Name: Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380–1513
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Christopher A. Reynolds

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380–1513

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A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a fertile consideration of the ways historical and musical currents affected each other.

This work is both a historical account of performers and composers and an examination of how their music revealed their cultural values and educational backgrounds. Reynolds analyzes several anonymous masses copied at St. Peter's, proposing attributions that have biographical implications for the composers. Taken together, the archival records and the music sung at St. Peter's reveal a much clearer picture of musical life at the basilica than either source would alone. The contents of the St. Peter's choirbook help document musical life as surely as that musical life—insofar as it can be reconstructed from the archives—illumines the choirbook.

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.

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380–1513

Gabriel A. Almond, Marvin Chodorow, and Roy Harvey Pearce

Progress and Its Discontents

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Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs, institutions, and values of modern western culture--the culture of "progress." Are science and technology really progressive and beneficial? Have they led to the enhancement of welfare, greater hapiness, and moral immprovement? I s the continued growth of material productivity possible? Desirable? Are the institutions of progress viable?

Progress and Its Discontents assembles the views on progress of some of America's leading humanists, scientists, and social scientists. Citing disappointed expectations of progress in spheres from science to morals and politics, and the many problems created or left untouched by progress, the editors conclude that the term no longer refers to "an inevitable sequence of improvements" but rather to "an aspiration and compelling obligation."

Contributors:
Nannerl O. Keohane
Georg G. Iggers
Alfred G. Meyer
Crawford Young
Francisco J. Ayala
John T. Edsall
Gerald Fenberg
Bernard D. Davis
Gerald Holton
Marc J. Roberts
H. Stuart Hughes
Moses Abramovitz
Harvey Brooks
Nathan Rosenberg
Hollis B. Chenery
Gianfranco Poggi
Aaron Wildavsky
G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
Samuel H. Barnes
Steven Marcus
Murray Krieger
Robert C. Elliott
Martin E. Marty
Daniel Bell
Frederick A. Olafson

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.

Compiled by Yuji Ichioka, Yasuo Sakata, Nobuya Tsuchida, and Eri Yasuhara

A Buried Past

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Dive into a rich exploration of Japanese-American heritage with A Buried Past, a comprehensive annotated bibliography detailing the Japanese American Research Project Collection at UCLA. This vital resource curates Japanese-language primary and secondary sources, illuminating the lives and experiences of Japanese immigrants and their descendants. By emphasizing historical perspectives beyond World War II internment, the bibliography fills critical gaps in the study of Japanese immigrant society's origins, contributions, and evolution, offering scholars an invaluable foundation for research. With meticulous organization and context-driven annotations, the work highlights rare and significant materials, including dissertations, theses, and microfilms, to foster a deeper understanding of the community's history.

Perfect for historians, sociologists, and researchers in Asian American studies, A Buried Past captures a neglected yet essential narrative of Japanese-American history. This bibliography not only provides access to invaluable archival sources but also challenges previous exclusion-centric historiography, encouraging the use of Japanese-language materials for a more nuanced and comprehensive study. Supported by contributions from the Japanese American Citizens League and other institutions, this work stands as a beacon for future investigations into the cultural and historical journey of Japanese Americans.

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.

Barbara J. Shapiro

Beyond Reasonable Doubt and Probable Cause

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt and Probable Cause: Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence delves into the evolution of evidentiary doctrines within the Anglo-American legal system, focusing on their development from the early modern period to the twentieth century. This book examines the historical and intellectual underpinnings of key concepts like "beyond reasonable doubt" and "probable cause," exploring their roles in shaping the criminal justice process across various stages, from arrest to jury deliberation. By engaging with both doctrinal writings and broader philosophical and religious influences, the study highlights the interplay between evolving legal standards and cultural notions of truth and certainty. The work also traces the migration of evidentiary principles between institutions, such as the grand jury, trial jury, and pretrial hearings, and examines how these concepts were influenced by Romano-canon traditions.

The book is structured thematically, addressing three major areas: the interaction between legal and philosophical ideas of evidence and proof; the transmission of evidentiary concepts across different procedural stages; and the impact of Romano-canon traditions on English law. Individual chapters tackle topics such as the trial jury's reliance on "beyond reasonable doubt," the grand jury's evidentiary standards, and the migration of "probable cause" across arrest, search, and pretrial procedures. The analysis also revisits philosophical contributions to evidentiary concepts and explores the incorporation of circumstantial evidence and presumption into Anglo-American legal thought. Ultimately, this study sheds light on how these legal doctrines have shaped and reflected the intellectual and institutional foundations of Anglo-American legal culture.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Lona Mosk Packer

Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti, one of the most remarkable poets of the 19th century, remains an enigmatic figure whose life and work continue to captivate readers. While her brother William Michael Rossetti's interpretations have dominated biographies to date, recent studies aim to uncover a deeper and more nuanced understanding of her inner world. Rossetti's poetry, rich with emotional and spiritual intensity, often reveals glimpses of a life shaped by unspoken struggles and profound passions. By examining her work and her connections, including her relationships with figures like William Bell Scott, a fresh perspective emerges, suggesting that her experiences of love and conflict deeply influenced her creative energy and personal growth.

This exploration seeks to go beyond the surface of daily events to delve into the "deeper internal currents" of Christina’s life. Her poetry serves as a map to the intricate interplay of emotions and convictions that defined her as an artist and individual. Through meticulous research and a sensitive approach, this narrative reconstructs a portrait of a woman whose life was as richly textured and multifaceted as her verse. In doing so, it not only illuminates Christina Rossetti's enduring legacy but also honors her belief that truth, tempered with tenderness, is the ultimate tribute to a life fully lived.

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.

Edited by Sandria B. Freitag

Culture and Power in Banaras

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This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of community.

Part One examines the performance genres that have drawn audiences from throughout the city. Part Two focuses on the areas of neighborhood, leisure, and work, examining the processes by which urban residents use a sense of identity to organize their activities and bring meaning to their lives. Part Three links these experiences within Banaras to a series of "larger worlds," ranging from language movements and political protests to disease ecology and regional environmental impact.

Banaras is a complex world, with differences in religion, caste, class, language, and popular culture; the diversity of these essays embraces those differences. It is a collection that will interest scholars and students of South Asia as well as anyone interested in comparative discussions of popular culture.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

G. Coedès Translated by H. M. Wright

The Making of South East Asia

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This book deals mainly with the earlier, formative epochs that marked the flowering in the region of the Great Traditions of Hinduism and of Buddhism. Following a succinct sketch of the prehistoric period, the book moves on to a chronological account of the developments from the Chinese conquest of Annam in the third century to the period of European conquest in the nineteenth. It reflects the author?s thoughtful views concerning the evolution of political institutions, religions, literatures, and arts that distinguished the region. In geographical scope it embraces Thailand, Burma, and the area formerly known as French Indochina, and is an indispensable guide to the making of the region.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
This book deals mainly with the earlier, formative epochs that marked the flowering in the region of the Great Traditions of Hinduism and of Buddhism. Following a succinct sketch of the prehistoric period, the book moves on to a chronological account of t

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor

Blake's Human Form Divine

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In Blake’s Human Form Divine, the profound interplay between philosophy and stylistic principles in William Blake’s work comes to life. This study delves into Blake’s evolving perception of "form," focusing on its dual role as a philosophical concept and a defining feature of his visual-verbal art. Through detailed analysis, the book explores a central paradox in Blake’s creative journey: his simultaneous rejection of form as a constraining "Urizenic tyranny" and his reliance on bounded, outlined forms in his artwork. By 1795, Blake grappled with the dilemma of expressing divinity and imaginative freedom within the constraints of mortal, finite forms, a conflict central to both his artistic and philosophical pursuits. The study illuminates Blake’s struggle to reconcile these opposing forces, charting his journey through the interplay of visual style and poetic vision.

Blake’s stylistic roots in the late eighteenth-century neoclassical idiom of romantic classicism provide the backdrop for this exploration. Characterized by clear outlines, linear rhythms, and idealized human forms, this style shaped Blake’s early illuminated works, such as Songs of Innocence, which reflect a harmonious, self-contained vision of human divinity. However, as his philosophical outlook shifted toward a critique of reason’s dominance in society, Blake began to question the aesthetic and philosophical implications of bounded form. This internal conflict between his artistic reliance on romantic classicism and his philosophical denunciation of reason’s constraints culminated in iconic works like The Ancient of Days. Through a nuanced analysis of Blake’s poetry and visual art, this book examines how he sought to transcend these tensions, offering fresh insights into the evolution of his radical 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.

Albert S. Lindemann

The Red Years

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The Red Years: European Socialism versus Bolshevism, 1919–1921 traces the turbulent aftermath of World War I, when socialist movements across Europe confronted the challenge—and temptation—posed by the Bolshevik Revolution. In the biennio rosso, the “two red years” between 1919 and 1921, revolutions, strikes, factory occupations, and general uprisings shook Germany, France, Italy, and beyond. At the same time, socialist parties long rooted in parliamentary traditions faced Lenin’s new model of revolutionary politics, crystallized in the Communist International. This book situates the confrontation in comparative perspective, weaving together the debates, polemics, and organizational crises that fractured European socialism. By following figures such as Karl Kautsky, Filippo Turati, Antonio Gramsci, and Paul Levi alongside Lenin and his Bolshevik comrades, it illuminates both the intensity of ideological conflict and the pragmatic struggles of movements trying to navigate postwar upheaval.

Drawing on archives, memoirs, and cross-national sources, the study reconstructs the pivotal encounters at Comintern congresses, the efforts at compromise through “reconstructionist” internationals, and the decisive splits that created communist parties across Western Europe. Episodes such as the Spartacist uprising in Germany, the Italian factory occupations, and the French general strike reveal the lived stakes of the socialist–communist divide, as theory and revolution collided. The book underscores the paradox at the heart of Lenin’s triumph: Bolshevism gained ascendancy over European socialism only as revolution in the West faltered, leaving Moscow both victorious and isolated. The enduring takeaway is that the Red Years mark not just a historical schism but a cautionary lesson in how movements for emancipation can fracture when ideals of democracy, revolution, and discipline collide in moments of crisis.

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.

Robert Zoellner

The Salt-Sea Mastodon

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Salt-Sea Mastodon: A Reading of *Moby-Dick, by Robert Zoellner, offers a bold and original critical exploration of Herman Melville’s great novel. Written, as Zoellner explains, “in sheer self-defense” against the terrifying power of *Moby-Dick*, the book seeks to understand the sources of the novel’s unique intensity and the paradoxical combination of fear and delight it produces in readers.

Zoellner proceeds through a systematic analysis of the constitutive metaphors, philosophical underpinnings, and narrative strategies that shape Ishmael’s telling of the tale. Central to his approach is the argument that *every word* of *Moby-Dick*—even dramatic monologues and footnotes—comes from Ishmael, not Melville, a critical assumption that allows Zoellner to treat the novel as a coherent first-person creation rather than a text riddled with breakdowns of point of view. Across chapters, he traces the interplay of illumination and darkness, primal forms and cosmic mirrors, Ahab’s narcissism and Ishmael’s cyclic vision, and the manifold ways the whale itself becomes a vehicle of revelation.

Rejecting critical approaches that treat literature as mere “fun,” Zoellner insists that the exhilaration of *Moby-Dick* arises from the reader’s confrontation with primal truths—fearful but necessary to grasp. His study thus aims not to reproduce the joy of reading Melville’s masterpiece, but to illuminate its sources, revealing how Melville’s metaphors, myths, and philosophical structures create a work that is at once terrifying, exhilarating, and inexhaustibly rich.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe

Contemporary Empirical Political Theory

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How can we best understand the major debates and recent movements in contemporary empirical political theory? In this volume, the contributors, including four past presidents of the APSA and one past president of the IPSA, present their views of the central core, methodologies and development of empirical political science. Their disparate views of the unifying themes of the discipline reflect different theoretical orientations, from behavioralism to rational choice, cultural theory to postmodernism, and feminism to Marxism. Is there a human nature on which we can construct scientific theories of political life? What is the role of culture in shaping any such nature? How objective and value-free can political theories be? These are only a few of the issues the volume addresses. By assessing where we have traveled intellectually as a discipline and asking what remains of lasting significance in the various theoretical approaches that have engulfed the profession, Contemporary Empirical Political Theory provides an important evaluation of the current state of empirical political theory and a valuable guide to future developments in political science.

CONTRIBUTORS: Gabriel Almond, David Easton, Murray Edelman, J. Peter Euben, Bernard Grofman, John Gunnell, Russell Hardin, Edward Harpham, Nancy Hartsock, Jean Laponce, Theodore Lowi, Kristen Monroe, William Riker, Ian Shapiro, Alexander Wendt, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert

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 1997.

Carl Ortwin Sauer

Sixteenth Century North America

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Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans offers a detailed reconstruction of the continent’s geography, environment, and cultures as first encountered by European explorers and chroniclers. The book focuses on the continental United States and Canada, tracing the earliest phases of discovery and observation before permanent colonization began. From John Cabot’s landfall in 1497 to the extensive expeditions of Cartier, De Soto, and Cabrillo, European observers recorded landscapes, flora, fauna, and Indigenous lifeways with a vividness that still allows identification of species and cultural practices. Reports describe buffalo herds, turkeys, opossums, pecans, persimmons, housing structures, and agricultural methods in remarkable detail. Many accounts, preserved in Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, and Italian sources, reveal a composite picture of a well-inhabited and resource-rich land. By weaving together these narratives, the volume situates early European perceptions of North America as both a natural paradise and a place of profound cultural encounter.

At the same time, the book underscores that these explorations were not merely geographical ventures but moves in the geopolitical struggles of the sixteenth century. North America became entangled in the larger contest among Spain, Portugal, France, and England for maritime dominance and access to Asia. Spain consolidated power through bases in the Caribbean and Mexico, France probed the northern passage while harassing Spanish fleets, and England combined reconnaissance with colonization attempts at Roanoke. Religious and political tensions shaped many expeditions, as when France sought to export its Protestant conflict overseas or when Spanish operations countered French incursions in Florida. Detailed reconstructions of routes, supported by modern topography and maps, reveal how these voyages unfolded against the backdrop of international rivalry. The book thus integrates natural description, ethnography, and geopolitics to present a comprehensive view of sixteenth-century North America at the dawn of European engagement.

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.

Lawrence Graver

An Obsession with Anne Frank

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Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession that altered his life and brought him heartbreaking sorrow.

