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William J. Ferlatte

A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California

$39.95

A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California offers a thorough botanical study of one of California's most unique and rugged regions. Nestled within the Klamath Mountains, this area, with its varied elevations and diverse ecosystems, presents an opportunity to explore a flora that combines influences from both the Sierran flora and the coastal regions, all within a relatively small geographical area. The flora of the Trinity Alps is distinctive due to its unique location, which hosts many plant species that are found nowhere else in the state. This flora reflects the interplay of diverse climates, ranging from cool, moist areas at higher elevations to drier, more exposed lower slopes. Fieldwork for the study was conducted over several years, with particular focus on areas above 5,000 feet, revealing 266 species and many previously undocumented plants in this region.

The book divides the flora into key ecological zones, such as Mixed Conifer Forest, Red Fir Forest, and Subalpine Forest, each with its own characteristic plant communities. Within these zones, the flora displays a remarkable diversity, including species like the endangered Picea breweriana (Weeping Spruce) and Pinus balfouriana (Foxtail Pine), as well as the alpine species Saxifraga tolmiei and Primula suffrutescens. The author also notes that many species in the Trinity Alps are relicts from past, cooler climates, adding a historical layer to the region’s botanical significance. The study highlights how glaciation and geological events shaped the current landscape and plant distribution, while also providing practical identification tools, including detailed keys and descriptions. For botanists, ecologists, and nature enthusiasts, this book serves as an essential resource for understanding and preserving the delicate ecosystems of the Trinity Alps.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Edited by S. Paul Kashap

Studies in Spinoza

$49.95

Studies in Spinoza: Critical and Interpretive Essays, edited by S. Paul Kashap, gathers leading Anglophone scholarship to illuminate why Spinoza’s “impenetrable abstractions” continue to shape debates in metaphysics, mind, action, and ethics. Framed by the conviction—echoing Santayana—that Spinoza’s stature only grows with time, the volume offers clear, contemporary vocabulary and argumentation to guide readers through the Ethics and its afterlives. The contributors balance rigorous exposition with pointed critique, making the collection equally valuable for specialists and advanced students seeking lucid entry points into persistent controversies. With most essays written after 1937 (and Kashap’s own previously unpublished contribution), the book updates a classic canon while respecting its historical texture.

Spanning substance, attributes, universals, time, knowledge, language, and freedom, the essays range from T. M. Forsyth’s reconsideration of self-causation and immanent causality to A. Wolf’s foundational analysis of attributes, F. S. Haserot’s twin studies on attribute and universals, and Samuel Alexander’s seminal “Spinoza and Time.” Ruth L. Saw challenges assumptions about individuality and cognition; Henry Barker, H. F. Hallett, and G. H. R. Parkinson probe idea/ideatum, mind–body parallelism, and truth; David Savan and Guttorm Floistad reopen questions of language, imagination, and intuition; while Raphael Demos, A. E. Taylor, and Stuart Hampshire test the bounds of moral judgment and freedom. The result is a self-contained suite of interpretive and critical engagements that model how to read Spinoza philosophically: historically grounded, analytically precise, and alert to the live stakes of his system—from the coherence of universals to the possibility of purposive action and the “intellectual love of 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 1972.

Edited by Walter Galenson

Labor in Developing Economies

$95.00

Labor in Developing Economies provides a comprehensive exploration of the complexities of labor markets in seven diverse nations, offering a critical lens into the intersections of trade unionism, political systems, and economic development. The countries studied—including Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile—represent a wide range of cultural, political, and economic contexts, showcasing the varied challenges and opportunities faced by labor movements in underdeveloped regions. Despite their differences, these nations share common struggles, such as transitioning agrarian workforces to industrial labor, navigating high levels of unemployment and underemployment, and grappling with government intervention in labor organization and wage determination.

The book highlights the precarious state of trade unionism in many underdeveloped nations, noting its vulnerability to political influence and economic adversity. While unions in some countries, such as Indonesia and Israel, have played pivotal roles in national development and independence, others face significant barriers, including employer resistance and government restrictions. The essays delve into the balance between fostering independent trade unions and pursuing economic growth, emphasizing the importance of collective bargaining and labor rights in promoting social stability and worker dignity. Ultimately, the volume serves as a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between labor, state, and development, and offers insights into the critical choices nations must make in shaping their labor institutions.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Mariano Azuela

Two Novels of Mexico

$39.95

Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies / The Bosses by Mariano Azuela translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson brings the founding novelist of the Mexican Revolution back to the scenes that forged his art: panic, opportunism, and moral reckoning in a society unmade by war. Written by a physician who served in Pancho Villa’s army and later chronicled its collapse, these paired novellas distill Azuela’s incomparable witness. The Flies captures, with staccato velocity and dark humor, a single night of flight from Mexico City as politicians, ex-federals, and hangers-on scramble into a hospital car, rehearsing alibis and switching loyalties as Obregón’s troops approach. The Bosses turns somber and incandescent, anatomizing caciquismo—the entrenched rule of merchant-landlord “bosses”—through the Del Llano clan’s predations and the fragile idealism of small-town victims whose lives are shattered in the wake of Madero’s murder and Huerta’s reaction. Together, the novellas map the Revolution’s moral topography: not battlefield heroics, but the everyday bargains, betrayals, and moments of courage that determine who survives and at what cost.

Simpson’s agile translation revives Azuela’s tonal range—telegraphic banter, caustic caricature, and lyrical tenderness—while clarifying the political and historical stakes for contemporary readers. In The Flies, opportunists cycle through regimes—Díaz, Madero, Huerta, Villa, Carranza—with comic ferocity; in The Bosses, Azuela’s most moving creation, the solitary intellectual Rodríguez, confronts a town owned by its parasites, and a love story flickers against encroaching catastrophe. Long overshadowed by The Underdogs, these “novels of Mexico” reward renewed attention as precise social documents and audacious works of art. They speak to enduring questions—how civic fear corrodes character, how local power deforms justice, how revolutions are lived from below—making this volume essential for readers of Latin American literature, history, and anyone seeking the human textures behind political upheaval.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

Troyen A. Brennan

Just Doctoring

$49.95

Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left the physician virtually untouched by market constraints or government regulation. Arguing that changes in health care institutions and legal attention to patient rights have made conventional approaches obsolete, Troyen Brennan points the way to a new, more aware and engaged medical ethics. The medical profession is no longer isolated, even theoretically, from the liberal, market-dominated state. Old ideas of physician beneficence and altruism must make way for a justice-based medical ethics, assuming a relationship between equals more compatible with liberal political philosophy. Brennan offers clinical examples of many of today's most challenging medical problems--from informed consent to care rationing and the repercussions of the HIV epidemic--and gives his recommendation for a new ethical perspective. This lively and controversial plea for a rethinking of medical ethics goes right to the heart of medical care at the end of the twentieth century.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of phys

Edited by Walter Galenson

Labor in Developing Economies

$49.95

Labor in Developing Economies provides a comprehensive exploration of the complexities of labor markets in seven diverse nations, offering a critical lens into the intersections of trade unionism, political systems, and economic development. The countries studied—including Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile—represent a wide range of cultural, political, and economic contexts, showcasing the varied challenges and opportunities faced by labor movements in underdeveloped regions. Despite their differences, these nations share common struggles, such as transitioning agrarian workforces to industrial labor, navigating high levels of unemployment and underemployment, and grappling with government intervention in labor organization and wage determination.

The book highlights the precarious state of trade unionism in many underdeveloped nations, noting its vulnerability to political influence and economic adversity. While unions in some countries, such as Indonesia and Israel, have played pivotal roles in national development and independence, others face significant barriers, including employer resistance and government restrictions. The essays delve into the balance between fostering independent trade unions and pursuing economic growth, emphasizing the importance of collective bargaining and labor rights in promoting social stability and worker dignity. Ultimately, the volume serves as a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between labor, state, and development, and offers insights into the critical choices nations must make in shaping their labor institutions.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Ronald G. Walker

Infernal Paradise

$49.95

The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry. These authors, drawn to Mexico's mystique, crafted major novels that explore the country’s unique cultural, social, and political landscape. Infernal Paradise examines how Mexico influenced their artistic visions and how their experiences in the country shaped significant literary works, such as The Plumed Serpent, Eyeless in Gaza, The Power and the Glory, and Under the Volcano. By delving into both the travel writings and novels of these authors, the analysis seeks to understand the dual processes of encountering Mexico firsthand and transforming those encounters into fiction.

The book is structured to first contextualize the writers’ fascination with Mexico, focusing on the country’s dramatic landscapes, revolutionary ideals, and the enigmatic presence of its indigenous culture. The travel writings of Lawrence, Huxley, Greene, Waugh, and Lowry offer a bridge between their immediate experiences and the novels that followed, reflecting the initial reactions that evolved into deeper insights. The writers' personal motives for visiting Mexico—ranging from Lawrence's utopian dreams to Greene and Waugh's concern for the Catholic Church's plight under socialist policies—shaped their perceptions and creative responses. Through a detailed exploration of these travel accounts and the major novels, this book illuminates how Mexico became both an infernal and paradisiacal setting in the English literary imagination, a paradox that continues to resonate in these works. An appendix further enriches the discussion by examining Ralph Bates's The Fields of Paradise, adding another dimension to the "infernal paradise" theme in English fiction about Mexico.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Ralph L. Beals

The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca, Mexico

$49.95

The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca, Mexico provides a comprehensive exploration of the traditional and evolving marketing structures within Oaxaca's peasant economy. Rooted in anthropological inquiry, the study examines the scope, structure, and functioning of an intricate system that connects production, distribution, and consumption, offering insights into the adjustments necessitated by the region’s increasing integration into a modernizing national economy. The analysis delves into the geographic and social limits of the marketplace, the roles of participants as producers, intermediaries, and consumers, and the economic alternatives available to them. By juxtaposing the enduring "traditional" system with its "modern" transformations post-1948, the book illustrates the interplay of longstanding cultural practices and contemporary economic pressures, creating a vivid picture of a society balancing heritage and change.

This monograph also emphasizes the historical foundations and external influences shaping the region’s market dynamics. From pre-Columbian trade networks to Colonial modifications and the transformative impact of modern infrastructure like the Pan American Highway, the study captures the evolution of Oaxaca's economic landscape. Detailed fieldwork and historical analysis reveal how indigenous and mestizo populations navigate the shifting tides of supply and demand, integrating new goods and technologies while preserving cultural identity. Aimed at anthropologists, economists, and historians, the book bridges disciplinary gaps to illuminate the complexities of peasant marketing systems in a globalizing world, providing a nuanced perspective on the interdependence of tradition and modernization.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Edited by S. Paul Kashap

Studies in Spinoza

$95.00

Studies in Spinoza: Critical and Interpretive Essays, edited by S. Paul Kashap, gathers leading Anglophone scholarship to illuminate why Spinoza’s “impenetrable abstractions” continue to shape debates in metaphysics, mind, action, and ethics. Framed by the conviction—echoing Santayana—that Spinoza’s stature only grows with time, the volume offers clear, contemporary vocabulary and argumentation to guide readers through the Ethics and its afterlives. The contributors balance rigorous exposition with pointed critique, making the collection equally valuable for specialists and advanced students seeking lucid entry points into persistent controversies. With most essays written after 1937 (and Kashap’s own previously unpublished contribution), the book updates a classic canon while respecting its historical texture.

Spanning substance, attributes, universals, time, knowledge, language, and freedom, the essays range from T. M. Forsyth’s reconsideration of self-causation and immanent causality to A. Wolf’s foundational analysis of attributes, F. S. Haserot’s twin studies on attribute and universals, and Samuel Alexander’s seminal “Spinoza and Time.” Ruth L. Saw challenges assumptions about individuality and cognition; Henry Barker, H. F. Hallett, and G. H. R. Parkinson probe idea/ideatum, mind–body parallelism, and truth; David Savan and Guttorm Floistad reopen questions of language, imagination, and intuition; while Raphael Demos, A. E. Taylor, and Stuart Hampshire test the bounds of moral judgment and freedom. The result is a self-contained suite of interpretive and critical engagements that model how to read Spinoza philosophically: historically grounded, analytically precise, and alert to the live stakes of his system—from the coherence of universals to the possibility of purposive action and the “intellectual love of 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 1972.

Mariano Azuela

Two Novels of Mexico

$95.00

Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies / The Bosses by Mariano Azuela translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson brings the founding novelist of the Mexican Revolution back to the scenes that forged his art: panic, opportunism, and moral reckoning in a society unmade by war. Written by a physician who served in Pancho Villa’s army and later chronicled its collapse, these paired novellas distill Azuela’s incomparable witness. The Flies captures, with staccato velocity and dark humor, a single night of flight from Mexico City as politicians, ex-federals, and hangers-on scramble into a hospital car, rehearsing alibis and switching loyalties as Obregón’s troops approach. The Bosses turns somber and incandescent, anatomizing caciquismo—the entrenched rule of merchant-landlord “bosses”—through the Del Llano clan’s predations and the fragile idealism of small-town victims whose lives are shattered in the wake of Madero’s murder and Huerta’s reaction. Together, the novellas map the Revolution’s moral topography: not battlefield heroics, but the everyday bargains, betrayals, and moments of courage that determine who survives and at what cost.

