrates his belief in the discipline’s role in understanding human progress.

The volume aims to engage both historians and anthropologists by presenting Kroeber’s reflections on culture and the human condition, especially for a generation of scholars and students whose approach to anthropology is less historically oriented. Kroeber’s personal approach to his field, developed over a lifetime of teaching and exploring anthropological themes such as "Culture Growth," emphasizes the evolving nature of culture as an "aggregate" that shapes civilizations and values. By tracing Kroeber's intellectual journey, the book underscores the importance of historical context in anthropology, positioning it as a field capable of enriching broader humanistic inquiries and advancing our understanding of civilization’s aesthetic, ethical, and structural evolution.

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.

John David Nagle

The National Democratic Party

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The National Democratic Party: Right Radicalism in the Federal Republic of Germany offers a comprehensive exploration of the emergence and impact of the NPD during the transformative postwar years of West Germany. Set against the backdrop of the Wirtschaftswunder and the democratic consolidation of the Bundesrepublik, this study examines the social, political, and economic factors that enabled the far-right to gain traction amidst a period of government instability and economic challenges. By tracing the party’s origins, electoral strategies, and ideological underpinnings, the book uncovers how the NPD sought to channel discontent into a political force that disrupted the postwar consensus.

This incisive analysis situates the NPD within a broader framework of right-radical movements across Western democracies, drawing parallels to groups like the Birch Society in the United States and the Poujadists in France. It also interrogates the deep-seated anxieties of a society grappling with urbanization, modernization, and the lingering scars of the Nazi era. Rich in historical detail and political insight, The National Democratic Party: Right Radicalism in the Federal Republic of Germany is an essential resource for scholars and students of political science, history, and European studies, offering valuable lessons on the vulnerabilities of democratic systems in times of social and economic change.

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.

Paul Alpers

Singer of the Eclogues

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Paul Alpers’s Singer of the Eclogues argues that Virgil’s ten*Eclogues (composed c. 42–38 BCE) are the single most consequential document in the pastoral tradition—formative for Renaissance poetry and exemplary of the mode’s possibilities—yet oddly neglected outside classics. Written under the first triumvirate amid civil war, not under Augustan stability, the poems imitate and converse with Theocritus without making him a lesser poet. Alpers pairs a new, reader-oriented translation with granular lexical and grammatical guidance, but refuses to simplify critical stakes. He stresses order and design (the book’s transmitted sequence is purposeful) and reframes pastoral not as escapist landscape painting but as a **mode**—a self-conscious poetry of song, voice, and human community that measures “man’s strength relative to the world.” Drawing on Dante’s reverent epithet, “the singer of the bucolic songs,” Alpers shows how pastoral binds poets across time, holding humility and tradition together with a claim to essential truths. Against romanticized “golden age” readings (Poggioli) or allegory-hunting that values the genre only when it cancels itself, he follows Empson and Rosenmeyer in treating pastoral as an ethical fiction: human lives equated with shepherds’ lives, their talk, songs, and shared pleasures.

That lens clarifies the famous opening of **Eclogue 1**, where dispossessed Meliboeus envies Tityrus’s shade and flute: the God who grants Tityrus otium (politically Octavian, poetically a patron) is named within a world of eviction and fear. For Alpers, such scenes dramatize pastoral’s power and its limits: it cannot speak to everything, but it can model how poetry faces historical burden through modest means—song, fellowship, tradition. In an era skeptical of voice, presence, and inherited forms, Alpers contends, pastoral’s diffident self-awareness remains timely: it admits the pains of life and the dilemmas of language, yet still forges communities of recognition among singers, listeners, and later readers.

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 1979.

Gerard E. Caspary

Politics and Exegesis

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Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords delves into the interplay between biblical exegesis and political thought, using the allegory of the "two swords" in Luke 22:38 as a focal point. Widely cited in medieval debates over the balance of spiritual and temporal powers, this passage became a cornerstone for articulating the relationship between Church and state. This book argues that the foundations for the medieval interpretation of the two swords were laid by Origen of Alexandria, whose theological and exegetical innovations influenced centuries of political thought. While Origen may not have directly commented on the "two swords" passage, his broader exegetical framework and theological insights provided the intellectual basis for interpreting it as a metaphor for dual authority.

The book situates Origen's contributions within his dual identity as a biblical scholar and a philosopher, exploring how his exegetical methods shaped his theology of politics. By analyzing Origen’s interpretation of warfare and his nuanced understanding of the relationship between literal and spiritual readings of scripture, the work demonstrates how his thought bridged scriptural exegesis and practical theology. The study ultimately positions Origen as a pivotal figure whose ideas informed the medieval Church's use of scripture to address political and institutional questions, particularly in debates over the division of powers between kings and the papacy.

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 1979.

Larry Wright

Teleological Explanations

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A modern classic in the philosophy of science, Larry Wright’s Teleological Explanations reframes purpose-talk in biology, psychology, and the social sciences as genuine, testable explanation rather than pre-Galilean superstition. Moving from the stock “charges against teleology” to a positive account of goal-directed behavior and function, Wright shows how explanations that cite what something is for can be understood etiologically—by the role consequences play in bringing about and sustaining the behaviors and structures that have them. The book’s through-line is crisp and cumulative: a critique of confusions about cause and effect and anthropomorphism, an analysis of directed behavior, a theory of functions that spans natural and conscious cases, and a final integration with action explanation.

Wright’s argument has become foundational for work on biological function, mechanism, and design without a designer. Clear examples, programmatic tests, and a careful separation of “merely causal” from consequence-oriented explanation make the book essential reading for philosophers of science and mind, theoretical biologists, cognitive scientists, and anyone who needs a rigorous vocabulary for talking about aims, purposes, and functions in a naturalistic key. It is both a sharp methodological guide and a durable point of entry into debates over normativity, levels of analysis, and the status of teleology across the sciences.

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.

R. Howard Bloch

Medieval French Literature and Law

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Medieval French Literature and Law explores the intricate relationship between medieval French literature and the profound judicial transformations of the 12th and 13th centuries. By examining literary texts alongside customary legal materials, the book reveals how both spheres participated in articulating the values and struggles of a society in transition. Far from existing in separate domains, literature and law in medieval France shared a common cultural mission: to preserve tradition, negotiate societal tensions, and affirm communal identity. Through oral performances, epic tales, and courtly poetry, medieval literature often mirrored the legal mechanisms of feudal courts, showcasing trials by combat, oaths, and ordeals as integral to both narrative structure and communal values.

The work delves into how the literary and legal practices of the period reflected and influenced each other. The shift from feudal judicial systems reliant on physical violence to the monarchy's centralized, document-driven processes found parallels in literature’s evolution from the epic's dramatic conflicts to the courtly lyric's introspective nuance. Texts like La Mort Artu and Raoul de Cambrai not only depict the inadequacies of feudal legal institutions but also illuminate the broader political and cultural transformations of the High Middle Ages. By situating these literary artifacts within their historical context, the book provides a richer understanding of how vernacular literature and legal codification shaped and were shaped by the dynamic interplay of power, tradition, and social order.

Ideal for historians and literary scholars alike, this study redefines our understanding of medieval French culture, offering fresh insights into the collaborative evolution of law and literature 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 1977.

Gerald L. Caplan

The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969

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The Elites of Barotseland: 1878-1969 offers a comprehensive political history of Zambia's Western Province, focusing on the Lozi people and their interactions with imperial powers, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The study traces the political dynamics of Barotseland from the late 1800s, highlighting how imperial forces shaped the kingdom's structure, as well as the internal power struggles among the Lozi elites. It emphasizes the historical significance of Barotseland's integration into Zambia in the 1960s, which marked the transformation of a colonial entity into a unified state.