Lawrence Graver's fascinating account of Meyer Levin's ordeal is a story within a story. What began as a warm collaboration between Levin and Anne's father, Otto Frank, turned into a notorious dispute that lasted several decades and included litigation and public scandal. Behind this story is another: one man's struggle with himself—as a Jew and as a writer—in postwar America. Looming over both stories is the shadow of the Holocaust and its persistent, complex presence in our lives.

Graver's book is based on hundreds of unpublished documents and on interviews with some of the Levin-Frank controversy's major participants. It illuminates important areas of American culture: publishing, law, religion, politics, and the popular media. The "Red Scare," anti-McCarthyism, and the commercial imperatives of Broadway are all players in this book, along with the assimilationist mood among many Jews and the simplistic pieties of American society in the 1950s.

Graver also examines the different and often conflicting ways that people the world over, Jewish and Gentile, wanted Anne Frank and her much-loved book to be represented. That her afterlife has in extraordinary ways taken on the shape and implications of myth makes Graver's story—and Meyer Levin's—even more compelling.

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.

Coppélia Kahn

Man's Estate

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In Man's Estate, the exploration of masculine identity takes center stage as Shakespeare’s works are examined through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and historical context. Shakespeare's male characters grapple with the challenges of defining and sustaining their manhood within the constraints of the patriarchal Elizabethan society. Themes of gender roles, familial relationships, and sexual identity are deeply embedded in the narratives, reflecting both universal human experiences and the specific anxieties of his era. This study delves into the subconscious fears, desires, and cultural expectations that inform Shakespeare's portrayals of men and their relationships with women, fathers, sons, and society at large.

The book bridges Freudian psychoanalysis and Shakespearean criticism, offering a fresh perspective on how early life experiences shape the conflicts and identities of male protagonists. By examining characters like Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Hamlet, the author reveals how unresolved tensions from childhood resurface in adulthood, influencing their actions and self-perceptions. The analysis extends beyond individual characters to explore broader societal constructs, such as the oppressive dynamics of patriarchal power and the ambivalence it fosters in men. Shakespeare’s works are presented not only as timeless explorations of human nature but also as incisive commentaries on the cultural definitions of masculinity that continue to resonate in contemporary 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 1981.

Edited by Wayland D. Hand

American Folk Legend

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The symposium on American folk legend organized by UCLA in 1969 marked a significant step toward addressing a neglected area in folklore scholarship. Held from June 19 to 22, the conference brought together eleven delegates from the United States and Canada, along with staff members from the guest institution, to discuss the challenges and developments in American folk legend study. The conference provided a platform for notable contributions from figures such as Richard M. Dorson, Robert A. Georges, Linda Dégh, and others. Discussions covered diverse aspects of folk legend, including definition, classification, structure, and socio-psychological values, and featured explorations of regional, Hispanic, and Latin American folklore.

The proceedings underscored the field's early stage of development in the United States and highlighted the need for comprehensive collections, surveys of legend genres, and thematic studies. The conference suggested that once these foundational efforts are in place, many ambiguities surrounding American legends could be clarified. Participants advocated for a more systematic approach, akin to the rigor applied to folk song and ballad research, to achieve a better understanding of American legendry. These discussions pointed to the need for fieldwork and scholarly attention to uncover and classify legends, which would enable scholars to undertake meaningful analyses of American folklore.

In summary, the conference not only aimed to share existing knowledge but also served as a call to action for greater scholarly focus on American legends. The organizers expressed hope that the symposium would inspire new research, stimulate the discovery of published materials, and encourage scholars to map out specific research areas within American folk legend. This event laid the groundwork for a more systematic and expansive study of folklore in the United States, advancing an often-overlooked field toward a more structured and accessible discipline.

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.

John Henry Raleigh

Matthew Arnold and American Culture

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Matthew Arnold and American Culture examines the profound impact of Arnold's writings—spanning literary, social, religious, and cultural topics—on American intellectual life from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Arnold's influence is unmatched among foreign critics in the United States, shaping discourse in a way few domestic figures have. His critique of English culture, his promotion of culture as an antidote to social unrest, and his insistence on the value of morality and intellectual rigor found eager audiences, especially in a post-Civil War America seeking cultural maturity and intellectual direction. His ideas resonated with a nation grappling with its identity amidst rapid industrialization, westward expansion, and a growing literary consciousness.

Despite initial resistance to English intellectualism in the wake of the Civil War and a strong sense of American self-sufficiency in the arts, Arnold's ideas found fertile ground, particularly among New England literati, cultural reformers, and critics like Henry James and Lionel Trilling. Arnold's emphasis on "sweetness and light," his call for critical detachment, and his vision of culture as a vehicle for moral and societal improvement complemented and challenged the intellectual frameworks of American figures like Emerson and Lowell. While Emerson espoused self-reliance and transcendental ideals, Arnold offered a tempered, cosmopolitan perspective that advocated for measured engagement with European traditions and the cultivation of a cultural "center." This interplay of ideas highlights the enduring relevance of Arnold’s critique in shaping American cultural and critical thought during a 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 1957.

Grahame Clark

Aspects of Prehistory

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The exploration of prehistory provides a comprehensive perspective on the antecedents of human societies and civilizations, bridging the gap between scientific universality and the narrow scope of written histories. Prehistory reveals a shared human past, documented through fossils, and highlights humanity's evolutionary journey, linking us to other animals while emphasizing our unique traits, such as self-awareness, art, ethics, and philosophy. This dual nature of humans as both animals and beings with divine potential underscores the evolutionary processes that have shaped societies for survival. Prehistory also dismantles barriers once thought to separate humans from the natural world, illustrating how cultural and intellectual developments have played a central role in human progress.

The text is derived from reflections following the writing and revision of World Prehistory, culminating in lectures given by the author at various institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. The chapters in this book expand upon the themes of those lectures, maintaining their essence while incorporating additional insights. They explore the profound implications of prehistory for understanding humanity's origins and its shared legacy, aiming to synthesize the depth of this knowledge with the clarity and accessibility required for a broader audience. Through references and scholarly precision, the book offers a focused exploration of prehistory's central themes while acknowledging the evolutionary and cultural forces that have shaped human 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 1970.

Richard H. Rouse

Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies

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Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies by Richard H. Rouse is a comprehensive annotated guide to the vast range of bibliographic tools essential for medievalists. As Rouse makes clear in his introduction, the challenge facing scholars is not so much the absence of information as its inaccessibility: the proliferation of specialized bibliographies across languages and disciplines often leaves even experienced researchers unsure of what exists and where to find it. Unlike classical studies, which benefit from a unifying resource like *L’année philologique*, medieval studies are served by a multitude of narrower bibliographies with little coordination among them. Some fields, such as art and ecclesiastical history, are richly covered though frequently duplicated, while areas like economic history, English studies, or medieval technology remain thinly represented. Rouse’s guide addresses this unevenness by identifying, describing, and contextualizing nearly three hundred serial bibliographies across the full range of medieval studies.

Organized into eleven major divisions—from general, national, and regional bibliographies to specialized listings in art, music, intellectual history, linguistics, law, science, and medicine—the guide provides detailed annotations on coverage, organization, and distinctive features of each resource. The work deliberately avoids evaluation in favor of accurate description, though bibliographies offering particularly thorough coverage are marked with an asterisk as obvious starting points for research. By including not only conventional lists of publications but also bibliographic essays and accessions lists, Rouse broadens the definition of bibliography to encompass all systematic attempts to organize knowledge. The result is a practical and indispensable reference tool, designed both for beginning graduate students learning how to navigate the field and for established scholars seeking to keep abreast of the growing maze of resources. Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies thus serves as a map to the bibliographic infrastructure of medieval scholarship and a vital contribution to the improvement of bibliographic control in the humanities.

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.

Michael Davidson

Ghostlier Demarcations

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Why do modern poets quote from dictionaries in their poems? How has the tape recorder changed the poet's voice? What has shopping to do with Gertrude Stein's aesthetics? These and other questions form the core of Ghostlier Demarcations, a study of modern poetry as a material medium. One of today's most respected critics of twentieth-century poetry and poetics, Michael Davidson argues that literary materiality has been dominated by an ideology of modernism, based on the ideal of the autonomous work of art, which has hindered our ability to read poetry as a socially critical medium. By focusing on writing as a palimpsest involving numerous layers of materiality—from the holograph manuscript to the printed book—Davidson exposes modern poetry's engagement with larger historical forces. The palimpsest that results is less a poem than an arrested stage of writing in whose layers can be discerned ghostly traces of other texts.

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 1997.

Edited by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna

The Boundaries of Humanity

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To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity.

Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies.

Contributors:
Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd

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.

Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg

Personal Rule in Black Africa

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Personal Rule in Black Africa: The Dynamics and Challenges of Institutionless Governance offers an in-depth exploration of governance systems across Black African states, focusing on the pervasive model of personal rule. This study contends that political authority in much of Black Africa operates outside the frameworks of institutionalized governance, relying instead on personal influence, informal agreements, and factional power dynamics. Such systems are marked by a distinct absence of enforceable rules, leading to heightened political risks and instability, yet also fostering a form of political order that defies classical theories predicting chaos in the absence of institutionalized systems.

The book delves into the historical and sociopolitical underpinnings of personal rule, comparing it to similar transitional governance systems in early modern Europe. It emphasizes the role of rulers' political acumen and adaptability in maintaining order in the face of limited institutional support. Through a typological approach, the study categorizes various forms of personal rule and evaluates their implications for political stability, governance quality, and the provision of essential "political goods" such as peace and security. With insights drawn from classical political theory, sociological frameworks, and comparative politics, the book sheds light on the successes and limitations of this governance model, offering a nuanced perspective on African statecraft and its future trajectory.

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.

Joseph J. Duggan

The Song of Roland

$95.00

The Song of Roland: Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft by Joseph J. Duggan offers a groundbreaking reevaluation of one of medieval Europe’s most celebrated epics. Long regarded as a touchstone of French literary tradition, the Chanson de Roland has fueled debates over whether its artistry reflects a single authorial genius or a collective oral inheritance. Duggan brings to this problem a rigorous analysis of formulaic language, employing computer-assisted concordances and statistical study to measure repetition, diction, and compositional patterns. His findings situate the Roland not as an anomalous masterpiece isolated from its tradition, but as a work deeply rooted in the oral-formulaic techniques shared by Old French epic poetry.

By integrating close literary analysis with methods adapted from Homeric and Anglo-Saxon studies, Duggan illuminates how the poem’s structure, motifs, and verbal artistry emerge from the dynamics of oral performance. He demonstrates that even Roland’s most famous episodes—his death, his refusal to sound the horn, and the climactic trial of Ganelon—are marked by a density of formulaic expression that links them unmistakably to oral tradition while revealing their poetic power. This study not only reshapes our understanding of the Roland but also advances broader questions about medieval literary culture, authorship, and the relationship between orality and writing.

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.

Albrecht Dihle

The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity

$95.00

In this landmark volume of the Sather Classical Lectures, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity, Albrecht Dihle traces how ancient Greek and early Christian thinkers grappled with the problem of human volition. Beginning with cosmological frameworks in Galen and Celsus, Dihle shows how Greek philosophy long resisted formulating a distinct theory of will, preferring to ground human action in knowledge, reason, and harmony with cosmic order. He contrasts this intellectualism with the Biblical and early Christian emphasis on obedience, divine command, and freedom of will, culminating in the pivotal innovations of St. Augustine.

Bringing together philosophy, theology, and classical philology, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity maps the slow but decisive emergence of will as a concept distinct from reason and desire. Dihle demonstrates how debates among Platonists, Stoics, and early Christian authors shaped Western notions of freedom, responsibility, and moral agency. Richly erudite yet accessible, the book provides an essential genealogy of a category central to medieval and modern thought, showing how Augustine’s theology of will built on—and broke with—classical traditions.

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.

Patrick Wilson

Two Kinds of Power

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Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control by Patrick Wilson addresses one of the most enduring challenges of intellectual life: how to navigate, organize, and master the overwhelming abundance of written material that surrounds us. From libraries and archives to offices and attics, the world is saturated with documents of every kind—some of enduring cultural and intellectual value, others ephemeral records of daily life. Wilson explores what it means to exercise “bibliographical control” over this mass: the ability to discover, organize, and access what is valuable amid the trivial, and to understand how writings serve as both the record of human activity and the medium of knowledge transmission. He treats bibliographical control not simply as a technical problem but as a form of power—power over knowledge itself, and therefore power over action, culture, and memory.

Far from offering a manual of techniques, Wilson develops a searching theoretical analysis of the concepts underlying bibliographical practice. He examines the notions of organization and control, relevance and subject, and the ways in which lists, catalogs, bibliographies, and information-retrieval systems serve—or fail to serve—human purposes. Drawing a distinction between organizing things and exercising control over them, Wilson highlights the roles of people, institutions, and technologies in shaping bibliographical power. His reflections anticipate debates about information overload, digital retrieval, and knowledge management, while remaining grounded in the philosophical and historical traditions of librarianship and bibliography. Two Kinds of Power remains a foundational meditation on how societies make sense of the vast universe of writings, a work that combines conceptual rigor with practical urgency, and that continues to resonate wherever questions of information, organization, and access are at stake.

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.

Robert E. Kennedy, Jr.

The Irish

$95.00

The Irish: Emigration, Marriage, and Fertility by Robert E. Kennedy, Jr. is a groundbreaking sociological and demographic analysis of one of Europe’s most paradoxical populations. While Ireland lost more than half its population between 1841 and 1966, it simultaneously exhibited a striking combination of postponed marriage, high rates of permanent celibacy, and the highest marital fertility in the West. Kennedy uses rich census and vital registration records, alongside social history and literature, to disentangle what is truly unique about Irish demographic patterns and what represents extreme versions of wider European trends. Through careful attention to mortality, migration, and fertility, he demonstrates how Ireland became a test case for middle-range theories of social change, from the “flight from famine” to the effects of agricultural modernization and the selective pressures of emigration.