Simpson’s agile translation revives Azuela’s tonal range—telegraphic banter, caustic caricature, and lyrical tenderness—while clarifying the political and historical stakes for contemporary readers. In The Flies, opportunists cycle through regimes—Díaz, Madero, Huerta, Villa, Carranza—with comic ferocity; in The Bosses, Azuela’s most moving creation, the solitary intellectual Rodríguez, confronts a town owned by its parasites, and a love story flickers against encroaching catastrophe. Long overshadowed by The Underdogs, these “novels of Mexico” reward renewed attention as precise social documents and audacious works of art. They speak to enduring questions—how civic fear corrodes character, how local power deforms justice, how revolutions are lived from below—making this volume essential for readers of Latin American literature, history, and anyone seeking the human textures behind political upheaval.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

Ronald G. Walker

Infernal Paradise

$95.00

The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry. These authors, drawn to Mexico's mystique, crafted major novels that explore the country’s unique cultural, social, and political landscape. Infernal Paradise examines how Mexico influenced their artistic visions and how their experiences in the country shaped significant literary works, such as The Plumed Serpent, Eyeless in Gaza, The Power and the Glory, and Under the Volcano. By delving into both the travel writings and novels of these authors, the analysis seeks to understand the dual processes of encountering Mexico firsthand and transforming those encounters into fiction.

The book is structured to first contextualize the writers’ fascination with Mexico, focusing on the country’s dramatic landscapes, revolutionary ideals, and the enigmatic presence of its indigenous culture. The travel writings of Lawrence, Huxley, Greene, Waugh, and Lowry offer a bridge between their immediate experiences and the novels that followed, reflecting the initial reactions that evolved into deeper insights. The writers' personal motives for visiting Mexico—ranging from Lawrence's utopian dreams to Greene and Waugh's concern for the Catholic Church's plight under socialist policies—shaped their perceptions and creative responses. Through a detailed exploration of these travel accounts and the major novels, this book illuminates how Mexico became both an infernal and paradisiacal setting in the English literary imagination, a paradox that continues to resonate in these works. An appendix further enriches the discussion by examining Ralph Bates's The Fields of Paradise, adding another dimension to the "infernal paradise" theme in English fiction about Mexico.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

John W. Macy, Jr.

To Irrigate a Wasteland

$39.95

To Irrigate a Wasteland: The Struggle to Shape a Public Television System in the United States captures a pivotal moment in American media history, when the promise of television was still contested between commercial imperatives and public ideals. Delivered as the distinguished Gaither Lectures, John W. Macy, Jr.—the first president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—offers an insider’s account of the policy battles, institutional negotiations, and cultural aspirations that defined the early years of U.S. public broadcasting. Framed by Edward R. Murrow’s memorable warning that television could be either an engine of inspiration or merely “lights and wires in a box,” Macy narrates how leaders and advocates sought to turn the medium toward education, civic engagement, and cultural enrichment, even as commercial networks dominated the airwaves.

Macy’s lectures, published here with a foreword by Newton N. Minow, situate American public broadcasting in a global context—highlighting how Europe and Japan advanced more quickly with noncommercial systems, and how the United States struggled to overcome its late start. Reflecting on milestones such as the creation of PBS, the spread of local stations, and the debut of transformative programs like Sesame Street and The Electric Company, Macy underscores both progress made and challenges unresolved. The narrative emphasizes the delicate balance between independence and accountability, and the persistent debates over funding, governance, and the role of public media in a democratic society. For scholars and readers interested in media history, public policy, and the cultural politics of the Cold War era, *To Irrigate a Wasteland* offers both a first-hand chronicle of institutional development and an enduring meditation on television’s potential to illuminate and inspire.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

James Ptacek

Feeling Trapped

$95.00

The relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to this violence. Ptacek's framing of women's victimization as "social entrapment" links private violence to public responses and connects social inequalities to the dilemmas that women face.

Barbara Klinger

Immortal Films

$95.00

Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals, and cultural commentary, Barbara Klinger explores the history of Casablanca's circulation in the United States from the early 1940s to the present by examining its exhibition via radio, repertory houses, television, and video. By resituating the film in the dynamically changing industrial, technological, and cultural circumstances that have defined its journey over eight decades, Klinger challenges our understanding of its meaning and reputation as both a Hollywood classic and a cult film. Through this single-film survey, Immortal Films proposes a new approach to the study of film history and aesthetics and, more broadly, to cinema itself as a medium in constant interface with other media as a necessary condition of its own public existence and endurance.

John Thornton Caldwell

Specworld

$95.00

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social construct rather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, he argues, is full of discrete yet interconnected parts that include legacy production companies, marketers and influencers, aspirant online producers, data miners, financiers, talent agencies, and more. Caldwell peels away the layers of these embedded production systems to examine the folds, fault lines, and fractures that underlie a risky, high-pressure, and often exploitative industry. With insights on the ethical and human predicament faced by industry hopefuls and crossover creators seeking professional careers, Caldwell offers new interpretive frames and research methods that allow readers to better see the hidden and multifaceted financial logics and forms of labor embedded in contemporary media production industries.

Nicole Constable

Passport Entanglements

$95.00

Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights while the renewal policies simultaneously undermined them. Contrary to global “best practices” concerning passports, Constable argues that imposing new biometric technologies does not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy but can instead reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.

James Zarsadiaz

Resisting Change in Suburbia

$95.00

2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians

Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Americans in Los Angeles moved toward becoming a racial majority in the communities of the East San Gabriel Valley. By the late 1990s, their "model minority" status resulted in greater influence in local culture, neighborhood politics, and policies regarding the use of suburban space. In the "country living" subdivisions, which featured symbols of Western agrarianism including horse trails, ranch fencing, and Spanish colonial architecture, white homeowners encouraged assimilation and enacted policies suppressing unwanted "changes"—that is, increased density and influence of Asian culture. While some Asian suburbanites challenged whites' concerns, many others did not. Rather, white critics found support from affluent Asian homeowners who also wished to protect their class privilege and suburbia's conservative Anglocentric milieu. In Resisting Change in Suburbia, award-winning historian James Zarsadiaz explains how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas about race and belonging.

Louis A. Gottschalk, M.D., Carolyn N. Winget, M.A., Goldine C. Gleser, Ph.D.

Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales

$95.00

Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales: Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation–Personal Disorganization by Louis A. Gottschalk, Carolyn N. Winget, and Goldine C. Gleser provides the definitive guide to a landmark methodology in psychological assessment. This manual lays out in detail the step-by-step coding and scoring procedures that underpin the Gottschalk-Gleser content analysis system, a method for quantifying affective states from verbal behavior. Integrating insights from linguistics, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, the book explains the theoretical rationale for the anxiety, hostility, and social alienation-personal disorganization (“schizophrenic”) scales, while offering extensive examples, coding rules, and sample tabulations to ensure consistency and reliability across researchers.

Designed as both a training resource and reference, the manual provides clear guidelines for preparing verbal samples, training technicians, and ensuring interrater reliability. Beyond technical instruction, it situates content analysis within broader scientific concerns—linking linguistic pragmatics with measurable psychological states—and illustrates its application to clinical interviews, dreams, projective tests, and spontaneous speech. By combining methodological rigor with practical illustrations, the volume enables researchers and clinicians to transform language into quantitative data about affect and psychopathology, securing its lasting place in the toolkit of psychological research and diagnostic evaluation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Hsi-Huey Liang

The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic

$39.95

The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic explores the history of Berlin's law enforcement during Germany’s tumultuous Weimar era (1919–1933), focusing on its role as a microcosm of the nation's broader political and social challenges. The study emphasizes the importance of German historiographical traditions, which often use abstract, interpretative frameworks to make sense of the country’s fragmented history. By examining Berlin, the political, economic, and cultural hub of Germany during this period, the author highlights the city's dynamic response to the societal upheavals that characterized the Weimar Republic. Through detailed archival research, firsthand interviews with former police officers, and an analysis of city history, the work uncovers how Berlin's police navigated the era's instability, reflecting broader struggles in governance, public order, and the rise of political extremism.

The author argues for the importance of city-specific studies in modern German history, using Berlin's police force as a lens to understand the complexities of societal transformation during the early 20th century. Despite challenges such as the loss of records in World War II and restricted access to East German archives, the study relies on rich oral histories and unpublished materials to offer new insights. This interdisciplinary approach combines elements of social history, urban studies, and political analysis, painting a vivid picture of the police force’s role in maintaining order amidst economic crises, cultural experimentation, and political volatility. Ultimately, Berlin emerges as a "city forever in the making," whose historical trajectory reveals the shifting and contested nature of German identity during one of its most formative eras.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Hsi-Huey Liang

The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic

$95.00

The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic explores the history of Berlin's law enforcement during Germany’s tumultuous Weimar era (1919–1933), focusing on its role as a microcosm of the nation's broader political and social challenges. The study emphasizes the importance of German historiographical traditions, which often use abstract, interpretative frameworks to make sense of the country’s fragmented history. By examining Berlin, the political, economic, and cultural hub of Germany during this period, the author highlights the city's dynamic response to the societal upheavals that characterized the Weimar Republic. Through detailed archival research, firsthand interviews with former police officers, and an analysis of city history, the work uncovers how Berlin's police navigated the era's instability, reflecting broader struggles in governance, public order, and the rise of political extremism.

The author argues for the importance of city-specific studies in modern German history, using Berlin's police force as a lens to understand the complexities of societal transformation during the early 20th century. Despite challenges such as the loss of records in World War II and restricted access to East German archives, the study relies on rich oral histories and unpublished materials to offer new insights. This interdisciplinary approach combines elements of social history, urban studies, and political analysis, painting a vivid picture of the police force’s role in maintaining order amidst economic crises, cultural experimentation, and political volatility. Ultimately, Berlin emerges as a "city forever in the making," whose historical trajectory reveals the shifting and contested nature of German identity during one of its most formative eras.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

C.R. Boxer

The Golden Age of Brazil 1695-1750

$95.00

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695–1750, historian C. R. Boxer explores one of the most dynamic yet turbulent periods in the Portuguese empire. With the discovery of vast gold reserves in Minas Gerais, Brazil became a cornerstone of Portugal’s Atlantic world, transforming its economy, society, and political order. Boxer’s richly detailed narrative traces the cascading effects of the gold rush—how sudden wealth fueled social mobility, intensified slavery and contraband, provoked conflicts like the Paulistas versus Emboabas, and drew the colony ever deeper into global trade networks. His analysis shows how Brazil’s prosperity was precariously balanced on forced labor, uneven development, and metropolitan extraction.

At the same time, Boxer brings to life the cultural, religious, and urban landscapes that flourished during this era. He reconstructs the rhythms of colonial towns from Bahia to Ouro Preto, where planters, merchants, clergy, and miners clashed and collaborated. By situating Brazil within broader Atlantic currents—from West African slave routes to European wars—he demonstrates how colonial society bore the “growing pains” of integration into a world economy. More than a narrative of riches and power, this book offers a sober appraisal of the contradictions of empire: extraordinary opulence alongside deepening inequality, resilience amidst recurring unrest. It remains a landmark study for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of Brazil’s so-called golden age.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Tetsuya Kataoka

Resistance and Revolution in China

$95.00

Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secured victory by reframing both its strategy and its relationship to China’s urban politics and to international conflict. Covering the years 1934 to 1943, the study challenges the CCP’s own official history, which portrays Mao’s rural “peasant war” strategy as continuous and unbroken from the Kiangsi period through Japan’s defeat. Instead, the book argues that the Party’s earlier defeats revealed the limits of an exclusively countryside orientation, and that Mao’s eventual success lay in forging the second united front with the Kuomintang (KMT) and embedding the revolution within the broader war of resistance against Japan.

Drawing on internal CCP documents and Western interpretations, the book shows how peasant mobilization through land reform was vital, but only possible under the protection of prolonged foreign invasion, which neutralized the KMT and gave the Communists space to expand. Japan’s occupation, along with the involvement of the United States, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, provided the international contradictions that made the united front viable. At the same time, the analysis insists that China’s cities—modern, nationalist, and tied to global currents—remained central to the trajectory of revolution, shaping both the KMT’s mandate and the CCP’s strategic recalibrations. By placing urban and rural China within a single semi-colonial, semi-feudal framework, the book offers a corrective to rural-only paradigms of Communist success, exposing how factional struggles within the CCP, foreign intervention, and the interplay of nationalism and class revolution combined to produce one of the twentieth century’s most consequential upheavals.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Joyce E. Jesionowski

Thinking in Pictures

$39.95

Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith’s Biograph Films by Joyce E. Jesionowski offers a rigorous reconsideration of Griffith’s reputation as both pioneer and mythmaker in early cinema. While Griffith has often been credited—sometimes uncritically—with “inventing” film technique, Jesionowski situates his Biograph work within a broader international context in which many cinematic devices, from fades and dissolves to intercutting and camera movement, were already in practice. Rather than attributing to Griffith the discovery of technique, she argues that his significance lies in shaping a new relationship between film and its spectators. Griffith’s Biograph films, made between 1908 and 1913, reveal an evolving consciousness of cinema as an art of construction, not simple reproduction, and demonstrate his awareness that audiences co-create meaning by filling narrative and visual gaps. For Griffith, cinematic storytelling became a contract with viewers, asking them to “see thoughts” in silence and to participate imaginatively in the drama.