The work examines the political, economic, and social structures of Barotseland, emphasizing the role of the Lozi ruling elite in shaping the region’s destiny. The study reveals how the Lozi, who had been relatively powerful in their region, adapted to European imperialism through indirect rule, and how these interactions influenced the formation of a new political and social elite. Through detailed accounts of the Lozi kings, such as King Mulambwa and later Lewanika, as well as the colonial and post-colonial political transformations, the book discusses the role of elites in both resisting and accommodating imperial power.

Additionally, the study touches on the broader themes of colonialism in Africa, examining how economic systems, education, and social class conflicts played out within Barotseland. The rise of secessionist tendencies and the contest for power between various elite factions are also explored in the context of Barotseland's eventual integration into Zambia. This book offers a nuanced understanding of the internal politics of Barotseland and its significance in the larger framework of Southern African history, making it an important resource for those interested in African political history and the dynamics of colonialism and post-colonial 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 1970.

William J. Goode

The Celebration of Heroes

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The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System explores the profound influence of prestige on social behavior, presenting it as a central mechanism of social control that transcends cultures and eras. This groundbreaking treatise delves into how prestige—rooted in the universal human need for respect and esteem—shapes individual and group interactions. By drawing on historical examples, field studies, and experimental research, the book outlines empirically grounded propositions that illuminate the ways prestige influences rewards, punishments, and the distribution of social roles. From the structured allocation of honors to the complex dynamics of prestige subversion, the author examines how these processes affect social cohesion, organizational behavior, and perceptions of justice.

At its core, the book investigates critical questions about the nature and impact of prestige: how it is distributed, manipulated, and institutionalized to guide behavior and sustain power structures. It considers the interplay between personal ambition and societal expectations, analyzing both the ethical implications of prestige systems and their practical applications in shaping norms. By integrating exchange theory and equity concepts, the study offers a nuanced perspective on the motivations behind human interactions, shedding light on the enduring tension between individual self-interest and collective values. The Celebration of Heroes serves as an essential resource for understanding the enduring role of esteem in human societies, while also challenging readers to reflect on the fairness and dynamics of prestige-driven social structures.

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 1978.

Bradley M. Richardson

The Political Culture of Japan

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The Political Culture of Japan delves into the evolving political attitudes of the Japanese populace in the postwar period, focusing on the influence of democratization efforts introduced during the American occupation. This study aims to document the shifts in mass political attitudes rather than elite or group behaviors, offering a lens into the broader impacts of societal and institutional upheavals. By comparing prewar and postwar political cultures, the author sheds light on how democratic reforms have reshaped public opinion and contributed to Japan's modern political framework. Relying on nearly 300 public opinion surveys conducted between 1958 and 1967, the book identifies general trends and patterns that capture the transformation of Japan’s political landscape during a pivotal era.

A central theme of the book is the contrast between the fragmented understanding of prewar political culture and the more systematic evaluation of postwar attitudes. The author carefully critiques the limitations of available historical data while using comparative insights from surveys to bridge this gap. By emphasizing methodological rigor and the significance of longitudinal patterns, the study not only provides a nuanced understanding of Japan's political evolution but also contributes to broader discussions on mass attitudinal changes in societies undergoing rapid democratization. This work serves as a valuable resource for scholars of political science and Japanese history, illuminating the enduring influence of societal reforms on political behavior.

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.

Blake Nevius

Cooper's Landscapes

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Cooper's Landscapes: An Essay on the Picturesque Vision delves into the vivid and enduring landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper's works, exploring how his descriptive artistry shaped the American literary imagination. This essay examines Cooper's unique ability to translate the grandeur of early 19th-century America into powerful visual panoramas that resonate with readers long after the characters and plots fade. Drawing on insights from European aesthetic traditions and the picturesque conventions, the book highlights how Cooper's narrative settings were inspired by both his American roots and his transformative years abroad. This perspective not only contextualizes his work within the broader scope of art and landscape painting but also underscores Cooper's innovative approach to crafting scenes that intertwine with the thematic elements of his storytelling.

The book also offers a fresh critique of Cooper’s aesthetic education, focusing on his mastery of landscape organization, the influence of his European experiences, and his application of landscape gardening principles in fiction. From early romances like The Last of the Mohicans to the nuanced complexities of later works such as Wyandotte, the essay reveals how Cooper’s visual imagination evolved to serve his narrative ambitions. By connecting Cooper’s artistry to the broader Romantic movement and theories of visual perception, this study illuminates the profound interplay between literature and the sister arts, offering a rich framework for appreciating Cooper’s enduring contributions to American cultural and literary 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 1976.

Steven J. Simmons

The Fairness Doctrine and the Media

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The Fairness Doctrine and the Media examines the complex history and ongoing debates surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's fairness doctrine, a regulation designed to ensure that broadcast media provide balanced and diverse viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance. The doctrine, which arose in the context of the rise of radio and television, was grounded in the belief that media outlets, with their amplified voices, held a responsibility to ensure that the public could hear all sides of important issues. This book delves into the legal and practical implications of the fairness doctrine, offering a historical narrative of its development, its challenges, and its eventual decline. The author critically explores the doctrine’s evolution, including its inconsistencies, potential for misuse, and the dangers of government overreach, while also offering thoughtful proposals for reform.

Through a detailed analysis, the book provides an insightful examination for a wide range of audiences, including students, legal professionals, broadcasters, and members of the general public interested in media regulation and freedom of speech. The work is an invaluable resource for those seeking a nuanced understanding of how government regulation intersects with media practices, and it critically assesses the role of the fairness doctrine in shaping media content. By exposing both the strengths and shortcomings of this regulatory effort, the book encourages readers to reexamine long-held assumptions about the balance between government intervention and press freedom, making it a vital text for those engaged in the ongoing debate about the future of media regulation in the United States.

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 1978.

Raymond Oliver

Poems Without Names

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Poems Without Names: The English Lyric, 1200–1500 is an in-depth exploration of the Middle English lyric tradition, offering a study of anonymous poems written between 1200 and 1500. This anthology is interwoven with 86 full-text poems chosen to illustrate the structural and stylistic coherence of Middle English verse. The book delves into the anonymous and communal nature of these works, emphasizing their practical and public purpose rather than personal expression. Organized around ten thematic categories, including love poems, feast songs, Marian hymns, and morality verses, the collection reflects the oral and rhetorical foundations of the lyric tradition. The book investigates the shared stylistic elements—such as alliteration, rhyme, and metaphor—that bind these diverse poems into a unified literary tradition, creating a poetic "grammar" that transcends individual authorship.

With a focus on the functional and social aspects of these works, the study also addresses their historical and educational contexts. It highlights the role of medieval rhetorical instruction and the influence of religious and moral values on the style and purpose of the poems. By analyzing the public and communal intentions behind these verses, Poems Without Names sheds light on a poetic tradition that remains foundational to English literature. The text bridges the medieval past with modern appreciation, making these historically significant yet often overlooked works accessible to contemporary readers while underscoring their lasting influence on the English lyric form.

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 Cabell Pronko

The World of Jean Anouilh

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The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century’s most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity. While Anouilh’s later works after 1960 tended toward whimsy or self-conscious mannerism, his major contributions remain the serious dramas of the 1940s and the bitter comedies of the postwar decade—*Antigone*, *Ardèle*, *L’Alouette*, and the late triumph *Becket*. These plays established him not as a boulevard entertainer but as a poet of the “dirty hands” dilemma: whether to plunge into the sordid world of politics and power, as Creon does, or to refuse altogether, like Antigone or Hugo, and risk irrelevance.

Pronko situates Anouilh’s achievement in a broader cultural and theatrical frame. U.S. audiences initially resisted his bleak vision and the French conventions of *ménage à trois* and anti-realist staging, but Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, alongside the theater of the absurd, created receptive spaces. Antigone, staged during the German Occupation, became a touchstone for audiences who read in it the conflict between collaboration and resistance, even if the playwright disavowed explicit politics. Becket confirmed Anouilh’s capacity for depth after lighter boulevard pieces, while the late plays repeatedly stage upstairs/downstairs contrasts between perfumed salons and grim kitchens, dramatizing class and moral divides. Throughout, Anouilh maintained that he sought only to entertain, yet the ethical gravitas of his work, its recurring dialectic of purity and compromise, belies this modest claim. For theater practitioners and scholars alike, Pronko’s study underscores why Anouilh’s core works—above all Antigone, Becket, and La Valse des toréadors—remain essential to modern repertoires.

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.

W. D. King

Henry Irving's Waterloo

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In this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself.

Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining.

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.

Ronald Weitzer

Transforming Settler States

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In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe, Ronald Weitzer traces developments in internal security structures before and after major political transitions. He concludes that thoroughgoing transformation of a repressive security apparatus seems to be an essential, but often overlooked, precondition for genuine democracy.

In an instructive comparative analysis, Weitzer points out the divergent development of initially similar governmental systems. For instance, since independence in 1980, the government of Zimbabwe has retained and fortified basic features of the legal and organizational machinery of control inherited from the white Rhodesian state, and has used this apparatus to neutralize obstacles to the installation of a one-party state. In contrast, though liberalization is far from complete. The British government has succeeded in reforming important features of the old security system since the abrupt termination of Protestant, Unionist rule in Northern Ireland in 1972. The study makes a novel contribution to the scholarly literature on transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in its fresh emphasis on the pivotal role of police, military, and intelligence agencies in shaping political developments.

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.

Gerald Nelson

Changes of Heart

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Changes of Heart: A Study of the Poetry of W. H. Auden delves into the significant evolution in Auden's poetic voice and persona, particularly during and after the turbulent 1940s. This period saw Auden facing criticism from contemporaries like Randall Jarrell and Joseph Warren Beach, who accused him of betraying his liberal commitments and losing coherence in his poetic craft. As Auden transitioned to a more introspective, Christian-inspired worldview, his poetry reflected this shift through complex long poems that seemed, at first glance, diffuse and uncertain. This study challenges earlier dismissive critiques by exploring the deeper trajectory of Auden’s poetic development and his search for a new persona—a "mask" that could humanize and convey his evolving metaphysical and moral perspectives.

The book examines Auden's persona as the pivotal element bridging poet and reader, offering insight into his thematic and stylistic transformation. By analyzing both his dramatic and nondramatic works, it highlights how Auden redefined his poetic voice to align with his maturing beliefs, culminating in later masterpieces such as The Shield of Achilles. This dual exploration not only tracks the emergence of Auden’s refined poetic identity in the 1950s but also investigates how this new "mask" shaped his poetry's impact and reception, underscoring a deliberate and significant evolution rather than the perceived decline posited by earlier critics.

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.

Richard B. Finn

Winners in Peace

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Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952. He focuses on the two main actors, General Douglas MacArthur and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and details the era's major events, programs, and personalities, both American and Japanese.

Finn draws on an impressive range of sources—American, Japanese, British, and Australian—including interviews with nearly one hundred participants in the Occupation. He describes the war crimes trials, constitutional reforms, and American efforts to rebuild Japan. The work of George Kennan in making political stability and economic recovery the top goals of the United States became critical in the face of the developing Cold War.

Winners in Peace will aid our understanding of Japan today—its economic growth, its style of government, and the strong pacifist spirit of its people.

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.

Joan Rees

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke 1554-1628

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Dive into the enigmatic and intellectual world of Fulke Greville, a towering yet often misunderstood figure of the English Renaissance. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 1554–1628: A Critical Biography unveils the life and works of this poet, statesman, and thinker whose writings combine political insight, moral philosophy, and profound religious conviction. Known as a confidant of Sir Philip Sidney and a courtier under Queen Elizabeth I, Greville’s poetry remained unpublished during his lifetime, awaiting future generations to uncover its depth. This book sheds light on Greville’s intricate exploration of human ambition, the tension between worldly honor and divine grace, and the complex interplay of power and faith.

Through meticulous scholarship, the biography examines Greville's seminal works, including Caelica, his philosophical treatises, and his dramatic plays, all of which reflect his intellectual rigor and distinctive ""plain style"" infused with moral complexity. Readers will journey through Greville's labyrinthine texts, rich with meditations on fame, virtue, and the fragility of human aspirations. With detailed historical context and insightful analysis, this critical biography brings clarity to Greville’s apocalyptic and cabalistic style, revealing a master poet whose reflections on human frailty resonate deeply across the centuries. Perfect for lovers of Renaissance literature and intellectual history, this biography reclaims Greville’s rightful place among the great poets and thinkers of his age.

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.

Stephen G. Miller

The Prytaneion

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The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form explores one of the most significant yet architecturally elusive civic structures in ancient Greece. The prytaneion, a central building in Greek city-states, functioned as a political and ceremonial hub, yet its architectural form remains ambiguous due to limited surviving archaeological evidence. Despite frequent references in Greek literature—from Plato’s Apology to Roman-era texts—only three securely identified prytaneia have been excavated, making its architectural reconstruction a challenge. This study aims to define the essential characteristics of the prytaneion by analyzing literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, thereby establishing a clearer typology of its form and function.

The book systematically examines historical testimonia to determine the key architectural elements that the prytaneion would have required to fulfill its civic role. It also compares these findings against the limited excavated examples to discern common features and possible variations. Like the stoa, another recognizable Greek architectural type with multiple variations, the prytaneion likely exhibited a standard set of features—such as a central hearth for the sacred fire, dining areas for official banquets, and a location within or near the political heart of the city. Through this methodical synthesis, the study provides a framework for identifying prytaneia across different Greek city-states, enhancing our understanding of its role in ancient governance and urban planning.

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 1978.

Janet Lembke

Bronze and Iron

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Bronze and Iron: Old Latin Poetry from Its Beginnings to 100 B.C. offers an in-depth exploration of the fragments and traditions of early Roman poetry, tracing its evolution from archaic ritual chants to more developed literary forms. This volume situates Old Latin poetry within its historical and cultural context, posing profound questions about the nature of art, the role of poetry in society, and the symbolic shifts it underwent during Rome’s formative years. Through engaging with the surviving fragments—ranging from the mystical Salian hymns to the sophisticated works of Naevius and Ennius—this study illuminates the poetic transition from collective survival and state celebration to the exploration of individual possibilities.

Divided into three sections—Historia, Mythos, and Plasmata—the book examines the factual preservation of Old Latin texts, proposes imaginative insights into their cultural and artistic significance, and offers a methodological approach to their translation. Through this framework, it investigates the maturation of poetic expression, the influence of early Roman deities like the Camenae, and the evolving purposes of poetry in the state and personal realms. Whether addressing questions about Ennius as a mathematical poet or the cinematic qualities of archaic epic, this work provides fresh perspectives on the foundations of Western poetic tradition, making it indispensable for classicists, literary historians, and anyone intrigued by the early origins of Roman art and thought.

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.

Sharon H. Nolte

Liberalism in Modern Japan

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Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 offers a compelling exploration of the evolution of liberal thought in Japan during a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation. By focusing on the lives and ideas of figures such as Tanaka Odo, Ishibashi Tanzan, and Shimamura Hogetsu, the book illuminates the intellectual currents that shaped Japan’s modernization. These thinkers championed principles such as individual dignity, freedom of expression, gender equality, and democratic participation, adapting Western liberal ideas to the unique context of Japanese society. Their vision, however, was not without its complexities, as they sought to balance imported ideologies with Japan’s historical and cultural realities. The result is a nuanced narrative that sheds light on how liberalism became both a force of reform and a subject of contention within modern Japan.

The study also situates Japanese liberalism within broader global and historical paradigms, challenging simplistic comparisons with Western models. Japan’s trajectory—marked by rapid industrialization, bureaucratic governance, and a patriarchal social order—defies easy categorization within frameworks of colonialism or revolution. By examining the interplay of Western influences and indigenous developments, the book underscores the distinctiveness of Japan’s modern experience. The thinkers profiled here not only grappled with tensions between institutional structures and cultural values but also redefined Japan’s identity on the world stage. Their work provides an invaluable lens for understanding the complexities of modernization and the enduring relevance of liberal ideals in shaping national and global histories.

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.

Robert M. Polhemus

The Changing World of Anthony Trollope

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Explore the transformative world of Anthony Trollope through Robert M. Polhemus's seminal study, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope. This work delves deep into Trollope’s mastery as a chronicler of societal shifts and individual moral dilemmas. Polhemus intricately examines Trollope's best and most representative novels, such as the Barset and Palliser series, revealing the nuanced interplay between personal growth and historical currents. From the humor and poignancy of his characters to his exploration of the evolving Victorian mindset, Trollope emerges as both a mirror of his age and a commentator on the timeless challenges of adaptation and conscience.

With a focus on Trollope’s unique ability to weave history, humor, and human emotion, Polhemus sheds light on the novelist's enduring relevance. Highlighting Trollope's celebration of the ordinary as extraordinary, the book captures his exploration of middle-class virtues and the often-overlooked complexities of everyday life. A must-read for lovers of Victorian literature, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope offers a fresh perspective on a literary giant whose works continue to resonate with modern audiences.

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 1968.

Douglas N. Walton

Courage

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A Philosophical Investigation by Douglas N. Walton offers an in-depth exploration of courage as both a philosophical and practical virtue. This seminal work examines courage through historical, ethical, and practical lenses, providing a thorough analysis of its role in moral reasoning and human character. Through engaging examples and a meticulous study of action theory, Walton delves into the complexities of courage, its psychological and ethical dimensions, and its indispensable role in achieving personal integrity and societal good. This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of philosophy, ethics, and human behavior.

Combining historical perspectives with contemporary philosophical discourse, Walton's investigation illuminates how courage manifests in various contexts, from heroic acts of bravery to everyday moral challenges. With a focus on practical reasoning, this book dissects the elements that constitute courageous actions, offering readers a nuanced understanding of this vital human quality. Whether addressing Aristotle's balanced deliberation or modern ethical dilemmas, A Philosophical Investigation serves as both a foundational text and a compelling narrative about the enduring significance of courage in human 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 1986.

Spencer C. Olin, Jr.

California's Prodigal Sons

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California's Prodigal Sons: Hiram Johnson and the Progressives, 1911-1917 provides an in-depth examination of the transformative Progressive Era in California under the leadership of Governor Hiram W. Johnson. This study shifts the focus from ideological analysis to practical governance, chronicling Johnson's efforts to implement reform and establish efficient public services that prioritized the public good over special interests. With its chronological approach, the book explores key legislative accomplishments addressing railroad control, corruption, labor conditions, and resource management. Drawing on newly available manuscripts, including the Hiram Johnson Papers, the book offers fresh insights into Johnson's administration and its lasting impact on state and national progressivism.

In addition to highlighting Johnson's reforms, the book delves into the intense conflict between progressives and conservatives during this era, culminating in the pivotal 1916 Hughes campaign, which tested Johnson's political dominance. The narrative captures the dynamic interplay of politics, personality, and policy, revealing Johnson as a zealous leader whose identity was deeply intertwined with his reform agenda. Through detailed analysis and rich historical context, California's Prodigal Sons sheds light on the broader Progressive movement while offering a compelling portrait of a pivotal figure in California's 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 1968.

James T. Araki

The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan

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The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan delves into the kowaka, a ballad-drama genre that flourished during Japan’s tumultuous Medieval Era, a period shaped by samurai culture and the heroic values of loyalty and chivalry. Emerging in the 16th century, kowaka captured the martial exploits and epic struggles of the early Medieval Era, including the famed Genji-Heike conflict. Despite its initial popularity among samurai, the kowaka faded into obscurity during the Edo Period, only to be rediscovered in modern times. This study aims to reconstruct the history, artistry, and literary significance of kowaka, drawing on Japanese scholarship, field observations in Kyushu’s Oe Village (where the tradition endures), and textual analysis.

The book is divided into two parts. The first examines kowaka as a performing art, detailing its historical development, influences, and stylistic elements while highlighting the author’s original fieldwork and critiques of prior research. The second part focuses on the literary aspects of kowaka with a comprehensive analysis of its texts and translations. Through this exploration, the author strives to bridge gaps in understanding the kowaka’s aesthetic and cultural legacy while acknowledging the limitations of available research and resources. The study serves as both a detailed introduction and a foundation for future inquiries into this unique art form.

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.

Eric S. Mallin

Inscribing the Time

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Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night reveals the ways the plays echo the events and anxieties that accompanied the beginning of the seventeenth century. Troilus reflects the rebellion of the Earl of Essex and the failure of the courtly, chivalric style. Hamlet resonates with the danger of the bubonic plague and the difficult succession history of James I. Twelfth Night is imbued with nostalgia for an earlier period of Elizabeth's rule, when her control over religious and erotic affairs seemed more secure.

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.

Oran R. Young

Natural Resources and the State

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Natural Resources and the State: The Political Economy of Resource Management by Oran R. Young investigates how governments shape the use, transfer, and regulation of natural resources, situating these choices within broader theories of the state. Young examines the tension between devolution of public lands, direct state operation, and regulatory regimes, grounding the discussion in detailed U.S. case studies: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Fur Seal Act, and the Fishery Conservation and Management Act. These examples reveal how the state can act as landlord, operator, or regulator, each role carrying profound political and economic consequences. By tracing how these policies were negotiated, implemented, and contested, the book illuminates the interplay of bureaucracy, law, indigenous rights, and international agreements in shaping resource governance.

Far from being abstract theorizing, Young’s work is anchored in the concrete experience of Alaska and the far North, where questions of sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and economic development converge. His analysis critiques both the limits of neoclassical economic approaches to resource allocation and the idealized assumptions of ecological perspectives, insisting on attention to the messy realities of state action. The book advances a compelling argument that unforeseen consequences—whether in destabilizing village life or creating regulatory vacuums—are endemic to resource policy. For scholars of political economy, environmental policy, and Arctic studies, Natural Resources and the State offers both a framework and a cautionary tale about the power and limits of states in managing the natural foundations of 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.

A. James Gregor

Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism

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Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism challenges the familiar picture of Mussolini as a restless opportunist without convictions. Instead, the book reconstructs an intellectual trajectory that begins with Mussolini’s immersion in Marxism and culminates in a systematic reworking of its premises. Fascism is presented not as an ad hoc collection of contradictions but as a variant born from Marxism’s own crises—shaped by syndicalist radicalism, elitist organizational theory, and the porous categories of Marx and Engels themselves. In this view, Mussolini was a “heretical Marxist,” modifying doctrine just enough to scandalize the orthodox and redirect its telos.

By reframing fascism as an ideologically coherent outgrowth of the revolutionary left, the study unsettles the easy partition of twentieth-century politics into right and left camps. It places Mussolini’s development in continuity with broader traditions of Marxism and syndicalism, situating his transformation within a lineage that runs from Engels to Michels, Olivetti, and Panunzio. Recent scholarship makes this reassessment possible: the publication of Mussolini’s complete works, Renzo De Felice’s Mussolini il rivoluzionario (1883–1920), and a wider archive of period literature. Against the earlier Anglophone baseline of Gaudens Megaro’s Mussolini in the Making, the book insists on coherence rather than contradiction, continuity rather than opportunism.

The analysis engages current debates—echoing Zeev Sternhell on the importance of ideology, Domenico Settembrini on affinities between Lenin and Mussolini, and De Felice on fascism’s ties to the left. It also acknowledges tensions: critics will still see opportunism where the author insists on evolution, and the very act of repositioning fascism within Marxism provokes political and scholarly unease. Key concepts such as national syndicalism, Michels’ “iron law of oligarchy,” and the idea of heresy as internal transformation provide the vocabulary for tracing this genealogy. For scholars and students alike, the work invites a new map of ideological descent: Marx and Engels through syndicalist intermediaries to Mussolini’s synthesis and the birth of fascism.

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 1979.

Peter Goodrich

Oedipus Lex

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Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and boredom, of addiction to law, of legal repressions, and the aesthetics of jurisprudence. He retraces the genealogy of law and invokes the failures and exclusions—the poets, women, and outsiders—that legal science has left in its wake.

Goodrich analyzes the role and power of the image of law and details the history of law's plural jurisdictions and traditions of resistance to law. He explores mechanisms of repression and representation as constituents of modern subjectivity, using long-abandoned medieval texts and early appearances of feminism as resources for the understanding and renewal of legal scholarship. Not simply deconstruction but also reconstruction, this work is keenly attuned to the discontinuties, silences, and gaps in the cultural tradition called law.

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.

Shirley Foster Hartley

Illegitimacy

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Illegitimacy: A Societal Perspective takes a comprehensive approach to understanding illegitimacy not merely as a welfare or psychological issue but as a societal phenomenon shaped by complex social, cultural, and institutional factors. The book investigates why certain societies uphold the "principle of legitimacy" with high conformity while others experience significant deviations, with up to 70% of births occurring out of wedlock. Through a multidimensional analytical framework, the study examines how societal norms influence marriage patterns, extramarital sexual behavior, contraceptive use, abortion access, and marriage following conception, providing insights at individual, group, and national levels.

Structured across ten chapters, the book contrasts idealized norms with global behavioral variations, presents cross-national data, reviews existing theories, and develops a new, concatenated theory to explain patterns of illegitimacy. It explores key societal factors such as marriage trends, sexual relationships, contraceptive access, and abortion policies, offering hypotheses supported by diverse data sources. Aimed at sociologists, demographers, and policymakers, this book provides a foundation for future research and practical strategies to understand, predict, and address illegitimacy across different cultural contexts.

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.

Michael J. Cohen

Truman and Israel

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Michael J. Cohen’s Truman and Israel offers a penetrating examination of one of the twentieth century’s pivotal moments: the American president’s role in the founding of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1948, Harry S. Truman’s decisions carried extraordinary weight in shaping Israel’s diplomatic future. While historians have long acknowledged his influence, they remain divided over his motivations. Was Truman inspired by biblical sentiment and a sense of destiny, by liberal ideals of democracy in a volatile region, or by the pressures of domestic politics? Cohen’s study tackles these questions head-on, grounding the analysis in Truman’s formative years in the American Midwest and tracing the personal values, prejudices, and loyalties that shaped his worldview. By beginning with Truman’s modest upbringing and hard-won ascent into political life, the book situates foreign policy decisions in the context of a deeply personal moral and social framework.

The narrative foregrounds the intimate relationships that played a decisive role in Truman’s Palestine policy. Figures such as Eddie Jacobson, Abe Granoff, Max Lowenthal, and David Niles emerge as key intermediaries who brought the Zionist cause directly into the White House, counterbalancing the pro-Arab inclinations of the State Department. Cohen makes extensive use of private letters, diaries, and interviews—including Lowenthal’s previously unpublished records—to provide an unprecedented view of the political maneuvering, backroom discussions, and personal appeals that influenced Truman’s thinking. At the same time, the book recreates the broader atmosphere of official Washington in the late 1940s, populated by colorful and contentious personalities from James Forrestal to Loy Henderson. By concluding with the resolution of the first Arab-Israeli war and the reluctant consensus that Israel represented a strategic Western asset, Cohen captures the convergence of moral conviction, personal loyalty, and realpolitik that defined Truman’s stance. Truman and Israel thus illuminates the complex interplay between individual character and global diplomacy at a critical historical juncture.

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.

Edited by Daniel Cornford

Working People of California

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From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This anthology presents the work of scholars who are forging a new brand of social history—one that reflects the diversity of California's labor force by paying close attention to the multicultural and gendered aspects of the past. Readers will discover a refreshing chronological breadth to this volume, as well as a balanced examination of both rural and urban communities.

Daniel Cornford's excellent general introduction provides essential historical background while his brief introductions to each chapter situate the essays in their larger contexts. A list of further readings appears at the end of each chapter.

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.

Donald F. Tuzin Foreword by Margaret Mead

The Ilahita Arapesh

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The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guinea's Torricelli Mountains. With nearly 1,500 residents, Ilahita challenges the norms of village size and organization in a region traditionally marked by smaller, segmented settlements. This anthropological study explores the historical, cultural, and adaptive processes that enabled Ilahita to grow and maintain unity without centralized authority. Through extensive fieldwork, the book examines how demographic pressures, historical disruptions, and adaptive mechanisms like dual organizational structures shaped the community's resilience and cohesion.

This research not only provides an in-depth look at Ilahita’s integrative systems but also positions the village as a case study of broader anthropological significance. By addressing questions of adaptation, ritual complexity, and societal dynamics, the book connects Ilahita’s experience to theoretical frameworks on dualism, methodological individualism, and structural change. Drawing from ethnographic comparisons and firsthand data, it offers insights into how communities navigate both internal tensions and external challenges, making it a valuable contribution to studies on social complexity and cultural 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 1976.

M.B. Emeneau

Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises, Revised Edition

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Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises: Revised Edition offers students of both Sanskrit and descriptive linguistics a streamlined and practical introduction to one of the language’s most intricate features: sandhi, or euphonic combination. Based on Leonard Bloomfield’s classroom notes and carried forward by his student, this handbook distills Whitney’s classic but overwhelming *Sanskrit Grammar* into a concise and usable set of rules. With clear references to Whitney’s system and phrasing that draws closer to the analytic precision of Pāṇini, the volume provides learners with a working core of sandhi principles without requiring prior mastery of the broader language. The presentation emphasizes sandhi as a descriptive, morphophonemic process rather than a historical one, making the text equally valuable for Sanskritists and for linguists seeking training in the methods of morphological analysis.

Alongside the grammatical notes, the book supplies twenty-seven carefully designed exercises that guide students through reconstructing complex data from Pāṇini’s solutions, fostering both familiarity with Sanskrit rules and disciplined habits of analytic reasoning. These exercises reverse the usual pattern of Sanskrit drill, aiming instead to cultivate exactness in handling linguistic data and a feel for the systematic style of statement employed by classical grammarians. By combining Bloomfield’s Paninean orientation with Whitney’s canonical formulations, the Revised Edition preserves a lineage of rigorous grammatical pedagogy while adapting it for modern classrooms. Compact, precise, and pedagogically tested over decades, the book remains an indispensable aid for anyone beginning Sanskrit or wishing to appreciate how sandhi can illuminate the techniques of descriptive grammar.

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 1952.

Masumi Junnosuke Translated by Lonny E. Carlile

Contemporary Politics in Japan

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This study by one of Japan's foremost political scientists examines the unfolding relationship between the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the state, and the forces of industrialization in Japan from the 1950s through the 1980s. It is the only book in English to describe and analyze in detail Japan's political development during this critical period.

Masumi argues that Japan's rapid economic growth was promoted by an "iron triangle" among three actors—the LDP, the bureaucracy, and big business. This growth fueled the enormous social changes of the 1960s and 1970s, which in turn forced the transformation of the "iron triangle" and the basis of party power. In a final chapter, Masumi reflects on the end of LDP rule in 1993.

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.

James Olney

The Rhizome and the Flower

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The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy—Yeats and Jung offers an ambitious exploration of what its author terms “Yeats-and-Jung,” a conceptual pairing examined not through conventional literary criticism or psychological analysis but through the broader framework of intellectual history and the “perennial philosophy.” Rather than isolating Yeats’s poetics, Jung’s psychology, or the metaphysical traditions of the Pre-Socratics and Platonism, the study investigates the ways these traditions interpenetrate, revealing a shared set of ideas about imagination, archetype, and spiritual order that defy disciplinary boundaries. The book resists straightforward categorization, instead advancing an integrative reading of Yeats and Jung as participants in—and exemplars of—a much older philosophical and symbolic lineage.

The work proceeds through an extended intellectual genealogy, situating Yeats’s symbolic system and Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious in the long tradition of Western esotericism and metaphysical thought. In doing so, it makes the case that both figures embody aspects of the perennial philosophy, a vision of reality that recurs across cultural and historical contexts. Later chapters (7 and 8) focus directly on Yeats’s poetics and Jung’s psychology, yet the study insists that these cannot be fully understood apart from their shared philosophical heritage. For specialists in modernist studies, Jungian thought, or the history of ideas, *The Rhizome and the Flower* provides not a comparative exercise but a synthetic meditation on the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped—and were reshaped by—two of the twentieth century’s most influential minds.

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 1980.

Edited by S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup and James J. Parsons

Natural Resources

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Natural Resources: Quality and Quantity is a compelling collection of essays presented during an interdisciplinary faculty seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1961 to 1965. Sponsored by the Chancellor's Committee on Natural Resources and supported by the Conservation Foundation, this volume explores the multifaceted concept of quality and its relationship to quantity in the context of natural resources. The contributors, spanning diverse fields such as botany, sociology, law, and agricultural economics, examine the pressing challenges of resource management from unique disciplinary perspectives. The seminar's central theme—understanding the qualitative dimensions of resource use—drives a rich dialogue on the complexities of balancing precision in quantitative measurement with the broader, often subjective, qualitative evaluations critical to public policy and interdisciplinary research.

This seminal work is organized into three parts, with essays ranging from the philosophical dimensions of quality in civilization to the technical precision of measuring water and air quality. Contributors explore the intersections of physical science, social science, and humanities, emphasizing the importance of evaluating quality within the broader context of societal needs and ecological sustainability. By addressing both the opportunities and limitations of current methodologies, Natural Resources: Quality and Quantity invites scholars, policymakers, and resource managers to engage with the nuanced, multidimensional challenges of resource conservation and governance in a rapidly evolving 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 1967.

Samuel Noah Kramer

From the Poetry of Sumer

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From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world’s earliest recorded literature. Kramer, one of the foremost authorities on Sumerian civilization, surveys a century of philological and archaeological work that has recovered thousands of cuneiform tablets from sites such as Nippur, Ur, and Kish. These texts—myths, hymns, laments, disputations, and proverbs—preserve a literary culture nearly four millennia old. The volume moves from the painstaking story of how this forgotten corpus was reconstructed to close readings of works that illuminate Sumerian ideas of creation, kingship, and divine femininity.

Structured in three thematic parts, the book examines Sumerian cosmogony, highlighting how ancient poets envisioned the separation of heaven and earth and the creation of humankind. Kramer then turns to royal hymns, showing how they model the “perfect man” through exaltation of kings such as Shulgi. Finally, he foregrounds the adoration of goddesses like Inanna, underscoring Sumer’s distinctive portrayal of liberated female divinity. Richly documented and accessible, this study bridges philology, literary history, and comparative religion, making the oldest poetry in human history newly legible for scholars of the ancient Near East, biblical studies, anthropology, and the history 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 1979.

Ronald R. Rindfuss, S. Philip Morgan, and Gray Swicegood

First Births in America

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This book explores the shifting patterns of parenthood in the United States over the past century, focusing on the timing of first births and the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence these decisions. It highlights the concurrent bloom and bust in fertility trends, where the number of older parents has increased, while the rates of childlessness have also risen, primarily due to delays in childbearing among younger people. Through an examination of historical trends, the book considers how factors such as education, religion, and socioeconomic status influence when individuals choose to become parents. It also compares American fertility patterns with those of other developed nations, particularly Japan, to show how different cultural contexts shape reproductive behavior.

The study takes a life course perspective, emphasizing how early life experiences and broader social contexts affect decisions about when to start a family. The book provides a detailed analysis of fertility trends from both macro and micro-levels, using a variety of data sources, including surveys and longitudinal studies. It also investigates the consequences of delayed childbearing, childlessness, and the timing of parenthood on family dynamics, career trajectories, and social roles. In doing so, the book offers insights into the complex interplay between individual choices and societal influences, and discusses the implications for future demographic and social change.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Adrian C. Mayer

Peasants in the Pacific

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Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, Second Edition delves deeply into the lives and transformations of the Fiji Indian rural community. Initially focused on the observations made during fieldwork in the early 1950s, this edition offers additional insights from a return visit in 1971, enriching the analysis of social and economic changes. The book captures the evolution of settlements shaped by the legacies of Indian indenture, exploring their historical, economic, and cultural fabric. From the dominance of sugarcane farming to the rising trend of part-time farming paired with urban employment, the study documents the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity in these communities. Through meticulous ethnographic detail, the author examines the integration of caste, kinship, and cultural practices in shaping rural life in Fiji, alongside the development of new social structures adapted to local conditions.

The book also addresses the broader implications of this case study, offering comparative insights into overseas Indian communities and their social organization. It explores how the transition from an indentured labor system to independent farming and diversified livelihoods reshaped societal norms, economic patterns, and power structures. With its vivid portrayal of village life, communal interactions, and the enduring influence of cultural heritage, Peasants in the Pacific provides a vital resource for understanding the complexities of rural societies within the context of colonial legacies and modern economic pressures. This edition, enriched by reflective updates and the author's extensive engagement with local residents and institutions, serves as a key contribution to both Pacific studies and the broader field of migration and diaspora research.

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.

Candace Slater

Trail of Miracles

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Trail of Miracles: Stories from a Pilgrimage in Northeast Brazil by Candace Slater offers a vivid literary ethnography of devotion, memory, and community in Juazeiro do Norte, a city renowned for its annual pilgrimage honoring Padre Cícero Romão Batista. Unlike most Catholic pilgrimages, Juazeiro draws more than a million people each year in honor of a priest never canonized as a saint. Through the miracle stories told by residents and pilgrims, Slater reveals how Padre Cícero’s figure continues to embody poverty, resilience, and traditional values in Northeast Brazil—while also traveling south with migrants seeking work in Brazil’s industrial centers. These narratives are not only testimonies of faith but also documents of social survival, enmeshed in hierarchies of patronage and infused with centuries-old hagiographic traditions.

Slater approaches her subject as both listener and writer, foregrounding her methods and the challenges of ethnography. Drawing on over 150 hours of recorded stories from more than 700 individuals, she examines how residents privatize Padre Cícero’s miracles as personal memories while pilgrims fashion them into communal “lives” that serve as master legends. In doing so, she highlights how oral traditions adapt across contexts, sustaining belief and identity amid poverty and rapid change. Trail of Miracles is at once a work of folklore, anthropology, and literary analysis, offering an unparalleled window into the symbolic power of Padre Cícero for millions of Brazilians. It illuminates the ways in which storytelling sustains faith, negotiates hardship, and binds individuals into a shared, if contested, sense of belonging.

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.

James Gindin

Postwar British Fiction

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Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes by James Gindin offers the first comprehensive account of the striking changes in British literature after 1945. Situating novelists, dramatists, and critics in the turbulence of postwar society, Gindin charts how writers from Alan Sillitoe and Kingsley Amis to Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and William Golding grappled with class realignments, political disillusionment, and the search for identity. Moving across fiction and drama, the book uncovers how satire, existential uncertainty, and comic understatement became vehicles for articulating the contradictions of a rapidly changing Britain.

Attentive to both individual artistry and shared cultural conditions, Gindin demonstrates that “angry young men” and other postwar voices were neither isolated nor opportunistic, but part of a coherent shift toward moral inquiry, iconoclasm, and the affirmation of ordinary life. Postwar British Fiction remains a foundational study for scholars of twentieth-century literature, cultural history, and theater, showing how new tones, techniques, and attitudes transformed the novel and stage into key sites for exploring social fracture and renewal.

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.

W.J. Stankiewicz

Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France

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Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in French history. The book dissects how the term "toleration" held varied meanings, from philosophical ideals of true tolerance to legal and political expedients used by both Protestants and Catholics. It highlights how toleration was employed strategically by different factions, often serving as a facade for broader aims of achieving religious or political dominance.

The study delves into the nuanced role of toleration as a contentious point in political theory and practice, emphasizing its connection to sovereignty and statecraft. By tracing the debate from early Calvinist resistance to Richelieu’s manipulative peace formula, it reveals a pragmatic use of toleration to preserve temporary peace while fostering underlying intolerance. Ultimately, the work provides a critical examination of how ideas of religious freedom and state sovereignty were shaped by doctrinal conflicts and political exigencies, offering insights into the broader development of toleration as a key principle in modern political thought.

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 1960.

Carl O. Sauer

Northern Mists

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In Northern Mists, Carl O. Sauer presents a sweeping historical geography of European exploration across the North Atlantic, tracing the maritime ventures that carried fishermen, merchants, and colonists from the coasts of Portugal, England, and Scandinavia toward Iceland, Greenland, and ultimately North America. Drawing on sagas, chronicles, maps, and archaeological findings, Sauer reconstructs how myths of wondrous western islands gave way to practical knowledge of winds, currents, and fisheries, and how subsistence from the sea enabled early settlements and transatlantic contacts long before Columbus. He examines the roles of Portuguese navigators, Bristol merchants, Basque whalers, and Norse adventurers in pushing Europe’s frontier westward, situating these efforts in the broader shift from Mediterranean to Atlantic dominance in the late Middle Ages.

This meticulously documented narrative emphasizes both the lure and the hazards of the “sea of northern mists.” Sauer shows how ecological abundance—cod, herring, seals, and whales—drove men beyond familiar waters, while the decline of Mediterranean productivity and the disruptions of Muslim expansion spurred new outlets for commerce and colonization. By weaving together cartographic traditions, maritime lore, and material realities of fishing and shipbuilding, Northern Mists reframes the history of exploration as an incremental, centuries-long process of discovery, settlement, and adaptation in the northern seas. It is a foundational work for scholars of medieval geography, Atlantic history, and the environmental conditions that made early European expansion possible.

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 1968.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Viator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 (1976)

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Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 gathers an impressive range of scholarship that spans late antiquity through the Renaissance, reflecting the journal’s distinctive breadth across periods, disciplines, and geographies. The volume opens with Gerhart B. Ladner on Roman attitudes toward barbarians in late antiquity and Franz Staab’s study of Ostrogothic geographers at Theodoric’s court, before turning to Josiah Cox Russell’s work on medieval plague in the British Isles and Barbara Kreutz on transformations in early medieval Mediterranean shipping. Political and cultural studies follow, including Bernard Bachrach on feudal politics between Fulk Nerra and William the Great, John D. Niles on Charlemagne’s image in La Chanson de Roland, and David Pingree on Indian and pseudo-Indian passages in Greco-Latin astrological texts.

Later contributions explore the reintroduction of Aristotle via Alfred of Sareshel (James K. Otte), the emergence of European nobility and the ministeriales (John B. Freed), Flemish administrative structures under Philip of Alsace (Louis M. de Gryse), and Marjorie McIntosh on villeins in the English ancient demesne. Essays by Duane Osheim on rural Tuscany, Scott Hendrix on late medieval ecclesiology, Patrick Ford on the death of Merlin, and James Overfield on scholastic opposition to humanism highlight the volume’s thematic range. The issue closes with William Bouwsma’s essay on changing cultural assumptions in the Renaissance and John Patrick Donnelly on Calvinist Thomism. Collectively, these studies exemplify Viator’s commitment to crossing traditional boundaries of periodization and discipline, making this volume a rich resource for historians, literary scholars, and students of intellectual and cultural history 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 1976.

Viator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 (1976)

Johann Jakob Baegert Translated by M. M. Brandenburg and Carl L. Baumann

Observations in Lower California

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Observations in Lower California by Johann Jakob Baegert provides an authentic and vivid account of life in Baja California during the mid-18th century. Written after nearly two decades of missionary work among the Indigenous people of the region, Baegert's Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien offers a detailed portrayal of the cultural, social, and environmental challenges faced by both the native population and the Jesuit missionaries. This first complete English translation preserves Baegert's frank observations, including his critiques of European misconceptions about the region and the arduous realities of missionary life.

Rich in historical detail, Baegert’s narrative sheds light on the struggles of the Guaicura people, the harsh environmental conditions of Baja California, and the missionary efforts to establish a foothold in the area. The book is not only a fascinating window into the colonial past but also a testament to Baegert’s enduring commitment to his work. By capturing the essence of a bygone era with sharp observations and nuanced reflections, Observations in Lower California stands as a valuable resource for historians, anthropologists, and readers interested in the intersections of faith, culture, and survival in the colonial Americas.

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 1952.

Robert B. Edgerton

Alone Together

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In Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach, the focus is on the social dynamics and unwritten rules governing interactions at Southland Beach, a popular, urban Southern California beach. With millions of visitors each year, Southland Beach draws a diverse crowd, including locals, tourists, and people from various socio-economic backgrounds, all converging in close quarters. Despite the potential for conflict due to its dense and varied population, the beach generally remains a peaceful and enjoyable place. The study explores how beachgoers navigate personal space, behavior expectations, and the presence of authority figures like lifeguards and police, often creating an unspoken order among themselves.

Southland Beach has evolved from a space primarily frequented by "beach people"—locals with a deep connection to the beach—to an urban attraction visited by millions. The research examines how strangers from different backgrounds manage to coexist in a shared space where typical urban concerns, like distrust and social fragmentation, could easily lead to conflict. The study explores whether the beach can maintain its reputation as a haven for relaxation and leisure, given its transformation into a microcosm of city life with all its potential challenges. Factors like limited clothing, proximity, and occasional substance use could introduce tension, yet a unique, often implicit social structure keeps interactions largely harmonious.

The book aims to analyze this balance between enjoyment and potential disorder, questioning how a community of strangers can coexist so closely without formalized rules. The study applies insights from sociology and anthropology to understand the beachgoers’ shared practices, revealing how informal norms and individual expectations of behavior contribute to a functional, if fragile, social order. Through observation and interviews, the research delves into the varying roles of lifeguards, police, and beachgoers themselves in shaping and maintaining this social environment, illuminating the intricate yet resilient order that defines life on Southland Beach.

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 1979.

David A. Alhadeff

Competition and Controls in Banking

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Competition and Controls in Banking provides a groundbreaking examination of how regulatory frameworks shape banking competition in three European nations: Italy, France, and England. David A. Alhadeff delves into both direct controls, such as rate regulations, and indirect controls, like merger and entry regulations, exploring their impact on market structure, banking operations, and monetary policy. By analyzing the pre-reform periods of heavy regulation, particularly in France, and tracing subsequent reforms, the book uncovers critical insights into the interplay between competition rules and market performance. Alhadeff also challenges the assumption that extensive direct controls can obviate the need to address banking market structures, offering a hypothesis-tested perspective based on these three case studies.

Uniquely analytical and data-driven, this volume bridges a gap in European banking literature, transitioning from predominantly descriptive studies to a systematic exploration of regulatory impacts. Rich in historical context and forward-looking implications, the book appeals to policymakers, economists, and banking professionals. With its careful dissection of regulatory evolution and its effects on competition, Competition and Controls in Banking provides invaluable perspectives for understanding and shaping modern banking policy.

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 1968.

Susan E. Waltz

Human Rights and Reform

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Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib began to form groups in the late 1970s to challenge the political practices and structures in the region, and over time these independent human rights organizations became prominent political actors. The activists behind them are neither saints nor revolutionaries, but political reformers intent on changing political patterns that have impeded democratization.

This study, the first systematic comparative analysis of North African politics in more than a decade, explores the ability of society, including Islamist forces, to challenge the powers of states. Locating Maghribi polities within their cultural and historical contexts, Waltz traces state-society relations in the contemporary period. Even as Algeria totters at the brink of civil war and security concerns rise across the region, the human rights groups Susan Waltz examines implicitly challenge the authoritarian basis of political governance. Their efforts have not led to the democratic transition many had hoped, but human rights have become a crucial new element of North African political discourse.

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.

Antonio Machado

Juan de Mairena

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Antonio Machado’s Juan de Mairena is a singular work that bridges poetic and philosophical traditions, crafting an imaginative space where art, pedagogy, and metaphysics converge. As much an exploration of the Spanish soul as it is a reflection of the poet himself, this work reveals Machado's profound preoccupation with identity, otherness, and the essence of human experience. Through the voice of the fictional professor Juan de Mairena and his teacher Abel Martín, Machado delves into questions of being, time, and Spain’s cultural heritage, presenting a tapestry of aphorisms, dialogues, and musings that blend irony, introspection, and wit. This translation, including excerpts from The Apocryphal Songbooks, introduces English readers to the depth and complexity of Machado’s intellectual and artistic achievement.

The book offers more than a literary experience; it serves as an intimate dialogue with Machado's inner world, colored by the tragedies and reflections of his life. Mairena becomes not just a mouthpiece for the poet’s philosophical inclinations but a "complementary" self, allowing Machado to explore ideas he might not have expressed directly. This duality of creator and persona, coupled with Machado’s blend of existential musings and Spanish cultural critique, creates a work that is at once deeply personal and broadly resonant. As this translation demonstrates, Juan de Mairena is not merely a product of its time but a timeless inquiry into the nature of human thought, creativity, and the ineffable connections between them.

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.

Alan Rogers

Empire and Liberty

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In April 1754, a French expedition from Canada seized a partially built fortress near the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania, igniting a global conflict between Great Britain and France that culminated nine years later with a treaty granting Britain control of all North America. However, the birth of the first British Empire was accompanied by American discontent, as the colonists, steeped in a political philosophy emphasizing liberty and a distrust of power, began to challenge British authority. During the Great War for Empire (1755–1763), the actions of British generals, who exercised sweeping powers under the Crown, exposed Americans to what they perceived as arbitrary power. Embargoes, forced quartering of soldiers, press gangs, and the subordination of colonial political bodies to military authority all clashed with the colonists' belief in their rights as Englishmen. Although the colonists often resisted these measures, there was no legal recourse to limit the power of the British army, fostering a widespread fear of imperial overreach. After the war, unresolved tensions grew more acute as Britain imposed new economic and political restrictions, prompting American leaders to formalize their opposition to British rule. This book examines the impact of the war on American colonies through illustrative examples, highlighting how experiences of British military and imperial authority during this period sowed the seeds of rebellion.

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.

Walter Starkie

Road to Santiago

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Walter Starkie’s The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James is both an erudite cultural history and an ethnographically alert travel narrative of Europe’s most consequential medieval pilgrimage. Framing the Camino as a “double journey” through space and time, Starkie reconstructs the institutional and imaginative worlds that accrued after the ninth-century “discovery” of the Apostle’s tomb: Cluniac liturgical reform and its trans-Pyrenean networks; the *Codex Calixtinus* and Aimeric Picaud’s guidebook; and the legal, charitable, and architectural infrastructures—hospitals, confraternities, markets—that naturalized mobility. He reads the road as a corridor of aesthetic exchange, synthesizing Emile Mâle and Kingsley Porter to show how Islamic ornament, Romanesque programs, and urban façades from Cluny to Paris inscribe the epic of Santiago. Starkie’s archive ranges across chansons de geste and chronicles, royal itineraries and monastic records, miracle collections, and popular song, yielding a social history of devotion that encompasses Moor and Christian minstrels, Alfonso X’s courtly tolerance, and the martial mythography of *Santiago Matamoros*. Attentive to practice as well as myth, he recovers material cultures of travel (from barrels and frypans to scallop shells) and the performative pedagogy of mendicancy, music, and ritual.

Interleaving these sources with field diaries from four twentieth-century pilgrimages (1924–1954), Starkie stages a reflexive dialogue between medieval prescription and modern experience. He retraces Picaud’s route to assess continuity and rupture in liturgy, landscape, hospitality, and popular religiosity, while juxtaposing clerical reformers, elite tourists, and “raggle-taggle” jongleurs with figures like Andrew Boorde, Montaigne, and George Borrow. The result is a methodologically plural account—part philology, part folklore, part performance studies—that treats the Camino as a laboratory for studying European connectivity, confessional politics, vernacular poetics, and memory. Specialists in medieval studies, Iberian history, and pilgrimage studies will value Starkie’s capacious sourcing and his argument that the Camino’s enduring appeal lies in its capacity to bind institutional Christianity, intercultural exchange, and the ordinary technologies of travel into a durable moral and aesthetic economy.

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.

Karl Hardach

The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century

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The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century offers a comprehensive examination of how political decisions have shaped the economic trajectory of Germany from World War I onward. Eschewing narrow historical or economic perspectives, the book positions politics as the dominant force influencing economic systems, emphasizing the instrumental nature of economics in serving political ends. This approach is particularly pertinent in Germany's case, where significant economic policies and outcomes were intricately linked to the nation’s tumultuous political landscape. By addressing not just what occurred but also delving into the reasons behind economic events, this study provides a layered understanding of the successes, failures, and transformations in Germany’s economy during a century marked by profound change.

Tailored for a broad audience, including students and general readers with minimal prior knowledge of economics or history, the book strikes a balance between accessibility and rigor. It integrates statistical data with analysis, offering insights into key economic relationships while avoiding excessive technical jargon. Accompanied by a glossary and references for further exploration, the book is a valuable resource for understanding the intersections of political power and economic strategy in shaping modern Germany. This American edition builds on the German original, refined with collaborative input, making it an essential text for anyone exploring the dynamic interplay between politics and economics in one of Europe’s most pivotal 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 1980.