Placing Ireland within a broader comparative framework, Kennedy shows how social institutions such as the “stem family” shaped the acceptance of delayed marriage and permanent singleness, while also fueling high fertility among those who did marry. His analysis extends to Protestant–Catholic contrasts, the role of nationalism in shaping migration, and the persistent subordination of women in rural society—all factors with deep implications for Ireland’s demographic trajectory. By linking nineteenth-century experience with mid-twentieth-century trends, The Irish reframes Irish uniqueness as both a legacy of historical constraints and a laboratory for understanding how societies manage population growth. For scholars of history, sociology, demography, and Irish studies, this book offers not only a definitive account of Irish population change but also a comparative lens on the dilemmas of modernization still faced in many developing nations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Harvey Luskin Molotch

Managed Integration

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Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City by Harvey Luskin Molotch is a groundbreaking sociological study of how urban communities navigated racial transition in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Focusing on the South Shore neighborhood, Molotch probes the tensions between ecological forces of neighborhood change and the deliberate efforts of local organizations to preserve stability through managed integration. Through a close study of the South Shore Commission, he traces the tools—tenant referral programs, appeals to white residents, organizational mobilization—used in an attempt to resist resegregation and maintain a racially mixed, middle-class community.

With a combination of archival data, interviews, field observation, and landlord surveys, Molotch situates South Shore’s struggles within the larger urban processes of white flight, real estate markets, and racial succession. The book critically interrogates the dilemmas of “doing good” through community action, showing both the promise and limits of voluntarism in the face of entrenched structural pressures. At once a vivid case study and a broader meditation on urban sociology, Managed Integration continues to resonate for scholars of race, housing, policy, and the contested meaning of integration in American cities.

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.

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

California Slavic Studies, Volume XI

$95.00

This volume of California Slavic Studies showcases an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly essays and primary sources, delving into the rich cultural, literary, and historical narratives of the Slavic world. Edited by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Gleb Struve, and Thomas Eekman, the book features diverse topics, including eschatological themes in Russian literature, poetic explorations by Osip Mandelstam, and historical accounts like Prince Peter Kozlovsky's correspondence. This academic compilation serves as a crucial resource for understanding the complexity of Slavic contributions to global history and culture, while offering readers insights into the nuanced perspectives of prominent thinkers and writers.

In addition to its literary analyses, the volume broadens its focus to include sociocultural studies, such as feminine representations in Old Russian literature and art, and an examination of Jewish reforms during the Enlightened Absolutism era in Europe. Scholars and enthusiasts of Slavic studies will find this edition invaluable for its depth, as it bridges historical documentation and theoretical frameworks, enriching the discourse on Slavic influence across disciplines.

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.

Cornelia Nixon

Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women

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Lawrence's Leadership: Politics and the Turn Against Women delves into the dramatic ideological shift of D. H. Lawrence during the early 20th century, particularly his move toward authoritarian politics and his critical stance on women. The book explores how personal crises, including Lawrence’s internal struggles with sexuality, his disillusionment with the war, and societal upheavals, shaped his evolving views. Through detailed analyses of his letters, essays, and novels, including The Rainbow and Women in Love, the study reveals Lawrence’s turn from advocating creative freedom and sensuality to promoting hierarchical leadership and male dominance. It examines how these changes were influenced by broader cultural trends, such as the rise of authoritarian thought in Europe, and Lawrence's alignment with certain reactionary ideas about gender and society.

This volume situates Lawrence’s shifting beliefs within the broader historical and cultural contexts of World War I and its aftermath, offering insight into how personal despair and social anxieties fueled his ideological transformation. By tracing these changes in his works and writings, Lawrence's Leadership provides a nuanced understanding of Lawrence's complex relationship with modernity, masculinity, and power. The book offers a compelling analysis of how individual struggles intersect with broader political ideologies, highlighting Lawrence’s unique yet troubling role in the cultural and intellectual currents 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 1986.

Harry Clark

A Venture in History

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A Venture in History: The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Harry Clark offers a revealing account of how one of the nineteenth century’s most ambitious historical enterprises came into being. Between 1874 and 1890, San Francisco publisher and bookseller Hubert Howe Bancroft oversaw the creation of his monumental Works—thirty-nine volumes covering the history and culture of western North America, from Alaska to Central America. Drawing on his unparalleled collection of manuscripts and books, Bancroft marshaled a team of assistants to produce a reference set still regarded as foundational. Yet the massive project also depended on aggressive sales campaigns, including door-to-door canvassing, which both ensured its completion and exposed it to criticism.

Clark traces every phase of the endeavor: Bancroft’s reliance on hired writers and researchers, his constant oversight of production, the business strategies of his publishing firms, and the complex marketing of the Works. He also examines the controversial sequel, the seven-volume Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth, a vanity biography that damaged Bancroft’s reputation even as it sought to extend his achievement. Using Bancroft’s autobiography Literary Industries, unpublished correspondence, and testimonies from collaborators like Frances Fuller Victor, Clark reconstructs the interplay of scholarship, commerce, and personality that defined the project. At once a study in the making of history and in the history of publishing, A Venture in History assesses Bancroft’s lasting contributions while situating his enterprise within the cultural and economic life of Gilded Age America.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Charles S. Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya

Civil Religion in Israel

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This study explores the profound influence of Judaism on the political culture of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, spanning from the prestate yishuv period to the present day. Focusing on the concept of civil religion—defined as the ceremonials, myths, and creeds that legitimize the social order, foster unity, and mobilize society toward its key political goals—the research examines how these elements, often rooted in Jewish tradition, have shaped the political and moral community of Israel. Civil religion, representing what is most sacred in a political culture, has played a distinctive role in unifying the population and guiding political aims within modern Jewish society in Israel.

The book traces the evolution of civil religion in Israel, highlighting its decline in recent years as a key shift in Israeli political culture. Organized into chapters that define terms, detail the development of civil religions over time, and explore the responses of religious Jews, the study culminates in a comprehensive analysis of the topic. Drawing on research supported by grants from the Israel Foundations Trustees and Bar-Ilan University, the authors offer a collaborative and in-depth examination of civil religion’s dynamic presence and transformation within Israeli society, shedding light on one of the most significant elements of its political and cultural identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Robert H. Glass and Ronald J. Ericsson

Getting Pregnant in the 1980s

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Getting Pregnant in the 1980s: New Advances in Infertility Treatment and Sex Preselection provides a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving field of reproductive medicine during a transformative decade. This book consolidates the latest developments in infertility treatments, sex preselection, and related topics, offering a uniquely informed perspective from two experts—one a practicing physician and researcher specializing in infertility, the other a research scientist and innovator. By integrating medical insights with a critical evaluation of available technologies, the authors demystify complex treatments while encouraging active participation from readers in their healthcare decisions. Unlike other resources, this book avoids anecdotal case histories, instead delivering evidence-based information in a straightforward manner. Chapters address key issues, from infertility diagnosis and treatment options to ethical and social debates surrounding new reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization, prenatal diagnostics, and the implications of genetic manipulation.

The book also explores the societal and ethical dimensions of advanced reproductive interventions. Topics include the controversies surrounding surrogate motherhood, the limitations and risks of in vitro fertilization, and the potential impacts of sex preselection on social structures. While addressing moral concerns, the authors emphasize the transformative potential of these technologies, from empowering individuals to overcome infertility to enabling groundbreaking fetal surgeries and genetic research. With a forward-looking approach, the authors shed light on the promises and challenges of reproductive innovation, advocating for informed, ethical, and patient-centered use of these advancements. This volume is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the dynamic interplay of science, medicine, and society in the realm of human reproduction.

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.

Joseph Bradley

Muzhik and Muscovite

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Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia examines the profound social and economic transformations wrought by urbanization in Moscow during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through an in-depth case study of the empire’s second-largest city, the book investigates the tensions between the traditional rural culture of the muzhik (common people) and the modernizing aspirations of the Muscovite (educated elite). The author explores how Moscow's rapid demographic and economic growth, fueled by waves of rural migration, gave rise to complex challenges, including overcrowding, inadequate housing, and labor instability. These issues not only tested the capacity of municipal authorities but also exposed the gulf between the expectations of urban reformers and the lived realities of first- and second-generation migrants.

Framing urbanization as both a local and systemic process of modernization, the book delves into the evolving relationship between Russia’s educated elite and its lower classes. It examines the elite’s attempts to impose discipline and modern values on an often resistant labor force, motivated by fears of idleness, immorality, and social disorder. Using Moscow as a microcosm, the study reveals how industrialization and urban expansion were accompanied by an ethos of individual and societal reform among administrators, professionals, and philanthropists. Drawing from municipal reports, census data, and contemporary accounts, Muzhik and Muscovite offers a richly textured narrative of a city grappling with the contradictions of tradition and modernity, illuminating broader themes in the history of Russian urbanization 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 1985.

Paul Shorey

Platonism

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Platonism: Ancient and Modern (Sather Classical Lectures, Volume 14) presents an insightful exploration of the enduring legacy of Plato's philosophy, as viewed through the lectures of the esteemed classicist Paul Shorey. Delivered during his tenure as Sather Professor at the University of California, Shorey’s lectures delve into the historical and intellectual context of Platonism, capturing its profound impact on fourth-century Athens and subsequent generations of thinkers. With its detailed analysis of Plato's dialogues, Shorey examines their moral and intellectual vibrancy, from the philosophical discourses on love and beauty in the Symposium to the daring social speculations in the Republic. His discussions illuminate the ways in which Plato's ideas resonated with and challenged the intellectual currents of his time, including his influence on figures like Isocrates and his nuanced relationship with his contemporaries.

The publication, edited posthumously by Dr. Procope S. Costas, preserves the authenticity of Shorey’s voice and intellectual rigor, even as it captures the dynamic nature of his spoken lectures. In this volume, readers encounter Shorey’s characteristic blend of erudition and wit, as he situates Plato’s philosophical contributions within the broader history of Western thought. He engages with Plato’s critics, contemporaries, and modern interpreters, presenting a balanced account that is both accessible to general readers and valuable for specialists. This enduring work not only celebrates the timelessness of Platonic thought but also underscores the vitality of its interpretation in modern classical scholarship.

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 1938.

Ralph A. Griffiths

The Reign of King Henry VI

$125.00

'Anyone who wishes to study the reign of Henry VI will need to start from the basis which Professor Griffiths provides' A.J. Pollard, Parliamentary History Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king to have been acknowledges by the French as rightfully King of France. His reign was the third longest since the Norman conquest and he came close to being declared a saint. This masterly study, unparalleled in its informative detail, examines the entire span of the king's reign, from the death of Henry V in 1422, when Henry was only nine months old, to the period of his insanity at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses and his dethronement in 1461, preceding his murder ten years later. This classic re-assessment of the third Lancastrian king is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of fifteenth-century England.

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.
'Anyone who wishes to study the reign of Henry VI will need to start from the basis which Professor Griffiths provides' A.J. Pollard, Parliamentary History Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to have ascended the English throne and the only English king

Leonard C. Pronko

Theater East and West

$95.00

Theater East and West: Perspectives Toward a Total Theater, by Leonard Cabell Pronko, examines the surge of American interest in Asian performance traditions during the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly the fascination with Kabuki. Pronko situates this phenomenon largely within universities, which—unburdened by commercial constraints—became hubs for experimentation and cross-cultural exchange. He chronicles the rise of English-language stagings such as Narukami and Kanjinchop, the appearance of Asian-inspired productions at national theater festivals, and the growing infrastructure that supported these efforts, from specialized bulletins to campus-based tours and visiting artists. Critical responses ranged from curiosity to genuine enthusiasm, underscoring a new receptivity to Asian forms as both accessible and expansive models of theatrical possibility.

In updating his original 1967 study, Pronko distinguishes between successes and failures in this evolving dialogue. The ill-fated Kabuki Theater Restaurant in San Francisco exemplified the pitfalls of spectacle without authenticity, while American directors and experimental Japanese troupes demonstrated the creative potential of hybrid staging, adapting works such as Yeats’s plays or *Titus Andronicus* with Kabuki and Chinese opera vocabularies. Tours by authentic classical ensembles from Japan, China, India, and Indonesia drew enthusiastic audiences, but also revealed a structural problem: few Western artists could commit to years of apprenticeship in Asia, and importing true master teachers remained challenging. Pronko argues that disciplined training in authentic modes is essential before meaningful adaptation, pointing to promising developments such as Japan’s opening of formal schools in Noh, Kyōgen, and dance, and especially the National Theatre’s Kabuki Training Program, begun in 1970. Having studied within its first cohort, he highlights the impressive achievements of its graduates—later showcased at the American College Theater Festival—as proof that intensive, structured study can yield remarkable results. Ultimately, Pronko presents a field at the threshold of a sustained “total theater” dialogue, one that will flourish only through rigor, respect for source traditions, and effective pipelines for training and exchange.

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.

George A. De Vos

Socialization for Achievement

$105.00

Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese by George A. De Vos offers a sweeping interdisciplinary inquiry into the ways Japanese culture shapes individual motivation, achievement, and social conformity. Drawing on decades of research that integrates psychology, anthropology, and sociology, De Vos situates Japanese patterns of socialization within a broader theoretical framework for understanding human development. The essays in this collection probe how cultural traditions, child-rearing practices, and enduring familial obligations cultivate deeply internalized needs for accomplishment and self-justification. From analyses of normative role behavior in rural villages to examinations of guilt, arranged marriage, and women’s roles, De Vos demonstrates how the dynamics of obligation and endurance anchor Japanese society even amid rapid modernization. His comparative use of psychological testing—including Rorschach and Thematic Apperception protocols—underscores the persistence of cultural continuities in shaping motivation and social identity across generations and settings.

In its later sections, the volume turns from sanctioned achievement to the darker terrain of deviance, delinquency, and alienation, illustrating how Japan’s strong culture of obligation also produces patterned forms of failure and marginalization. Essays on youth delinquency, gang organization, the Burakumin minority, and suicide trace the interplay between cultural traditions, rapid social change, and the pressures of conformity. Particularly compelling are the accounts of “role narcissism” and the ways in which internalized guilt, rather than shame, drives much Japanese behavior. De Vos argues that Japanese society exemplifies a distinctive form of “socialization for achievement,” wherein continuity of cultural psychology tempers institutional transformation, resulting in both extraordinary economic growth and persistent psychological strain. By combining psychoanalytic perspectives with sociological theory, this landmark collection not only illuminates Japan but also advances a general theory of how cultural traditions mediate socialization, achievement, and deviance in human societies.

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.