Jesionowski shows how Griffith refined this collaborative mode of viewing into a distinctive visual and narrative system. Through intercutting, spatial elision, and repetition of images, Griffith achieved a plausibility that critics such as Frank Woods and Hugo Münsterberg recognized as simultaneously illusionistic and constructed. The Biograph films reveal a process of learning to harness audience perception as the central engine of cinematic drama, converting movements in space into relationships between characters and emotions. Jesionowski emphasizes Griffith’s ability to subjugate acting, scenery, and pictorial beauty to the larger organizational moment in which narrative coherence emerges from the arrangement of shots. In this sense, Griffith’s Biograph period exemplifies cinema’s departure from theater toward a unique visual medium, one defined not by invention of isolated devices but by the discovery of cinematic structure itself. Her study restores Griffith to film history not as sole inventor, but as the filmmaker who first systematically explored the principles of cinematic organization that remain foundational to narrative film.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Wm. Theodore de Bary

Neo-Confucian Education

$65.00

Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage offers a deep exploration of the early development of Neo-Confucian education and its enduring influence across East Asia. This book reexamines the role of Neo-Confucianism in shaping educational systems in premodern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, challenging outdated narratives of rote learning and intellectual stagnation. By linking Neo-Confucian thought to broader social and institutional frameworks, the study illuminates how this educational tradition adapted to complex cultural and historical dynamics, fostering intellectual rigor and moral discipline. The book situates Neo-Confucian education within the broader context of East Asia’s modernization, exploring its interplay with contemporary challenges and reforms.

Addressing critiques of traditional education, the authors offer a balanced perspective on the limitations and achievements of Neo-Confucian practices. They argue that far from being static, this educational tradition incorporated elements of change and innovation, which contributed to the region's remarkable capacity for modernization. The book also highlights the legacy of Neo-Confucianism in shaping modern East Asian values, blending historical analysis with a call for further research into its later developments and modern reinterpretations. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage is a vital resource for understanding the intellectual foundations of East Asia and their relevance in a rapidly changing 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 1989.

Caio

The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil

$95.00

The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil explores the intricate historical processes that shaped Brazil from its colonial origins to the early 19th century, a period marking a decisive transition toward modernity. The book provides a detailed examination of how three centuries of Portuguese colonization laid the foundation for Brazil’s distinct identity as a nation. Through analysis of social, political, and economic developments, the author traces the pivotal transformations that led Brazil to the threshold of independence and the complex interplay of colonial practices and emerging national consciousness. This critical period reveals the culmination of colonization's efforts and serves as a lens to understand contemporary Brazil, where colonial legacies remain deeply embedded in the fabric of its society.

With a focus on the tropical colonization model, the book contrasts Brazil’s colonial experience with that of temperate colonies, highlighting the unique challenges and opportunities presented by its environment. It examines the mercantile ambitions of European settlers, the exploitation of natural resources like sugar, tobacco, and gold, and the pivotal role of enslaved labor in shaping Brazil's economic and social structures. The narrative delves into the enduring impacts of these colonial practices, from regional inequalities to the persistent influence of external economic dependencies. By illuminating Brazil's historical trajectory, this work offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how its colonial past continues to inform its present and future.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Wm. Theodore de Bary

Neo-Confucian Education

$105.00

Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage offers a deep exploration of the early development of Neo-Confucian education and its enduring influence across East Asia. This book reexamines the role of Neo-Confucianism in shaping educational systems in premodern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, challenging outdated narratives of rote learning and intellectual stagnation. By linking Neo-Confucian thought to broader social and institutional frameworks, the study illuminates how this educational tradition adapted to complex cultural and historical dynamics, fostering intellectual rigor and moral discipline. The book situates Neo-Confucian education within the broader context of East Asia’s modernization, exploring its interplay with contemporary challenges and reforms.

Addressing critiques of traditional education, the authors offer a balanced perspective on the limitations and achievements of Neo-Confucian practices. They argue that far from being static, this educational tradition incorporated elements of change and innovation, which contributed to the region's remarkable capacity for modernization. The book also highlights the legacy of Neo-Confucianism in shaping modern East Asian values, blending historical analysis with a call for further research into its later developments and modern reinterpretations. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage is a vital resource for understanding the intellectual foundations of East Asia and their relevance in a rapidly changing 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 1989.

Anne Marie Todd

Valley of Heart's Delight

$95.00

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits—such as apricots and prunes—to computers. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. Through extensive archival research and interviews, Anne Marie Todd explores the concepts of place and placelessness, arguing that place is more than a physical location and that exploring a community's sense of place can help us to map how individuals experience their natural surroundings and their sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon Valley as a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.

Lisa Haushofer

Wonder Foods

$95.00

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed to be both individual and social ills. By examining creations such as Gail Borden's meat biscuit, Benger's Food, Kellogg's health foods, and Fleischmann's yeast, Wonder Foods shows how new products dazzled with visions of modernity, efficiency, and scientific progress even as they perpetuated exclusionary views about who deserved to eat, thrive, and live. Drawing on extensive archival research, historian Lisa Haushofer reveals that the story of modern food and nutrition was not about innocuous technological advances or superior scientific insights, but rather about the powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects. In the process, these wonder foods shaped both modern food regimes and how we think about food.

Charles R. Goldman

Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments

$95.00

Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments presents a comprehensive and pioneering exploration of the biological foundations of aquatic ecosystems, marking a significant milestone in the International Biological Programme (I.B.P.). As the first symposium of the I.B.P., held in Pallanza, Italy, in 1965, this volume captures a moment of intense scientific collaboration aimed at standardizing methods and advancing understanding of primary productivity in both marine and freshwater environments. The proceedings bring together leading experts from multiple disciplines—including limnology, oceanography, plant physiology, and biochemistry—who collectively assess the latest methodologies and theoretical frameworks governing aquatic productivity.

This collection not only reviews past achievements but also sets the stage for future research by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and methodological refinement. A key outcome of the symposium is the development of a methodological manual on measuring primary productivity, ensuring consistency and comparability in future studies. The discussions documented in this volume highlight the interconnected nature of aquatic ecosystems and underscore the importance of rigorous, standardized approaches to measuring productivity at the base of the aquatic food chain. Essential reading for researchers in ecology and environmental science, Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments serves as both a historical benchmark and a forward-looking guide for ongoing research in aquatic biology.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Munira Khayyat

A Landscape of War

$95.00

What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered land mines have become the environment where everyday life is waged. This book dwells with multispecies partnerships such as tobacco farming and goatherding that carry life through seasons of destruction. Neither green-tinged utopia nor total devastation, these ecologies make life possible in an insistently deadly region. Sourcing an anthropology of war from where it is lived, this book decolonizes distant theories of war and brings to light creative practices forged in the midst of ongoing devastation. In lyrical prose that resonates with imperiled conditions across the Global South, Khayyat paints a portrait of war as a place where life must go on.

Robert A. Scalapino

Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan

$49.95

Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan offers a profound exploration of the rise and fall of democratic ideals in Japan prior to World War II. With a focus on the dynamics of Taisho democracy and its subsequent decline in the 1930s, this work delves into the complexities of Japan's political modernization. The book examines key facets of the democratization process, such as the tension between imported political institutions and Japan’s traditional socio-economic structure, the challenges of rapid societal change under a rigid constitutional framework, and the struggle for citizen participation in governance. It also addresses the broader question of why parliamentary democracy failed in Japan during this critical period, offering insights into both the unique aspects of Japanese modernization and universal challenges faced by late-developing societies.

This study situates Japan’s experience within a global context, highlighting the interplay between domestic political developments and international influences in shaping its trajectory. By analyzing Japan's political system through the lenses of modernization theory and historical analysis, the book uncovers the enduring legacies of prewar democracy and modernization that contributed to postwar democratic success under American guidance. Combining historical rigor with a reflection on contemporary relevance, Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan sheds light on the challenges of establishing democratic governance in transitional societies and the lessons these challenges hold for the broader global discourse on democracy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Naomi DeCelles

Recollecting Lotte Eisner

$95.00

Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (1896–1983). From her early years as a film critic in interwar Berlin to her escape from prison in occupied France and from her role as chief curator at the Cinémathèque française to that as the mythic "collective conscience" of New German Cinema, Eisner was a prolific writer and lecturer and a pivotal voice in early film and media studies. Situated at the juncture of feminist media historiography and disciplinary intellectual history, this groundbreaking book is based on extensive multilingual archival research and the excavation of a rich corpus of previously overlooked materials. Introducing samples of Eisner's writing in translation, this volume makes some of the most important contributions of a foundational scholar in the field of film studies accessible for the first time to an English-language readership.

C. R. Evans

Brain Physiology and Psychology

$39.95

Brain Physiology and Psychology offers a curated collection of groundbreaking papers that have shaped our understanding of the brain and its relationship to psychological processes. Tailored for both students and seasoned researchers, this volume bridges the disciplines of physiology and psychology, presenting key advancements that have defined the field. Each article is presented in its original form, supplemented with insightful editorial commentary to provide context and highlight the relevance of subsequent discoveries.This volume emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of brain science, showcasing the integration of biological systems theory and innovations from fields such as communications engineering.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Yu Tokunaga

Transborder Los Angeles

$95.00

Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international relations between Japan, Mexico, and the US to the Southern California farmland, where ethnic Japanese and Mexicans played a significant role in developing local agriculture, one of the major industries of LA County before World War II. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated both conflict and interethnic accommodation by bringing together local issues and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the US-Mexico border. Viewing these experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground, demonstrating the close relationships between the ban on Japanese immigration, Mexican farmworkers' strikes, wartime Japanese removal, and the Bracero Program.

Robert J. Bonner

Aspects of Athenian Democracy

$39.95

The text explores the evolution of Athenian democracy, regarded as the most logical and comprehensive form of popular governance of its time. Beginning with a historical overview, it recounts how Athens transitioned from a monarchic system during the Heroic Age to an aristocracy, and later to a democracy shaped by key reforms. The Heroic Age saw a centralized government under kings like Theseus, whose successors were gradually supplanted by an aristocracy wielding power through the Areopagus council and elected magistrates. This transition led to socioeconomic strife, prompting the legislator Solon to institute reforms that restored the assembly's role, empowered the masses, and introduced judicial checks on magistrates. Cleisthenes expanded upon Solon’s framework by reorganizing tribal structures, creating the Council of Five Hundred, and introducing democratic practices like ostracism. These reforms fundamentally shifted power toward the popular assembly, setting the stage for Athens’ development into a fully democratic state.

The text delves into the operational mechanisms of Athenian democracy, emphasizing the assembly's sovereignty over legislation, administration, and justice. The council played an advisory and preparatory role, while magistrates were often selected by lot to ensure equal participation and prevent oligarchic dominance. Safeguards like dokimasia (pre-office scrutiny) and regular audits upheld accountability. Military and diplomatic roles, requiring technical expertise, were exceptions to the lot system and filled by election. Despite criticisms of the lottery system and its potential for electing unqualified individuals, Athenians valued the participation of all citizens in governance, embodying the democratic principle of collective decision-making. The balance of power, administrative checks, and evolving reforms underlined Athens’ commitment to a system where the people were both the source and the executors of authority, achieving what Aristotle described as a democracy with supreme control through its assembly and law courts.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1933.

Andre Beteille

Caste, Class, and Power

$95.00

Caste, Class, and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village provides a detailed sociological examination of the evolving relationships between caste, class, and political power in Sripuram, a village in Tanjore District, South India. This study situates Sripuram within its historical, cultural, and economic context while exploring its transformation from a traditional agrarian society dominated by rigid caste hierarchies to a more dynamic and stratified social structure. The book highlights the persistence of traditional social patterns, such as the spatial segregation of castes in the village, while documenting significant changes, including the loosening of caste's grip on economic and political life. It traces how Brahmins, once the dominant landowning and political elite, have seen their traditional authority eroded by the rise of Non-Brahmin castes and the introduction of modern political institutions like panchayats and political parties.

The analysis also focuses on the interplay between caste, class, and power, revealing how these hierarchies, once closely aligned, are now diverging. While caste still influences social identity and relations, economic modernization, education, and political participation have increasingly enabled mobility across traditional boundaries. The book discusses the growing presence of Non-Brahmins and Adi-Dravidas in education and political life, as well as the impact of land reforms on agrarian relations. Despite these changes, the study acknowledges the challenges of entrenched inequalities, particularly for the Adi-Dravidas, who remain economically and socially marginalized. Through its comprehensive approach, the book offers valuable insights into the processes of modernization, social mobility, and the enduring legacies of traditional systems in rural South India.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Andre Beteille

Caste, Class, and Power

$39.95

Caste, Class, and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village provides a detailed sociological examination of the evolving relationships between caste, class, and political power in Sripuram, a village in Tanjore District, South India. This study situates Sripuram within its historical, cultural, and economic context while exploring its transformation from a traditional agrarian society dominated by rigid caste hierarchies to a more dynamic and stratified social structure. The book highlights the persistence of traditional social patterns, such as the spatial segregation of castes in the village, while documenting significant changes, including the loosening of caste's grip on economic and political life. It traces how Brahmins, once the dominant landowning and political elite, have seen their traditional authority eroded by the rise of Non-Brahmin castes and the introduction of modern political institutions like panchayats and political parties.

The analysis also focuses on the interplay between caste, class, and power, revealing how these hierarchies, once closely aligned, are now diverging. While caste still influences social identity and relations, economic modernization, education, and political participation have increasingly enabled mobility across traditional boundaries. The book discusses the growing presence of Non-Brahmins and Adi-Dravidas in education and political life, as well as the impact of land reforms on agrarian relations. Despite these changes, the study acknowledges the challenges of entrenched inequalities, particularly for the Adi-Dravidas, who remain economically and socially marginalized. Through its comprehensive approach, the book offers valuable insights into the processes of modernization, social mobility, and the enduring legacies of traditional systems in rural South India.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Rhys Carpenter

Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics

$39.95

Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics is Rhys Carpenter’s classic exploration of the oral traditions behind the Iliad and the Odyssey. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, this work interrogates the relationship between saga, folklore, and literary invention in Homeric poetry. Carpenter argues that the epics are not merely records of historical events, nor pure fabrications, but rather complex compositions where oral traditions—heroic saga, folk tales, fairy motifs, and narrative fiction—interweave to form the glittering fabric of Homer’s verse. By placing Homer alongside other oral traditions such as Norse sagas, the Song of Roland, and Beowulf, Carpenter demonstrates the shared mechanisms by which oral poets transformed inherited stories into powerful cultural myths.

Balancing archaeology, philology, and comparative folklore, Carpenter revisits perennial debates about the historicity of Troy, the oral transmission of heroic poetry, and the folkloric elements embedded in Homeric narrative. Chapters move from foundational questions of “literature without letters” to focused case studies, including the saga of Troy, the role of folktale motifs in the Iliad and Odyssey, and the enduring Bear’s Son myth. With wit and clarity, Carpenter shows how the seeming contradictions of Homeric epic dissolve when read as the creative fusion of oral genres, shaped both by memory and invention. This book remains a touchstone for students of classics, comparative literature, and mythology, illuminating the artistry and cultural power of one of the world’s foundational literary 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 1946.

Peter D. Bell

Peasants in Socialist Transition

$95.00

Peasants in Socialist Transition: Life in a Collectivized Hungarian Village offers an in-depth exploration of the dramatic social, economic, and political changes that have shaped rural Hungary over the mid-20th century. Anchored in the village of "Kislapos" (a pseudonym), the study examines the sweeping transformations brought about by collectivization, land reforms, and the broader socialist policies implemented after World War II. Through vivid historical analysis and firsthand ethnographic research, the book sheds light on the dismantling of Hungary's prewar agrarian hierarchy, where land ownership dictated wealth, power, and status, and the rise of a new collectivized agricultural model. Despite the radical restructuring aimed at achieving egalitarian ideals, the study reveals the persistence of traditional themes of hierarchy, dependency, and reciprocity, underscoring both continuity and change in the social fabric of Kislapos.

This richly detailed account combines broader socio-political trends with intimate insights into daily life, family structures, and local power dynamics. It explores how collectivization reshaped the village’s economic foundation, altered family roles, and introduced new tensions between egalitarian ideologies and the practical necessities of centralized leadership. The narrative also delves into villagers’ perceptions of power, their evolving social networks, and the impact of external events such as industrialization and rural-to-urban migration. By situating the microcosm of Kislapos within the larger context of Hungary's socialist transition, this book not only enhances our understanding of Eastern European rural societies but also contributes significantly to the study of social change under state socialism.

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

Thomas D. Beck

French Legislators 1800 - 1834

$95.00

French Legislators, 1800-1834: A Study in Quantitative History examines the political evolution of France in the early nineteenth century, focusing on the makeup and role of the French legislature during the period following the French Revolution. The study offers a comprehensive analysis of the individuals who held legislative office, drawing on quantitative methods to classify them by social class, occupation, political affiliation, and regional representation. It explores the tension between the revolution's promise of social change and the entrenched power structures that emerged during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. The study aims to answer key questions about the social composition of French politics, the impact of electoral laws, the rise of regionalism, and the consequences of the Revolution of 1830.

The work relies heavily on extensive archival data, including electoral results, tax records, and biographical dictionaries, to categorize legislators based on their social status, professional background, and political leanings. Through this data, the study assesses how these men shaped and responded to political shifts, including the changes in government during the post-Napoleonic era and the restoration of Bourbon monarchy. The author presents a nuanced view of political affiliations, identifying the Left and Right as key players in the political discourse of the period, with both groups evolving over time in their relationship to the Revolution and its outcomes. Ultimately, the study offers a fresh perspective on a historically underexplored period, emphasizing the importance of quantitative history in understanding social and political transformations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Kornei Chukovsky Translated and Edited by Miriam Morton Foreword by Frances Clarke Sayers

From Two to Five

$95.00

Discover the enchanting and insightful world of childhood in From Two to Five by Kornei Chukovsky, a beloved classic that delves into the whimsical yet profound ways young children perceive and interact with the world. This timeless book captures the linguistic genius, poetic inclinations, and boundless imagination of children as they navigate the formative years of language acquisition and creative thought. Through rich anecdotes, sharp observations, and a deep respect for the innate brilliance of young minds, Chukovsky illuminates the intricate processes by which children develop their understanding of speech, storytelling, and self-expression.

From Two to Five offers a unique blend of scholarly insight and heartfelt narrative that appeals to parents, educators, and anyone fascinated by the wonders of childhood. With its vivid exploration of children's natural affinity for nonsense rhymes, poetic rhythms, and imaginative play, this book is both a celebration of childhood and a gentle critique of overly rigid educational systems. Enhanced by a skillful and thoughtful translation, Chukovsky's reflections inspire readers to embrace the joy, curiosity, and creativity that define the early years of life. Whether you're a parent, teacher, or simply curious, this book offers an unforgettable journey into the republic of childhood.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Janet Garcia-Hallett

Invisible Mothers

$95.00

Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood. Patriarchy, misogyny, and systemic racism marginalize and criminalize these mothers, pushing them into the grasp of penal control and forcing them to live in a state of disempowerment and hypersurveillance after imprisonment.

Armed with critical insight, Invisible Mothers demonstrates the paradox of visibility: social institutions treat mothers of color as invisible by restricting them from equal opportunities, and simultaneously as hypervisible by penalizing them for the ways they survive their marginalization. This thoughtful book reveals and contests their marginalization and highlights how mothers of color perform motherwork on their own terms.

Joseph Levenson

China: An Interpretive History

$39.95

China: An Interpretive History offers a compelling exploration of the origins of Chinese civilization, delving into the fascinating intersection of historical fact and cultural narrative. Beginning with the discovery of "Peking Man," this book examines the deep geological and evolutionary roots that predate Chinese history and raises profound questions about the nature of historical continuity. By tracing the line from prehistoric human remains to the emergence of a distinctly Chinese cultural identity, it illustrates how history, as a retrospective framework, imposes meaning on ancient artifacts and events, bridging the abstract with the culturally specific.

The book's thought-provoking narrative does not merely recount events but interrogates the very concept of history itself, distinguishing biological evolution from cultural heritage. It invites readers to consider how "Peking Man," an evolutionary figure, becomes a historical one only through the lens of later cultural achievements and societal developments. This dynamic interplay between geography, anthropology, and the shaping of historical consciousness makes this work an essential resource for understanding how civilizations root themselves in the past while projecting their unique identities into the present.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Nicole Fabricant

Fighting to Breathe

$95.00

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.

Joseph R. Levenson, Franz Schurmann

China: An Interpretive History

$95.00

China: An Interpretive History offers a compelling exploration of the origins of Chinese civilization, delving into the fascinating intersection of historical fact and cultural narrative. Beginning with the discovery of "Peking Man," this book examines the deep geological and evolutionary roots that predate Chinese history and raises profound questions about the nature of historical continuity. By tracing the line from prehistoric human remains to the emergence of a distinctly Chinese cultural identity, it illustrates how history, as a retrospective framework, imposes meaning on ancient artifacts and events, bridging the abstract with the culturally specific.

The book's thought-provoking narrative does not merely recount events but interrogates the very concept of history itself, distinguishing biological evolution from cultural heritage. It invites readers to consider how "Peking Man," an evolutionary figure, becomes a historical one only through the lens of later cultural achievements and societal developments. This dynamic interplay between geography, anthropology, and the shaping of historical consciousness makes this work an essential resource for understanding how civilizations root themselves in the past while projecting their unique identities into the present.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Tetsuya Kataoka

Resistance and Revolution in China

$49.95

Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secured victory by reframing both its strategy and its relationship to China’s urban politics and to international conflict. Covering the years 1934 to 1943, the study challenges the CCP’s own official history, which portrays Mao’s rural “peasant war” strategy as continuous and unbroken from the Kiangsi period through Japan’s defeat. Instead, the book argues that the Party’s earlier defeats revealed the limits of an exclusively countryside orientation, and that Mao’s eventual success lay in forging the second united front with the Kuomintang (KMT) and embedding the revolution within the broader war of resistance against Japan.

Drawing on internal CCP documents and Western interpretations, the book shows how peasant mobilization through land reform was vital, but only possible under the protection of prolonged foreign invasion, which neutralized the KMT and gave the Communists space to expand. Japan’s occupation, along with the involvement of the United States, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, provided the international contradictions that made the united front viable. At the same time, the analysis insists that China’s cities—modern, nationalist, and tied to global currents—remained central to the trajectory of revolution, shaping both the KMT’s mandate and the CCP’s strategic recalibrations. By placing urban and rural China within a single semi-colonial, semi-feudal framework, the book offers a corrective to rural-only paradigms of Communist success, exposing how factional struggles within the CCP, foreign intervention, and the interplay of nationalism and class revolution combined to produce one of the twentieth century’s most consequential upheavals.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Mark Baldassare

Residential Crowding in Urban America

$39.95

Residential Crowding in Urban America challenges the prevailing mid-1970s orthodoxy that equated human crowding with pathology. Based on research first developed for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and revised from a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, the book shifts the study of crowding from speculative laboratory models to sociological analyses rooted in real households and neighborhoods. Using national survey data, the author investigates how household crowding and neighborhood density affect housing satisfaction, family life, social relations, and overall well-being. Rather than treating density as an automatic source of deviance or disorder, the study emphasizes people’s lived experiences of their homes and communities, offering a theoretically grounded framework for understanding crowding as a social problem.

Organized into four parts, the book explores methods of studying crowding; household overcrowding, measured as persons per room; neighborhood density, measured as residents per acre; and the connections between crowding, social withdrawal, and claims of pathology. The author concludes that while overcrowding does matter, simplistic assumptions about its effects have obscured more subtle questions of how families adapt, how neighborhoods function, and what conditions truly disrupt social life. By dispelling myths and offering new directions for research, Residential Crowding in Urban America provides essential insight for policymakers, planners, and scholars alike. It situates housing conditions at the center of debates about quality of life, inequality, and urban development, laying the groundwork for future inquiry into how Americans live together in increasingly dense environments.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Gottschalk A. Louis

Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales

$39.95

Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales: Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation–Personal Disorganization by Louis A. Gottschalk, Carolyn N. Winget, and Goldine C. Gleser provides the definitive guide to a landmark methodology in psychological assessment. This manual lays out in detail the step-by-step coding and scoring procedures that underpin the Gottschalk-Gleser content analysis system, a method for quantifying affective states from verbal behavior. Integrating insights from linguistics, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, the book explains the theoretical rationale for the anxiety, hostility, and social alienation-personal disorganization (“schizophrenic”) scales, while offering extensive examples, coding rules, and sample tabulations to ensure consistency and reliability across researchers.

Designed as both a training resource and reference, the manual provides clear guidelines for preparing verbal samples, training technicians, and ensuring interrater reliability. Beyond technical instruction, it situates content analysis within broader scientific concerns—linking linguistic pragmatics with measurable psychological states—and illustrates its application to clinical interviews, dreams, projective tests, and spontaneous speech. By combining methodological rigor with practical illustrations, the volume enables researchers and clinicians to transform language into quantitative data about affect and psychopathology, securing its lasting place in the toolkit of psychological research and diagnostic evaluation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Edited by Robert J. Swartz

Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing

$55.00

Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing: A Book of Readings from Twentieth-Century Sources in the Philosophy of Perception offers an insightful collection of writings that examine perception's intricate relationship with knowledge. This anthology delves into the predominant views of English-speaking philosophers on the challenges of understanding how humans perceive and interpret the external world. By addressing traditional questions about the reliability and mechanisms of the senses, it reveals how the philosophy of perception has evolved, especially under the influence of post-Renaissance thought and the epistemological foundations laid by figures like Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

The book is meticulously curated to present the interplay between classical theories and modern critiques, touching on pivotal debates such as the sense-datum theory, phenomenalism, and causal theories of perception. Divided into four parts, it explores the nature of perceiving, the objects of perception, and the justification of empirical beliefs. Each section juxtaposes traditional perspectives with contemporary critiques, fostering a rich dialogue on the epistemological and ontological dimensions of sensory experience. This anthology is an essential resource for anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of how we perceive and know the world, offering both historical depth and critical engagement with ongoing debates in modern philosophy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Steve J. Grillos

Ferns and Fern Allies of California

$95.00

This book describes all ferns commonly found in California. Species accounts for eighty-six ferns have been included. In addition to a brief introduction, sections are devoted to the life cycle of a typical fern, a key to the fern families, a glossary of terns, and a list of suggested references.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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 describes all ferns commonly found in California. Species accounts for eighty-six ferns have been included. In addition to a brief introduction, sections are devoted to the life cycle of a typical fern, a key to the fern families, a glossary of

John M. Ellis

The Theory of Literary Criticism

$95.00

The Theory of Literary Criticism: A Logical Analysis by John M. Ellis argues that modern debates about “what criticism should do” have stagnated since the mid-century syntheses, breeding a climate of “wise eclecticism” that shrinks theory’s scope to ad-hoc judgment. Ellis contends this posture is a practical stopgap, not a theory: if critics switch methods “case by case,” theory must still explain which distinctions justify those switches. He traces the impasse to two habits: (1) reform-driven polemics that keep questions at slogan level (“study the text itself” vs. “study its context”) and (2) an unexamined **reference theory of meaning** (language = names for things), which either declares non-referential critical claims meaningless (à la logical positivism) or mystifies them as beyond analysis. Both routes, he argues, block principled criteria for interpretation and evaluation.

Ellis proposes recentering literary theory on logical and conceptual analysis, drawing on Wittgenstein rather than importing ready-made dogma. The practical method: begin with What distinction is this claim trying to make?”; surface the implied contrasts and purposes; then test whether the opposed positions genuinely conflict (often they don’t). Examples—“read literature as literature,” “a text is a social document”—only become meaningful once their operative contrasts (e.g., which contextual uses, which exclusions) are specified. The payoff is a theory that (a) analyzes kinds of critical statements without reducing them to reference, (b) provides rules of use rather than rigid verifications, and (c) rebuilds shared criteria where current eclecticism offers only “sound judgment.”