Donald R. Howard

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

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In The Idea of the Canterbury Tales, Donald R. Howard reimagines Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales not as an unfinished fragment of medieval literature but as a deliberately conceived whole, “unfinished yet complete.” Howard argues that Chaucer’s masterwork is best understood as an anatomy of human experience—an imaginative architecture that interweaves irony, morality, memory, and form. Drawing on intellectual history, medieval aesthetics, and close readings of the tales and their framing devices, Howard situates the Tales within Chaucer’s cultural milieu while insisting on its originality and lasting vitality. By treating the poem’s idea as something shared across time rather than locked in the author’s intentions, Howard offers a compelling account of its artistry and coherence.

Balancing historical scholarship with a humanist critical method, Howard traces how Chaucer’s comedy of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury became a book about the world itself. He explores how its digressions, multiple voices, and unfinished design participate in the very texture of life, and why readers across centuries continue to find in it both laughter and profound moral inquiry. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales is both a bold reinterpretation of Chaucer’s achievement and a meditation on what it means to read medieval literature in the modern age, reminding us that Chaucer wrote for his contemporaries and for us, crafting a vision of literature as a shared act of memory and 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 1976.

Joseph Fontenrose

Python

$105.00

Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins by Joseph Fontenrose is a landmark study in the field of mythology and comparative folklore, tracing the evolution of the combat myth across cultures and civilizations. At its core, the book examines the story of Apollo’s battle with the dragon Python at Delphi, positioning it as a key narrative that links Greek myth to broader mythological traditions spanning Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt, India, China, and even medieval Europe. Fontenrose’s thematic approach challenges conventional structuralist methods, arguing that the recurrence of key mythic motifs indicates a genetic relationship between myths, rather than independent emergence. His meticulous analysis of textual sources—ranging from classical literature to ancient inscriptions—provides a comprehensive understanding of the symbolic and religious functions of the combat myth.

With an emphasis on accessibility, Fontenrose makes this complex material approachable to both scholars and general readers interested in mythology, anthropology, and folklore. He carefully translates and transliterates Greek, Latin, and Oriental names, ensuring clarity while preserving linguistic authenticity. By engaging with a diverse array of myths, he demonstrates how the combat between a heroic deity and a monstrous adversary is a universal theme reflecting deep-seated cultural anxieties and cosmic struggles. This paperbound edition ensures that a wider audience can appreciate Fontenrose’s groundbreaking insights, making Python an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the origins and transformations of mythic narratives across time and space.

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 1959.

R. P. Dore

City Life in Japan

$95.00

This book offers an in-depth exploration of life in Shitayama-cho, a diverse neighborhood in Tokyo, aiming to capture the daily experiences, cultural practices, and social dynamics of its residents. By examining how people earn a living, form relationships, and interact with their environment, the study seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of both individual lives and broader community patterns. While the neighborhood's heterogeneity presents challenges to generalization, it also reflects the complexity of Tokyo's urban fabric, making the findings relevant to understanding city life in Japan as a whole. The combination of direct observation and formal interviews allows for a rich, multi-dimensional portrait of life in Shitayama-cho, complemented by comparative insights drawn from national statistics and broader studies of urban Japan.

The study also delves into the ongoing social transformations in Japanese society, contextualizing changes in family structures, community relationships, and cultural attitudes against a backdrop of industrialization and Western influence. By comparing traditional practices with emerging modern values, the research sheds light on how these shifts manifest in everyday life and how individuals navigate the resulting tensions. The book balances its focus on local, lived experiences with broader sociological inquiries, addressing both the unique cultural traits of Japanese society and the universal challenges posed by modernization. Through this approach, it provides valuable insights for understanding both the continuity and change in urban Japan.

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.

Gerald Abraham

The Tradition of Western Music

$95.00

In The Tradition of Western Music, Gerald Abraham distills his Ernest Bloch Lectures at Berkeley into a sweeping meditation on how music both embodies and transforms cultural life. Rather than treating tradition as “the dead hand of the past,” Abraham frames it as a dynamic process: a living, evolving dialogue between communal memory, individual creativity, and shifting historical circumstances. Across essays on musical language, social forces, and the balance of continuity and innovation, he asks why certain traditions persist while others wither, and how composers from Luther to Bach, Berlioz, and Mussorgsky stand within—and sometimes against—their inherited legacies.

The book insists that the history of Western music is never just a chronicle of works but a record of responses, reinterpretations, and constant change. Abraham interweaves studies of plainsong, chorales, folk traditions, and modern performance practices with broader reflections on nationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and the effects of religion, politics, and technology on musical form. Written in an accessible yet scholarly style, The Tradition of Western Music offers students, performers, and general readers alike an interpretive guide to understanding how music has functioned as both a shared cultural inheritance and a site of perpetual 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 1974.

Arnold J. Meltsner

The Politics of City Revenue

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The Politics of City Revenue provides an in-depth exploration of local government finance, specifically focusing on the city of Oakland, California, during a time of fiscal constraint and political challenge. Authored by Thomas M. Stanback, Jr., the book emerges from his firsthand experiences as a participant-observer in Oakland's city management during the late 1960s. Originally intending to apply program-budgeting techniques, Stanback quickly discovered that the city's central problem was not the allocation of resources but the critical issue of revenue generation. This realization reframed his study into a broader analysis of how local governments navigate fiscal challenges and political environments perceived as hostile.

The book examines how city officials engage in revenue generation, manage tight budgets, and respond to competing priorities in urban governance. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical observations, Stanback provides a nuanced look at the interplay between economic constraints and political decision-making. The text also highlights the collaborative efforts behind urban governance research, with Stanback drawing upon the expertise of colleagues, city officials, and external funding sources, including NASA and the Urban Institute. This foundational work sheds light on the complexities of municipal finance and offers valuable lessons for policymakers, urban planners, and scholars navigating the fiscal realities of modern city administration.

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.

Edited by George D. Spindler

The Making of Psychological Anthropology

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The Making of Psychological Anthropology offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, challenges, and future directions of psychological anthropology. Comprised of eighteen chapters, the book reflects the diversity and richness of this subdiscipline, tracing its roots back to the "culture and personality" movement of the 1930s and its transformation into modern psychological anthropology. Each chapter is a reflective and often personal critique, revealing the authors' unique contributions and their engagement with enduring questions about human cognition, perception, motivation, and adaptation. The volume showcases the methodological and theoretical shifts that have shaped the field, emphasizing a balance between rigorous data collection and a nuanced appreciation of human individuality and cultural complexity.

The book is divided into two parts: the first focuses on veteran contributors who shaped the field’s foundational ideas, drawing from neo-Freudianism, Gestalt psychology, and social learning theories. These chapters illustrate the enduring influence of early paradigms while highlighting how these pioneers pushed beyond them. The second part features contributions from newer voices tackling emerging areas such as symbolic anthropology and altered states of consciousness, reflecting the field’s diversification. Throughout, the volume underscores the intellectual vitality of psychological anthropology, addressing past critiques, integrating fresh perspectives, and demonstrating its relevance for understanding the interplay of culture, personality, and individual experience. This landmark work is both a reflection on the past and a guide to the dynamic possibilities that lie ahead.

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.

Arthur Selzer, M.D.

The Heart

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The Heart: Its Function in Health and Disease is a comprehensive exploration of the heart and its role in human health, designed to bridge the gap between technical scientific literature and popular medical information for a general audience. Aimed at educated readers without a medical background, the book delivers a systematic and accessible discussion of heart diseases and their impact on individuals and society. By using clear explanations and avoiding overly technical jargon, Dr. Selzer provides insights into the heart's anatomy, physiology, common diseases, and the latest advancements in diagnosis and treatment.

This work is particularly significant given the prevalence and societal impact of heart disease, which remains a leading cause of mortality in the United States. Dr. Selzer not only addresses the medical and scientific aspects of heart disease but also considers its broader implications, including economic challenges, access to care, and the role of health insurance and government programs. With its balance of scientific rigor and accessibility, the book serves as a valuable resource for readers interested in understanding the complexities of heart health and the ongoing efforts to combat cardiovascular diseases.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Michael Flier and Daniel Rowland

Medieval Russian Culture, Volume II

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A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts. The contributors, international specialists from many disciplines, investigate issues ranging over history, cultural anthropology, art history, and ritual. They have produced a worthy companion to the first volume of Medieval Russian Culture, published in 1984.

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.

Donald F. Tuzin

The Voice of The Tambaran

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The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion by Donald F. Tuzin is a landmark ethnography of the Ilahita Arapesh of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the Tambaran men’s cult—the dominant symbolic system shaping social and religious life in the East Sepik region. For the Arapesh, the Tambaran is not simply a set of rituals or spirits: it personifies tradition itself, integrating collective identity, authority, and cosmology into a single, mystically compelling framework.

Structured around the initiation sequence that spans a man’s lifetime, Tuzin’s study traces how ritual secrecy, myth, and symbolism in art and architecture define masculine power, social control, and ethical life in the village. He confronts the paradox of a cult that commands supreme cultural significance while systematically excluding and terrorizing women and children, probing the nuanced politics of belief and the divisions it produces among men as well as between genders. Drawing on earlier anthropological work on diffusion, Tuzin also analyzes how Arapesh communities adapted and reinterpreted imported ritual forms to fit their own mythological understandings.

By combining meticulous description of ceremonies and myths with theoretical reflection on symbolism, secrecy, and social integration, The Voice of the Tambaran provides the first full-scale portrait of the cult in its local setting. It complements Tuzin’s earlier study of Ilahita social organization by adding the dimension of cultural meaning to structures of reciprocity and dual organization. Richly detailed and analytically ambitious, the book is essential reading for scholars of religion, Melanesian ethnography, and the anthropology of cultural 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 1980.

Henry Walter Bates Foreword by Robert L. Usinger

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

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I embarked at Liverpool, with Mr. Wallace, in a small trading vessel, on the 26th of April, 1848; and, after a swift passage from the Irish Channel to the equator, arrived, on the 26th of May, off Salinas. This is the pilot-station for vessels bound to Pará, the only port of entry to the vast region watered by the Amazons. It is a small village, formerly a missionary settlement of the Jesuits, situated a few miles to the eastward of the Pará River. Here the ship anchored in the open sea at a distance of six miles from the shore, the shallowness of the water far out around the mouth of the great river not permitting, in safety, a nearer approach; and, the signal was hoisted for a pilot. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. To the eastward the country was not remarkable in appearance, being slightly undulating, with bare sand-hills and scattered trees; but to the westward, stretching towards the mouth of the river, we could see through the captain’s glass a long line of forest, rising apparently out of the water; a densely-packed mass of tall trees, broken into groups, and finally into single trees, as it dwindled away in the distance. This was the frontier, in this direction, of the great primaeval forest characteristic of this region, which contains so many wonders in its recesses, and clothes the whole surface of the country for two thousand miles from this point to the foot of the Andes.

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.
I embarked at Liverpool, with Mr. Wallace, in a small trading vessel, on the 26th of April, 1848; and, after a swift passage from the Irish Channel to the equator, arrived, on the 26th of May, off Salinas. This is the pilot-station for vessels bound to Pa

M. A. Amerine and V. L. Singleton

Wine

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Wine: An Introduction for Americans by M. A. Amerine and V. L. Singleton brings clarity and authority to a subject too often obscured by romance, mysticism, or narrow focus. While countless books promise to guide the novice drinker, many either entertain without informing, intimidate with arbitrary rules, or drown the reader in technical detail. Amerine and Singleton—two of the most respected figures in American enology—set out to provide what had long been missing: a comprehensive, factual, and accessible introduction to wine written from an American perspective. Their aim is not to prescribe rigid dogma but to explain principles, correct misconceptions, and open the world of wine to informed enjoyment.

With particular attention to U.S. production practices and California’s central role—responsible for nearly 90 percent of American wine—this book situates American readers within their own marketplace while also surveying the global traditions that give wine its richness. Technical explanations are balanced with cultural context, enabling readers to understand not only how wine is made but also how it is used and appreciated. The authors emphasize facts where available and considered judgments where necessary, while offering carefully selected references for those who wish to explore further. Wine: An Introduction for Americans remains a landmark text: a clear, reliable, and inviting guide that demystifies wine and empowers readers to approach the subject with both confidence and curiosity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

T. O. Ranger & John Weller

Themes in the Christian History of Central Africa

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Themes in the Christian History of Central Africa, edited by T. O. Ranger and John Weller, examines the complex encounters between Christian churches and other institutions in Central Africa over more than a century, from traditional cults and colonial administrations to settler regimes and, most recently, universities. Borne out of a 1971 workshop in Malawi that brought together both church leaders and academics, the volume underscores the dual role of Christianity as both a transformative influence on African societies and a body profoundly shaped by its historical, political, and cultural contexts. The editors argue that universities in particular are pushing churches to reconsider how they write, teach, and balance their histories—geographically, chronologically, denominationally, and in terms of whose voices are included.

The book is structured in three parts. Part I focuses on historical case studies of Christian engagements with African religious and social systems, highlighting both accommodation and resistance. Part II addresses the churches’ political entanglements, including the charge of complicity with colonial rule, while also exploring their prophetic role in shaping nationalist thought and political change. Part III turns to seemingly internal or devotional matters—inter-church cooperation, lay movements, and religious orders—but shows how these too intersect with social, economic, and political realities. Throughout, the contributors stress the need for interdisciplinary approaches, integrating history, theology, and anthropology. By weaving together perspectives from both church-based and university-based scholars, the collection not only reinterprets the Christian past in Central Africa but also raises critical questions about the churches’ contemporary and future roles in African societies.

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.

Kenneth R. Minogue

The Concept of a University

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What is a university's true purpose? In The Concept of a University, the author embarks on a compelling exploration of what makes these institutions unique, challenging the common assumption that they exist solely to fulfill societal or economic needs. Drawing on historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives, the book delves into the intrinsic identity of universities as spaces for intellectual inquiry and scholarly cultivation. By contrasting the essence of universities with vocational and technical schools, it highlights their enduring role as places of independent thought, far removed from the functional demands often imposed upon them.

Through vivid historical anecdotes and critical analysis, The Concept of a University uncovers the dynamic tension between theory and practice that has shaped academic life for centuries. This thought-provoking work examines the rich interplay between religious impulses and intellectual traditions, offering a profound reflection on the distinction between true education and mere socialization. Ideal for educators, scholars, and anyone passionate about the philosophy of education, this book redefines what it means for universities to be centers of knowledge, imagination, and critical engagement.

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.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VI

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VI, encompasses Donne’s preaching between 1623 and early 1626, a turbulent period marked by the failure of the Spanish Match, the death of James I, the accession of Charles I, and the devastating plague of 1625. These sermons show Donne navigating a nation in anxiety and transition, while also processing his own near-fatal illness of late 1623. The *Devotions upon Emergent Occasions* arose directly from that sickness, and the sermons that follow often carry the same sharpened awareness of mortality, divine judgment, and resurrection. Beginning with his recovery sermon on Easter Day, 1624, Donne reflects repeatedly on bodily frailty and the promise of eternal life, themes woven with his characteristic mixture of casuistry, Scriptural exegesis, and poetic imagination.

This volume also includes his first sermons at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, where his pastoral manner softened into plainer instruction, emphasizing love between pastor and flock and the daily duties of Christian life. By contrast, his great cathedral and court sermons retain a more elaborate and rhetorical style. His funeral sermon for James I, preached at Denmark House, balances biblical typology with restrained commemoration, markedly different from the florid panegyrics of his contemporaries. Throughout, Donne returns to central convictions: that sin itself, though real, is a privation that God may fold into His providence; that affliction and plague are both judgment and mercy; and that the body, often despised in ascetic extremes, remains honored by God as His creation and destined for resurrection. Particularly moving are the sermons preached during and after the plague, in which Donne evokes the horror of mass mortality yet insists on consolation in the communion of saints and the eternity of divine mercy. Together, these sermons present Donne at the height of his powers, shaping his poetic theology of sin, suffering, and salvation in a moment of national and personal crisis.

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 1953.

John Donne; Edited with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume III, traces Donne’s preaching from April 1620 to February 1622, a transitional period culminating in his appointment as Dean of St. Paul’s. The sermons of these years reveal striking fluctuations of tone. In the early months Donne is preoccupied with human frailty, lamenting the “vanity of vanities” and expressing unease at the political and religious upheavals of Europe, particularly the collapse of the Elector Palatine’s cause after the Battle of White Mountain. At Lincoln’s Inn, he exhorts patience amid uncertainty, warning his hearers against rash judgments of monarch or state, while at Whitehall he balances admonitions against wealth and ambition with affirmations of national blessings under King James. The sermons of this period display both Donne’s capacity for sombre reflection and his insistence on trust in God despite affliction—a perspective shared with his poetry, including the Holy Sonnets of the same years.

As the volume progresses, the tone becomes more luminous, focusing on Christ as the true Light who dispels the “long and frozen winter nights of sinne.” Donne’s first sermon as Dean of St. Paul’s, preached on Christmas Day 1621, exemplifies this shift: drawing on the prologue to John’s Gospel, he presents Christ as the eternal Logos whose light informs reason, grace, and glory alike. Other notable sermons include marriage homilies that expand into meditations on the mystical union between Christ and the Church, and a Trinity Term series at Lincoln’s Inn where Donne examines each person of the Trinity in relation to the believer’s life. By the close of the period, with his formal resignation from Lincoln’s Inn, Donne emerges as a preacher of national stature. These sermons, whether marked by melancholy or radiant hope, demonstrate his gift for weaving theology, Scripture, and lived experience into prose that is at once intellectually rigorous and imaginatively compelling, laying the foundation for his great work at St. Paul’s.

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.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IV

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume IV, marks Donne’s establishment as Dean of St. Paul’s and his full entry into the central arena of London’s ecclesiastical and civic life. Preaching now in “Old St. Paul’s,” Donne found himself at the heart of England’s capital, addressing not only cathedral congregations but also civic gatherings, court audiences, and public assemblies at Paul’s Cross and the Spittle. The sermons of this volume vividly reflect both the ceremonial rhythm of the Church’s year—Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and Candlemas—and the political turbulence of the 1620s, when the Palatinate crisis, the Spanish marriage negotiations, and King James’s censorship of preaching weighed heavily on the national conscience. Donne’s texts range widely: meditations on Christ as Light and Resurrection, urgent admonitions against Roman “idolatry,” defenses of the Crown’s Directions to Preachers, and visionary reflections on England’s colonial project in Virginia. In all, Donne combined theological subtlety with a preacher’s responsiveness to the immediate anxieties of Londoners, who listened to him as both spiritual guide and national voice.

The volume also reveals Donne’s deepening imaginative grasp of London itself as symbol and stage. His sermons abound in images drawn from the city’s commerce, courts, and river: ships weathering storms, coins newly minted in Christ’s image, and the Thames as both highway and metaphor of spiritual passage. Donne’s appointment as Dean required him to preach at the great festivals, and his Christmas sermons on John’s Gospel and Easter discourses on resurrection are among his most exalted works, uniting scholastic argument with lyrical metaphor. Yet the same volume includes “sermons upon emergent occasions,” crafted to defend the Crown or to rally civic support for church repair or colonial enterprise. Such occasional pieces show Donne negotiating the perils of preaching under James I, balancing fidelity to doctrine with political caution. Together, these sermons embody Donne’s genius for transforming the contingencies of London and the crises of Europe into moments of spiritual encounter, and they establish his voice as the conscience of the city and the Church.

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 1959.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume I

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, represents the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the prose works of Donne that established him as one of the foremost preachers of seventeenth-century England. Issued in ten volumes, the series collates Donne’s one hundred and sixty extant sermons, which had previously circulated in seventeenth-century folios (the *LXXX Sermons* of 1640, the *Fifty Sermons* of 1649, and the *XXVI Sermons* of 1661) or as separately printed quartos. Potter and Simpson reconstruct the bibliographical history of these printings, examine extant manuscripts, and document the fraught transmission of Donne’s texts, particularly the interventions of his son, John Donne Jr., whose careless editing shaped the folios. Their editorial introductions situate Donne’s preaching within the political and ecclesiastical contexts of Jacobean and Caroline England, highlighting both the textual corruption and the survival of a rich homiletic corpus that might otherwise have been lost.

The edition underscores Donne’s sermons as literary achievements equal in stature to his poetry and devotional prose. The editors analyze their rhetorical brilliance, their blending of theological rigor with imaginative conceit, and their responsiveness to occasions ranging from court preaching at Whitehall to civic addresses at Paul’s Cross. Donne emerges as a preacher attuned to Scripture, controversy, and the performance of eloquence before audiences of power and piety. The critical apparatus provides variant readings, textual notes, and commentary on sources, while the introductions offer detailed accounts of printing history, manuscript provenance, and Donne’s position among contemporary divines. By assembling the full range of his preaching and clarifying its transmission, Potter and Simpson’s edition established *The Sermons of John Donne* as indispensable for scholars of early modern literature, theology, and intellectual history, illuminating the pulpit as the stage on which Donne articulated his most sustained reflections on mortality, grace, and the condition of humankind.

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 1953.

Eugene C. Lee

The Politics of Nonpartisanship

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The Politics of Nonpartisanship: A Study of California City Elections delves into the intricate dynamics of nonpartisan elections in California’s cities, exploring their structure, influence, and effectiveness within the broader context of American political systems. Amid a rapidly urbanizing nation where municipal governance significantly shapes daily life, this book investigates how local elections function without the direct influence of national party labels. It examines the theory behind nonpartisan elections—a political philosophy aimed at fostering direct ties between voters and candidates, free from party intervention—and contrasts it with the realities of political competition in cities. By analyzing the roles of various groups, campaign strategies, and voter behavior, the book sheds light on how nonpartisan elections differ from, and at times resemble, partisan elections at state and national levels.

In addition to its detailed exploration of local election processes, the book evaluates nonpartisan elections against democratic ideals, such as inclusivity, competition, and accessibility to political power. It also highlights the interplay between local, state, and national politics, illustrating how the political process remains interconnected across different governmental levels, regardless of the ballot's nonpartisan nature. Through its case study of California cities, the book offers valuable insights into the broader implications of nonpartisan politics for urban governance and democratic practice 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 1960.

Hans Kelsen

Pure Theory of Law

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Pure Theory of Law defines law as a system of coercive norms created by the state that rests on the validity of a generally accepted Grundnorm, or basic norm, such as the supremacy of the Constitution. Entirely self-supporting, it rejects any concept derived from metaphysics, politics, ethics, sociology, or the natural sciences. Beginning with the medieval reception of Roman law, traditional jurisprudence has maintained a dual system of “subjective” law (the rights of a person) and “objective” law (the system of norms). Throughout history this dualism has been a useful tool for putting the law in the service of politics, especially by rulers or dominant political parties. The pure theory of law destroys this dualism by replacing it with a unitary system of objective positive law that is insulated from political manipulation.

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.
Pure Theory of Law defines law as a system of coercive norms created by the state that rests on the validity of a generally accepted Grundnorm, or basic norm, such as the supremacy of the Constitution. Entirely self-supporting, it rejects any concept deri

Albert Rose

Governing Metropolitan Toronto

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Governing Metropolitan Toronto: A Social and Political Analysis (1953–1971) provides an in-depth examination of Toronto’s metropolitan governance, lauded as a model of "truly metropolitan government" in North America. Over nearly two decades, Toronto restructured its local government twice, adopting a two-tier federation model to address the challenges of urbanization, suburban expansion, and regional cooperation. This system, integrating multiple jurisdictions under a central framework, sought to resolve disparities in infrastructure, housing, and municipal services while accommodating the province’s broader economic and environmental goals. Albert Rose, a scholar and civic participant, contextualizes Metro Toronto within Canadian and global urban governance traditions, offering insights into its achievements and the challenges posed by evolving social, environmental, and political dynamics.

Rose argues that Toronto's experience demonstrates how metropolitan governance must grow from addressing physical infrastructure to managing complex social issues such as housing and environmental quality. While the provincial government provided oversight and enabled Metro’s creation, its involvement underscores the role of higher-level authorities in urban governance. The study situates Toronto's system alongside other Canadian and international models, including Winnipeg’s uni-city approach and Minnesota’s Metropolitan Council, suggesting that Toronto's adaptable federation structure may be better suited for larger, more complex urban regions. Rose’s work highlights the ongoing interplay between local autonomy and provincial guidance, offering critical lessons for urban governance worldwide and serving as a valuable resource in understanding the transformative potential of metropolitan systems.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Lester R. Kurtz

The Politics of Heresy

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The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism delves into the intricate and turbulent series of events that unfolded during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known as the modernist crisis within the Roman Catholic Church. This period saw a fierce clash between progressive scholars advocating for free inquiry and the Church’s hierarchical authorities intent on preserving orthodoxy. Central to the book are the seismic debates over the relationship between religion and science, church and state, and Christianity and modern culture—issues that remain strikingly relevant today. The author explores how these tensions culminated in the Vatican’s condemnation of modernism in 1907 and how the conflict set the stage for subsequent philosophical and theological controversies. By shedding light on this historical struggle, the book offers a compelling lens through which to examine broader themes of authority, tradition, and the pursuit of truth in the face of changing cultural paradigms.

This study also acknowledges its own limitations, shaped by the author’s perspective as a scholar and cultural biases rooted in modernist and Protestant contexts. With a focus on critical inquiry, the book examines not only the contentions of modernist scholars but also the Church’s rationale for their suppression, balancing an appreciation for both the preservation of tradition and the need for intellectual freedom. Highlighting the delicate interplay between science, religion, and their respective dogmatisms, the work underscores the enduring relevance of the modernist crisis as a reflection of ongoing struggles between innovation and orthodoxy. The Politics of Heresy is both a historical and reflective analysis, offering readers a nuanced understanding of a pivotal moment in Catholic history and its implications for contemporary debates on faith, knowledge, and cultural 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 1986.

Kathleen Williams

Spenser's World of Glass

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Spencer's World of Glass: A Reading of *The Faerie Queene presents Kathleen Williams’s luminous reappraisal of Spenser as not merely a painter of sumptuous scenes but a rigorous maker of worlds. Refusing the tired cliché that Spenser’s epic is “a poem that nobody reads,” Williams shows how its apparent luxuriance serves a profoundly architectonic purpose: the poem generates its own coherent universe, where romance wandering and moral design interlock. Knights such as Red Crosse, Guyon, and Britomart are not walking abstractions but experiential agents whose quests model the mind’s labor to wrest meaning from a resistant world.

At the center of Williams’s argument is Spenser’s fusion of romance narrative with an allegorical method that orders rather than flattens lived experience. Allegory here is no pageant of personifications; it is a structural principle that binds episodes, images, and “virtues” into an intelligible cosmos—what Williams, following Spenser, evokes as a “world of glass,” round, reflective, and exacting. The poem’s “mighty maze” is “not without a plan”: its digressions are dramatizations of human perplexity; its resolutions disclose a lawfulness felt before it is understood.

Williams traces how Spenser’s epic “makes” nature by compressing and clarifying significances across psychological, ethical, political, and cosmic registers. The virtues organize books as points of view rather than labels, converging toward magnificence, Gloriana’s court, and Nature’s ordinance. Throughout, Williams’s readings are alert to texture and structure alike, revealing how Spenser’s ease is the mark of controlled power and how the poem’s generosity of detail is the condition of its truth.

A model of analytic poise and critical tact, this study restores The Faerie Queene as a living, intelligible whole—an artful imitation of life in which order emerges from bewilderment and the glassy world clarifies the one we inhabit.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume V

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume V, brings together a substantial body of Donne’s undated sermons, contextualized with meticulous editorial analysis that reconstructs their likely chronology. Out of the 160 extant sermons, nearly half lack precise dating in the Folios, and this volume represents an effort to situate them within Donne’s career by drawing on manuscript evidence, internal references, and historical context. Many of the sermons here fall between Donne’s early years as Divinity Reader at Lincoln’s Inn (1616–1622) and his first years as Dean of St. Paul’s. They display the range of occasions for which he preached—Whitsunday, christenings, churchings, and parish duties—before the greater demands of his later ministry absorbed his energies.

The sermons collected in this volume reveal Donne working out his pastoral and theological voice within a rapidly shifting religious and political landscape. In baptismal and churching sermons, he emphasizes the sacramental incorporation of individuals into the larger communion of saints, while also addressing controversies over the sign of the cross or the role of women in devotion. Whitsunday sermons show his fascination with the Spirit as a moving, animating presence, often rendered through nautical metaphors rooted in his seafaring experiences. A number of sermons draw directly on Donne’s earlier *Essays in Divinity*, reworking meditative material on divine names, the mystery of confession, and the paradoxical way sin is folded into providence. What emerges is Donne’s characteristic balance: a preacher alert to polemical disputes of his day but more deeply concerned with guiding his hearers toward humility, penitence, and joy in forgiveness. Volume V thus fills a crucial place in the edition, capturing Donne’s development in the years before his great cathedral preaching and showing how his casuistry, poetic imagination, and pastoral urgency intertwined from the very outset of his ministry.

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 1959.

John Donne

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume X

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume X, brings to completion the monumental sequence of Donne’s preaching, concluding with his final and most famous sermon, *Deaths Duell*, delivered before King Charles I in February 1631. Spanning the breadth of his ministry, this concluding collection situates Donne’s work in its full arc—from his late and hesitant ordination, through his triumph as Dean of St. Paul’s, to the physical decline and spiritual intensity of his last years. What emerges is not only the record of a preacher of extraordinary rhetorical power but also the unfolding of a life increasingly surrendered to the office he had once resisted.

This final volume emphasizes the unity-in-diversity of Donne’s achievement. While anthologies often favor his morbid or rhetorical extremes, the full sermons reveal a more balanced Donne: a preacher of careful structure, plain counsel, pastoral sympathy, and theological depth. Here we find sermons of controversy, defending the English Church against both Roman Catholics and Separatists; sermons of civic and parochial duty, rooted in his life as Vicar of St. Dunstan’s; and sermons of profound spirituality, where images of light, peace, and resurrection dominate. The early undated sermons retain the imaginative flourish of his middle period, while the later ones—though marked by prolixity and repetition—convey an aged preacher intent on plainness, reconciliation, and consolation. *Deaths Duell* epitomizes this dual movement: Donne, visibly dying, preaches both his own farewell and a meditation on Christ’s Passion, closing with words of hope in the Resurrection.

Read together, these sermons display Donne as an artist in prose whose variety of moods—quiet, argumentative, imaginative, oratory—parallel the mosaics of Christian art, each figure distinct yet part of a greater pattern. In ending with Donne’s meditation on mortality and divine love, the volume secures his reputation as both poet and preacher, one who turned his own afflictions into testimony, and who, in Yeats’s words, convinces us that “one who is but a man like us has seen God.”

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.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume II

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume II, focuses on Donne’s preaching during his tenure as Reader in Divinity at Lincoln’s Inn (1616–1621), a period often considered the most satisfying of his clerical career. Returning to the institution where he had studied law in his youth, Donne cultivated a unique relationship with a congregation of legally trained auditors who remembered his earlier, more worldly reputation. The twenty-three extant Lincoln’s Inn sermons reveal both his struggle to establish credibility as a sincere minister and his success in winning deep affection from his hearers. Blending theological exposition with analogies drawn from law, wit, and personal humility, Donne addressed the spiritual life of a professional audience while also participating in the Inn’s campaign to finance and build a new chapel—an enterprise for which he preached both preparatory and dedicatory sermons. His reflections during this period also disclose a growing self-consciousness about the preacher’s calling and the challenges of speaking God’s Word before skeptical or distracted listeners.

The volume also includes significant sermons preached beyond Lincoln’s Inn, including those at Whitehall and before aristocratic patrons such as the Countess of Montgomery. Particularly notable are the *Sermon of Valediction* (1619), delivered before Donne’s departure on Doncaster’s embassy to Germany, and discourses composed during his travels on the Continent. These texts illuminate Donne’s anxieties about mortality, his sense of priestly responsibility, and his ongoing meditation on the tension between human weakness and divine grace. Throughout, the sermons demonstrate Donne’s distinctive style: elaborate but purposeful structures, paradox and wit employed in service of doctrine, and moments of personal disclosure that forge intimacy with his hearers. Potter and Simpson’s edition provides full textual scholarship, distinguishing manuscript versions from revised folio texts and tracing Donne’s rhetorical development. By situating these sermons within their historical, political, and biographical contexts, Volume II of *The Sermons of John Donne* underscores the richness of his pulpit work and its centrality to early modern religious and literary culture.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

John Donne; Edited, with Introductions and Critical Apparatus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume IX

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*The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume IX, gathers Donne’s last dated sermons of 1629–1630 along with a group of later undated discourses, many preached during the closing years of his ministry. Here Donne returns insistently to the opening chapters of Genesis, meditating on creation, the image of God in humanity, and the Spirit moving upon the waters. These late sermons combine an elemental simplicity with a poet’s grandeur: the East and West become figures of Christ’s light and man’s mortality, while the primordial waters serve both as emblem of chaos and of baptismal grace. Preaching before King Charles at Whitehall, before citizens at Paul’s Cross, and to his own flock at St. Paul’s, Donne speaks with new directness about human frailty, repentance, and the indwelling Spirit. Though mortality shadows these sermons—Donne was approaching his final illness—the tone is less morbid than in earlier volumes. He stresses instead the joy of forgiveness, the hope of resurrection, and the treasure of grace already present in the faithful heart.

The undated sermons collected here, including a long series on Psalm 32, reveal Donne as pastor and confessor, guiding his hearers through the disciplines of penitence, confession, and amendment of life. They show his characteristic blend of searching self-examination, theological depth, and psychological acuity, always rooted in Scripture and the Fathers yet addressed to the anxieties of his London congregations. Donne does not flinch from exposing sin—whether pride, covetousness, or irreverence in worship—but he insists with equal force on the abundance of divine mercy and the joy that springs from reconciliation with God. Volume IX thus stands at the threshold of Donne’s final preaching, culminating soon after in *Deaths Duell*. It presents a preacher who, even as his strength waned, continued to interpret creation, sin, and redemption with undiminished intensity, speaking as both poet of the eternal and pastor of souls.

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 1958.

Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse

The Managed Casualty

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Managed Casualty investigates the profound effects of World War II-era policies on Japanese-American families, focusing on their forced removal, internment, and eventual release. By centering the analysis on the family unit, the study captures the unique dynamics of cultural resilience, adaptation, and the challenges imposed by administrative policies during one of the most tumultuous periods in Japanese-American history. The research explores how families, integral to Japanese-American community structure, navigated the pressures of displacement while striving to maintain cohesion under government-imposed constraints.

The book meticulously examines the origins of the Japanese family system, the immigrant experience, and the development of ethnic communities in the United States. It contrasts pre-war conditions with the upheavals brought by wartime policies, documenting the adaptations families made to preserve their unity and identity. Drawing on diverse case studies, the work provides a textured understanding of the social, economic, and cultural realities faced by Japanese Americans. By weaving together administrative context and individual experiences, the study offers critical insights into the lasting impacts of this historical period on family structures and the broader Japanese-American community.

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.

Margaret Clark

Health in the Mexican-American Culture

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Health in the Mexican-American Culture: A Community Study by Margaret Clark offers an insightful examination of health beliefs and practices within the Mexican-American community, set against the backdrop of societal changes and cultural intersections in California. Since its initial publication, significant shifts have occurred within Mexican-American communities and their interactions with American society at large. The study explores how cultural values, economic challenges, and historical conditions have shaped health practices and the conflicts that arise when these intersect with modern medical systems. By delving into the rich cultural heritage and adaptive strategies of Mexican-Americans, the book sheds light on the persistent inequities in healthcare access, emphasizing the need for culturally sensitive approaches to public health.

The second edition of this work revisits the original study with a fresh perspective, addressing the transformations of California barrios and the evolving relationship between Spanish-speaking communities and Anglo-American institutions. Clark paints a vivid portrait of the people of Sal si Puedes, illustrating their resilience and ingenuity in navigating poverty, discrimination, and inadequate healthcare. Through compelling case studies, the book highlights the misunderstandings and tensions that arise in medical interactions, offering a lens into the broader challenges of acculturation. Ultimately, this work serves as both a historical account and a call to action, advocating for greater empathy, understanding, and reform in healthcare to bridge cultural divides and promote equity.

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.

Gottlob Frege Translated and Edited by Montgomery Furth

The Basic Laws of Arithmetic

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Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition of the System by Gottlob Frege is a seminal work that aims to establish arithmetic and mathematical analysis as logical systems derived from pure logic. Published in 1893, it represents a cornerstone in the history of mathematical and philosophical thought. Frege’s primary objective was to substantiate logicism, the view that truths of arithmetic are not irreducibly mathematical, synthetic a priori, or empirical, but are instead expressions of logical truths. The book lays out three core tasks: defining logical propositions and rules of inference, and deriving arithmetic's fundamental truths from these logical principles. While Frege’s meticulous approach to these tasks helped establish mathematical logic as a discipline, his work ultimately failed to achieve its purpose, as the set theory underpinning his system proved inconsistent, a flaw brought to his attention by Bertrand Russell.

Despite its failure as Frege envisioned it, the work remains profoundly influential. Frege’s exploration of logical truth and inference pioneered formal logic, including propositional calculus, quantification theory, and set theory. His philosophy of language, embedded within the system’s semantics, offers a deep and nuanced understanding of meaning that continues to resonate within analytical philosophy. Moreover, Frege’s precise and rigorous standards of reasoning surpass many subsequent works, including the more widely adopted Principia Mathematica. Although his logicism is untenable in its original form, Frege’s ideas remain a vital resource for understanding the intersection of logic, mathematics, and language, making his Grundgesetze a crucial study for philosophers, logicians, and historians. This translation of key sections emphasizes its ongoing relevance to modern philosophical inquiries into meaning and language.

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.

Leonard Broom

Removal and Return

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Removal and Return: The Socio-Economic Effects of the War on Japanese Americans, by Leonard Broom and Ruth Riemer, offers a pioneering sociological account of how World War II and the forced wartime removal reshaped the lives of Japanese Americans. Drawing on census records, government data, and original fieldwork—including community surveys and loss assessments—the authors trace prewar occupational structures, the mass disruption caused by evacuation and incarceration, and the uncertain adjustments that followed resettlement. They reveal how the Japanese American community in Los Angeles, once marked by its distinctive concentrations in small-scale proprietorships, agriculture, and produce trading, was fractured by the dispossession of land and businesses, and by the dispersal of entire neighborhoods such as Terminal Island.

At the heart of the book is a comparative analysis of prewar and postwar status, situating Japanese Americans alongside whites and African Americans to highlight both their economic vulnerabilities and their distinctive patterns of resilience. Broom and Riemer examine contract gardening, the fishing industry, and other family-based enterprises, while also assessing the enormous personal and financial losses sustained during removal. Their study pays close attention to questions of stratification and mobility, showing how the evacuation reordered hierarchies within the Japanese American community and forced many into less stable, lower-prestige occupations after the war. By combining empirical rigor with acute sensitivity to lived experience, Removal and Return stands as a foundational text for understanding the long-term socio-economic consequences of wartime incarceration and the resilience of a community rebuilding its place in American 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 1973.

Rafael Alberti

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Selected Poems of Rafael Alberti presents a powerful and evocative selection of works from one of Spain’s most influential 20th-century poets. A key figure in the "Generation of 1927," Alberti’s poetry reflects the vibrancy of Spanish literary tradition while also embracing modernist experimentation. This collection highlights the breadth of Alberti’s poetic voice—from the lyrical nostalgia of Marinero en tierra to the surrealist intensity of Sobre los ángeles and the politically charged verse of his later years. His early work is infused with the rhythms and imagery of Spain’s folk traditions, while his later poetry grapples with exile, war, and the search for artistic and political identity.

The introduction to this volume places Alberti within the grand lineage of Spanish poetry, drawing connections between his work and that of predecessors like Góngora, Machado, and Jiménez. It also contextualizes his evolution from a young poet rooted in Andalusian lyricism to a politically engaged writer responding to the tumultuous upheavals of 20th-century Spain. Alberti’s exile after the Spanish Civil War and his reflections on displacement and resistance lend his poetry a poignant universality. This collection offers English-speaking readers a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of Alberti’s literary genius, showcasing his linguistic dexterity, emotional depth, and enduring influence on modern Spanish poetry.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

A. C. Jordan

Towards an African Literature

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Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa is a landmark intervention in the study of Southern African writing, offering both an incisive critique of Euro-American scholarship and a rigorous model for literary criticism rooted in African contexts. First published as essays in the 1950s in *Africa South*, A. C. Jordan’s work situates Xhosa literature within the broader history of colonial conquest, resistance, and cultural transformation. Rejecting approaches that divorce literature from the lived realities of its creators, Jordan insists that African writing must be read through the dialectical relationship between literature and society, where authors serve as witnesses to their epoch and mouthpieces of their people’s hopes and struggles.

Jordan’s analysis foregrounds figures such as W. W. Gqoba, Jonas Ntsiko, and “Uhadi,” whose voices rang with resistance to dispossession, while drawing contrasts with the more assimilationist outlook of Tiyo Soga, a prolific Xhosa essayist who urged acceptance of colonial society. By weaving together historical context, literary form, and ideological stance, Jordan illuminates how colonial pressures produced alienation, yet also gave rise to a literature of defiance and survival. Although unfinished at the time of his death in 1968, the book remains a foundational call for African scholars to shape the interpretation of their own literary traditions. For readers and researchers alike, Towards an African Literature offers a profound framework for understanding African literature not as an isolated aesthetic practice but as a vital cultural expression forged in the crucible of historical 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 1973.

Edgar Anderson

Plants, Man and Life

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Plants, Man, and Life by Edgar Anderson is a pioneering exploration of the intricate relationships between humanity and the plant world, written with a keen eye for both scientific inquiry and accessibility. Originally conceived as a digest of botanical knowledge, Anderson’s work defied expectations, focusing instead on the gaps in understanding and the questions yet to be answered about the plants on which humans depend. His narrative offers a blend of personal observations, historical context, and vivid examples, from the role of weeds and cultivated plants in shaping landscapes to the diverse uses of dooryard flora in underdeveloped countries. These unorthodox insights captivated a broad spectrum of readers, from scientists to curious laypeople, making the book a touchstone in the field of ethnobotany.

Written with a conversational style aimed at the intellectually curious—embodied by figures like Pandit Nehru, whom Anderson imagined as his ideal reader—the book remains a testament to the evolving nature of botanical science. Its discussions of underexplored subjects, such as the cultural significance of plants and their ecological adaptations, have inspired generations of botanists, ecologists, and anthropologists. With its interdisciplinary approach and its ability to bridge gaps between academic and general audiences, Plants, Man, and Life continues to be a valuable resource for understanding the vital connections between people and the plant kingdom.

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.

L. J. Rather

Mind and Body in Eighteenth Century Medicine

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Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Medicine: A Study Based on Jerome Gaub’s De Regimine Mentis is a comprehensive exploration of eighteenth-century psychosomatic medical thought through the works of Jerome Gaub, a leading physician and chemist of his time. This book provides a new English translation of Gaub’s essays, along with detailed commentaries and notes, offering a nuanced understanding of the period's ideas on the interplay between mind and body in health and disease. The essays, originally published in Latin in 1747 and 1763, delve into topics such as the physiological mechanisms underlying mind-body interactions, the physician's duty to treat the whole person, and the effects of emotions on physical health. By juxtaposing Gaub's medical theories with those of his contemporaries, as well as tracing their roots to classical thinkers like Galen and Descartes, this work contextualizes Gaub’s insights within a broader intellectual tradition.

The book also addresses Gaub’s cautious yet progressive stance on the physician’s role in managing mental disturbances via bodily interventions. While emphasizing the traditional view of the mind as influencing bodily health, Gaub also challenged his peers to explore new therapeutic frontiers, advocating for research into drugs and treatments that could influence mental states. His essays reveal a tension between the emerging mechanistic models of medicine and the enduring belief in the psychosomatic unity of the individual. With its detailed examination of Gaub's contributions and the broader medical-philosophical debates of the era, this work is an invaluable resource for scholars of medical history, philosophy, and eighteenth-century intellectual thought. It highlights the enduring complexities of the mind-body relationship and its relevance to contemporary discussions in psychosomatic medicine.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Charlotte L. Stough

Greek Skepticism

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Greek Skepticism examines the evolution of skeptical philosophy in ancient Greece, focusing on epistemological concerns such as knowledge, belief, and perception, while framing these inquiries within the Hellenistic era's broader philosophical challenges. The study views skepticism not as a static doctrine but as a dynamic response to recurring questions about human understanding. Divided into four sections—early Pyrrhonists, Academic Skeptics, Aenesidemus, and Sextus Empiricus—it traces skepticism's progression over six centuries. Early Pyrrhonists like Pyrrho emphasized achieving mental tranquility (ataraxia) through the suspension of judgment, seeing philosophy as a practical guide to life. Academic Skeptics, led by figures such as Arcesilaus and Carneades, advanced skepticism by engaging in dialectical arguments to challenge certainty, particularly targeting Stoic doctrines. Their critiques expanded the skeptical framework, linking it to practical ethics and intellectual rigor.

Later developments by figures like Aenesidemus and Sextus Empiricus further refined skepticism's scope. Aenesidemus, while enigmatic and associated with Heraclitean ideas, contributed critical arguments that revived Pyrrhonism during his era. Sextus Empiricus, the last significant skeptic, integrated skepticism with empirical medicine, positioning skepticism as a remedy for philosophical dogmatism. His detailed critiques of rival philosophies provide a rich source for understanding Greek skepticism's epistemological depth. Through Sextus’ pragmatic approach, skepticism emerged as both a philosophical method and a practical way of life, influencing subsequent thought and offering enduring insights into the complexities of knowledge and 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 1969.

Donald L. Foley

Governing the London Region

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Governing the London Region: Reorganization and Planning in the 1960s explores the significant transformation of London’s metropolitan governance as part of a broader examination of urban government adaptation worldwide. Faced with the complexities of burgeoning metropolitan populations and their interdependencies, London undertook a substantial reorganization to address the demands of its growing urban expanse. This reorganization, rooted in extensive studies of urban governance across Britain, underscores a shift away from simplistic consolidations toward a nuanced understanding of metropolitan government as an integral part of a national system. Donald L. Foley’s analysis situates London’s reforms within a global context, drawing connections between the challenges and solutions experienced in Britain and other major metropolitan regions like Toronto, Stockholm, and Paris.

Foley argues that London's efforts highlight a key principle: metropolitan governance must balance local autonomy with coordinated regional and national involvement. The book emphasizes that effective urban governance requires tailored approaches that consider historical, institutional, and cultural contexts. By examining London's changes alongside broader urban governance initiatives, Foley's work contributes valuable insights to the field of metropolitan studies, offering lessons that resonate across varied urban landscapes. As part of an ongoing series of studies on metropolitan regions, this volume sets the stage for comparative analyses of global efforts to navigate the intricate demands of urban growth and governance in the 20th 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 1972.

Dan Immergluck

Red Hot City

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An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.

Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent suburbs trying to push back against this diversity. Exploring the city’s past and future, Red Hot City tracks these racial and economic shifts and the politics and policies that produced them.

Dan Immergluck documents the trends that are inverting Atlanta’s late-twentieth-century “poor-in-the-core” urban model. New emphasis on capital-driven growth has excluded low-income people and families of color from the city’s center, pushing them to distant suburbs far from mass transit, large public hospitals, and other essential services. Revealing critical lessons for leaders, activists, and residents in cities around the world, Immergluck considers how planners and policymakers can reverse recent trends to create more socially equitable cities.

Mark LeVine

Heavy Metal Islam

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This updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region’s youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in conversation with the band The Kominas about the problematic connections between extreme music and Islam.

An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest, and are considered immoral by many in the Muslim world. As the young people and subcultures featured in Mark LeVine’s Heavy Metal Islam so presciently predicted, this music turned out to be the soundtrack of countercultures, uprisings, and even revolutions from Morocco to Pakistan.

In Heavy Metal Islam, originally published in 2008, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East and North Africa through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young people struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a thirst for change. The result is a revealing tour de force of contemporary cultures across the Muslim majority world through the region’s evolving music scenes that only a musician, scholar, and activist with LeVine’s unique breadth of experience could narrate. A New York Times Editor’s Pick when it was first published, Heavy Metal Islam is a surprising, wildly entertaining foray into a historically authoritarian region where music reveals itself to be a true democratizing force—and a groundbreaking work of scholarship that pioneered new forms of research in the region.

Damien M. Sojoyner

Joy and Pain

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A poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people—and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.

At the Southern California Library—a community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movements—the author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley’s story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty‑first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it embraces social visions of radical freedom that allow the pursuit of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression.

Structured as a “record collection” of five “albums,” this innovative book relates Marley’s personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In Joy and Pain, Marley’s experiences at the intersection of history and the contemporary political moment invite us to imagine more expansive futures.

Elizabeth Barnert

Reunion

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This captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war.

In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration.

Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members. Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military "scorched-earth" operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war.

All book royalties of Reunion will be donated by the author to Pro-Búsqueda and related causes.

Tasseli McKay

Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power

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A meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the total economic devastation wreaked on Black communities by mass incarceration with an action guide for vital reparations.

Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.16 trillion—roughly 86 percent of the current Black–White wealth gap—this compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations.

Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarcerated—where it is often compensated for by women’s invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past eras of state violence, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power presents a comprehensive framework for how to begin intensive individual and institutional reparations. The extent of mass incarceration’s racialized harms, estimated here with new rigor and scope, points to the urgency of this work and the possibilities that lie beyond it.

Norma Landau

The Justices of the Peace 1679 - 1760

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In the eighteenth century the justices of the peace governed England. While Parliament debated questions of trade, taxation, and foreign policy, the justices administered England's internal affairs. So powerful were the later Stuart and early Hanoverian justices that they were virtually independent, and it is their independence which makes them fascinating. Neither the central government nor Parliament told them what to do, closely supervised their activity, or even insured that they at at all.

What tid the justices choose to do? In what manner did they do it? why, indeed, did they assume the burdens of local government? Norma Landau examines the office of justice of the peace from the viewpoint of the justices themselves, delineating those ideals and inducements inherent in local government which prompted the English elite to assume their distinctive role as paternal rulers.

Through analysis of the appointment of justices, the political and social composition of the bench, the institutions of local government, the justices' administrative and judicial activities, and manuals written for justices, this study traces the evolution of the elite's conduct of government an dof their concept of their relation to those they governed.

Through analysis of the appointment of justices, the political and social composition of the bench, the institutions of local government, the justices' administrative and judicial activities, and manuals written for justices, this study traces the evolution of the elite's conduct of government and of their concept of their relation to those they governed.

Because the justices were so important, discussion of their role touches upon some of the major debates in current historiography: the debate on the nature of politics; on the relation of rulers to the governed in a "deferential society"; on the definition of the elite in early modern society; on the course of of administrative development; and on the relation of law to images of authority. This portrait of the justices illuminates a crucial stage in the tranformation of England's rulers from local patriarchs to administrators for the nation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Edited by Henrik Birnbaum and Jaan Puhvel

Ancient Indo-European Dialects

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The first book to provide a rigorous and comprehensive view of the linguistic divisions of early Europe, Asia Minor, Northern India, and Chinese Turkestan. The unifying topic "Ancient Indo-European Dialects" was chosen with a view to utilizing to best advantage the many competences of the contributors int eh extinct languages and language groups of early Europe, the Near East, and Central Asia. In this book each specialist treats the subdivision particularly suited to his research interest, yet is always conscious of and conversant with the entire sweep and continuity oft he Indo-European language area. It is an effort at delimiting the historically and methodologically demonstrable subgroupings, including a critique of such time-worn combination as Italo-Celtic and Balto-Slavic, and incorporating the principles of modern dialectology in a diachronic application.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Judith A. Merkle

Management and Ideology

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From its obscure beginning as a system for organizing machine shops, Scientific Management has grown into the major technocratic ideology of the twentieth century. Its development and international diffusion have influenced industrial productivity, the social fabric of industrial society, and even the nature of government.

In this study of the movement's growth, Merkle compares the writings of the American, German, French, British, and Soviet vanguards of Scientific Management and finds that those who advocated efficiency engineering were considerably more than pragmatists seeking immediate technical solutions to production problems. Rather, they were visionaries who sought to reconcile class conflict, restructure government, and create a universal technocratic utopia by achieving efficient mass production and rationalized distribution.

The call for a "mental revolution," which permeates their writings, found sympathizers among capitalists and socialists alike; that revolution affected not only the structure of modern industrialism but also the organization of the state itself.

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.

Kathryn P. Meadow

Deafness and Child Development

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Oftentimes a child's deafness can be as disconcerting to the uniformed adult as it is debilitating to the deaf child. Yet parents, students, and teachers sho try to inform themselvs find doing so difficult: the issues are emotional ath too often have been the subject of clashes among professional and lay people.

In this comprehensive study, Meadow provides a rational, informed, and balanced approach. Individual chapters survey the central work done on the linguistic, cognitive, social, and psychological effets of profound deafness in children and offer practical discussions with abundant concrete examples. The result is a book that provides a context for understanding research in childhood deafness and ways to apply its findings.

Of particular interest to professionals who work with deaf children, the concluding chapter analyzes unresolved matters of policy. These include: oral-only versus oral+visual communication; recommended forms fo visual communication; residential versus day school education; the benefits and liabilities of mainstreaming; the treatment of minority, multiply handicapped, and gifted deaf children; and the role of deaf adults in the socialization of deaf children.

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.

Elbaki Hermassi

Leadership and National Development in North Africa

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This book considers the following questions in order to understand the Maghrib:

Why is it that a civic polity has emerged only in Tunisia up to the present?

Why is Algeria attaining a much higher rate of economic growth than its neighbors?

Why does Morocco find itself in a political, economic, and cultural stalemate?

Why are all Maghribi societies free from ethnic, cultural, and regional disintegration?

And as such this title examines 1. the formations of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as distinct national societies; 2. the patterns of colonial domination and colonial change; the way in which 1. and 2. have influenced Maghribi political institutions and their elites' postures toward the basic challenges to their nations; 4. finally, the strategies and costs of national choices, given the various politcal actors' structural contexts and their situational facilities.

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.

Leadership and National Development in North Africa

Mary Jackman and Robert W. Jackman

Class Awareness in the United States

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Are social classes meaningful to Americans? The question has attracted popular and scholarly debate since the founding of the Republic. The Jackmans offer a new perspective on the debate by analyzing popular conceptions of social class. Mary and Robert Jackman assert that the meaning and reality of class cannot be evaluated without attention to its place in public awareness, and they draw on national survey to examine the willingness of Americans to identify with one of five social classes, ranging from the poor to the upper class. What meanings do people attache to these classes? Do classes have emotional significance? Why do some think of themselvs as working class, while other consider themselves middle class? Do blacks and whites, women and men process class cues in the same way? How do people's social environments influence their class awareness? What are the social and political implications of class?

The evidence in this book indicates that class is an important part of American social life. Classes form a graded series of status groups that are assembled from configurations of socioeconomic criteria. They are not rigidly bounded, but these groups reflet emotionally significant social communities that command affiliation. Although American electoral politics has failed to provide more than limited expression of class issues, this important work makes clear tha at the grassroots leve, there is a pervasive awareness of social 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 1983.

Robert K. Spaulding

How Spanish Grew

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This book traces the evolution of the Spanish language from pre-Roman days to the present and stresses the influence of social and political events on its development.

After a short discussion of the Indo-European tongues, Spaulding reviews the effects on Spanish of the languages of the pre-Roiman invaders, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes, and the Arabs. The later development of Spanish is divided into four periods: Old Spanish (to 1500), Spanish Ascendancy (1500 - 1700), French Prestige (1700 - 1808), and Modern Spanish (1808 - ). Within this framework, the author discusses the evolution of sounds, forms, constructions, style, vocabulary, and orthography. The final chapter deals also with modern slang, popular Spanish, and the various Spanish dialects, including Leonese, Aragonese, and Andalusian.

The book has interest and value for anyone interested in language, teachers (both high school and college), and students. Its organization makes it usable in any course dealing with the Spanish language historically, or even by student of Spanish literature of history who wan tot consider the state of the language at a given 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 1943.

Edited by Gregory Grossman

Money and Plan

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Money and Plan concerns the changing role of money and finance in the East European countries as they enact economic reforms designed to decentralize economic decisions, extend enterprise autonomy, and rationalize the management of their economies. The book is the first in the Western world to address itself directly to this theme.

In the Stalinist economic system, which all European communist countries shared until the mid-sixties and which most still do, money lays a subordinate role. In the production sector its use in planning and by state-owned enterprises has been restricted and circumscribed in many ways. Objectives and performance standards are defined in physical terms (i.e., in physical units of inputs and output). Planning also is executed in physical units. Although banking and other financial institutions exist, they mainly supervise enterprises rather than redistribute national resources or appraise commercial prospects. As for foreign trade, it has been conducted largely on a barter basis.

Nevertheless, insofar as money has been used, it has posed a number of important problems. One of these has been chronic inflationary pressure. In the present volume two contributors investigate the historical record and the cause of inflation in Poland, and develop theoretical models to explain the phenomenon.

Inflation is only one national economic problem raised by current forms requiring new monetary and financial policies. Decentralization also raises important questions of full employment, balance of payments management, sectoral and regional relations, and incomes policy--matters that will have to be handled increasingly by monetary and financial means, often quite similar to those developed and practices in the West. Moreover, as individual enterprises gain more autonomy in their current operations and investment, and as physical planning and control are curtailed, redit policies, instruments, and institutions will have to be devised to guide micro-economic activity in consonance with national plans.

The East European contries that are carrying economic reform much further than the rest are Czechoslovakia and Hungary, which intend to introduce a functioning market mechanism together with considerable enterprise autonomy in the production (state-owned) sector. Three contributors consider the case specially. Another contributor discusses the majore attempt thus far by the East European countries to abandon bilateral, barter-like trade among themselvs in favor of a financial framework for multilateral clearing and a new monetary unit, the "transferable ruble."

The editor's Introduction and a concluding chapter by a final contributor view the changing role of money and finance in comprehensive terms.

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.

Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

Salt of the Earth

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On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power. How did the Chinese Communists gain their mandate to rule the countryside? In this pathbreaking study, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., provides a fresh and strikingly original interpretation of the political and economic origins of the October revolution.

Salt of the Earth is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in the deep countryside. Focusing on the Party's relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the author shows that the Party's role is best understood in terms of its intimate connections with local collective activism and with existing modes of local protest, both of which were the product of rural people acting on their own grievances, interests, and goals.

The author's collection and use of oral histories—from the last remaining eyewitnesses—and written corroborative materials is a remarkable achievement; his new interpretation of why China's rural people supported and joined the Communists in their quest for state power is dramatically different from what has come before. This book will stimulate debates on the genesis of popular mobilization and the growth of insurgency for decades to come.

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 1997.

Eugene Lunn

Prophet of Community

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Gustav Landauer--literary critic, mystical philosopher, and left-wing activists--was Germany's major anarchist thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. In this full-scale intellectual biography, Lunn depicts the evolution of Landauer's social thought, a rich terrain within which to examine afresh some intellectual crosscurrents of the Wilhelmian era.

Landauer's work in the various circles and movements of his social milieu after 1900, including anarchist, youth movement, expressionist, and Zionist groups, reveal a convergence of volkisch and communitarian ideas with libertarian forms of socialist democracy. The study of this kind of "romantic socialism," in revolt against both industrial modernity and authoritarian government, highlights the inadequacy of viewing volkisch themes exclusively in terms of Nazi "roots."

What emerges from this study is the appeal of antiauthoritarian and communitarian ideas for middle-class Left intellectuals dissatisfied with the official Social Democratic Party. In the light of the tragic failures of democratic and socialist forces to gain middle-class support during the Weimar Republic, and of the Nazis' antidemocratic uses of Gemeinschaft, this earlier search for a communitarian democracy gains in importance.

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.

U.C. Knoepflmacher

George Eliot's Early Novels

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This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility.

U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle.

Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

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.

Tom Bethell

George Lewis

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George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much run its course, too. By then a jazz museum stood on Bourbon Street, and a cultural center was under construction where Globe Hall had Stood.

Lewis's life thus paralleled that of New Orleans jazz, and in his later years hew as the best known standard bearer of his city's music. He came to the attention of the jazz world at the time of the so-called "New Orleans Revival" of the 1940's, when veteran trumpeter Bunk Johnson was recorded by a number of jazz enthusiasts, notably William Russell.

In this new biography, Tom Bethell challenges a favorite myth of the history of jazz: that the music became moribund in New Orleans after the legal red light district, Storyville, was closed in 1917, resulting in most jazz musicians going "up the river." In fact, Bethell shows, many more jazzmen stayed in the city than left, and the musical style continued to develop and grow. Thus the jazz fans who arrived in the city in the early 1940's did not encounter a "revival" of an old style so much as an ongoing tradition, with clarinetists like Lewis having been influenced by Benny Goodman and the Swing Era in addition to Lorenzo Tio and the Creole School.

After Bunk Johnson's death in 1949, at a time when many other social changes were beginning to be felt in the city, the New Orleans jazz tradition began to go into a decline. It became increasingly rigid and repetitive, and was often designed to please what one observer called "Dixieland fans yelling for their favorite members."

The book is based on lengthy research in New Orleans, including interviews with George Lewis shortly before his death, and unpublished material from the diaries kept by William Russell on his visits to New Orleans between 1942 and 1949. It also includes a statement by Lewis on jazz and the best way to play it and a complete Lewis discography.

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.

Paul J. Alexander Edited by Dorothy deF. Abrahamse

The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition

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Throughout Christian history, apocalyptic visions of the approaching end of time have provided a persistent and enigmatic theme for history and prophecy. Apocalyptic literature played a particularly important role in the medieval world, where legends of the Antichrist, Gog and Magog, and the Last Roman Emperor were widely circulated. Although scholars have long recognized that a body of Byzantine prophetic literature served as the source for these ideas, the Byzantine textual tradition, its sources, and the way in which it was transmitted to the West have neve been thoroughly understood.

For more than fifteen years prior to his death in 1977, Paul J. Alexander devoted his energies to the clarification of the Byzantine apocalyptic tradition. These studies, left uncompleted at his death, trace the development of a textual tradition that passed from Syriac through Greek to Slavonic and Latin literature. Using a combination of philological and historical detection, the author establishes the time, place, and circumstances of composition for each of the major surviving texts, identifying lost works known only through descriptions.

In showing how Byzantine prophecy served as a bridge between ancient eschatological works and the medieval West, Alexander demonstrates that apocalyptic literature represents a creative source for the expression of political and religious thought in the medieval 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 1985.

Bernard Frischer

The Sculpted Word

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This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focusses on the Epicureans, who are of special interest because their approach was at once extremely passive and extremely successful. Unlike other philosophical schools, which depended primarioly on public lectures and books, the Epicureans avoided contract with the dominant culture and attracted members by erecting statues of Epicurus and their other master in public places. These iconologically rich, "sculpted words" appealed to teh very people most likely to be attracted to Epicureanism, those most likely to accept the philosophy of materialism, sensationalism, and the repression of feeling, and those who sought a way of life sperate from teh dominant culture.

This book is an innovative application of an inter-disciplinary humanistic an social-scientific approach to ancient Greek philosophy and art. It will appeal to those interested in the history of these subjects and those interested in the sociology of knowledge and communication.

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.

Adrian Frazier

Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop.

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 Mark Falcoff and Ronald H. Dolkart

Prologue to Peron

$95.00

Since 1943 the personality and legend of General Juan Domingo Peron have towered over the Argentine Republic. Yet until 1930 Argentina was widely regarded as the best example of democracy and prosperity on a politically turbulent and economically underdeveloped continent. The present collection of articles by American and Argentine scholars examines the thirteen critical years that separated the "old" Argentina from the "new," and made possible the rise of one of the most powerful dictators in Latin America.

In a little over a decade wracked by depression and war, political democracy in Argentina collapsed and the landed aristocracy was restored to power; the traditional relationship between the British and Argentine economies deteriorated and no satisfactory alternative was found; a generalized disillusionment and pessimism led to a fascination by intellectuals with authoritarian ideologies; a new "nationalistic" consciousness became increasingly evident in films, radio, and popular music; and social and demographic changes produced the constituency for a messianic populism.

This volume thus identifies the symptoms that eventually resulted into the eleven year reign and twenty year cult of Peronismo, symptoms which strongly influence the course of events in present-day Argentina.

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.

Edward A. Alpers

Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa

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Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment."

Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses on a vast and little known region that includes southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Malawi, with extension north along the Swahili coast and west as far as the Lunda state of the Mwata Kazembe. He examines both the competition between traders and their internal impact on the various societies of East Central Africa.

Alpers' main concern is to demonstrate that the historical roots of underdevelopment in the area are to be found 'in the system of international trade which was initiated by Arabs in the fifteenth century, seized and extended by the Portuguese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by a complex mixture of Indian, Arab and Western capitalisms in the nineteenth century'.

Thus this readable and original book places East African trading systems within the larger Western Indian Ocean system and in the world capitalist system.

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.

David F. Lindenfeld

The Transformation of Positivism

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European intellectual history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries presents a picture of extraordinary creative richness. Many historians have looked at this period as one of a "revolt against positivism in the attempts of thinkers such as Freud, Weber, Dilthey, and Durkheim to encompass and submit to strict investigation the irrational aspects of human behavior. At the same time, however, other thinkers such as Russell, Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Meinong were seeking to revise and expand the notion of reason itself through investigation of language and its relation to logic and psychology; this trend might be seen as a "revolt within positivism." David Lindenfeld shows that these two trends were integrally related in the thought of the Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong, and that he was representative of the major trends of the age.

Meinong played a role in several intellectual movements which are now thought of as distinct. He, like Husserl, studied under the philosopher Fraz Brentano, whose ideas inspired the phenomenological movement. In addition, however, Meinong exerted a decisive influence on Bertrand Russell in the early 1900's and thus also figures prominently in the history of British analytical philosophy. Furthermore, he developed a theory of values and their meaning which dealt with many of the issues raised by German social philosophers such as Weber and Dilthey. Finally, Meinong has an acknowledged place in the history of psychology, where he is cited as a precursor of the Gestalt psychology of Wertheimer, Kohler and Koffka.

The first part of The Transformation of Positivism locates the background of Meinong's thought in the long-run traditions of British empiricism as well as in the political and social conditions of Austria in the late 19th century. The second part traces Meinong's intellectual development as he participated in the movement away from "psychologism"--the tendency to reduce all philosophical and social questions to psychological ones. After 1900, Meinong moved to a new concern with language and semantics, culminating in his "theory of objects." The third part shows how positivism, experimental psychology, and phenomenology developed away from Meinong's concepts to emerge as distinct, even opposed, by the 1920's.

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.

Alexander Dallin

Black Box

$95.00

On September 1, 1983, a Soviet fighter plane shot down a South Korean commercial airliner, KAL 007, killing all 269 persons aboard. Why did the jet stray hundreds of miles off course and fly for hours over Soviet territory, including sensitive nuclear and submarine installations? And why did the Soviets decide that that plane had to be brought down? These are the major questions this book addresses. It is the first book-length exploration of all the available information, and it weighs each of the hypotheses that has been advanced here and abroad to explain the dramatic episode, which led to a Soviet-American confrontation just as relations between the two super powers seemed to be on the verge of improvement.

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.

Richard P. Taub

Bureaucrats under Stress

$95.00

A mature and well-organized civil service is one of the items hight on almost any list of the needs of developing countries. The new nations, it is commonly argued, face almost insurmountable obstacles on the path toward economic development, and a civil service is a crucial necessity if they are to overcome their difficulties.

Yet many commentators are critical of the existing civil services in these countries. Bureaucracy in developing countries, the critics suggest, is synonymous with red tape, nepotism, and corruption. Such critics complain either that the services have declined in efficiency since the departure of the colonial rulers or, conversely, that civil servants are still excessively wedded to obsolete colonial traditions. Remarkably few of these reports are based on careful empirical analysis of works at their work, or on systematic investigation of workers' attitudes toward it.

Taub, who spent sixteen months in the capital of an Indian state studying the Indian Administrative Service, reprots here on his interviews with administrators, as well as with the politicians, technicians, and educators with whom administrators have to work. He examines both the attitudes that men bring to their jobs and to one another an the nature of the tasks that they must perform. His findings suggest that officials behave as they do because of the nature of the situation in which they must function--reflecting the bureaucratic systems and the tasks that they are required to perform--rather than because of any defect in their training or deficiencies in their cultural background.

Taub identifies four sources of strain that affect administrators in India: the changing nature of their work, the democratization of government, the limitations on their income, and the impact of the British legacy. He indicates how these strains interact and place severe limits on the potential performance of administrators.

IN an appraisal of the analytic framework used in previous discussions of bureaucracy in developing nations, he suggests that the prevailing commitment to democratic socialism--that is, to a democratic government responsible for large-scale economic development--may be more an act of faith than a statement of empirical possibility.

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.

Donald L. Foley

Controlling London's Growth

$95.00

The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis that, faced with an urgent need to rebuild its war-damaged central areas while still at war, prepared a notable set of special plans. And it describes subsequent vigorous efforts to carry these plans into effect.

The London record is singularly impressive, unmatched by metropolitan planning efforts elsewhere. It has implications for metropolitan areas in other countries that are seeking solutions to comparable problems--problems reflecting unanticipated growth, technological and functional change, governmental chaos, and the reformulation of social requirements.

Foley presents the first comprehensive factual analysis--British or otherwise--of the London planning experience. He offeres and original, sophisticated discussion of the social doctrine incorporated in the plans, and explains its emphasis on the principle of "containing" metropolitan London. He examines the context within which this doctrine emerged, investigates the suitability of this doctrine in the light of subsequent developments, and discusses possibilities for a fresh look at the main planning policies for Greater London. His approach gives the book depth without turning it into a specialized academic treatise. It speaks directly to thoughtful city-dwellers who are concerned to control rather than to be controlled by their environment.

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.

Marc Bloch Translated by William R. Beer

Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages

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Marc Bloch was one of the founders of social history, if by that is meant the history of social organization and relations to contrast to the more conventional histories of political elites and diplomatic relations. His great monographs in medieval history are well known, but his original articles have been difficult to obtain.

The present collection of essays explores the dimensions of servitude in medieval Europe. The typical political relations of that era were those of feudalism--the hierarchical relations of juridically free men. The feudal superstructure was based on a foundation of unfree masses composed of people of differing degrees of servility. In these articles Marc Bloch focussed on the heterogeneous world of slaves and serfs, concertrating particularly on the causes for its growth in the Carolingian period and its decline in the thirteenth 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 1975.

Frederick M. Wirt

Power in the City

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San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided among traditional and new minorities, a mayor with modest authority, and a large city bureaucracy guided by insensitive professional norms. The special San Francisco "politics of profit" and ethnic conflict are complicated and profoundly influenced by such external forces as regional, state, and federal government, and by the force of a national economy.

Frederick Wirt's fascinating study is based on personal interviews with knowledgeable observers and participants, on an extensive review of special reports, and on a firsthand study of the transaction patterns in the political, business, labor, ethnic, and historical life of the city. In the end, the 125-year political history of San Francisco provides solid new insights on the politics of large American cities in the 1970s.

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.