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Hilda Kuper

African Law

$95.00

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Michael Alexander

The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound

$39.95

An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his impact on Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and others.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his impact on Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and others.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,

John M. Letiche

A History of Russian Economic Thought

$75.00

A History of Russian Economic Thought: Ninth Through Eighteenth Centuries offers an in-depth exploration of the evolution of Russian economic ideas from medieval times to the early modern period, serving as a critical resource for scholars seeking to understand the intellectual foundations of Soviet thought. Written by distinguished Soviet economists, the volume reexamines the historical interplay between Russian and Western economic ideas, challenging earlier interpretations that overemphasized Western influences while undervaluing Russia’s indigenous intellectual traditions. The authors meticulously analyze primary and secondary sources, offering fresh insights into the role of economic thought in shaping Russia’s early societal structures and its enduring legacy.

This translation aims to make these seminal essays accessible to Western readers, emphasizing the ideological context and nuances embedded in Soviet scholarship. Beyond its academic value, the book highlights the ideological divergence between Soviet and Western social thought, inviting readers to contemplate the underlying forces that shape intellectual and political dynamics across civilizations. With its comprehensive glossary, index, and faithful adherence to the authors’ intent, this volume not only illuminates the trajectory of Russian economic ideas but also fosters a broader understanding of how historical and ideological frameworks influence modern global relations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Brendan O Hehir

Harmony from Discords

$49.95

Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham offers the first full-length biography of Sir John Denham, a poet celebrated in his time but often overshadowed in modern literary history. Praised by luminaries such as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson, Denham's Coopers Hill was heralded as a masterful embodiment of English poetics, taste, and intellectual ideals. This biography traces Denham’s life and career, providing a nuanced exploration of his poetic achievements within the tumultuous historical and personal contexts that shaped his work.

The book places particular emphasis on Coopers Hill, a landmark poem whose distinct versions reflect transformative periods in Denham's life—from his early career before the English Civil War to his later years under Cromwell's rule and during the Restoration. Through meticulous research, the biography examines how Denham’s revisions to Coopers Hill mirror his evolving circumstances, including his roles as a poet, a royalist, and a public servant. By interweaving the events of his life with his poetic oeuvre, this biography illuminates the threads connecting Denham’s personal experiences, historical upheavals, and literary legacy, offering a comprehensive portrait of a figure central to the Augustan tradition.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

John M. Wallace

The Golden and the Brazen World

$39.95

The Golden and the Brazen World: Papers in Literature and History, 1650–1800 examines the evolving relationship between literature and history, inspired by Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry. Sidney's distinction between poetry's "golden world," which idealizes and conveys moral truths, and history's "brazen world," focused on detailed but often confusing facts, frames the central theme. By the 18th century, this rivalry had softened into a collaborative exchange, with poets drawing on historical subjects for inspiration and historians using narrative techniques to enhance their work. This interdisciplinary dialogue reflects their shared roots in moral philosophy and their complementary efforts to illuminate human experience.

The essays in this collection, based on lectures from the Clark Library, showcase this intersection through specific case studies. Topics range from Andrew Marvell’s The First Anniversary and its political-poetic implications to re-evaluations of John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel. Contributions also include Susan Staves' exploration of legal history in 18th-century marriage and James Chandler's analysis of Edmund Burke’s influence on Wordsworth. Together, these essays reveal how literature and history shape and inform each other, highlighting their combined potential to enrich intellectual and cultural understanding.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

John G. Burke

The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton

$95.00

The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton edited by John G. Burke brings together leading historians of science to examine the contested relationship between knowledge, utility, and society in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Moving beyond the older assumption that science developed in isolation from political, religious, and practical concerns, the volume engages with the “new contextualist” arguments of Margaret and James Jacob and others who claim that natural philosophy—Newtonianism above all—was deeply intertwined with Whig politics, Anglican theology, and broader social interests. At stake is whether science in the Newtonian age can be understood primarily as the disinterested pursuit of truth, or whether it must be analyzed as a body of knowledge shaped by and deployed for social and ideological purposes.

The essays address this problem from multiple vantage points: poets’ responses to Copernican astronomy; the Royal Society’s Baconian histories of trades; the revolution in instrumentation from microscopes to precision clocks; Robert Hooke’s successes and failures in applying theory to technology; early studies of gunnery and ballistics; the centuries-long challenge of solving longitude; and the politics of Newtonianism across Whig and Tory divides. Collectively, the contributors show both the promise and the limits of contextualist explanations. While ideological and social pressures clearly influenced the reception and institutionalization of science, technical innovation, methodological reform, and the drive for knowledge itself were equally decisive in shaping outcomes. Rich in case studies and historiographical debate, The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton provides a nuanced account of how science functioned within the fabric of early modern society, making it an essential resource for historians, philosophers, and anyone interested in the complex origins of modern scientific 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 1983.

Translated and Edited by Gordon C. Roadarmel

Modern Hindi Short Stories

$95.00

The Hindi short story is one of the most exciting genres in modern Indian literature. The fifteen stories in this volume, by some of the most prominent writers in the field, provide a unique picture of the country today. Most of the stories focus on urban middle-class individuals and especially those whose lives are marked by alienation and loneliness. They highlight the disruptions caused in a society that is modernizing at a rapid pace while still being blessed and burdened by a strong sense of traditional morality, duty and family ties. Among the writers included in this volume are Kamleshwar, Nirmal Verma, Phanishwarnath ‘Renu’, Krishna Baldev Vaid and Mohan Rakesh.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.
The Hindi short story is one of the most exciting genres in modern Indian literature. The fifteen stories in this volume, by some of the most prominent writers in the field, provide a unique picture of the country today. Most of the stories focus on urban

Gilbert Norwood

Essays on Euripidean Drama

$95.00

Essays on Euripidean Drama by Gilbert Norwood is a landmark collection that reconsiders Euripides’ art through close analysis of four central plays. Written by a leading classicist of his generation, these essays take up long-standing puzzles in Euripidean criticism—from the divine epiphanies of The Bacchae, to the interplay of human and divine agency in Hippolytus, to the structural oddities of the Supplices. Norwood combines philological rigor with literary sensitivity, showing how Euripides’ dramaturgy—so often derided by ancient rivals and modern critics alike—reflects both deliberate experiment and a willingness to unsettle audience expectations.

Rather than treating Euripides as a flawed imitator of Aeschylus and Sophocles, Norwood situates him as a dramatist of restless imagination, whose sudden tonal shifts, sardonic wit, and “rescue-drama” tendencies anticipate later developments in European theater. By tracing both inconsistencies and triumphs across these plays, Essays on Euripidean Drama argues that Euripides was less a classical “lawgiver of tragedy” than a romantic innovator, inviting audiences into an art of doubt, surprise, and irony. The volume remains a touchstone for scholars and students interested in understanding why Euripides continues to divide opinion and yet exert profound influence across the centuries.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

John M. Wallace

The Golden and the Brazen World

$95.00

The Golden and the Brazen World: Papers in Literature and History, 1650–1800 examines the evolving relationship between literature and history, inspired by Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry. Sidney's distinction between poetry's "golden world," which idealizes and conveys moral truths, and history's "brazen world," focused on detailed but often confusing facts, frames the central theme. By the 18th century, this rivalry had softened into a collaborative exchange, with poets drawing on historical subjects for inspiration and historians using narrative techniques to enhance their work. This interdisciplinary dialogue reflects their shared roots in moral philosophy and their complementary efforts to illuminate human experience.

The essays in this collection, based on lectures from the Clark Library, showcase this intersection through specific case studies. Topics range from Andrew Marvell’s The First Anniversary and its political-poetic implications to re-evaluations of John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel. Contributions also include Susan Staves' exploration of legal history in 18th-century marriage and James Chandler's analysis of Edmund Burke’s influence on Wordsworth. Together, these essays reveal how literature and history shape and inform each other, highlighting their combined potential to enrich intellectual and cultural understanding.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

José Basílio da Gama, Edited by Frederick C. H. Garcia and Edward F. Stanton

The Uruguay, A Historical Romance of South America

$39.95

The Uruguay (A Historical Romance of South America) by José Basilio da Gama, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton, revives one of the great poetic landmarks of the Portuguese colonial world and its extraordinary afterlife in nineteenth-century Britain. First published in 1769, Gama’s O Uraguai recounts the War of the Seven Reductions, a mid-eighteenth-century conflict that pitted Portuguese and Spanish forces against the Tupi-Guarani and their Jesuit allies. In neoclassical blank verse, the poem transforms a bloody frontier war into a lyrical vision of the New World: Guarani warriors stand against European artillery, indigenous heroines face tragic fates, and the South American landscape itself becomes a stage for prophecy, sacrifice, and loss. For Brazilian readers of the independence era, O Uraguai became a symbol of national identity, elevating the Indian warrior to the role of cultural hero.

Sir Richard Burton—consul, explorer, and one of the Victorian age’s most daring translators—brought the poem into English during his Brazilian sojourn of the 1860s. His rendering, vigorous and idiosyncratic, reflects both his mastery of Portuguese and his own sharp anti-Jesuit sentiments, which sometimes heighten the polemical edge of Gama’s text. Complete with Burton’s extensive preface and critical commentary, this edition presents for the first time in print the Huntington Library manuscript of his translation. Garcia and Stanton provide a scholarly introduction, notes, and bibliography that situate the poem within its historical context, trace its reception in Brazil and abroad, and illuminate Burton’s complex engagement with colonial history and native culture. At once an eighteenth-century neoclassical romance and a Victorian artifact of translation, The Uruguay is indispensable for readers interested in Luso-Brazilian literature, the history of empire, and the global circulation of texts across languages and centuries.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

C.R. Boxer

The Golden Age of Brazil 1695-1750

$49.95

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695–1750, historian C. R. Boxer explores one of the most dynamic yet turbulent periods in the Portuguese empire. With the discovery of vast gold reserves in Minas Gerais, Brazil became a cornerstone of Portugal’s Atlantic world, transforming its economy, society, and political order. Boxer’s richly detailed narrative traces the cascading effects of the gold rush—how sudden wealth fueled social mobility, intensified slavery and contraband, provoked conflicts like the Paulistas versus Emboabas, and drew the colony ever deeper into global trade networks. His analysis shows how Brazil’s prosperity was precariously balanced on forced labor, uneven development, and metropolitan extraction.

At the same time, Boxer brings to life the cultural, religious, and urban landscapes that flourished during this era. He reconstructs the rhythms of colonial towns from Bahia to Ouro Preto, where planters, merchants, clergy, and miners clashed and collaborated. By situating Brazil within broader Atlantic currents—from West African slave routes to European wars—he demonstrates how colonial society bore the “growing pains” of integration into a world economy. More than a narrative of riches and power, this book offers a sober appraisal of the contradictions of empire: extraordinary opulence alongside deepening inequality, resilience amidst recurring unrest. It remains a landmark study for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of Brazil’s so-called golden age.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Hilda Kuper

African Law

$39.95

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

Joyce E. Jesionowski

Thinking in Pictures

$95.00

Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith’s Biograph Films by Joyce E. Jesionowski offers a rigorous reconsideration of Griffith’s reputation as both pioneer and mythmaker in early cinema. While Griffith has often been credited—sometimes uncritically—with “inventing” film technique, Jesionowski situates his Biograph work within a broader international context in which many cinematic devices, from fades and dissolves to intercutting and camera movement, were already in practice. Rather than attributing to Griffith the discovery of technique, she argues that his significance lies in shaping a new relationship between film and its spectators. Griffith’s Biograph films, made between 1908 and 1913, reveal an evolving consciousness of cinema as an art of construction, not simple reproduction, and demonstrate his awareness that audiences co-create meaning by filling narrative and visual gaps. For Griffith, cinematic storytelling became a contract with viewers, asking them to “see thoughts” in silence and to participate imaginatively in the drama.

Jesionowski shows how Griffith refined this collaborative mode of viewing into a distinctive visual and narrative system. Through intercutting, spatial elision, and repetition of images, Griffith achieved a plausibility that critics such as Frank Woods and Hugo Münsterberg recognized as simultaneously illusionistic and constructed. The Biograph films reveal a process of learning to harness audience perception as the central engine of cinematic drama, converting movements in space into relationships between characters and emotions. Jesionowski emphasizes Griffith’s ability to subjugate acting, scenery, and pictorial beauty to the larger organizational moment in which narrative coherence emerges from the arrangement of shots. In this sense, Griffith’s Biograph period exemplifies cinema’s departure from theater toward a unique visual medium, one defined not by invention of isolated devices but by the discovery of cinematic structure itself. Her study restores Griffith to film history not as sole inventor, but as the filmmaker who first systematically explored the principles of cinematic organization that remain foundational to narrative film.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Henry Stommel

The Gulf Stream

$39.95

The Gulf Stream: A Physical and Dynamical Description (Second Edition) offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the ocean’s most iconic and complex phenomena. While the name "Gulf Stream" is widely recognized, this book provides an in-depth examination of its physical structure, dynamics, and the scientific theories that explain its behavior. Designed for a wide audience of physical scientists, it bridges the gap between general familiarity and specialized understanding, presenting the most thorough discussion available on the subject. Complementing foundational texts like The Oceans and Dynamical Oceanography, this volume focuses exclusively on the Gulf Stream, offering detailed insights into its role in global weather systems, oceanic currents, and broader oceanographic studies. This second edition stands as an authoritative resource for those seeking to understand the intricate workings of this grand natural phenomenon.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Henry Stommel

The Gulf Stream

$95.00

The Gulf Stream: A Physical and Dynamical Description (Second Edition) offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the ocean’s most iconic and complex phenomena. While the name "Gulf Stream" is widely recognized, this book provides an in-depth examination of its physical structure, dynamics, and the scientific theories that explain its behavior. Designed for a wide audience of physical scientists, it bridges the gap between general familiarity and specialized understanding, presenting the most thorough discussion available on the subject. Complementing foundational texts like The Oceans and Dynamical Oceanography, this volume focuses exclusively on the Gulf Stream, offering detailed insights into its role in global weather systems, oceanic currents, and broader oceanographic studies. This second edition stands as an authoritative resource for those seeking to understand the intricate workings of this grand natural phenomenon.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Caio

The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil

$55.00

The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil explores the intricate historical processes that shaped Brazil from its colonial origins to the early 19th century, a period marking a decisive transition toward modernity. The book provides a detailed examination of how three centuries of Portuguese colonization laid the foundation for Brazil’s distinct identity as a nation. Through analysis of social, political, and economic developments, the author traces the pivotal transformations that led Brazil to the threshold of independence and the complex interplay of colonial practices and emerging national consciousness. This critical period reveals the culmination of colonization's efforts and serves as a lens to understand contemporary Brazil, where colonial legacies remain deeply embedded in the fabric of its society.

With a focus on the tropical colonization model, the book contrasts Brazil’s colonial experience with that of temperate colonies, highlighting the unique challenges and opportunities presented by its environment. It examines the mercantile ambitions of European settlers, the exploitation of natural resources like sugar, tobacco, and gold, and the pivotal role of enslaved labor in shaping Brazil's economic and social structures. The narrative delves into the enduring impacts of these colonial practices, from regional inequalities to the persistent influence of external economic dependencies. By illuminating Brazil's historical trajectory, this work offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how its colonial past continues to inform its present and future.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

George F. Butterick

A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson

$125.00

A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson offers an essential companion to Olson's monumental and intricate Maximus Poems. This scholarly guide navigates the complexities of Olson’s allusive and expansive verse, which spans themes from local Gloucester history to universal mythologies. With nearly 4,000 annotations, the guide meticulously decodes references to historical figures, literary works, geographical landmarks, and philosophical concepts. It moves line by line, offering insight into Olson’s sources and intellectual framework, including his borrowings from Algonquin legends, Arabic angelology, and Whitehead’s cosmology. Rich with unpublished material from Olson’s papers, as well as letters, interviews, and classroom notes, the guide aims to equip readers with the tools to actively engage with Olson's text, uncovering its layered meanings through his principle of ‘istorin—"to find out for oneself."

Structured chronologically rather than alphabetically, the guide mirrors the progression of Olson’s three-volume epic, weaving historical scholarship with interpretive clarity. Each annotation situates Olson’s references in context, revealing the intricate interplay between history, myth, and the poet's life in Gloucester. The guide further illuminates Olson’s creative process, tracing the evolution of his ideas through drafts, personal correspondences, and published works. Designed as both a reference and an entry point into Olson’s ambitious poetic project, it not only deepens appreciation for The Maximus Poems but also serves as a model for literary scholarship, inviting readers to engage with Olson’s world on their own intellectual journey.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Gilbert Norwood

Essays on Euripidean Drama

$39.95

Essays on Euripidean Drama by Gilbert Norwood is a landmark collection that reconsiders Euripides’ art through close analysis of four central plays. Written by a leading classicist of his generation, these essays take up long-standing puzzles in Euripidean criticism—from the divine epiphanies of The Bacchae, to the interplay of human and divine agency in Hippolytus, to the structural oddities of the Supplices. Norwood combines philological rigor with literary sensitivity, showing how Euripides’ dramaturgy—so often derided by ancient rivals and modern critics alike—reflects both deliberate experiment and a willingness to unsettle audience expectations.

Rather than treating Euripides as a flawed imitator of Aeschylus and Sophocles, Norwood situates him as a dramatist of restless imagination, whose sudden tonal shifts, sardonic wit, and “rescue-drama” tendencies anticipate later developments in European theater. By tracing both inconsistencies and triumphs across these plays, Essays on Euripidean Drama argues that Euripides was less a classical “lawgiver of tragedy” than a romantic innovator, inviting audiences into an art of doubt, surprise, and irony. The volume remains a touchstone for scholars and students interested in understanding why Euripides continues to divide opinion and yet exert profound influence across the centuries.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

Richard C. Jeffrey

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II

$95.00

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II—edited by Richard C. Jeffrey—delivers the long-awaited completion of Rudolf Carnap’s “Basic System of Inductive Logic” and, with it, a definitive bridge between logical probability and modern Bayesian thought. Opening with the posthumous Part II of Carnap’s program—on attribute spaces, confirmation across predicate families, and the celebrated λ–γ systems—the volume traces how exchangeability, similarity, and proximity reshape predictive inference beyond the straight rule. Jeffrey’s editorial apparatus situates Carnap’s late revisions and includes the originally withheld §21, offering a rare window onto the extensions Carnap envisaged but did not live to finish.

Surrounding this keystone are landmark contributions that push the program into contemporary terrain. Hintikka and Niiniluoto secure positive confirmation for universal generalizations; Kuipers maps neighboring approaches; de Finetti’s classic paper on partial exchangeability (in translation) anchors the treatment of analogy across families; Link and Diaconis–Freedman supply modern representation theorems; Fenstad reconnects logical languages with probabilistic semantics; and David Lewis’s “Principal Principle” reweaves objective chance into subjective credence. Capped by Douglas Hoover’s note on nonstandard measures, the collection is both capstone and launchpad—indispensable for philosophers of science, statisticians, and decision theorists who want Carnap’s foundations rendered in the idiom that now governs rational belief and inductive learning.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

C. K. Yang

Religion in Chinese Society

$95.00

Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors by C. K. Yang offers a sweeping reinterpretation of how religion saturates Chinese social life. Challenging the long-held view of China as “unreligious,” Yang demonstrates—through local gazetteers, temple inscriptions, and popular mythological literature—that belief, ritual, and sacred organization are deeply woven into the fabric of family, community, and state. He distinguishes carefully between institutional religions (notably Buddhism and Taoism) and “diffused” religion—the ancestral rites, cults, and moral cosmologies that operate through secular institutions. In Yang’s account, temples and festivals are not merely devotional spaces; they are social infrastructures that coordinate kinship, mediate disputes, anchor markets and guilds, and transmit ethical norms. His functional approach reframes the crowded pantheon of popular cults as a coherent system addressing ultimate concerns—illness, fertility, fortune, justice—while stabilizing everyday social order.

Equally compelling is Yang’s analysis of religion’s political dimensions. He traces how the Mandate of Heaven, underworld tribunals, and heavenly pantheons legitimated authority and sanctioned moral behavior, and how Confucianism—though not a theistic religion—absorbed and radiated religious meanings that shaped civic ethics, education, and governance. By mapping the interplay of cults of protection and prosperity, ancestor worship, and state ritual, Yang shows how sacred symbols and practices knit together rural villages and urban neighborhoods alike, while also fueling protest and rebellion when moral orders frayed. Methodologically innovative and empirically rich, *Religion in Chinese Society* stands as a foundational study of the social functions of religion in China, revealing a religious landscape that is eclectic, embedded, and indispensable to understanding Chinese history and society.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

Gary Schmidgall

Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic

$95.00

Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic, by Gary Schmidgall, situates *The Tempest* and the other late plays within the elaborate cultural and political framework of Jacobean court art. Schmidgall argues that to understand Shakespeare’s final dramas, one must examine the courtly aesthetic that shaped—and was shaped by—royal entertainments, masques, and visual allegories, particularly those patronized by James I. Drawing on analogies with painting, music, and spectacle, he demonstrates how Shakespeare absorbed the pressures of court taste while never being simply a partisan of court culture. Instead, his plays, and *The Tempest* above all, reflect both the allure and the dangers of a world where artifice, illusion, and spectacle could conceal as much as they revealed.

The study proceeds in two broad movements. The first half outlines the nature of the courtly aesthetic, emphasizing its rise under James and its continuities with Elizabethan culture, but also its transformation into a more baroque mode. Schmidgall carefully positions *The Tempest* within this revolution, attending to courtly traditions in masque, allegory, and political symbolism. The second half turns directly to Shakespeare’s play, analyzing its imagery, structure, and characterization in light of courtly assumptions, while acknowledging its profound ambivalence. Prospero, Ariel, Caliban, and Miranda all resonate with courtly types, but Shakespeare’s treatment of them ultimately refuses to resolve into uncritical celebration. For Schmidgall, *The Tempest* is both deeply political and strikingly comprehensive: a work of “compression and density” that condenses the inclusiveness of epic into the scope of a play. Throughout, the book insists that Shakespeare’s late style can only be appreciated by illuminating his engagement with the courtly environment, while recognizing his simultaneous skepticism toward its illusions.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Richard C. Jeffrey

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II

$49.95

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II—edited by Richard C. Jeffrey—delivers the long-awaited completion of Rudolf Carnap’s “Basic System of Inductive Logic” and, with it, a definitive bridge between logical probability and modern Bayesian thought. Opening with the posthumous Part II of Carnap’s program—on attribute spaces, confirmation across predicate families, and the celebrated λ–γ systems—the volume traces how exchangeability, similarity, and proximity reshape predictive inference beyond the straight rule. Jeffrey’s editorial apparatus situates Carnap’s late revisions and includes the originally withheld §21, offering a rare window onto the extensions Carnap envisaged but did not live to finish.

Surrounding this keystone are landmark contributions that push the program into contemporary terrain. Hintikka and Niiniluoto secure positive confirmation for universal generalizations; Kuipers maps neighboring approaches; de Finetti’s classic paper on partial exchangeability (in translation) anchors the treatment of analogy across families; Link and Diaconis–Freedman supply modern representation theorems; Fenstad reconnects logical languages with probabilistic semantics; and David Lewis’s “Principal Principle” reweaves objective chance into subjective credence. Capped by Douglas Hoover’s note on nonstandard measures, the collection is both capstone and launchpad—indispensable for philosophers of science, statisticians, and decision theorists who want Carnap’s foundations rendered in the idiom that now governs rational belief and inductive learning.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Charles R. Goldman

Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments

$49.95

Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments presents a comprehensive and pioneering exploration of the biological foundations of aquatic ecosystems, marking a significant milestone in the International Biological Programme (I.B.P.). As the first symposium of the I.B.P., held in Pallanza, Italy, in 1965, this volume captures a moment of intense scientific collaboration aimed at standardizing methods and advancing understanding of primary productivity in both marine and freshwater environments. The proceedings bring together leading experts from multiple disciplines—including limnology, oceanography, plant physiology, and biochemistry—who collectively assess the latest methodologies and theoretical frameworks governing aquatic productivity.

This collection not only reviews past achievements but also sets the stage for future research by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and methodological refinement. A key outcome of the symposium is the development of a methodological manual on measuring primary productivity, ensuring consistency and comparability in future studies. The discussions documented in this volume highlight the interconnected nature of aquatic ecosystems and underscore the importance of rigorous, standardized approaches to measuring productivity at the base of the aquatic food chain. Essential reading for researchers in ecology and environmental science, Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments serves as both a historical benchmark and a forward-looking guide for ongoing research in aquatic biology.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Robert A. Scalapino

Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan

$95.00

Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan offers a profound exploration of the rise and fall of democratic ideals in Japan prior to World War II. With a focus on the dynamics of Taisho democracy and its subsequent decline in the 1930s, this work delves into the complexities of Japan's political modernization. The book examines key facets of the democratization process, such as the tension between imported political institutions and Japan’s traditional socio-economic structure, the challenges of rapid societal change under a rigid constitutional framework, and the struggle for citizen participation in governance. It also addresses the broader question of why parliamentary democracy failed in Japan during this critical period, offering insights into both the unique aspects of Japanese modernization and universal challenges faced by late-developing societies.

This study situates Japan’s experience within a global context, highlighting the interplay between domestic political developments and international influences in shaping its trajectory. By analyzing Japan's political system through the lenses of modernization theory and historical analysis, the book uncovers the enduring legacies of prewar democracy and modernization that contributed to postwar democratic success under American guidance. Combining historical rigor with a reflection on contemporary relevance, Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan sheds light on the challenges of establishing democratic governance in transitional societies and the lessons these challenges hold for the broader global discourse on democracy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

George F. Butterick

A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson

$85.00

A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson offers an essential companion to Olson's monumental and intricate Maximus Poems. This scholarly guide navigates the complexities of Olson’s allusive and expansive verse, which spans themes from local Gloucester history to universal mythologies. With nearly 4,000 annotations, the guide meticulously decodes references to historical figures, literary works, geographical landmarks, and philosophical concepts. It moves line by line, offering insight into Olson’s sources and intellectual framework, including his borrowings from Algonquin legends, Arabic angelology, and Whitehead’s cosmology. Rich with unpublished material from Olson’s papers, as well as letters, interviews, and classroom notes, the guide aims to equip readers with the tools to actively engage with Olson's text, uncovering its layered meanings through his principle of ‘istorin—"to find out for oneself."

Structured chronologically rather than alphabetically, the guide mirrors the progression of Olson’s three-volume epic, weaving historical scholarship with interpretive clarity. Each annotation situates Olson’s references in context, revealing the intricate interplay between history, myth, and the poet's life in Gloucester. The guide further illuminates Olson’s creative process, tracing the evolution of his ideas through drafts, personal correspondences, and published works. Designed as both a reference and an entry point into Olson’s ambitious poetic project, it not only deepens appreciation for The Maximus Poems but also serves as a model for literary scholarship, inviting readers to engage with Olson’s world on their own intellectual journey.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

C. K. Yang

Religion in Chinese Society

$49.95

Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors by C. K. Yang offers a sweeping reinterpretation of how religion saturates Chinese social life. Challenging the long-held view of China as “unreligious,” Yang demonstrates—through local gazetteers, temple inscriptions, and popular mythological literature—that belief, ritual, and sacred organization are deeply woven into the fabric of family, community, and state. He distinguishes carefully between institutional religions (notably Buddhism and Taoism) and “diffused” religion—the ancestral rites, cults, and moral cosmologies that operate through secular institutions. In Yang’s account, temples and festivals are not merely devotional spaces; they are social infrastructures that coordinate kinship, mediate disputes, anchor markets and guilds, and transmit ethical norms. His functional approach reframes the crowded pantheon of popular cults as a coherent system addressing ultimate concerns—illness, fertility, fortune, justice—while stabilizing everyday social order.

Equally compelling is Yang’s analysis of religion’s political dimensions. He traces how the Mandate of Heaven, underworld tribunals, and heavenly pantheons legitimated authority and sanctioned moral behavior, and how Confucianism—though not a theistic religion—absorbed and radiated religious meanings that shaped civic ethics, education, and governance. By mapping the interplay of cults of protection and prosperity, ancestor worship, and state ritual, Yang shows how sacred symbols and practices knit together rural villages and urban neighborhoods alike, while also fueling protest and rebellion when moral orders frayed. Methodologically innovative and empirically rich, *Religion in Chinese Society* stands as a foundational study of the social functions of religion in China, revealing a religious landscape that is eclectic, embedded, and indispensable to understanding Chinese history and society.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

R. W. Dent

Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616

$125.00

Proverbial Language in English Drama, Exclusive of Shakespeare (1495-1616): An Index serves as a comprehensive reference for scholars of Renaissance drama and the use of proverbial expressions in early modern English theater. Designed as a companion to the author's earlier Shakespeare’s Proverbial Language: An Index, this volume systematically catalogs and analyzes proverbial phrases found in extant English drama from the late 15th century through the early 17th century, excluding Shakespeare’s works. The index provides a meticulous breakdown of how proverbs were employed by dramatists across this period, offering insights into language, culture, and thematic structures in the plays.

Drawing from sources such as M. P. Tilley’s Dictionary of Proverbs, B. J. Whiting’s Modern Proverbial Sayings, and E. P. Wilson’s compilations, this volume refines and supplements existing proverb collections with a rigorous method of inclusion and exclusion. It identifies proverbs that were widely recognized in early modern England and distinguishes them from idiomatic expressions, topoi, or literal references that lack proverbial status. The author also critically assesses inconsistencies in previous scholarship, offering corrections and clarifications where necessary. This invaluable resource sheds light on the ways in which proverbial wisdom shaped Renaissance drama outside of Shakespeare, providing scholars with a deeper understanding of the linguistic and rhetorical traditions that influenced early modern English theater.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

C. R. Evans

Brain Physiology and Psychology

$95.00

Brain Physiology and Psychology offers a curated collection of groundbreaking papers that have shaped our understanding of the brain and its relationship to psychological processes. Tailored for both students and seasoned researchers, this volume bridges the disciplines of physiology and psychology, presenting key advancements that have defined the field. Each article is presented in its original form, supplemented with insightful editorial commentary to provide context and highlight the relevance of subsequent discoveries.This volume emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of brain science, showcasing the integration of biological systems theory and innovations from fields such as communications engineering.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Margaret A. McKean

Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan

$95.00

Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan examines the development and significance of citizens' movements in Japan, particularly those centered around environmental activism, from the early 1970s. The author initially set out to study political behavior and participation, believing that citizens' movements were similar to other protest groups, but the research led to surprising discoveries. Contrary to initial expectations, these movements proved to be a unique blend of protest and community organization, defying conventional political structures and assumptions.

The book focuses on the political, social, and environmental changes that these movements initiated, highlighting their role in fostering political participation and social transformation. By conducting surveys in 1972, the author captures the emergence of these movements at their most vibrant, when they were not yet institutionalized or following established trends. Although the movements were largely successful in their immediate goals, their broader influence on Japan's political landscape—especially regarding electoral change and the nature of political conflict—remains more modest. The book reflects on the evolution of these movements, their impact on political processes, and the role of social movements in shaping democratic values, while also analyzing the gaps between their goals and their practical achievements. It ultimately presents a nuanced understanding of Japanese citizens' movements and their political implications.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

R. W. Dent

Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616

$85.00

Proverbial Language in English Drama, Exclusive of Shakespeare (1495-1616): An Index serves as a comprehensive reference for scholars of Renaissance drama and the use of proverbial expressions in early modern English theater. Designed as a companion to the author's earlier Shakespeare’s Proverbial Language: An Index, this volume systematically catalogs and analyzes proverbial phrases found in extant English drama from the late 15th century through the early 17th century, excluding Shakespeare’s works. The index provides a meticulous breakdown of how proverbs were employed by dramatists across this period, offering insights into language, culture, and thematic structures in the plays.

Drawing from sources such as M. P. Tilley’s Dictionary of Proverbs, B. J. Whiting’s Modern Proverbial Sayings, and E. P. Wilson’s compilations, this volume refines and supplements existing proverb collections with a rigorous method of inclusion and exclusion. It identifies proverbs that were widely recognized in early modern England and distinguishes them from idiomatic expressions, topoi, or literal references that lack proverbial status. The author also critically assesses inconsistencies in previous scholarship, offering corrections and clarifications where necessary. This invaluable resource sheds light on the ways in which proverbial wisdom shaped Renaissance drama outside of Shakespeare, providing scholars with a deeper understanding of the linguistic and rhetorical traditions that influenced early modern English theater.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Margaret A. McKean

Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan

$49.95

Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan examines the development and significance of citizens' movements in Japan, particularly those centered around environmental activism, from the early 1970s. The author initially set out to study political behavior and participation, believing that citizens' movements were similar to other protest groups, but the research led to surprising discoveries. Contrary to initial expectations, these movements proved to be a unique blend of protest and community organization, defying conventional political structures and assumptions.

The book focuses on the political, social, and environmental changes that these movements initiated, highlighting their role in fostering political participation and social transformation. By conducting surveys in 1972, the author captures the emergence of these movements at their most vibrant, when they were not yet institutionalized or following established trends. Although the movements were largely successful in their immediate goals, their broader influence on Japan's political landscape—especially regarding electoral change and the nature of political conflict—remains more modest. The book reflects on the evolution of these movements, their impact on political processes, and the role of social movements in shaping democratic values, while also analyzing the gaps between their goals and their practical achievements. It ultimately presents a nuanced understanding of Japanese citizens' movements and their political implications.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Robert L. Nelson

Partners with Power

$95.00

Partners With Power: The Social Transformation of the Large Law Firm delves into the evolving structure and societal role of large American law firms, exploring their transformation amidst growing bureaucratization and changing market dynamics. The book highlights the paradox faced by these firms: as they expand in size, complexity, and influence, they grapple with preserving the ideals of professionalism while adapting to a competitive, corporate-driven environment. Traditionally esteemed as bastions of legal prestige and public service, large law firms are increasingly driven by business imperatives that challenge their professional ethos.

Through detailed analysis, the author examines how changes in client demands, internal management structures, and market conditions have reshaped these firms. The rise of managerial hierarchies, shifts in partnership dynamics, and heightened competition for corporate clients reveal a tension between maintaining the image of a collegial, autonomous professional entity and the necessity of functioning as a profit-oriented business. This duality impacts not only the internal culture of firms but also their external legitimacy, as they balance their roles as advocates for corporate power and custodians of legal and societal norms. The book underscores that these tensions, while rooted in organizational changes, have far-reaching implications for the legal profession and its influence in American society.

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

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Candace Slater

Stories on a String

$95.00

Candace Slater’s Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel introduces readers to one of the most vibrant yet understudied traditions of popular literature in the modern world. Rooted in the centuries-old Iberian ballad and chapbook heritage but transformed within the cultural, linguistic, and historical context of Northeastern Brazil, the cordel—or folheto—emerged as the primary reading material of working-class communities. These verse pamphlets, sold in marketplaces and performed by poets, combine news, legend, social critique, and fantasy. Slater situates the cordel within Brazil’s broader cultural landscape, demonstrating its central role not only as entertainment but also as a vehicle of collective memory and commentary on historical events, politics, religion, and daily struggles. Drawing upon more than a thousand texts and extensive fieldwork, she reveals how these deceptively modest “stories on a string” shaped and reflected the lives of millions of Brazilians.

The book also foregrounds the cordel’s influence on twentieth-century Brazilian intellectual and artistic life, tracing its impact on figures ranging from Jorge Amado to Ariano Suassuna, and examining how middle-class and elite audiences have increasingly appropriated and reinterpreted this once-marginal form. Slater’s analysis balances structural readings of recurring narrative patterns with close attention to performance contexts, poet–audience interactions, and the shifting meanings of the tradition in an era of modernization and mass media. Combining literary scholarship, cultural history, and ethnography, Stories on a String makes a compelling case for the cordel as both a deeply rooted folk practice and a dynamic, evolving art form central to understanding Brazil’s social fabric.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Candace Slater

Stories on a String

$49.95

Candace Slater’s Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel introduces readers to one of the most vibrant yet understudied traditions of popular literature in the modern world. Rooted in the centuries-old Iberian ballad and chapbook heritage but transformed within the cultural, linguistic, and historical context of Northeastern Brazil, the cordel—or folheto—emerged as the primary reading material of working-class communities. These verse pamphlets, sold in marketplaces and performed by poets, combine news, legend, social critique, and fantasy. Slater situates the cordel within Brazil’s broader cultural landscape, demonstrating its central role not only as entertainment but also as a vehicle of collective memory and commentary on historical events, politics, religion, and daily struggles. Drawing upon more than a thousand texts and extensive fieldwork, she reveals how these deceptively modest “stories on a string” shaped and reflected the lives of millions of Brazilians.

The book also foregrounds the cordel’s influence on twentieth-century Brazilian intellectual and artistic life, tracing its impact on figures ranging from Jorge Amado to Ariano Suassuna, and examining how middle-class and elite audiences have increasingly appropriated and reinterpreted this once-marginal form. Slater’s analysis balances structural readings of recurring narrative patterns with close attention to performance contexts, poet–audience interactions, and the shifting meanings of the tradition in an era of modernization and mass media. Combining literary scholarship, cultural history, and ethnography, Stories on a String makes a compelling case for the cordel as both a deeply rooted folk practice and a dynamic, evolving art form central to understanding Brazil’s social fabric.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Robert J. Bonner

Aspects of Athenian Democracy

$95.00

The text explores the evolution of Athenian democracy, regarded as the most logical and comprehensive form of popular governance of its time. Beginning with a historical overview, it recounts how Athens transitioned from a monarchic system during the Heroic Age to an aristocracy, and later to a democracy shaped by key reforms. The Heroic Age saw a centralized government under kings like Theseus, whose successors were gradually supplanted by an aristocracy wielding power through the Areopagus council and elected magistrates. This transition led to socioeconomic strife, prompting the legislator Solon to institute reforms that restored the assembly's role, empowered the masses, and introduced judicial checks on magistrates. Cleisthenes expanded upon Solon’s framework by reorganizing tribal structures, creating the Council of Five Hundred, and introducing democratic practices like ostracism. These reforms fundamentally shifted power toward the popular assembly, setting the stage for Athens’ development into a fully democratic state.

The text delves into the operational mechanisms of Athenian democracy, emphasizing the assembly's sovereignty over legislation, administration, and justice. The council played an advisory and preparatory role, while magistrates were often selected by lot to ensure equal participation and prevent oligarchic dominance. Safeguards like dokimasia (pre-office scrutiny) and regular audits upheld accountability. Military and diplomatic roles, requiring technical expertise, were exceptions to the lot system and filled by election. Despite criticisms of the lottery system and its potential for electing unqualified individuals, Athenians valued the participation of all citizens in governance, embodying the democratic principle of collective decision-making. The balance of power, administrative checks, and evolving reforms underlined Athens’ commitment to a system where the people were both the source and the executors of authority, achieving what Aristotle described as a democracy with supreme control through its assembly and law courts.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1933.

Rhys Carpenter

Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics

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Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics is Rhys Carpenter’s classic exploration of the oral traditions behind the Iliad and the Odyssey. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, this work interrogates the relationship between saga, folklore, and literary invention in Homeric poetry. Carpenter argues that the epics are not merely records of historical events, nor pure fabrications, but rather complex compositions where oral traditions—heroic saga, folk tales, fairy motifs, and narrative fiction—interweave to form the glittering fabric of Homer’s verse. By placing Homer alongside other oral traditions such as Norse sagas, the Song of Roland, and Beowulf, Carpenter demonstrates the shared mechanisms by which oral poets transformed inherited stories into powerful cultural myths.

Balancing archaeology, philology, and comparative folklore, Carpenter revisits perennial debates about the historicity of Troy, the oral transmission of heroic poetry, and the folkloric elements embedded in Homeric narrative. Chapters move from foundational questions of “literature without letters” to focused case studies, including the saga of Troy, the role of folktale motifs in the Iliad and Odyssey, and the enduring Bear’s Son myth. With wit and clarity, Carpenter shows how the seeming contradictions of Homeric epic dissolve when read as the creative fusion of oral genres, shaped both by memory and invention. This book remains a touchstone for students of classics, comparative literature, and mythology, illuminating the artistry and cultural power of one of the world’s foundational literary 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 1946.

Robert L. Nelson

Partners with Power

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Partners With Power: The Social Transformation of the Large Law Firm delves into the evolving structure and societal role of large American law firms, exploring their transformation amidst growing bureaucratization and changing market dynamics. The book highlights the paradox faced by these firms: as they expand in size, complexity, and influence, they grapple with preserving the ideals of professionalism while adapting to a competitive, corporate-driven environment. Traditionally esteemed as bastions of legal prestige and public service, large law firms are increasingly driven by business imperatives that challenge their professional ethos.

Through detailed analysis, the author examines how changes in client demands, internal management structures, and market conditions have reshaped these firms. The rise of managerial hierarchies, shifts in partnership dynamics, and heightened competition for corporate clients reveal a tension between maintaining the image of a collegial, autonomous professional entity and the necessity of functioning as a profit-oriented business. This duality impacts not only the internal culture of firms but also their external legitimacy, as they balance their roles as advocates for corporate power and custodians of legal and societal norms. The book underscores that these tensions, while rooted in organizational changes, have far-reaching implications for the legal profession and its influence in American society.

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

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Arend Lijphart

The Politics of Accommodation

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The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands offers a groundbreaking analysis of Dutch democracy during the pivotal period of 1917 to 1967, highlighting the country's unique approach to managing deep-seated societal divisions. Originally published in 1967 and revised with a second edition, this seminal work by Arend Lijphart explores the concept of pillarization—a system in which religious and ideological blocs coexisted within a framework of mutual accommodation and elite cooperation, ensuring stability in a pluralistic society.

In the revised edition, Lijphart reflects on the transformative political shifts of the mid-1960s, when traditional social cleavages began to weaken, and deference to elite authority waned. The book's new chapter, “The Breakdown of the Politics of Accommodation,” delves into the unraveling of this model, tracing how evolving public attitudes and the erosion of bloc loyalties marked the decline of accommodation politics. Despite its historical focus, the book's theoretical insights remain profoundly relevant, offering a blueprint for managing pluralism in divided societies aspiring to democracy. It stands as both a retrospective of Dutch political evolution and a forward-looking framework for understanding and addressing the challenges of democratic governance in diverse 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 1968.

Kornei Chukovsky Translated and Edited by Miriam Morton Foreword by Frances Clarke Sayers

From Two to Five

$39.95

Discover the enchanting and insightful world of childhood in From Two to Five by Kornei Chukovsky, a beloved classic that delves into the whimsical yet profound ways young children perceive and interact with the world. This timeless book captures the linguistic genius, poetic inclinations, and boundless imagination of children as they navigate the formative years of language acquisition and creative thought. Through rich anecdotes, sharp observations, and a deep respect for the innate brilliance of young minds, Chukovsky illuminates the intricate processes by which children develop their understanding of speech, storytelling, and self-expression.

From Two to Five offers a unique blend of scholarly insight and heartfelt narrative that appeals to parents, educators, and anyone fascinated by the wonders of childhood. With its vivid exploration of children's natural affinity for nonsense rhymes, poetic rhythms, and imaginative play, this book is both a celebration of childhood and a gentle critique of overly rigid educational systems. Enhanced by a skillful and thoughtful translation, Chukovsky's reflections inspire readers to embrace the joy, curiosity, and creativity that define the early years of life. Whether you're a parent, teacher, or simply curious, this book offers an unforgettable journey into the republic of childhood.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Francis Schiller

Paul Broca

$49.95

This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future cerebral localization (he was the first to identify "Broca's area" --a small patch on the convoluted surface of the brain--as the central organ for speech), this portrait of Broca also describes his fundamental role in the establishment of modern scientific "laboratory" medicine, and his broad capacity and appetite for science as a whole. His enduring curiosity and insistent pursuit of truth led him through an exciting course of study, which often placed him philosophically in the position of utilizing doubt as his strongest investigative impetus. The author, Francis Schiller, --himself a neurologist-- underscores Broca's vast contributions to both practical and moral science with keen insights and scholarly acumen. Historians of science, neuroscientists, and general readers alike will enjoy this enlightening and important biography.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of spe

Thomas D. Beck

French Legislators 1800 - 1834

$39.95

French Legislators, 1800-1834: A Study in Quantitative History examines the political evolution of France in the early nineteenth century, focusing on the makeup and role of the French legislature during the period following the French Revolution. The study offers a comprehensive analysis of the individuals who held legislative office, drawing on quantitative methods to classify them by social class, occupation, political affiliation, and regional representation. It explores the tension between the revolution's promise of social change and the entrenched power structures that emerged during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. The study aims to answer key questions about the social composition of French politics, the impact of electoral laws, the rise of regionalism, and the consequences of the Revolution of 1830.

The work relies heavily on extensive archival data, including electoral results, tax records, and biographical dictionaries, to categorize legislators based on their social status, professional background, and political leanings. Through this data, the study assesses how these men shaped and responded to political shifts, including the changes in government during the post-Napoleonic era and the restoration of Bourbon monarchy. The author presents a nuanced view of political affiliations, identifying the Left and Right as key players in the political discourse of the period, with both groups evolving over time in their relationship to the Revolution and its outcomes. Ultimately, the study offers a fresh perspective on a historically underexplored period, emphasizing the importance of quantitative history in understanding social and political transformations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Peter D. Bell

Peasants in Socialist Transition

$49.95

Peasants in Socialist Transition: Life in a Collectivized Hungarian Village offers an in-depth exploration of the dramatic social, economic, and political changes that have shaped rural Hungary over the mid-20th century. Anchored in the village of "Kislapos" (a pseudonym), the study examines the sweeping transformations brought about by collectivization, land reforms, and the broader socialist policies implemented after World War II. Through vivid historical analysis and firsthand ethnographic research, the book sheds light on the dismantling of Hungary's prewar agrarian hierarchy, where land ownership dictated wealth, power, and status, and the rise of a new collectivized agricultural model. Despite the radical restructuring aimed at achieving egalitarian ideals, the study reveals the persistence of traditional themes of hierarchy, dependency, and reciprocity, underscoring both continuity and change in the social fabric of Kislapos.

This richly detailed account combines broader socio-political trends with intimate insights into daily life, family structures, and local power dynamics. It explores how collectivization reshaped the village’s economic foundation, altered family roles, and introduced new tensions between egalitarian ideologies and the practical necessities of centralized leadership. The narrative also delves into villagers’ perceptions of power, their evolving social networks, and the impact of external events such as industrialization and rural-to-urban migration. By situating the microcosm of Kislapos within the larger context of Hungary's socialist transition, this book not only enhances our understanding of Eastern European rural societies but also contributes significantly to the study of social change under state socialism.

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

Francis Schiller

Paul Broca

$95.00

This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future cerebral localization (he was the first to identify "Broca's area" --a small patch on the convoluted surface of the brain--as the central organ for speech), this portrait of Broca also describes his fundamental role in the establishment of modern scientific "laboratory" medicine, and his broad capacity and appetite for science as a whole. His enduring curiosity and insistent pursuit of truth led him through an exciting course of study, which often placed him philosophically in the position of utilizing doubt as his strongest investigative impetus. The author, Francis Schiller, --himself a neurologist-- underscores Broca's vast contributions to both practical and moral science with keen insights and scholarly acumen. Historians of science, neuroscientists, and general readers alike will enjoy this enlightening and important biography.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of spe

Edward Norbeck

Pineapple Town

$95.00

Pineapple Town: Hawaii provides a comprehensive exploration of life within Maunaloa, a Hawaiian pineapple plantation community on the island of Molokai. The book delves into the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of plantation life, reflecting the transformative effects of industrial agriculture and the demands it places on its workers and their families. Through the lens of Maunaloa, the study highlights the unique structure and challenges of Hawaiian pineapple towns, including their corporate ownership, reliance on foreign labor, and the integration of diverse cultural traditions into a singular yet multifaceted community. The book sheds light on how technological advancements, economic pressures, and social changes have shaped these plantation societies over time.

The narrative also examines the broader history of the pineapple industry in Hawaii, tracing its rise from the early 20th century to its mid-century peak. The industry’s challenges, including disease management, labor shortages, and competition, are discussed alongside its technological innovations and the socio-economic adaptations of its workforce. Rich in ethnographic detail and informed by the author’s firsthand experiences as both a resident and researcher, Pineapple Town: Hawaii serves as a vivid case study of how industrial agriculture influences community development, cultural integration, and the lives of workers in an environment shaped by both local traditions and global economic forces.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Mariana Griswold and Van Rensselaer Selected and Edited by David Gebhard

Accents as Well as Broad Effects

$49.95

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening, and landscape design, works that provide a rare view of cities and rural environments in turn-of-the-century America. Now David Gebhard brings Van Rensselaer's significant writings together in one volume, including a chapter from the 1925 edition of Art Out-of-Doors: Hints on Good Taste in Gardening. An established critic in environmental and literary circles, Van Rensselaer wrote for the general public in such journals as the Century Magazine and for a specialized audience of landscape architects in Garden and Forest. She was a long-time contributor to The American Architect and Building News, the first architectural journal in the United States. She is an engaging and accessible writer, and her articles on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Public Library won great praise. Although the only woman in a field that was male-dominated at the time, Van Rensselaer was, curiously enough, opposed to women's suffrage. David Gebhard provides an excellent introduction to this unusual woman and to her place in American architectural criticism. Van Rensselaer's writings are still of interest today, not only for her broad environmental approach, but also for her ability to relate abstract concepts to examples of harmonious design.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening,

A. Carl Leopold

Auxins and Plant Growth

$49.95

Auxins and Plant Growth explores the critical role of auxins in plant physiology and their applications in agricultural technology, emphasizing the need for a strong scientific foundation to drive meaningful advancements. The book provides a comprehensive integration of fundamental knowledge about auxins—how they are formed, their functions, and methods for identification and measurement—with their practical applications in agriculture. It highlights the dangers of research conducted without a solid understanding of auxin physiology and aims to guide researchers in designing effective and scientifically grounded experiments.

The author bridges the gap between theory and application, offering insights into the physiological basis of auxin activity and the technological methods derived from it. While not a historical review or a practical manual, the book serves as a resource for graduate students and professionals, encouraging the use of foundational discoveries to achieve systematic advancements in agricultural productivity. Ultimately, the work underscores the importance of integrating science and technology to address the pressing global challenge of increasing agricultural efficiency in a rapidly growing population.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Mark Baldassare

Residential Crowding in Urban America

$95.00

Residential Crowding in Urban America challenges the prevailing mid-1970s orthodoxy that equated human crowding with pathology. Based on research first developed for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and revised from a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, the book shifts the study of crowding from speculative laboratory models to sociological analyses rooted in real households and neighborhoods. Using national survey data, the author investigates how household crowding and neighborhood density affect housing satisfaction, family life, social relations, and overall well-being. Rather than treating density as an automatic source of deviance or disorder, the study emphasizes people’s lived experiences of their homes and communities, offering a theoretically grounded framework for understanding crowding as a social problem.

Organized into four parts, the book explores methods of studying crowding; household overcrowding, measured as persons per room; neighborhood density, measured as residents per acre; and the connections between crowding, social withdrawal, and claims of pathology. The author concludes that while overcrowding does matter, simplistic assumptions about its effects have obscured more subtle questions of how families adapt, how neighborhoods function, and what conditions truly disrupt social life. By dispelling myths and offering new directions for research, Residential Crowding in Urban America provides essential insight for policymakers, planners, and scholars alike. It situates housing conditions at the center of debates about quality of life, inequality, and urban development, laying the groundwork for future inquiry into how Americans live together in increasingly dense environments.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

A. Carl Leopold

Auxins and Plant Growth

$95.00

Auxins and Plant Growth explores the critical role of auxins in plant physiology and their applications in agricultural technology, emphasizing the need for a strong scientific foundation to drive meaningful advancements. The book provides a comprehensive integration of fundamental knowledge about auxins—how they are formed, their functions, and methods for identification and measurement—with their practical applications in agriculture. It highlights the dangers of research conducted without a solid understanding of auxin physiology and aims to guide researchers in designing effective and scientifically grounded experiments.

The author bridges the gap between theory and application, offering insights into the physiological basis of auxin activity and the technological methods derived from it. While not a historical review or a practical manual, the book serves as a resource for graduate students and professionals, encouraging the use of foundational discoveries to achieve systematic advancements in agricultural productivity. Ultimately, the work underscores the importance of integrating science and technology to address the pressing global challenge of increasing agricultural efficiency in a rapidly growing population.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating 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.

Mariana Griswold and Van Rensselaer Selected and Edited by David Gebhard

Accents as Well as Broad Effects

$95.00

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening, and landscape design, works that provide a rare view of cities and rural environments in turn-of-the-century America. Now David Gebhard brings Van Rensselaer's significant writings together in one volume, including a chapter from the 1925 edition of Art Out-of-Doors: Hints on Good Taste in Gardening. An established critic in environmental and literary circles, Van Rensselaer wrote for the general public in such journals as the Century Magazine and for a specialized audience of landscape architects in Garden and Forest. She was a long-time contributor to The American Architect and Building News, the first architectural journal in the United States. She is an engaging and accessible writer, and her articles on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Public Library won great praise. Although the only woman in a field that was male-dominated at the time, Van Rensselaer was, curiously enough, opposed to women's suffrage. David Gebhard provides an excellent introduction to this unusual woman and to her place in American architectural criticism. Van Rensselaer's writings are still of interest today, not only for her broad environmental approach, but also for her ability to relate abstract concepts to examples of harmonious design.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening,