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Nicole Constable

Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits

$39.95

How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Christians who sought to escape hardships and discrimination in China, Shung Him Tong was constructed as an "ideal" Chinese and Christian village. The Hakka Christians translate "traditional" Chinese beliefs—such as ancestral worship and death rituals—that are incompatible with their Christian ideals into secular form, providing a crucial link with the past and with a Chinese identity. Despite accusations to the contrary, these villagers maintain that while they are Christian, they are still Chinese.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Nicole Constable

Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits

$95.00

How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Christians who sought to escape hardships and discrimination in China, Shung Him Tong was constructed as an "ideal" Chinese and Christian village. The Hakka Christians translate "traditional" Chinese beliefs—such as ancestral worship and death rituals—that are incompatible with their Christian ideals into secular form, providing a crucial link with the past and with a Chinese identity. Despite accusations to the contrary, these villagers maintain that while they are Christian, they are still Chinese.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Amrita Basu

Two Faces of Protest

$95.00

Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional change at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual and class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous ethnic division.

Thorough in its fieldwork, incisive in its political analysis, Two Faces of Protest offers a richly textured and sensitive view of women's political activism in the Third World.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Peyton Hurt Revised and Enlarged by Mary L. Hurt Richmond

Bibliography and Footnotes, Third Edition

$95.00

Bibliography and Footnotes: A Style Manual for Students and Writers serves as a guide for scholarly writers, providing techniques and conventions essential for the accurate citation of sources. The manual underscores the importance of documenting sources to acknowledge the author's reliance on them, invite scrutiny, and support interpretations and conclusions. Bibliography and footnotes serve complementary purposes: bibliographies offer detailed references to works consulted, while footnotes provide specific citations tied to the text. By clearly distinguishing these functions, the manual ensures citations are meaningful and intelligible, emphasizing clarity, conciseness, consistency, and accuracy. A consistent style of citation aids the reader in identifying and locating cited works without ambiguity, regardless of disciplinary differences in format preferences.

The manual acknowledges variations in citation practices across fields, from the detailed references of humanities to the abbreviated styles of scientific and legal works. While offering a standard method for citation, it also accommodates modifications tailored to individual needs and subject requirements, provided these adhere to sound bibliographical principles. Writers are urged to adopt a systematic approach to recording references, avoiding common pitfalls like incomplete author names or publication details. Precision and consistency in citations not only save time but also reflect the rigor essential to scholarly work. The manual, therefore, is not just a technical guide but also a resource for cultivating habits of thoroughness and accuracy in academic writing, fostering both reliability and credibility.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1949.

Bibliography and Footnotes, Third Edition

Alan Lufkin, editor

California's Salmon and Steelhead

$95.00

Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer than 300. River pollution has also hit hard at fish populations, which within recent decades have diminished by 80 percent. One species, the San Joaquin River spring chinook, became extinct soon after World War II. Other species are nearly extinct.

This volume documents the reasons for the decline; it also offers practical suggestions about how the decline might be reversed. The California salmon story is presented here in human perspective: its broad historical, economic, cultural, and political facets, as well as the biological, are all treated. No comparable work has ever been published, although some of the material has been available for half a century.

In the richly varied contributions in this volume, the reader meets Indians whose history is tied to the history of the salmon and steelhead upon which they depend; commercial trollers who see their livelihood and unique lifestyle vanishing; biologists and fishery managers alarmed at the loss of river water habitable by fish and at the effects of hatcheries on native gene pools. Women who fish, conservation-minded citizens, foresters, economists, outdoor writers, engineers, politicians, city youth restoring streambeds—all are represented. Their lives—and the lives of all Californians—are affected in myriad ways by the fate of California's salmon and steelhead.

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

Rolando Mellafe Translated by J. W. S. Judge

Negro Slavery in Latin America

$95.00

Negro Slavery in Latin America explores the profound historical and cultural impact of over three centuries of African slavery in the region. This meticulously researched book examines the introduction, institutionalization, and eventual abolition of slavery, highlighting its critical role in shaping Latin America's diverse societies. Drawing from extensive archival sources and the works of prominent scholars, the study provides a nuanced analysis of slavery's economic, social, and cultural dimensions. Figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas and Antonio José Saco are spotlighted for their significant contributions to the discourse on slavery and colonialism, alongside examinations of the cultural legacies preserved through African traditions in regions like Cuba and Brazil.

Through its interdisciplinary approach, the book bridges history, sociology, and anthropology, offering a comprehensive perspective on the lasting effects of slavery in Latin America. It explores the contributions of enslaved Africans to the region's cultural fabric while analyzing the systemic inequalities that persisted long after abolition. With an extensive bibliography and references to foundational studies by scholars such as Frank Tannenbaum and Fernando Ortiz, Negro Slavery in Latin America serves as an essential resource for understanding how this institution shaped the region's identity and its enduring influence on contemporary 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 1975.

Patricia Hall

A View of Berg's Lulu

$95.00

After 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. Patricia Hall's new book represents a primary contribution to that understanding—the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera as well as other related autograph material and previously inaccessible correspondence to Berg.

In 1959, Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. The complete collection of autographs for Lulu was made accessible to scholars in 1981, and a promising new phase in Lulu scholarship unfolded. Hall begins her study by examining the format and chronology of the sketches, and she demonstrates their unique potential to clarify aspects of Berg's compositional language. In each chapter Hall uses Berg's sketches to resolve a significant problem or controversy that has emerged in the study of Lulu. For example, Hall discusses the dramatic symbolism behind Berg's use of multiple roles and how these roles contribute to the large-scale structure of the opera. She also revises the commonly held view that Berg frequently invoked a free twelve-tone style.

Hall's innovative work suggests important techniques for understanding not only the sketches and manuscripts of Berg but also those of other twentieth-century composers.

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

Rudolf G. Wagner

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama

$95.00

China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies.

But the uneasy political climate and the state's control over literature prevented writers from directly addressing the compelling problems of the time. Rather, they resorted to a variety of sophisticated and time-honored forms for airing their grievances, including the historical drama. Rudolf Wagner examines three of these plays written and performed between 1958 and 1963 in an effort to decode their hidden political and cultural meanings. He also provides a broad survey of the politics of the historical drama in China, suggesting further avenues of inquiry into the relationship between literature and the state.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama

Wildon Fickett

Introduction to Detonation Theory

$95.00

Introduction to Detonation Theory provides a streamlined and insightful exploration of the mathematical principles underlying compressible flow with chemical reactions, with a special focus on detonation phenomena. Designed as an accessible analog to the full equations of reactive flow, this work strips down the complexities of detonation theory to its essential components, allowing readers to grasp its fundamental properties without being overwhelmed by extraneous details. Drawing inspiration from David Hilbert's principle of simplifying problems to their core, the book emphasizes physical understanding over exhaustive mathematical rigor, making it an ideal starting point for newcomers and a valuable tool for experienced researchers seeking fresh perspectives.

Building on the foundation laid by Detonation by W. Fickett and W. C. Davis, this volume introduces a simplified yet robust theoretical framework for analyzing detonation. It balances theoretical clarity with practical insights, featuring self-contained chapters that guide the reader through the basics of reactive and nonreactive flow while introducing novel qualitative tools. With its emphasis on well-behaved equation-of-state and reaction-rate functions, along with a clear system of figures and references, this book is both an educational primer and a practical resource for advancing the study of detonation physics. Whether you're a beginner exploring the field or an expert looking for innovative theoretical approaches, Introduction to Detonation Theory is an indispensable addition to the study of reactive flow dynamics.

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

Earl R. Rolph

The Theory of Fiscal Economics

$49.95

The Theory of Fiscal Economics, by Earl R. Rolph, develops a comprehensive framework for understanding how government financial activity influences the private economy. Rolph argues that all such activity can be categorized as either market operations—purchases and sales of goods, services, or claims—or transfer payments, both positive and negative. Subsidies and interest on debt provide cash inflows to private groups, while taxes extract it. These mechanisms do more than alter monetary balances; they shape incentives through eligibility rules, tax bases, and rate structures, thereby affecting how resources are employed. Central to the book is the claim that, despite their legal variety, taxes are fundamentally similar in that they reduce private money incomes by the amount of revenue raised. In this view, so-called indirect taxation is not a unique burden on consumers in a monetary, price-rationed economy. Excises and import duties, often treated separately from other levies, are tested as cases where a consistent theory can replace fragmented traditions of thought. If a single explanation can clarify their incidence, Rolph contends, it can extend to income and other taxes as well.

In pursuing this framework, Rolph emphasizes method as much as substance. He advocates the “clarification” of hidden premises, noting that many disputes arise from unexamined assumptions, such as believing an itemized tax line on a receipt proves who bears the burden. He employs simplified models—two-good economies or competitive pricing—to derive core results before gradually relaxing assumptions, always warning against oversimplifications that erase monetary and fiscal realities. Against theorists who insist taxes must always be paired with expenditures, Rolph holds that tax effects can be studied in isolation, since governments finance spending through multiple channels, including borrowing and asset sales. The book is not prescriptive but evaluative, highlighting where fiscal policies rest on faulty or ambiguous theories. By offering a logically consistent approach across tax types and grounding incidence analysis in monetary economies, The Theory of Fiscal Economics provides a durable template for analyzing government finance and its role in shaping economic behavior.

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

Tom G. Kessinger

Vilyatpur 1848-1968

$39.95

Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village by Tom G. Kessinger reconstructs over a century of life in an ordinary Punjabi village, tracing the rhythms of agriculture, labor, and community from the advent of British rule through independence and into the postcolonial era. Unlike memoirs or literary portraits of Punjab, Kessinger’s focus is on the small-scale farmers, artisans, and laborers who made up the bulk of rural society—people who left few personal records but whose decisions and livelihoods can be pieced together through official documents, surveys, and statistical inquiries.

By building on the tradition of empirical research into rural Punjab begun in the 1920s, Kessinger examines how village residents adapted to shifting political regimes, market pressures, and social transformations across 120 years. The book situates Vilyatpur’s story within broader patterns of agrarian change, while paying close attention to the granular realities of income, landholding, labor, and survival strategies. More analytical than anecdotal, and grounded in historical and social-scientific method, Vilyatpur 1848–1968 fills a critical gap in the history of South Asia by documenting the lived experience of “ordinary” villagers whose collective story illuminates the evolution of rural life in modern India and Pakistan.

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

Geoffrey Jukes

Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions

$39.95

Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions is an incisive examination of one of the most pivotal moments in World War II, focusing not on the military tactics of the Battle of Stalingrad but on Adolf Hitler’s decision-making during this extraordinary crisis. Framed within the concept of an "Intra-War Crisis" (IWC), the book explores the escalating perceptions of threat, time constraints, and shifts in military balance that defined German leadership's response to the unfolding catastrophe. Jukes uses a multidisciplinary approach, integrating historical analysis with political science methodologies to shed light on how centralized Nazi decision-making, heavily dominated by Hitler, shaped the outcome of this historic confrontation.

Relying on rich primary sources, including the multi-volume War Diary of the High Command of the Armed Forces, the book meticulously analyzes three distinct phases of the Stalingrad crisis: the pre-crisis period marked by strategic misjudgments, the peak crisis when the German forces became besieged, and the post-crisis phase characterized by efforts to salvage what remained of the German position. Jukes evaluates these periods through detailed accounts of Führer Directives, High Command conferences, and the interplay of escalating stress and cognitive performance under Hitler’s autocratic leadership. By comparing these events to other international crises, both wartime and peacetime, the book provides a nuanced understanding of decision-making under extreme pressure, offering valuable insights into the dynamics of leadership, strategy, and crisis behavior. This work is an essential resource for historians, political scientists, and readers intrigued by the interplay of military and political decision-making during moments of historical significance.

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

Geoffrey Jukes

Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions

$95.00

Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions is an incisive examination of one of the most pivotal moments in World War II, focusing not on the military tactics of the Battle of Stalingrad but on Adolf Hitler’s decision-making during this extraordinary crisis. Framed within the concept of an "Intra-War Crisis" (IWC), the book explores the escalating perceptions of threat, time constraints, and shifts in military balance that defined German leadership's response to the unfolding catastrophe. Jukes uses a multidisciplinary approach, integrating historical analysis with political science methodologies to shed light on how centralized Nazi decision-making, heavily dominated by Hitler, shaped the outcome of this historic confrontation.

Relying on rich primary sources, including the multi-volume War Diary of the High Command of the Armed Forces, the book meticulously analyzes three distinct phases of the Stalingrad crisis: the pre-crisis period marked by strategic misjudgments, the peak crisis when the German forces became besieged, and the post-crisis phase characterized by efforts to salvage what remained of the German position. Jukes evaluates these periods through detailed accounts of Führer Directives, High Command conferences, and the interplay of escalating stress and cognitive performance under Hitler’s autocratic leadership. By comparing these events to other international crises, both wartime and peacetime, the book provides a nuanced understanding of decision-making under extreme pressure, offering valuable insights into the dynamics of leadership, strategy, and crisis behavior. This work is an essential resource for historians, political scientists, and readers intrigued by the interplay of military and political decision-making during moments of historical significance.

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

James F. Weiner

The Heart of the Pearl Shell

$95.00

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture.

Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages.

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

Laura Kendrick

Chaucerian Play

$95.00

In Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales, the author examines the intricate relationship between laughter, fiction, and the human condition in Chaucer’s work. Drawing on Baudelaire’s assertion that humor reflects humanity’s fallibility and serves as a coping mechanism for imperfection, the book explores how Chaucer’s humor operates as both a tool for navigating life's uncertainties and a form of artistic expression. Despite medieval religious skepticism toward humor and storytelling—seen as distractions or falsehoods—Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales embraces comedy and laughter, inviting readers to question their ethical and social implications. By employing theories from thinkers like Freud and Huizinga, the study demonstrates how Chaucer’s humor and fictional play address existential fears, transform chaos into order, and provide a framework for cultural reflection. The stories in the Canterbury Tales, particularly those blending comedy and moral complexity like the Pardoner’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale, encourage audiences to engage actively with the text, uncovering deeper insights beneath the laughter.

The study situates Chaucer’s storytelling within the broader human need for art and fiction as a form of solace during periods of crisis, such as the Black Death. Chaucer’s playful narratives serve not only to entertain but to help audiences process societal anxieties, offering an ordered space where chaos can be imaginatively controlled. The Canterbury Tales creates a dynamic literary "game," where each tale interacts with others, provoking laughter while addressing serious moral and philosophical questions. This duality reflects the enduring power of storytelling to comfort and transform. By framing laughter as a denial of reality and a means of reasserting control, Chaucerian Play positions Chaucer’s work as a profound exploration of the human need for meaning and connection, highlighting the universal role of humor and fiction in confronting the complexities of life.

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

James F. Weiner

The Heart of the Pearl Shell

$49.95

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture.

Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages.

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

Mark Gould

Revolution in the Development of Capitalism

$55.00

Mark Gould’s Revolution in the Development of Capitalism: The Coming of the English Revolution offers a reinterpretation of seventeenth-century England by situating its upheavals within a rigorous sociological framework. Combining functional, structural, and developmental theory, Gould examines how the English social order—rooted in a stage of “manufacture” in both agriculture and industry, regulated by patrimonial politics, and infused with a rationalizing value orientation—generated the internal tensions that made revolution possible. Against the backdrop of abstract propositions designed to explain revolutionary dynamics across societies, Gould constructs a model of England as a “manufacturing social formation,” showing how its distinctive economic and political constraints created the conditions for rebellion. The book is thus at once a detailed analysis of a particular historical conjuncture and a contribution to a more general theory of revolutionary change.

The heart of the study is Gould’s account of the English Revolutions from 1640 to 1649. Through careful empirical analysis, he traces three substages of the conflict, demonstrating how they embodied the very variables predicted by his general theory of political disorder. He then places this historical moment in a broader stage-sequence model of social development, arguing that the seventeenth-century upheavals created political conditions that enabled the transition from manufacture to machine capitalism and the extraction of relative surplus value. Along the way, Gould engages with Marx, Weber, Parsons, and Piaget, critiques world-systems theory, and reflects on the methodological challenges of linking theory with historical sources. Ambitious in scope yet attentive to empirical detail, this book will appeal to sociologists, historians, and political theorists interested in how revolutions arise, how they transform societies, and how England’s upheavals reshaped the trajectory of modern capitalism.

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

Fred J. Balshofer and Arthur C. Miller Foreword by Kemp R. Niver

One Reel a Week

$95.00

One Reel a Week by Fred J. Balshofer and Arthur C. Miller, with the assistance of Bebe Bergsten, offers an unparalleled firsthand chronicle of the formative years of American cinema. Balshofer, a pioneering producer-director, and Miller, who rose from lab assistant to Academy Award–winning cinematographer, weave together their personal narratives to reconstruct the struggles and triumphs of early filmmaking. From duplicating French films in basement labs to evading Edison’s patent detectives, from establishing Crescent and Bison pictures to filming in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and later Los Angeles, their story captures the precarious blend of innovation, risk, and sheer audacity that gave birth to a new art form.

Written alternately by Balshofer and Miller, One Reel a Week delivers both technical detail and vivid anecdotes, charting the industry’s evolution from nickelodeons to major studios. Readers encounter Edwin S. Porter, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, and Mack Sennett, as well as the development of equipment, locations, and production practices that defined the silent era. With Kemp R. Niver’s foreword situating the memoirs in broader film history, the book serves as both a documentary record and a human story of ambition and adaptation. It is an essential resource for film historians and enthusiasts seeking an insider’s perspective on how a fledgling novelty became a cornerstone of modern 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 1967.

Grahame Smith

Dickens, Money, and Society

$95.00

Dickens, Money, and Society explores how Charles Dickens’ fiction wrestles with one of the central realities of Victorian England: the pervasive power of money. Grahame Smith traces Dickens’ evolving treatment of wealth, poverty, and social value, showing how the novelist’s characters, plots, and even comic inventions are shaped by the economic transformations of nineteenth-century Britain. From Pickwick’s exuberant humor to Martin Chuzzlewit’s satire of financial speculation, Smith demonstrates that Dickens’ novels are neither mere social reportage nor pure imaginative fancy but rather complex engagements with the moral and cultural consequences of capitalism.

Balancing close literary analysis with historical context, the book situates Dickens alongside thinkers like Ruskin, Carlyle, and Mill in their shared recognition of the destabilizing effects of a money-driven society. Smith argues that Dickens’ artistry lay in fusing didactic impulses with creative autonomy, producing narratives at once socially incisive and imaginatively free. A major contribution to Dickens studies and Victorian cultural criticism, Dickens, Money, and Society will appeal to literary scholars, historians of capitalism, and all readers interested in how fiction both reflects and critiques the economic order of its time.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Paul A. Jorgensen

Our Naked Frailties

$39.95

Our Naked Frailties: Sensational Art and Meaning in Macbeth by Paul A. Jorgensen offers a penetrating reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy through the lens of sensational art. Jorgensen argues that Macbeth is distinguished among Shakespeare’s plays by its deliberate evocation of physical and emotional sensation—what Banquo calls “our naked frailties.” Exploring imagery, language, and atmosphere, the book demonstrates how Shakespeare crafts a play that disturbs not only the intellect but the nervous system, producing a tactile, almost bodily experience of evil. Rather than treating the sensational merely as excess, Jorgensen situates it in Renaissance traditions of biblical spectacle, witchcraft literature, and moralized violence, showing how Macbeth’s artistry magnifies horror into moral recognition.

At once a work of literary criticism and a study in Renaissance culture, the book moves from broad accounts of sensationalism in Elizabethan drama to close readings of Macbeth’s murders, blood imagery, witches, and visions of torment. Jorgensen contends that the play embodies a tragedy of crime and punishment, where the protagonist’s ordeal is rendered through poetic sensation and condign suffering. By linking Shakespeare’s dramaturgy to contemporary notions of providence, imagination, and conscience, Our Naked Frailties reveals how Macbeth achieves its haunting power: not by abstract philosophy but by forcing audiences to confront their own capacities for fear, pity, and guilty recognition. This study stands as both a defense of sensational artistry and an exploration of Shakespeare’s most viscerally unsettling work.

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

Allen Yarnell

Democrats and Progressives

$95.00

Democrats and Progressives: The 1948 Presidential Election as a Test of Postwar Liberalism examines the role and influence of the 1948 Progressive Party, led by Henry A. Wallace, on the Democratic Party during one of the most pivotal elections in American history. Third parties have historically shaped U.S. politics by drawing attention to critical issues, but the Progressive Party's focus on foreign policy set it apart. Wallace's campaign, which criticized U.S. foreign actions, faced accusations of being un-American and soft on Communism, undermining its broader appeal. Despite claims by Wallace and his supporters that their efforts forced President Truman to adopt progressive policies, the evidence suggests otherwise.

Historical analyses, including Truman's own accounts, indicate that the Progressive Party's presence did not shift the Democrats' policies leftward. Instead, it may have bolstered Truman's position by allowing him to adopt firm foreign policy stances, ultimately contributing to his victory. While some historians, like Rexford Tugwell and Curtis MacDougall, argue for the Progressives' impact, others counter that the Democrats' strategy was already aligned with centrist and pragmatic goals before the Wallace movement gained traction. This study challenges the notion that third parties always influence major parties positively, suggesting that in 1948, the Progressives served more as a foil than a catalyst for Democratic success.

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

Roger Hahn

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution

$49.95

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 delves into the Académie Royale des Sciences as a foundational force in French scientific advancement during the Enlightenment. Filling a significant gap in historical research, this study uses archival materials and existing literature to examine the Academy beyond its members' achievements, focusing on its distinct institutional character and its evolving roles over three turbulent centuries. The book outlines how the Academy established scientific norms and traditions, managed pre-Revolutionary pressures, and later faced upheaval during the French Revolution, leading to its dissolution in 1793. It then traces the Academy’s revival as part of the Institut National, exploring how the institution adapted to new political and scientific contexts that redefined its mission.

This analysis reveals the Academy's essential role in aligning scientific values with societal expectations, underscoring how it navigated political shifts to maintain its influence on scientific progress. By positioning the Academy within different historical and political frameworks—the Old Regime, Revolutionary France, and Napoleonic France—the study highlights the dynamic interaction between scientific institutions and societal demands. Through this lens, it calls for further examination of other influential French institutions, such as the École Polytechnique and the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, to complete the picture of France’s unique scientific legacy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Norman G. Owen

Prosperity without Progress

$49.95

Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines offers a compelling examination of Kabikolan's transformation from a subsistence agrarian economy to a commercialized export sector based on abaca (Manila hemp) production. The study situates the region's economic history within the broader expansion of the European-dominated world-system, contributing to global historiographical debates on capitalism, colonialism, and economic dependency. While many narratives of colonial economies focus on coercion and large-scale plantations, this book highlights an alternative path—one in which indigenous landowners adapted to market forces without direct European intervention. However, the paradox at the heart of Kabikolan's experience—temporary material gains without sustained economic progress—challenges simplistic models of capitalist development.

This case study offers critical insights into why peripheral economies often fail to achieve long-term prosperity despite integration into global markets. The book details the rise and decline of the abaca industry, examining the constraints imposed by colonial rule, the persistence of a strong subsistence economy, and the limited diversification of economic activities. While Kabikolan avoided the extreme exploitation seen in other colonies, its development remained incomplete, illustrating the broader dilemma of "prosperity without progress." Through meticulous archival research and engagement with economic theory, Prosperity without Progress provides a nuanced perspective on the history of capitalism in the Philippines and beyond, making it an essential read for scholars of economic history, colonial studies, and global development.

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

Marion J. Levy, Jr.

Our Mother-Tempers

$95.00

This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with other people, be male, or be female—insofar as these things are learned—from their mothers (or a mother surrogate who is female). Every mother has known and knows this. Most social analysts, according to the author, both know it and ignore it. If our mothers are asymmetrically influential in shaping our initial years, and our fathers usually in the background, what does it reveal about the social sources of human sex roles, including the universal precedence of males over females in all known societies?

These are fundamental, normative, and often deeply emotional matters. Professor Levy seeks to consider them in a scientific spirit, clear the path for better understandings of the role of mothers, and inspire new research on early socialization.

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

Robert Wuthnow

The Consciousness Reformation

$49.95

The late 1960s and early 1970s marked an era of profound social experimentation and cultural transformation. This period saw an explosion of countercultural movements, ranging from communes and alternative family structures to radical political organizations like SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army). Alongside these visible upheavals, subtler shifts occurred in societal attitudes toward sexuality, race, religion, and politics, reflecting a broader reimagining of fundamental social norms. These changes collectively signify a pivotal moment in American history, with enduring implications for understanding social conflict and transformation.

This book seeks to explain the underlying forces driving these shifts by focusing on what we term the "new consciousness"—a cultural evolution that legitimized and encouraged social experimentation. Departing from traditional analyses that attribute unrest to economic or institutional strains, this study explores symbolic cultural constructions and their role in reshaping societal values. By emphasizing how individuals interpret their circumstances rather than solely examining objective conditions, we align with theoretical traditions like those of Weber and symbolic interactionism. Our inquiry examines four dominant meaning systems in American culture—Theism, Individualism, Social Determinism, and Mysticism—and their varying relationships with social experimentation, aiming to uncover how these symbolic frameworks influence attitudes, behaviors, and societal change.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Edited by Karyn R. Ames and Alan Brenner

Frontiers of Supercomputing II

$105.00

This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Supercomputing conference offer perceptive and often controversial views on the emerging computing environment in the United States.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Allen Yarnell

Democrats and Progressives

$39.95

Democrats and Progressives: The 1948 Presidential Election as a Test of Postwar Liberalism examines the role and influence of the 1948 Progressive Party, led by Henry A. Wallace, on the Democratic Party during one of the most pivotal elections in American history. Third parties have historically shaped U.S. politics by drawing attention to critical issues, but the Progressive Party's focus on foreign policy set it apart. Wallace's campaign, which criticized U.S. foreign actions, faced accusations of being un-American and soft on Communism, undermining its broader appeal. Despite claims by Wallace and his supporters that their efforts forced President Truman to adopt progressive policies, the evidence suggests otherwise.

Historical analyses, including Truman's own accounts, indicate that the Progressive Party's presence did not shift the Democrats' policies leftward. Instead, it may have bolstered Truman's position by allowing him to adopt firm foreign policy stances, ultimately contributing to his victory. While some historians, like Rexford Tugwell and Curtis MacDougall, argue for the Progressives' impact, others counter that the Democrats' strategy was already aligned with centrist and pragmatic goals before the Wallace movement gained traction. This study challenges the notion that third parties always influence major parties positively, suggesting that in 1948, the Progressives served more as a foil than a catalyst for Democratic success.

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

R. H. C. Davis

King Stephen

$95.00

King Stephen: 1135–1154 by R.H.C. Davis offers a groundbreaking reexamination of King Stephen’s tumultuous reign, challenging the conclusions of J.H. Round's seminal Geoffrey de Mandeville. Drawing on newly available sources, including the final portion of the Gesta Stephani and recently discovered charters, Davis revises the chronology and interpretation of key events, providing fresh insights into the political and administrative complexities of Stephen’s rule. The book benefits from Davis’s collaboration on the Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum and his integration of extensive historical scholarship, resulting in a nuanced account of a monarchy tested by civil war and shifting loyalties. An essential work for understanding 12th-century England, it sheds new light on the challenges of legitimacy and governance during one of the most fraught periods in English history.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Ian R. Christie

Myth and Reality In Late Eighteenth Century British Politics

$95.00

Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics and Other Papers delves into the intricate political landscape of late 18th-century Britain, offering a fresh perspective on governance, parliamentary dynamics, and the movements for constitutional reform prior to the French Revolution. Through a series of essays, the book critically examines the enduring myths that shaped contemporary political narratives, such as the alleged existence of secret cabals and conspiracies within government, and juxtaposes them with the realities of policy-making and power struggles. Building on the transformative insights of historians like Sir Lewis Namier, the author presents a nuanced analysis of figures like George III, Edmund Burke, and the Rockingham Whigs, exploring how ideology and misperceptions influenced political actions and reform efforts during this transformative period.

Integrating rigorous archival research with a sharp interpretive lens, this collection reframes late 18th-century British politics as a period of gradual institutional evolution rather than the simplistic dichotomies of virtue and vice often portrayed in traditional narratives. The essays navigate key questions about the mechanics of limited monarchy, the emergence of political parties, and the ideological underpinnings of reform movements, situating these within broader societal changes. Written for scholars and history enthusiasts alike, Myth and Reality provides a compelling reassessment of a critical era, challenging readers to reconsider how political myths and realities intersect in shaping historical progress.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Edited by Karyn R. Ames and Alan Brenner

Frontiers of Supercomputing II

$65.00

This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Supercomputing conference offer perceptive and often controversial views on the emerging computing environment in the United States.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

J. K. Anderson

Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon

$95.00

Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon offers a penetrating examination of ancient Greek military strategies, focusing particularly on the techniques and philosophies of Spartan warfare. Grounded in the historical and geographical realities of classical Greece, the book explores the interplay between economic necessity, political culture, and battlefield tactics. By addressing the peculiarities of hoplite warfare, including its reliance on hand-to-hand combat and the conventions of open-field battles, the work sheds light on the broader societal values that shaped military practices. The text provides a nuanced understanding of how the Greek emphasis on agricultural preservation and local autonomy dictated the strategies of city-states, contrasting them with the broader imperial ambitions of later empires.

The book also delves into the works of Xenophon, using his writings as both a source of historical insight and a lens to critique Spartan and broader Greek military doctrine. While Xenophon’s firsthand accounts and technical expertise enrich the narrative, the text critically evaluates his biases and omissions, particularly his reverence for Spartan systems. By juxtaposing Spartan rigidity with evolving tactics in the fourth century BCE, the book highlights how Spartan military techniques, once seen as invincible, became obsolete in the face of innovative strategies like those employed at Leuctra. This detailed study bridges the gap between military history and classical scholarship, making it an essential resource for understanding the evolution of ancient warfare and its enduring impact on Western military thought.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Roger Hahn

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution

$95.00

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 delves into the Académie Royale des Sciences as a foundational force in French scientific advancement during the Enlightenment. Filling a significant gap in historical research, this study uses archival materials and existing literature to examine the Academy beyond its members' achievements, focusing on its distinct institutional character and its evolving roles over three turbulent centuries. The book outlines how the Academy established scientific norms and traditions, managed pre-Revolutionary pressures, and later faced upheaval during the French Revolution, leading to its dissolution in 1793. It then traces the Academy’s revival as part of the Institut National, exploring how the institution adapted to new political and scientific contexts that redefined its mission.

This analysis reveals the Academy's essential role in aligning scientific values with societal expectations, underscoring how it navigated political shifts to maintain its influence on scientific progress. By positioning the Academy within different historical and political frameworks—the Old Regime, Revolutionary France, and Napoleonic France—the study highlights the dynamic interaction between scientific institutions and societal demands. Through this lens, it calls for further examination of other influential French institutions, such as the École Polytechnique and the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, to complete the picture of France’s unique scientific legacy.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

J. K. Anderson

Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon

$49.95

Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon offers a penetrating examination of ancient Greek military strategies, focusing particularly on the techniques and philosophies of Spartan warfare. Grounded in the historical and geographical realities of classical Greece, the book explores the interplay between economic necessity, political culture, and battlefield tactics. By addressing the peculiarities of hoplite warfare, including its reliance on hand-to-hand combat and the conventions of open-field battles, the work sheds light on the broader societal values that shaped military practices. The text provides a nuanced understanding of how the Greek emphasis on agricultural preservation and local autonomy dictated the strategies of city-states, contrasting them with the broader imperial ambitions of later empires.

The book also delves into the works of Xenophon, using his writings as both a source of historical insight and a lens to critique Spartan and broader Greek military doctrine. While Xenophon’s firsthand accounts and technical expertise enrich the narrative, the text critically evaluates his biases and omissions, particularly his reverence for Spartan systems. By juxtaposing Spartan rigidity with evolving tactics in the fourth century BCE, the book highlights how Spartan military techniques, once seen as invincible, became obsolete in the face of innovative strategies like those employed at Leuctra. This detailed study bridges the gap between military history and classical scholarship, making it an essential resource for understanding the evolution of ancient warfare and its enduring impact on Western military thought.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Duncan Glen

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

$95.00

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited and introduced by Duncan Glen, brings together a wide-ranging selection of prose by the poet otherwise known as Christopher Murray Grieve, a towering figure of twentieth-century Scottish letters. While MacDiarmid is now recognized as one of the century’s great poets, his prolific prose—scattered across journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and polemical tracts—remains less accessible. Glen’s introduction situates MacDiarmid’s output within the contexts of journalism, nationalism, communism, and cultural polemic, emphasizing the urgency with which he wrote rather than stylistic polish. Trained as a reporter before the First World War and active as a journalist for over a decade thereafter, MacDiarmid developed a capacity for producing vivid, quotational, argumentative prose at speed. That facility was turned into a tool for cultural agitation: whether in The Scottish Chapbook, The Northern Review, or The Voice of Scotland, MacDiarmid used his essays to argue for a revival of Scots language, to demand recognition of Scotland’s artistic traditions, and to intervene in contemporary political debates from socialism to Douglasite economics.

The essays collected here span several decades, revealing MacDiarmid as cultural critic, propagandist, educator, and agitator. Many are framed by his broader project of a Scottish literary renaissance, in which recovering and reinventing linguistic and cultural resources were inseparable from advancing radical political commitments. Glen traces how MacDiarmid wrote not only under his own name but also pseudonymously, replying to detractors and constructing defenses of his poetry and politics in a hostile climate. The selection underscores his deep internationalism—his ability to draw on European literatures, Marx and Engels, or Ruskin and Morris—while insisting on the particularity of Scottish experience. In these essays, MacDiarmid deploys prose as a companion to his poetry: an arsenal of manifestos, critiques, and provocations that embody the restless intelligence behind his verse. This volume, long overdue, makes available the other half of MacDiarmid’s achievement and situates his cultural struggle within both Scottish and international modernism.

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

Barbara J. Bono

Literary Transvaluation

$95.00

Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeare's works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil’s Aeneid. The book introduces the concept of “transvaluation,” describing how later authors consciously reinterpret and transform the values of antecedent texts to align with new cultural and historical contexts. Through detailed analysis, the author traces this process from the epic tradition of Vergil through significant literary milestones like Augustine’s Confessions, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. These works reinterpret the Aeneid's themes of duty, love, and civilization, reflecting a dynamic dialogue between classical constraints and the expressive freedom of Renaissance creativity.

The study culminates in an examination of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra as a pinnacle of this transvaluative tradition. By blending elements of epic, tragedy, and romance, Shakespeare redefines Vergilian themes of heroism and eros, creating a “discordia concors” that transcends the tragic framework of the Aeneid. The book also connects these reinterpretations to broader cultural movements, such as the Renaissance emphasis on human creativity and the evolving role of the artist as a historical agent. A final analysis of The Tempest extends this exploration, illustrating how the legacy of classical texts transforms into a myth of artistic and psychological creation in later works. Through its nuanced investigation, the book offers profound insights into the continuity and evolution of 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 1984.

Martin P. Nilsson, with a New Introduction and Bibliography by Emily Vermeule

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology

$95.00

The last major work of the giant of the field. Martin P. Nilsson set himself the task of tracing the elements of Greekmythology, as they appear in Homer's Iliad, to their source in Mycenaean culture, a much earlier period. His conclusions, drawn from a very limited empirical material - archaeology, very few relevant Linear B texts - are remarkably compelling.

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

Robert Wuthnow

The Consciousness Reformation

$95.00

The late 1960s and early 1970s marked an era of profound social experimentation and cultural transformation. This period saw an explosion of countercultural movements, ranging from communes and alternative family structures to radical political organizations like SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army). Alongside these visible upheavals, subtler shifts occurred in societal attitudes toward sexuality, race, religion, and politics, reflecting a broader reimagining of fundamental social norms. These changes collectively signify a pivotal moment in American history, with enduring implications for understanding social conflict and transformation.

This book seeks to explain the underlying forces driving these shifts by focusing on what we term the "new consciousness"—a cultural evolution that legitimized and encouraged social experimentation. Departing from traditional analyses that attribute unrest to economic or institutional strains, this study explores symbolic cultural constructions and their role in reshaping societal values. By emphasizing how individuals interpret their circumstances rather than solely examining objective conditions, we align with theoretical traditions like those of Weber and symbolic interactionism. Our inquiry examines four dominant meaning systems in American culture—Theism, Individualism, Social Determinism, and Mysticism—and their varying relationships with social experimentation, aiming to uncover how these symbolic frameworks influence attitudes, behaviors, and societal change.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Barbara J. Bono

Literary Transvaluation

$39.95

Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeare's works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil’s Aeneid. The book introduces the concept of “transvaluation,” describing how later authors consciously reinterpret and transform the values of antecedent texts to align with new cultural and historical contexts. Through detailed analysis, the author traces this process from the epic tradition of Vergil through significant literary milestones like Augustine’s Confessions, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. These works reinterpret the Aeneid's themes of duty, love, and civilization, reflecting a dynamic dialogue between classical constraints and the expressive freedom of Renaissance creativity.

The study culminates in an examination of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra as a pinnacle of this transvaluative tradition. By blending elements of epic, tragedy, and romance, Shakespeare redefines Vergilian themes of heroism and eros, creating a “discordia concors” that transcends the tragic framework of the Aeneid. The book also connects these reinterpretations to broader cultural movements, such as the Renaissance emphasis on human creativity and the evolving role of the artist as a historical agent. A final analysis of The Tempest extends this exploration, illustrating how the legacy of classical texts transforms into a myth of artistic and psychological creation in later works. Through its nuanced investigation, the book offers profound insights into the continuity and evolution of 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 1984.

Richard C. Dales

Marius: On The Elements

$95.00

Marius: On the Elements is a groundbreaking exploration of twelfth-century scientific thought, revealing the remarkable intellectual rigor and experimental focus of its time. Written by the enigmatic figure Marius, this treatise delves into the nature of matter, the composition of elements, and their interactions, employing a dialogue format between teacher and student to engage readers in a systematic inquiry. The text is significant for its advanced treatment of material theory, presenting a quantitative framework for understanding how the diversity of the natural world arises from four fundamental elements. Through experiments, observations, and the rejection of magical explanations, Marius establishes a naturalistic and methodical approach that challenges contemporary accounts of medieval science as overly mystical or unstructured.

Despite the scarcity of biographical details about Marius, the text’s connections to both Arabic and Greek influences underscore the dynamic exchange of knowledge in medieval Europe. Marius synthesizes insights from sources such as Isaac Israeli, pseudo-Aristotelian works, and emerging Latin translations of Arabic texts, while also incorporating his own innovative perspectives on substance and composition. His work stands as a testament to the intellectual vitality of the period, pushing the boundaries of understanding while shaping the course of medieval natural philosophy. This treatise remains a vital resource for scholars studying the evolution of scientific methodologies and the cultural exchanges that defined the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Alan Dowty

Middle East Crisis

$95.00

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973 offers a comprehensive analysis of how the United States navigated pivotal international crises in the volatile Middle East region. Drawing on structured empiricism and a rigorous analytical framework, Alan Dowty examines decision-making processes across three critical episodes to uncover patterns in crisis behavior, information processing, and conflict resolution under stress. This scholarly contribution integrates a wealth of research materials—official documents, memoirs, and extensive interviews with key policymakers—providing fresh insights into the complexities of U.S. foreign policy during these crises. The work illuminates the psychological and institutional factors shaping American responses to Middle Eastern turmoil, making it an indispensable resource for understanding both historical events and broader crisis behavior.

The book situates these crises within the broader goals of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project, an ambitious initiative designed to improve the management of global crises and contribute to a more stable world order. Dowty’s meticulous approach not only enriches the historical narrative of U.S. policy in the Middle East but also rigorously tests hypotheses about decision-making under stress. By comparing events across three decades, the study highlights the evolution of U.S. strategies and their implications for international relations. With its clarity and depth, Middle East Crisis is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of global crisis management.

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

Diane Jacobs

Christmas in July

$55.00

In this first critical biography of Preston Sturges, Diane Jacobs brings to life the great comic filmmaker whose career Andrew Sarris described as "one of the most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in the history of the American cinema." Jacobs uses letters and manuscripts never before revealed, as well as interviews with people who knew Sturges—including three of his wives—to portray this fascinating, contradictory man. In addition to discussing his major films, she also examines heretofore unknown work and shows that Sturges was highly creative even near the end of his life, a time when many believed he had lost his touch.

Sturges secured his place in film history as the creator of such classic films as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and The Palm Beach Story. In 1939 he became the first screenwriter to win the right to direct his own script—the result was the Oscar-winning The Great McGinty. Creator of Unfaithfully Yours, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero, he was the third highest-paid man in the United States by the late 1940s. He owned a swank Hollywood restaurant and was known as an ebullient raconteur as well as a world-famous filmmaker. A little over a decade later, Sturges died in New York, impoverished and rejected by Hollywood.

The euphoria of success, the fitfulness of luck, the promise and poignancy of the American Dream—the themes of Sturges's work also marked the man. Diane Jacobs achieves a singular success in illuminating his extraordinary life.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

William B. Schwartz

Life without Disease

$39.95

The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular medicine, a growing population of the aged will bring new problems. In the next fifty years genetic intervention will shift the focus of medicine in the United States from repairing the ravages of disease to preventing the onset of disease. Understanding the role of genes in human health, says Dr. William B. Schwartz, is the driving force that will change the direction of medical care, and the age-old dream of life without disease may come close to realization by the middle of the next century. Medical care in 2050 will be vastly more effective, Schwartz maintains, and it may also be less expensive than the resource-intensive procedures such as coronary bypass surgery that medicine relies on today.

Schwartz's alluring prospect of a medical utopia raises urgent questions, however. What are the scientific and public policy obstacles that must be overcome if such a goal is to become a reality? Restrictions on access imposed by managed care plans, the corporatization of charitable health care institutions, the increasing numbers of citizens without health insurance, the problems with malpractice insurance, and the threatened Medicare bankruptcy—all are the legacy of medicine's great progress in mastering the human body and society's inability to assimilate that mastery into existing economic, ethical, and legal structures. And if the average American life span is 130 years, a genuine possibility by 2050, what social and economic problems will result?

Schwartz examines the forces that have brought us to the current health care state and shows how those same forces will exert themselves in the decades ahead. Focusing on the inextricable link between scientific progress and health policy, he encourages a careful examination of these two forces in order to determine the kind of medical utopia that awaits us. The decisions we make will affect not only our own care, but also the system of care we bequeath to our children.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Edited by Ron J. Lesthaeghe

Reproduction and Social Organization in Sub-Saharan Africa

$55.00

Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, education, and urbanization for a fertility decline to occur. This book argues, however, that such a socioeconomic threshold hypothesis will not provide an adequate basis for comparison.

These authors take the view that any reproductive regime is also anchored to a broader pattern of social organization, including the prevailing modes of production, rules of exchange, patterns of religious systems, kinship structure, division of labor, and gender roles. They link the characteristic features of the African reproductive regime with regard to nuptiality, polygyny, breastfeeding, postpartum abstinence, sterility, and child-fostering to other specifically African characteristics of social organization and culture. Substantial attention is paid to the heterogeneity that prevails among sub-Saharan societies and considerable use is made, therefore, of interethnic comparisons. As a result the book goes considerably beyond mere demographic description and builds bridges between demography and anthropology or sociology.

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

Reproduction and Social Organization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Philip Kuberski

The Persistence of Memory

$95.00

While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory—our own marvelous personal computer or data base—that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?

Drawing on an expansive array of sources, from microbiology to cosmology, Ovid to Proust, Egyptology to the cinema, Philip Kuberski leads us on a brave and beguiling exploration of memory. He enables us to see it as a worldly process in which individuals both remember and are remembered, all in a network of associations that join our bodies, personal and cultural myths, and aesthetic and literary experiences. His essays will provide a tantalizing and thoughtful read for those interested in literature, psychology, biology, anthropology, and 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 1992.

Mark Hulliung

Montesquieu and the Old Regime

$95.00

Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu’s intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist. Instead, the book situates Montesquieu as a sharp critic of the Old Regime and a visionary advocate for a national republic and democratic society in France. Drawing inspiration from England, Montesquieu envisioned a political system that dismantled monarchical and aristocratic structures. Through detailed analyses of his major works, such as The Spirit of the Laws, The Persian Letters, and Considérations, the author reveals Montesquieu’s systematic critique of absolutism and his engagement with theories of divine right and raison d’état, presenting him as a pivotal figure in republican thought.

The book delves into Montesquieu’s dual role as a critic and idealist. It traces his intellectual evolution from deconstructing Old Regime ideologies to crafting an alternative vision grounded in the republican tradition of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Harrington. The analysis highlights how Montesquieu’s works, particularly The Spirit of the Laws, reflect his mature thinking and aspirations for civic renewal through republican governance. By integrating his unpublished writings, such as the Pensées, and emphasizing the continuity in his thought, the book positions Montesquieu as a transformative thinker whose ideas extended beyond political philosophy to address broader sociological and historiographical concerns. This study not only deepens the understanding of Montesquieu’s legacy but also situates him as a key voice in the intellectual movement challenging the Old Regime.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Diane Jacobs

Christmas in July

$95.00

In this first critical biography of Preston Sturges, Diane Jacobs brings to life the great comic filmmaker whose career Andrew Sarris described as "one of the most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in the history of the American cinema." Jacobs uses letters and manuscripts never before revealed, as well as interviews with people who knew Sturges—including three of his wives—to portray this fascinating, contradictory man. In addition to discussing his major films, she also examines heretofore unknown work and shows that Sturges was highly creative even near the end of his life, a time when many believed he had lost his touch.

Sturges secured his place in film history as the creator of such classic films as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and The Palm Beach Story. In 1939 he became the first screenwriter to win the right to direct his own script—the result was the Oscar-winning The Great McGinty. Creator of Unfaithfully Yours, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero, he was the third highest-paid man in the United States by the late 1940s. He owned a swank Hollywood restaurant and was known as an ebullient raconteur as well as a world-famous filmmaker. A little over a decade later, Sturges died in New York, impoverished and rejected by Hollywood.

The euphoria of success, the fitfulness of luck, the promise and poignancy of the American Dream—the themes of Sturges's work also marked the man. Diane Jacobs achieves a singular success in illuminating his extraordinary life.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Newell M. Stultz

Afrikaner Politics in South Africa, 1934-1948

$39.95

This book examines the political landscape of South Africa from 1934 to 1948, focusing on the ideological conflict between Afrikaner nationalism and policies aimed at conciliation between Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. The Union of South Africa, founded in 1910, unified the country under a government heavily influenced by British principles but also included leaders from the former Boer republics. Early South African politics became a struggle between two major political ideologies: one that promoted Afrikaner nationalism, advocating for Afrikaner cultural and political interests, and another that supported "conciliation," a philosophy attempting to bridge ethnic divides and foster unity among white South Africans.

The book highlights that conciliation parties faced significant challenges in gaining long-term Afrikaner support, as they needed to balance competing interests between English-speaking South Africans and Afrikaners, who felt a strong sense of ethnic identity. Afrikaner nationalist parties, however, did not need this balance and could draw on the deep-seated solidarity within their community. The critical turning point in this era, according to the author, was Prime Minister Jan Smuts’ decision in 1939 to align South Africa with Britain in declaring war on Germany. This move alienated a large portion of the Afrikaner electorate, who saw it as a violation of the "South Africa first" principle and contributed significantly to the United Party's waning support.

This estrangement between Afrikaners and conciliation parties, the author argues, set the stage for the rise of the National Party and their victory in 1948, which marked the start of apartheid. While many observers attributed the Nationalist victory to the appeal of apartheid policies, this study suggests that the National Party's success stemmed more fundamentally from the longstanding disillusionment with conciliation policies and the failure of conciliation leaders to create "integrative" solutions that resonated with both Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. This historical analysis sheds light on how ethnic divisions and unresolved political conflicts laid the groundwork for South Africa’s mid-20th-century shift toward Afrikaner-dominated governance.

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

Afrikaner Politics in South Africa, 1934-1948

David W. Plath

The After Hours

$39.95

This book explores how modernization has influenced Japan, especially in terms of its people's quest for enjoyment and leisure within the context of their industrialized and democratic society. The author describes Japan not as an exotic or mysterious culture, but as a "cultural opposing self" that provides a contrasting perspective on the human condition shaped by industrialization and democracy. Unlike Western societies, where terms like "alienation" and "mass leisure" have defined social challenges, Japan's unique approach to modernization invites a fresh examination of how people engage in enjoyment beyond mere work.

In modern Japan, the pursuit of enjoyment is not defined by rigid Western ideals of "pursuit of happiness" or "hedonism." Instead, Japanese culture has its own nuanced relationship with leisure, which the author terms "the search for enjoyment." This concept encompasses not just leisure but the broader desire for well-being and fulfillment in life, which may differ significantly from Western interpretations. Japanese culture, according to the author, resists Western biases that view leisure merely as a break from work; instead, it integrates work and enjoyment, allowing for a fluid transition between the two.

Through an ethnographic approach, combining field observations, surveys, and popular media, the book provides a comprehensive look at Japanese life, particularly outside of traditional work hours. The "after hours" are more than just periods of rest—they serve as a reflection of Japanese identity and values in a modernized world, capturing the ways people seek balance, leisure, and cultural fulfillment. The author's perspective is both empathetic and critical, acknowledging Japan's unique synthesis of modernity while examining how the quest for enjoyment differs from Western models.

Ultimately, the book argues that Japan's modern journey offers valuable insights for Western readers seeking to understand how non-Western societies approach the challenges of industrialized living, enjoyment, and identity within a globalized context.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Newell M. Stultz

Afrikaner Politics in South Africa, 1934-1948

$95.00

This book examines the political landscape of South Africa from 1934 to 1948, focusing on the ideological conflict between Afrikaner nationalism and policies aimed at conciliation between Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. The Union of South Africa, founded in 1910, unified the country under a government heavily influenced by British principles but also included leaders from the former Boer republics. Early South African politics became a struggle between two major political ideologies: one that promoted Afrikaner nationalism, advocating for Afrikaner cultural and political interests, and another that supported "conciliation," a philosophy attempting to bridge ethnic divides and foster unity among white South Africans.

The book highlights that conciliation parties faced significant challenges in gaining long-term Afrikaner support, as they needed to balance competing interests between English-speaking South Africans and Afrikaners, who felt a strong sense of ethnic identity. Afrikaner nationalist parties, however, did not need this balance and could draw on the deep-seated solidarity within their community. The critical turning point in this era, according to the author, was Prime Minister Jan Smuts’ decision in 1939 to align South Africa with Britain in declaring war on Germany. This move alienated a large portion of the Afrikaner electorate, who saw it as a violation of the "South Africa first" principle and contributed significantly to the United Party's waning support.

This estrangement between Afrikaners and conciliation parties, the author argues, set the stage for the rise of the National Party and their victory in 1948, which marked the start of apartheid. While many observers attributed the Nationalist victory to the appeal of apartheid policies, this study suggests that the National Party's success stemmed more fundamentally from the longstanding disillusionment with conciliation policies and the failure of conciliation leaders to create "integrative" solutions that resonated with both Afrikaners and English-speaking South Africans. This historical analysis sheds light on how ethnic divisions and unresolved political conflicts laid the groundwork for South Africa’s mid-20th-century shift toward Afrikaner-dominated governance.

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

Roy J. Howard

Three Faces of Hermeneutics

$95.00

Three Faces of Hermeneutics introduces philosophical hermeneutics as a live response to the longstanding “two cultures” rift between sciences and humanities. Framed by the question of how purposes and intentions shape experience, reality, and knowledge, it pushes back on a mono-methodological ideal that treats scientific explanation as the only legitimate model. Against the presumption that neutrality and objectivity must minimize the individual, hermeneutics argues that in domains like history and literature, subjectivity isn’t a contaminant but part of the object of inquiry itself. Picking up where C. P. Snow’s debate left off, the author asks whether the humanities disclose ranges of truth that quantifying methods can’t reach—and, if so, what sort of rigor governs such “understanding.” The contemporary spark is Hans-Georg Gadamer’s *Truth and Method*, which reworks hermeneutics beyond a toolbox for deciphering difficult texts into a general account of understanding: meanings are lived before they are thought; human beings are already interpreters by virtue of their existence. That shift, indebted to phenomenology and Heidegger, recasts interpretation as constitutive of knowledge rather than merely ancillary to it.

The project maps three modern “faces” of hermeneutics, each rejecting positivist mono-methodology while avoiding psychologism. Chapter 1 tracks an analytic strand shaped by early and late Wittgenstein: understanding language shows why explanation cannot exhaust meaning, and why “subjective” input is inescapable without collapsing into mere inner states. Chapter 2 presents Jürgen Habermas’s evolved Marxism, which integrates critique, ideology analysis, and Freudian insights to expand what counts as rational inquiry. Chapter 3 returns to Gadamer’s phenomenological hermeneutics, where understanding is historically effected and dialogical. The book deliberately brackets structuralism (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Chomsky), viewing its transcendental grammars as sidelining the agent. It also argues—via Apel and von Wright—that anti-positivist analytic philosophy converges with Continental hermeneutics, hinting at a path to dismantle the analytic/Continental wall and to rehabilitate the humanities as knowledge-bearing, not ornamental.

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

Ian R. Christie

Myth and Reality In Late Eighteenth Century British Politics

$49.95

Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics and Other Papers delves into the intricate political landscape of late 18th-century Britain, offering a fresh perspective on governance, parliamentary dynamics, and the movements for constitutional reform prior to the French Revolution. Through a series of essays, the book critically examines the enduring myths that shaped contemporary political narratives, such as the alleged existence of secret cabals and conspiracies within government, and juxtaposes them with the realities of policy-making and power struggles. Building on the transformative insights of historians like Sir Lewis Namier, the author presents a nuanced analysis of figures like George III, Edmund Burke, and the Rockingham Whigs, exploring how ideology and misperceptions influenced political actions and reform efforts during this transformative period.

Integrating rigorous archival research with a sharp interpretive lens, this collection reframes late 18th-century British politics as a period of gradual institutional evolution rather than the simplistic dichotomies of virtue and vice often portrayed in traditional narratives. The essays navigate key questions about the mechanics of limited monarchy, the emergence of political parties, and the ideological underpinnings of reform movements, situating these within broader societal changes. Written for scholars and history enthusiasts alike, Myth and Reality provides a compelling reassessment of a critical era, challenging readers to reconsider how political myths and realities intersect in shaping historical progress.

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

Walter J. Fischel

Ibn Khaldun in Egypt

$39.95

Ibn Khaldun in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research (1382–1406) offers a deep exploration of the transformative years the renowned scholar spent in Cairo, highlighting his dual roles as a public figure and a pioneering historian. While widely celebrated for his Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun's contributions during his 23 years in Egypt demonstrate the breadth of his intellectual pursuits and the complexity of his character. The book delves into his multifaceted public career, including his service to the Mamluk rulers as a diplomat, educator, and Chief Qadi of the Maliki school. It also recounts his dramatic meeting with the conqueror Tamerlane and examines his struggles to balance his political engagements with his passion for scholarship. Despite these challenges, Ibn Khaldun emerged as a pivotal figure in Mamluk society, navigating the tension between wielding influence and retreating into the seclusion of academic life.

In addition to chronicling his public functions, the book highlights the significant scholarly achievements of Ibn Khaldun during his time in Egypt. It reveals how his residence in Cairo and access to Eastern sources enabled him to revise and expand his earlier works, including the Muqaddimah, and to engage with new fields of historical research. His studies ranged from the political intricacies of Mamluk Egypt to the histories of Mongol conquests and pre-Islamic civilizations. This period also saw him produce a biography of Sultan Barquq, examine the spiritual and intellectual legacies of Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism, and compose his revealing Autobiography (Ta'rif). By illuminating this often-overlooked phase of Ibn Khaldun’s life, the book provides a richer understanding of his unparalleled contributions to Islamic and global historiography.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

R. J. Woolton

A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks

$39.95

Explore the fascinating world of the threespine stickleback in A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks, a compelling synthesis of empirical research and theoretical ecology. This groundbreaking book uses the stickleback, a versatile teleost fish, as a model organism to illuminate the intricate relationships between environmental factors, life-history strategies, and evolutionary processes. With their global distribution, remarkable variability, and adaptability to diverse habitats, sticklebacks offer a unique opportunity to test ecological and evolutionary theories in real-world contexts. From their energy budgets to their reproductive strategies, this book provides a holistic view of how these fish thrive in dynamic and often hostile environments.

Structured around a functional input-output framework, the book delves into the physiological, morphological, and behavioral mechanisms that enable sticklebacks to convert resources into reproductive success. It highlights the pivotal role of natural selection and ecological interactions—such as predation, competition, and parasitism—in shaping their growth, survival, and reproduction. With its seamless integration of theoretical models and empirical data, A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks not only sheds light on this remarkable fish family but also sets a precedent for studying life-history strategies across other species. Perfect for students, researchers, and enthusiasts of ecology and evolutionary biology, this book is a testament to the power of merging theory with biological reality.

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

Roy J. Howard

Three Faces of Hermeneutics

$39.95

Three Faces of Hermeneutics introduces philosophical hermeneutics as a live response to the longstanding “two cultures” rift between sciences and humanities. Framed by the question of how purposes and intentions shape experience, reality, and knowledge, it pushes back on a mono-methodological ideal that treats scientific explanation as the only legitimate model. Against the presumption that neutrality and objectivity must minimize the individual, hermeneutics argues that in domains like history and literature, subjectivity isn’t a contaminant but part of the object of inquiry itself. Picking up where C. P. Snow’s debate left off, the author asks whether the humanities disclose ranges of truth that quantifying methods can’t reach—and, if so, what sort of rigor governs such “understanding.” The contemporary spark is Hans-Georg Gadamer’s *Truth and Method*, which reworks hermeneutics beyond a toolbox for deciphering difficult texts into a general account of understanding: meanings are lived before they are thought; human beings are already interpreters by virtue of their existence. That shift, indebted to phenomenology and Heidegger, recasts interpretation as constitutive of knowledge rather than merely ancillary to it.

The project maps three modern “faces” of hermeneutics, each rejecting positivist mono-methodology while avoiding psychologism. Chapter 1 tracks an analytic strand shaped by early and late Wittgenstein: understanding language shows why explanation cannot exhaust meaning, and why “subjective” input is inescapable without collapsing into mere inner states. Chapter 2 presents Jürgen Habermas’s evolved Marxism, which integrates critique, ideology analysis, and Freudian insights to expand what counts as rational inquiry. Chapter 3 returns to Gadamer’s phenomenological hermeneutics, where understanding is historically effected and dialogical. The book deliberately brackets structuralism (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Chomsky), viewing its transcendental grammars as sidelining the agent. It also argues—via Apel and von Wright—that anti-positivist analytic philosophy converges with Continental hermeneutics, hinting at a path to dismantle the analytic/Continental wall and to rehabilitate the humanities as knowledge-bearing, not ornamental.

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

Marion J. Levy, Jr.

Our Mother-Tempers

$39.95

This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with other people, be male, or be female—insofar as these things are learned—from their mothers (or a mother surrogate who is female). Every mother has known and knows this. Most social analysts, according to the author, both know it and ignore it. If our mothers are asymmetrically influential in shaping our initial years, and our fathers usually in the background, what does it reveal about the social sources of human sex roles, including the universal precedence of males over females in all known societies?

These are fundamental, normative, and often deeply emotional matters. Professor Levy seeks to consider them in a scientific spirit, clear the path for better understandings of the role of mothers, and inspire new research on early socialization.

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

Steven Cassedy

Flight from Eden

$39.95

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

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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Ferenc Fehér

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

$95.00

Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of the nation state to the “Cult of the Supreme Being,” the emancipation of the Jews, and the cultural heritage of the Revolution.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

Saad Abdullah Sowayan

Nabati Poetry

$39.95

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

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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Walter J. Fischel

Ibn Khaldun in Egypt

$95.00

Ibn Khaldun in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research (1382–1406) offers a deep exploration of the transformative years the renowned scholar spent in Cairo, highlighting his dual roles as a public figure and a pioneering historian. While widely celebrated for his Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun's contributions during his 23 years in Egypt demonstrate the breadth of his intellectual pursuits and the complexity of his character. The book delves into his multifaceted public career, including his service to the Mamluk rulers as a diplomat, educator, and Chief Qadi of the Maliki school. It also recounts his dramatic meeting with the conqueror Tamerlane and examines his struggles to balance his political engagements with his passion for scholarship. Despite these challenges, Ibn Khaldun emerged as a pivotal figure in Mamluk society, navigating the tension between wielding influence and retreating into the seclusion of academic life.

In addition to chronicling his public functions, the book highlights the significant scholarly achievements of Ibn Khaldun during his time in Egypt. It reveals how his residence in Cairo and access to Eastern sources enabled him to revise and expand his earlier works, including the Muqaddimah, and to engage with new fields of historical research. His studies ranged from the political intricacies of Mamluk Egypt to the histories of Mongol conquests and pre-Islamic civilizations. This period also saw him produce a biography of Sultan Barquq, examine the spiritual and intellectual legacies of Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism, and compose his revealing Autobiography (Ta'rif). By illuminating this often-overlooked phase of Ibn Khaldun’s life, the book provides a richer understanding of his unparalleled contributions to Islamic and global historiography.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

David B. Wong

Moral Relativity

$39.95

Moral Relativity: Reconciling Objectivity and Subjectivity provides a compelling framework for understanding moral experience through the lens of relativism. The book contends that there is no single true morality and argues that this perspective best explains the dual nature of moral experience, which combines elements of objectivity—such as truth claims and rational argumentation—with elements of subjectivity, including deep cultural and individual disagreements. By exploring the nature of moral language and its relationship to truth, facts, and human behavior, the book examines how moral statements and values are influenced by diverse cultural, philosophical, and linguistic contexts. This approach critiques absolutist claims of a singular moral truth while offering a nuanced explanation of moral plurality that embraces the complexity of moral discourse.

The book also integrates contemporary developments in the philosophy of language to address long-standing challenges in metaethics. By building on advancements in theories of truth, reference, and translation, it critiques older approaches rooted in verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction. Instead, it proposes a new relativist framework that bridges the perceived gap between the objective and subjective dimensions of morality. Drawing on examples from moral philosophy, comparative ethics, and sociocultural analysis, the book demonstrates how relativist theories can provide a coherent reconciliation of moral diversity with the shared human pursuit of ethical understanding. This innovative perspective challenges traditional moral paradigms, offering a robust theoretical foundation for analyzing the interplay between cultural relativism and moral objectivity.

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

Ferenc Fehér

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

$39.95

Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of the nation state to the “Cult of the Supreme Being,” the emancipation of the Jews, and the cultural heritage of the Revolution.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

David B. Wong

Moral Relativity

$95.00

Moral Relativity: Reconciling Objectivity and Subjectivity provides a compelling framework for understanding moral experience through the lens of relativism. The book contends that there is no single true morality and argues that this perspective best explains the dual nature of moral experience, which combines elements of objectivity—such as truth claims and rational argumentation—with elements of subjectivity, including deep cultural and individual disagreements. By exploring the nature of moral language and its relationship to truth, facts, and human behavior, the book examines how moral statements and values are influenced by diverse cultural, philosophical, and linguistic contexts. This approach critiques absolutist claims of a singular moral truth while offering a nuanced explanation of moral plurality that embraces the complexity of moral discourse.

The book also integrates contemporary developments in the philosophy of language to address long-standing challenges in metaethics. By building on advancements in theories of truth, reference, and translation, it critiques older approaches rooted in verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction. Instead, it proposes a new relativist framework that bridges the perceived gap between the objective and subjective dimensions of morality. Drawing on examples from moral philosophy, comparative ethics, and sociocultural analysis, the book demonstrates how relativist theories can provide a coherent reconciliation of moral diversity with the shared human pursuit of ethical understanding. This innovative perspective challenges traditional moral paradigms, offering a robust theoretical foundation for analyzing the interplay between cultural relativism and moral objectivity.

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

Ernst Krenek With Contributions by Will Ogdon and John Stewart

Horizons Circled

$39.95

Horizons Circled: Reflections on My Music captures Ernst Krenek’s profound insights on his artistic journey, articulated through a series of reflective essays. Originating from his time as a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, in 1970, these essays emerged from four informal lectures that Krenek delivered while surrounded by friends and admirers. Revisiting five decades of creativity, Krenek examined his multifaceted career as a composer, teacher, and writer against the backdrop of dramatic historical and cultural shifts. These lectures, later revised into the essays in this volume, offer a rich tapestry of his experiences across arts, education, politics, and the trials of exile.

The title, Horizons Circled, echoes one of Krenek's significant compositions and aptly reflects the expansive scope of his reflections. The essays delve into his personal and professional milestones, illustrating the resilience and adaptability that characterized his approach to modernism and experimentation in music. Beyond a simple autobiography, the book highlights Krenek’s role as a guiding force for the avant-garde music department at UCSD, a legacy evident in his influence on colleagues and students alike, including notable composers Will Ogdon and Robert Erickson. Krenek’s narrative resonates as a testament to the enduring power of creativity and intellectual exploration in the face of evolving artistic landscapes.

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

Ernst Krenek With Contributions by Will Ogdon and John Stewart

Horizons Circled

$95.00

Horizons Circled: Reflections on My Music captures Ernst Krenek’s profound insights on his artistic journey, articulated through a series of reflective essays. Originating from his time as a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, in 1970, these essays emerged from four informal lectures that Krenek delivered while surrounded by friends and admirers. Revisiting five decades of creativity, Krenek examined his multifaceted career as a composer, teacher, and writer against the backdrop of dramatic historical and cultural shifts. These lectures, later revised into the essays in this volume, offer a rich tapestry of his experiences across arts, education, politics, and the trials of exile.

The title, Horizons Circled, echoes one of Krenek's significant compositions and aptly reflects the expansive scope of his reflections. The essays delve into his personal and professional milestones, illustrating the resilience and adaptability that characterized his approach to modernism and experimentation in music. Beyond a simple autobiography, the book highlights Krenek’s role as a guiding force for the avant-garde music department at UCSD, a legacy evident in his influence on colleagues and students alike, including notable composers Will Ogdon and Robert Erickson. Krenek’s narrative resonates as a testament to the enduring power of creativity and intellectual exploration in the face of evolving artistic landscapes.

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

Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Duncan Glen

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

$39.95

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited and introduced by Duncan Glen, brings together a wide-ranging selection of prose by the poet otherwise known as Christopher Murray Grieve, a towering figure of twentieth-century Scottish letters. While MacDiarmid is now recognized as one of the century’s great poets, his prolific prose—scattered across journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and polemical tracts—remains less accessible. Glen’s introduction situates MacDiarmid’s output within the contexts of journalism, nationalism, communism, and cultural polemic, emphasizing the urgency with which he wrote rather than stylistic polish. Trained as a reporter before the First World War and active as a journalist for over a decade thereafter, MacDiarmid developed a capacity for producing vivid, quotational, argumentative prose at speed. That facility was turned into a tool for cultural agitation: whether in The Scottish Chapbook, The Northern Review, or The Voice of Scotland, MacDiarmid used his essays to argue for a revival of Scots language, to demand recognition of Scotland’s artistic traditions, and to intervene in contemporary political debates from socialism to Douglasite economics.

The essays collected here span several decades, revealing MacDiarmid as cultural critic, propagandist, educator, and agitator. Many are framed by his broader project of a Scottish literary renaissance, in which recovering and reinventing linguistic and cultural resources were inseparable from advancing radical political commitments. Glen traces how MacDiarmid wrote not only under his own name but also pseudonymously, replying to detractors and constructing defenses of his poetry and politics in a hostile climate. The selection underscores his deep internationalism—his ability to draw on European literatures, Marx and Engels, or Ruskin and Morris—while insisting on the particularity of Scottish experience. In these essays, MacDiarmid deploys prose as a companion to his poetry: an arsenal of manifestos, critiques, and provocations that embody the restless intelligence behind his verse. This volume, long overdue, makes available the other half of MacDiarmid’s achievement and situates his cultural struggle within both Scottish and international modernism.

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

Mark D. Meyerson

The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel

$49.95

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

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

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

The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel

Richard C. Dales

Marius: On The Elements

$39.95

Marius: On the Elements is a groundbreaking exploration of twelfth-century scientific thought, revealing the remarkable intellectual rigor and experimental focus of its time. Written by the enigmatic figure Marius, this treatise delves into the nature of matter, the composition of elements, and their interactions, employing a dialogue format between teacher and student to engage readers in a systematic inquiry. The text is significant for its advanced treatment of material theory, presenting a quantitative framework for understanding how the diversity of the natural world arises from four fundamental elements. Through experiments, observations, and the rejection of magical explanations, Marius establishes a naturalistic and methodical approach that challenges contemporary accounts of medieval science as overly mystical or unstructured.

Despite the scarcity of biographical details about Marius, the text’s connections to both Arabic and Greek influences underscore the dynamic exchange of knowledge in medieval Europe. Marius synthesizes insights from sources such as Isaac Israeli, pseudo-Aristotelian works, and emerging Latin translations of Arabic texts, while also incorporating his own innovative perspectives on substance and composition. His work stands as a testament to the intellectual vitality of the period, pushing the boundaries of understanding while shaping the course of medieval natural philosophy. This treatise remains a vital resource for scholars studying the evolution of scientific methodologies and the cultural exchanges that defined the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

R. H. C. Davis

King Stephen

$39.95

King Stephen: 1135–1154 by R.H.C. Davis offers a groundbreaking reexamination of King Stephen’s tumultuous reign, challenging the conclusions of J.H. Round's seminal Geoffrey de Mandeville. Drawing on newly available sources, including the final portion of the Gesta Stephani and recently discovered charters, Davis revises the chronology and interpretation of key events, providing fresh insights into the political and administrative complexities of Stephen’s rule. The book benefits from Davis’s collaboration on the Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum and his integration of extensive historical scholarship, resulting in a nuanced account of a monarchy tested by civil war and shifting loyalties. An essential work for understanding 12th-century England, it sheds new light on the challenges of legitimacy and governance during one of the most fraught periods in English history.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Edited by George Winchester Stone, Jr.

The Stage and the Page

$95.00

The Stage and the Page: London’s “Whole Show” in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre edited by Geo. Winchester Stone, Jr. reconceives eighteenth-century drama as a seamless interplay of script and spectacle. Refusing the false choice between literary text and stage event, this collection shows how London audiences experienced an evening as an integrated sequence—overture, prologue, mainpiece, entr’acte song and dance, epilogue, afterpiece, and final music. Essays by leading scholars map the century’s tastes and institutions: Robert D. Hume reclassifies comedy into five performative modes and periodizes shifting fashions; John Loftis reads *Tancred and Sigismunda* against the waning drama of political opposition; Leo Hughes restores the centrality of afterpieces to audience pleasure. Together they model a criticism calibrated to box-office realities, actor personalities, and the rhythms of the patent theatres.

Infrastructure and embodiment receive equal weight. Donald C. Mullin links playhouse architecture to production choices, while Ralph G. Allen’s account of “irrational entertainment” uncovers the sensorium of scenic effects. Four music-centered chapters (Stone, Knapp, Dircks, Lincoln) demonstrate how songs, burlettas, and mythic settings—from The Enchanter to Orpheus—suffused Garrick’s stage with sound, with companion audio illustrations that animate their arguments. Practice-based studies by Charles H. Shattuck (promptbooks), Shirley Wynne (gesture and dance), and Bernard Beckerman (norms for performance-aware criticism) translate ephemeral staging back onto the page. Richly interdisciplinary and methodologically eclectic, The Stage and the Page equips scholars, directors, dramaturgs, and music historians to reconstruct London’s “whole show,” restoring the eighteenth century’s theater as a living art where reading and performance illuminate each other.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Thomas Q. Reefe

The Rainbow and the Kings

$49.95

The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 offers an in-depth and meticulously researched examination of the rise, expansion, and eventual decline of the Luba Empire, one of the most significant dynastic states in Central Africa. Situated in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Luba Empire was a sophisticated polity that thrived independently of European trade influences for much of its existence. This work emphasizes the uniquely African nature of Luba state formation, exploring how governance, tribute systems, and religious ideology contributed to its longevity. Rather than being defined by external economic forces, the Luba developed a complex political and social order, built on a tribute-based system and bolstered by a rich oral tradition that preserved its history through generations.

The book delves into the intricate mechanisms of power within the Luba state, from the king's role as a political and spiritual leader to the interplay between lineage-based politics and central authority. It also highlights how the empire managed to sustain its vast territorial reach, relying on a network of client kings and the symbolic use of royal insignia to maintain influence across great distances. As European incursions and the slave and ivory trades reached the interior in the late 19th century, these pressures disrupted the Luba political structure, leading to its fragmentation. Drawing from oral histories, colonial documents, and ethnographic studies, The Rainbow and the Kings provides a compelling and authoritative account of a major African empire that shaped the history of the region long before European colonization.

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

Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath

Sensei and His People

$39.95

Sensei and His People: The Building of a Japanese Commune by Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath offers a rare and deeply textured account of an alternative community in modern Japan, seen through the lives of its charismatic leader, Ozaki Masutaro, and his followers. Ostracized from the Tenri church as heretics and rejected by their village of origin, Ozaki and a small circle of families built Shinkyō, a commune whose existence embodied both defiance and resilience. Sugihara, Ozaki’s partner and chronicler, narrates the commune’s history from its formative struggles in the 1930s through wartime emigration to Manchuria, postwar return, and eventual consolidation as a thriving collective enterprise. Her account foregrounds the intimate tensions of leadership, devotion, and communal solidarity, while situating Shinkyō against the broader backdrop of Japanese rural life and the national traumas of war, defeat, and reconstruction.

More than a local history, this book reveals how Shinkyō’s communal ideals were rooted in mainstream Japanese values yet tested against the pressures of ostracism, modernization, and political upheaval. Sugihara’s narrative, rendered into English by anthropologist David W. Plath, provides an ethnographic immediacy often absent from conventional sociological studies. Through family histories, anecdotes of ritual and labor, and depictions of ordinary endurance, the text illuminates both the utopian impulses and the pragmatic strategies that enabled a marginal group to survive and flourish. With its combination of biography, ethnography, and memoir, Sensei and His People invites comparisons to American communal experiments such as Oneida, yet insists on the distinctively Japanese texture of paternalistic leadership, farmer virtues, and the reworking of tradition. For scholars of religion, modernization, and comparative communalism, the book offers an unparalleled case study in the lived realities of Japanese social experimentation.

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

Thomas Q. Reefe

The Rainbow and the Kings

$95.00

The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 offers an in-depth and meticulously researched examination of the rise, expansion, and eventual decline of the Luba Empire, one of the most significant dynastic states in Central Africa. Situated in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Luba Empire was a sophisticated polity that thrived independently of European trade influences for much of its existence. This work emphasizes the uniquely African nature of Luba state formation, exploring how governance, tribute systems, and religious ideology contributed to its longevity. Rather than being defined by external economic forces, the Luba developed a complex political and social order, built on a tribute-based system and bolstered by a rich oral tradition that preserved its history through generations.

The book delves into the intricate mechanisms of power within the Luba state, from the king's role as a political and spiritual leader to the interplay between lineage-based politics and central authority. It also highlights how the empire managed to sustain its vast territorial reach, relying on a network of client kings and the symbolic use of royal insignia to maintain influence across great distances. As European incursions and the slave and ivory trades reached the interior in the late 19th century, these pressures disrupted the Luba political structure, leading to its fragmentation. Drawing from oral histories, colonial documents, and ethnographic studies, The Rainbow and the Kings provides a compelling and authoritative account of a major African empire that shaped the history of the region long before European colonization.

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

Jeffrey K. Sawyer

Printed Poison

$39.95

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

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

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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Philip Kuberski

The Persistence of Memory

$39.95

While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory—our own marvelous personal computer or data base—that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?

Drawing on an expansive array of sources, from microbiology to cosmology, Ovid to Proust, Egyptology to the cinema, Philip Kuberski leads us on a brave and beguiling exploration of memory. He enables us to see it as a worldly process in which individuals both remember and are remembered, all in a network of associations that join our bodies, personal and cultural myths, and aesthetic and literary experiences. His essays will provide a tantalizing and thoughtful read for those interested in literature, psychology, biology, anthropology, and 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 1992.

Norman G. Owen

Prosperity without Progress

$95.00

Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines offers a compelling examination of Kabikolan's transformation from a subsistence agrarian economy to a commercialized export sector based on abaca (Manila hemp) production. The study situates the region's economic history within the broader expansion of the European-dominated world-system, contributing to global historiographical debates on capitalism, colonialism, and economic dependency. While many narratives of colonial economies focus on coercion and large-scale plantations, this book highlights an alternative path—one in which indigenous landowners adapted to market forces without direct European intervention. However, the paradox at the heart of Kabikolan's experience—temporary material gains without sustained economic progress—challenges simplistic models of capitalist development.

This case study offers critical insights into why peripheral economies often fail to achieve long-term prosperity despite integration into global markets. The book details the rise and decline of the abaca industry, examining the constraints imposed by colonial rule, the persistence of a strong subsistence economy, and the limited diversification of economic activities. While Kabikolan avoided the extreme exploitation seen in other colonies, its development remained incomplete, illustrating the broader dilemma of "prosperity without progress." Through meticulous archival research and engagement with economic theory, Prosperity without Progress provides a nuanced perspective on the history of capitalism in the Philippines and beyond, making it an essential read for scholars of economic history, colonial studies, and global development.

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

David G. Mandelbaum

Human Fertility in India

$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 1974.

Peter Makin

Provence and Pound

$49.95

Provence and Pound offers a compelling exploration of the relationship between Ezra Pound and the tradition of Provençal poetry. Bridging centuries and cultures, the book examines how Pound—one of the most influential modernist poets—engaged with the medieval troubadours of 12th-century Provence, whose refined lyricism and courtly ideals shaped his understanding of poetic form, rhythm, and artistry. The troubadours, renowned for their mastery of the canso and other verse forms, created a literary culture that Pound saw as vibrant, organic, and deeply influential in the evolution of European poetics. By tracing his engagement with Provençal poetry, this study not only sheds light on Pound’s poetic evolution but also challenges traditional interpretations of the troubadour legacy.

The book positions Pound as a revisionist scholar of the troubadours, one who bypassed the rigorous philological traditions of Provençal studies in favor of a more intuitive and artistic approach. While his grasp of Provençal language may have been imprecise, his ability to distill the essential spirit of the troubadour ethos allowed him to reinvigorate their influence for a modern audience. The discussion also reveals how Pound’s fascination with figures like Bertran de Born evolved over time, reflecting his shifting perspectives on poetry, politics, and aesthetics. By placing the medieval and the modern in direct conversation, Provence and Pound highlights the enduring power of the troubadours and underscores Pound’s singular role in resurrecting their legacy within the avant-garde movements of the 20th century.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Susan Kirkpatrick

Las Romanticas

$49.95

A pioneering critical work that establishes the existence and elaborates the history of a female literary tradition in Spain early in the nineteenth century, this book will greatly interest specialists in Spanish literature. It also addresses those concerned with Romanticism in general, with feminist criticism, and with the cultural history of women.

Who were las románticas? The first generation of Spanish women to conceive of themselves as "writing women," they made their appearance in the press around 1841. It was the apogee of Spain's Romantic movement and of a first wave of liberal reforms, and these women gave voice to their experience as women within the terms of liberal Romantic ideology. Susan Kirkpatrick examines the textual representations that link liberal ideology, Romantic configurations of subjectivity, and women's writing, in an exciting revelation of early nineteenth-century gender consciousness.

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

Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath

Sensei and His People

$95.00

Sensei and His People: The Building of a Japanese Commune by Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath offers a rare and deeply textured account of an alternative community in modern Japan, seen through the lives of its charismatic leader, Ozaki Masutaro, and his followers. Ostracized from the Tenri church as heretics and rejected by their village of origin, Ozaki and a small circle of families built Shinkyō, a commune whose existence embodied both defiance and resilience. Sugihara, Ozaki’s partner and chronicler, narrates the commune’s history from its formative struggles in the 1930s through wartime emigration to Manchuria, postwar return, and eventual consolidation as a thriving collective enterprise. Her account foregrounds the intimate tensions of leadership, devotion, and communal solidarity, while situating Shinkyō against the broader backdrop of Japanese rural life and the national traumas of war, defeat, and reconstruction.

More than a local history, this book reveals how Shinkyō’s communal ideals were rooted in mainstream Japanese values yet tested against the pressures of ostracism, modernization, and political upheaval. Sugihara’s narrative, rendered into English by anthropologist David W. Plath, provides an ethnographic immediacy often absent from conventional sociological studies. Through family histories, anecdotes of ritual and labor, and depictions of ordinary endurance, the text illuminates both the utopian impulses and the pragmatic strategies that enabled a marginal group to survive and flourish. With its combination of biography, ethnography, and memoir, Sensei and His People invites comparisons to American communal experiments such as Oneida, yet insists on the distinctively Japanese texture of paternalistic leadership, farmer virtues, and the reworking of tradition. For scholars of religion, modernization, and comparative communalism, the book offers an unparalleled case study in the lived realities of Japanese social experimentation.

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

Celia Applegate

A Nation of Provincials

$95.00

At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat—the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to the cause of local preservation. Celia Applegate examines at both the national and regional levels the cultural meaning of Heimat and why it may be pivotal to the troubled and very timely question of German identity.

The ideas and activities clustered around Heimat shed new light particularly on problems of modernization. Instead of viewing the Germans as a dangerously anti-modern people, Applegate argues that they used the cultivation of Heimat to ground an abstract nationalism in their attachment to familiar places and to reconcile the modern industrial and urban world with the rural landscapes and customs they admired. Primarily a characteristic of the middle classes, love of Heimat constituted an alternative vision of German unity to the familiar aggressive, militaristic one. The Heimat vision of Germany emphasized cultural diversity and defined German identity by its internal members rather than its external enemies.

Applegate asks that we re-examine the continuities of German history from the perspective of the local places that made up Germany, rather than from that of prominent intellectuals or national policymakers. The local patriotism of Heimat activists emerges as an element of German culture that persisted across the great divides of 1918, 1933, and 1945. She also suggests that this attachment to a particular place is a feature of Europeans in general and is deserving of further attention.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Chaoying Fang Edited by Elizabeth Huff

The Asami Library

$95.00

The Asami Library catalogue documents an extraordinary collection of Korean printed books, manuscripts, maps, and rubbings acquired by the East Asiatic Library of the University of California in 1950. Compiled by Chaoying Fang, this catalogue highlights the Asami collection’s unparalleled contribution to Korean studies in the United States. Assembled by Asami Rintarō, a Japanese legal scholar and bibliophile active in Seoul during the early 20th century, the collection comprises over 900 titles in approximately 4,000 fascicles and sheets. Notably, a significant portion of these documents pertain to law and governance, offering a rare glimpse into historical administrative practices. Additionally, the collection includes unique examples of Korean movable-type printing from the 17th to 19th centuries, representing a specialized art form and reflecting the scarcity of such publications due to their limited production runs.

Fang's meticulous effort, guided by scholarly expertise and enriched by consultations with prominent figures in Korean studies, produced a comprehensive descriptive catalogue. The compilation process involved applying standardized bibliographic methods and frequent reference to foundational works such as Chosen tosho kaidai and Kosen sappu. Fang’s work, further refined during his revisitation of the Asami materials in 1967, benefited from collaborative input and extensive examination of the collection’s rubbings and printed texts. The catalogue not only serves as a vital research tool but also underscores the intellectual and cultural significance of the Asami collection, ensuring its legacy as a cornerstone of Korean studies in the West.

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

Peter Makin

Provence and Pound

$95.00

Provence and Pound offers a compelling exploration of the relationship between Ezra Pound and the tradition of Provençal poetry. Bridging centuries and cultures, the book examines how Pound—one of the most influential modernist poets—engaged with the medieval troubadours of 12th-century Provence, whose refined lyricism and courtly ideals shaped his understanding of poetic form, rhythm, and artistry. The troubadours, renowned for their mastery of the canso and other verse forms, created a literary culture that Pound saw as vibrant, organic, and deeply influential in the evolution of European poetics. By tracing his engagement with Provençal poetry, this study not only sheds light on Pound’s poetic evolution but also challenges traditional interpretations of the troubadour legacy.

The book positions Pound as a revisionist scholar of the troubadours, one who bypassed the rigorous philological traditions of Provençal studies in favor of a more intuitive and artistic approach. While his grasp of Provençal language may have been imprecise, his ability to distill the essential spirit of the troubadour ethos allowed him to reinvigorate their influence for a modern audience. The discussion also reveals how Pound’s fascination with figures like Bertran de Born evolved over time, reflecting his shifting perspectives on poetry, politics, and aesthetics. By placing the medieval and the modern in direct conversation, Provence and Pound highlights the enduring power of the troubadours and underscores Pound’s singular role in resurrecting their legacy within the avant-garde movements of the 20th century.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

William B. Schwartz

Life without Disease

$95.00

The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular medicine, a growing population of the aged will bring new problems. In the next fifty years genetic intervention will shift the focus of medicine in the United States from repairing the ravages of disease to preventing the onset of disease. Understanding the role of genes in human health, says Dr. William B. Schwartz, is the driving force that will change the direction of medical care, and the age-old dream of life without disease may come close to realization by the middle of the next century. Medical care in 2050 will be vastly more effective, Schwartz maintains, and it may also be less expensive than the resource-intensive procedures such as coronary bypass surgery that medicine relies on today.

Schwartz's alluring prospect of a medical utopia raises urgent questions, however. What are the scientific and public policy obstacles that must be overcome if such a goal is to become a reality? Restrictions on access imposed by managed care plans, the corporatization of charitable health care institutions, the increasing numbers of citizens without health insurance, the problems with malpractice insurance, and the threatened Medicare bankruptcy—all are the legacy of medicine's great progress in mastering the human body and society's inability to assimilate that mastery into existing economic, ethical, and legal structures. And if the average American life span is 130 years, a genuine possibility by 2050, what social and economic problems will result?

Schwartz examines the forces that have brought us to the current health care state and shows how those same forces will exert themselves in the decades ahead. Focusing on the inextricable link between scientific progress and health policy, he encourages a careful examination of these two forces in order to determine the kind of medical utopia that awaits us. The decisions we make will affect not only our own care, but also the system of care we bequeath to our children.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.

Edited by Charles Jelavich and Barbara Jelavich

The Education of a Russian Statesman

$95.00

The Education of a Russian Statesman: The Memoirs of Nicholas Karlovich Giers offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and career of one of Russia's most influential diplomats. Written by Giers himself, the memoirs cover his early childhood, education in St. Petersburg, and his initial years in the Russian Foreign Ministry, providing a detailed account of the path that led him to become the Foreign Minister under Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. The memoirs shed light on Giers's personal struggles with his foreign roots, his slow rise through the ranks, and his role as a diplomatic secretary, rather than a policy-maker. His dedication, diligence, and moderation are evident throughout the work, as Giers sought to steer Russia away from foreign entanglements and instead focus on internal reforms. His personal relationships and connections, particularly through his marriage to Olga Cantacuzino, niece of the Russian foreign minister, played a pivotal role in his career, and the memoirs offer a unique perspective on the Russian elite’s complex social and political dynamics during the 19th century.

In addition to his personal narrative, Giers offers rich historical insights into the political environment of the time, including his experiences in Moldavia, which was under Russian protection. His account paints a vivid picture of the power struggles among local elites, the role of Russian consuls, and the corruption that plagued the region. Giers also provides a candid view of his thoughts on various nationalities and cultures, including his anti-Semitic views, which reflect the prevalent attitudes of his era. The Education of a Russian Statesman not only serves as a memoir of Giers's life but also as a valuable historical document that illuminates Russia's foreign policy, its domestic politics, and the personal dynamics that shaped the country's international standing during the mid-19th 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 1962.

Chaoying Fang Edited by Elizabeth Huff

The Asami Library

$49.95

The Asami Library catalogue documents an extraordinary collection of Korean printed books, manuscripts, maps, and rubbings acquired by the East Asiatic Library of the University of California in 1950. Compiled by Chaoying Fang, this catalogue highlights the Asami collection’s unparalleled contribution to Korean studies in the United States. Assembled by Asami Rintarō, a Japanese legal scholar and bibliophile active in Seoul during the early 20th century, the collection comprises over 900 titles in approximately 4,000 fascicles and sheets. Notably, a significant portion of these documents pertain to law and governance, offering a rare glimpse into historical administrative practices. Additionally, the collection includes unique examples of Korean movable-type printing from the 17th to 19th centuries, representing a specialized art form and reflecting the scarcity of such publications due to their limited production runs.

Fang's meticulous effort, guided by scholarly expertise and enriched by consultations with prominent figures in Korean studies, produced a comprehensive descriptive catalogue. The compilation process involved applying standardized bibliographic methods and frequent reference to foundational works such as Chosen tosho kaidai and Kosen sappu. Fang’s work, further refined during his revisitation of the Asami materials in 1967, benefited from collaborative input and extensive examination of the collection’s rubbings and printed texts. The catalogue not only serves as a vital research tool but also underscores the intellectual and cultural significance of the Asami collection, ensuring its legacy as a cornerstone of Korean studies in the West.

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

Myron Simon

The Georgian Poetic

$39.95

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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Gary Cross

A Quest for Time

$49.95

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges conventional labor historiography by shifting focus from traditional workplace struggles over wages and conditions to the broader social and political implications of time regulation. By examining Britain and France—two nations at the forefront of industrialization and labor reform—the study explores how the demand for reduced work hours was not merely a technical or economic issue, but rather a deeply political and social movement intertwined with concepts of citizenship, family life, and leisure.

Through extensive archival research and comparative analysis, the author traces the evolution of the short-hours movement, demonstrating its transnational character and highlighting the interplay between labor activism, state intervention, and broader social transformations. The book argues that the push for the eight-hour workday and other reductions in work time were central to labor's vision of a restructured society, where workers could reclaim control over their lives beyond the factory. By linking labor radicalism before World War I with the reformist labor politics of the interwar period, A Quest for Time provides a fresh perspective on the dynamics of labor reform, modernization, and the ever-evolving struggle to balance work and life in industrial 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 1989.

Mark Hulliung

Montesquieu and the Old Regime

$39.95

Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu’s intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist. Instead, the book situates Montesquieu as a sharp critic of the Old Regime and a visionary advocate for a national republic and democratic society in France. Drawing inspiration from England, Montesquieu envisioned a political system that dismantled monarchical and aristocratic structures. Through detailed analyses of his major works, such as The Spirit of the Laws, The Persian Letters, and Considérations, the author reveals Montesquieu’s systematic critique of absolutism and his engagement with theories of divine right and raison d’état, presenting him as a pivotal figure in republican thought.

The book delves into Montesquieu’s dual role as a critic and idealist. It traces his intellectual evolution from deconstructing Old Regime ideologies to crafting an alternative vision grounded in the republican tradition of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Harrington. The analysis highlights how Montesquieu’s works, particularly The Spirit of the Laws, reflect his mature thinking and aspirations for civic renewal through republican governance. By integrating his unpublished writings, such as the Pensées, and emphasizing the continuity in his thought, the book positions Montesquieu as a transformative thinker whose ideas extended beyond political philosophy to address broader sociological and historiographical concerns. This study not only deepens the understanding of Montesquieu’s legacy but also situates him as a key voice in the intellectual movement challenging the Old Regime.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Alan Dowty

Middle East Crisis

$49.95

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973 offers a comprehensive analysis of how the United States navigated pivotal international crises in the volatile Middle East region. Drawing on structured empiricism and a rigorous analytical framework, Alan Dowty examines decision-making processes across three critical episodes to uncover patterns in crisis behavior, information processing, and conflict resolution under stress. This scholarly contribution integrates a wealth of research materials—official documents, memoirs, and extensive interviews with key policymakers—providing fresh insights into the complexities of U.S. foreign policy during these crises. The work illuminates the psychological and institutional factors shaping American responses to Middle Eastern turmoil, making it an indispensable resource for understanding both historical events and broader crisis behavior.

The book situates these crises within the broader goals of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project, an ambitious initiative designed to improve the management of global crises and contribute to a more stable world order. Dowty’s meticulous approach not only enriches the historical narrative of U.S. policy in the Middle East but also rigorously tests hypotheses about decision-making under stress. By comparing events across three decades, the study highlights the evolution of U.S. strategies and their implications for international relations. With its clarity and depth, Middle East Crisis is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of global crisis management.

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

Susan Kirkpatrick

Las Romanticas

$95.00

A pioneering critical work that establishes the existence and elaborates the history of a female literary tradition in Spain early in the nineteenth century, this book will greatly interest specialists in Spanish literature. It also addresses those concerned with Romanticism in general, with feminist criticism, and with the cultural history of women.

Who were las románticas? The first generation of Spanish women to conceive of themselves as "writing women," they made their appearance in the press around 1841. It was the apogee of Spain's Romantic movement and of a first wave of liberal reforms, and these women gave voice to their experience as women within the terms of liberal Romantic ideology. Susan Kirkpatrick examines the textual representations that link liberal ideology, Romantic configurations of subjectivity, and women's writing, in an exciting revelation of early nineteenth-century gender consciousness.

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

Gary Cross

A Quest for Time

$95.00

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940 provides a compelling historical analysis of the struggle for shorter working hours as a crucial aspect of labor movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges conventional labor historiography by shifting focus from traditional workplace struggles over wages and conditions to the broader social and political implications of time regulation. By examining Britain and France—two nations at the forefront of industrialization and labor reform—the study explores how the demand for reduced work hours was not merely a technical or economic issue, but rather a deeply political and social movement intertwined with concepts of citizenship, family life, and leisure.

Through extensive archival research and comparative analysis, the author traces the evolution of the short-hours movement, demonstrating its transnational character and highlighting the interplay between labor activism, state intervention, and broader social transformations. The book argues that the push for the eight-hour workday and other reductions in work time were central to labor's vision of a restructured society, where workers could reclaim control over their lives beyond the factory. By linking labor radicalism before World War I with the reformist labor politics of the interwar period, A Quest for Time provides a fresh perspective on the dynamics of labor reform, modernization, and the ever-evolving struggle to balance work and life in industrial 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 1989.

Sally N. Vanghn

Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan

$95.00

This title delves into the intertwined lives of St. Anselm, the renowned theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, and Robert of Meulan, an influential Anglo-Norman nobleman and advisor to the English crown. These two figures, representing the sacred and the secular, engaged in a lifelong adversarial relationship that spanned both Normandy and England during a pivotal period of political and ecclesiastical change. Anselm, a former abbot of Bec, came into conflict with the English monarchy over the autonomy of the church, while Robert championed the rights of the state as an advisor to multiple kings. Their disputes, particularly over the Investiture Controversy, defined a critical era in the development of English political and religious policy, revealing the tension between regnum (the realm) and sacerdotium (the church).

Despite their frequent clashes, Anselm and Robert ultimately worked toward a vision of stability for the Anglo-Norman realm. While Anselm’s legacy endures in the form of his theological contributions and sanctity, Robert’s accomplishments are less widely remembered outside of specialized historical circles. This study aims to provide a fuller picture of both men, focusing on the political, philosophical, and personal forces that shaped their lives and legacies. Through meticulous analysis of historical sources and a synthesis of previously published research, the book illuminates how the contrasting visions of Anselm and Robert for a “right order” in the Christian kingdom ultimately converged, forming a compromise that influenced the balance of church and state for generations to come.

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

Gay Becker

Healing the Infertile Family

$95.00

Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Amy Schrager Lang

Prophetic Woman

$95.00

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England offers an incisive exploration of how the story of Anne Hutchinson has been repeatedly reshaped in American cultural narratives to address anxieties about female autonomy, dissent, and individualism. Examining literary representations of Hutchinson, particularly in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the study uncovers the persistent tension between the self-assertion of women in public discourse and the societal impulse to suppress that assertion. Hutchinson, infamous for her religious radicalism in Puritan Massachusetts, becomes a literary archetype of the "public woman," a figure whose defiance of established authority—whether religious, political, or literary—threatens the fabric of the social order.

This book situates the antinomian controversy not merely as a theological dispute but as a crucial episode in the broader American struggle to balance personal conviction with communal authority. The narrative of Anne Hutchinson, as reframed over centuries, functions as both a cautionary tale and a touchstone for evolving conceptions of individualism, gender roles, and power. By tracing how her story has been invoked and reinterpreted—from Puritan histories to nineteenth-century literature—Prophetic Woman reveals the deep-seated fears surrounding female intellectual and spiritual independence. It is an essential work for those interested in American literary history, feminist criticism, and the intersection of religion and cultural identity in the shaping of the national consciousness.

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

Sally N. Vanghn

Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan

$49.95

This title delves into the intertwined lives of St. Anselm, the renowned theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, and Robert of Meulan, an influential Anglo-Norman nobleman and advisor to the English crown. These two figures, representing the sacred and the secular, engaged in a lifelong adversarial relationship that spanned both Normandy and England during a pivotal period of political and ecclesiastical change. Anselm, a former abbot of Bec, came into conflict with the English monarchy over the autonomy of the church, while Robert championed the rights of the state as an advisor to multiple kings. Their disputes, particularly over the Investiture Controversy, defined a critical era in the development of English political and religious policy, revealing the tension between regnum (the realm) and sacerdotium (the church).

Despite their frequent clashes, Anselm and Robert ultimately worked toward a vision of stability for the Anglo-Norman realm. While Anselm’s legacy endures in the form of his theological contributions and sanctity, Robert’s accomplishments are less widely remembered outside of specialized historical circles. This study aims to provide a fuller picture of both men, focusing on the political, philosophical, and personal forces that shaped their lives and legacies. Through meticulous analysis of historical sources and a synthesis of previously published research, the book illuminates how the contrasting visions of Anselm and Robert for a “right order” in the Christian kingdom ultimately converged, forming a compromise that influenced the balance of church and state for generations to come.

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

Amy Schrager Lang

Prophetic Woman

$39.95

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England offers an incisive exploration of how the story of Anne Hutchinson has been repeatedly reshaped in American cultural narratives to address anxieties about female autonomy, dissent, and individualism. Examining literary representations of Hutchinson, particularly in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the study uncovers the persistent tension between the self-assertion of women in public discourse and the societal impulse to suppress that assertion. Hutchinson, infamous for her religious radicalism in Puritan Massachusetts, becomes a literary archetype of the "public woman," a figure whose defiance of established authority—whether religious, political, or literary—threatens the fabric of the social order.

This book situates the antinomian controversy not merely as a theological dispute but as a crucial episode in the broader American struggle to balance personal conviction with communal authority. The narrative of Anne Hutchinson, as reframed over centuries, functions as both a cautionary tale and a touchstone for evolving conceptions of individualism, gender roles, and power. By tracing how her story has been invoked and reinterpreted—from Puritan histories to nineteenth-century literature—Prophetic Woman reveals the deep-seated fears surrounding female intellectual and spiritual independence. It is an essential work for those interested in American literary history, feminist criticism, and the intersection of religion and cultural identity in the shaping of the national consciousness.

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

Gay Becker

Healing the Infertile Family

$49.95

Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Neil Jumonville

Critical Crossings

$95.00

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers who founded, edited, and wrote for some of the most influential magazines in the country, including Partisan Review, Politics, Commentary, and Dissent. In their rejection of ideological, visionary, and romantic outlooks, reviewers and essayists such as Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Lionel Trilling, Harold Rosenberg, and Daniel Bell adopted a pragmatic criticism that had a profound influence on the American intellectual community. By placing pragmatism at the center of intellectual activity, the New York Critics crossed from large belief systems to more tentative answers in the hope of redefining the proper function of the intellectual in the new postwar world.

Because members of the New York group always valued being intellectuals more than being political leftists, they adopted a cultural elitism that opposed mass culture. Ready to combat any form of absolutist thought, they found themselves pitted against a series of antagonists, from the 1930s to the present, whom they considered insufficiently rational and analytical to be good intellectuals: the Communists and their sympathizers, the Beat writers, and the New Left. Jumonville tells the story of some of the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront all intellectuals. In this sense the book is as much about what it means to be an intellectual as it is about a specific group of thinkers.

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

R. J. Woolton

A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks

$95.00

Explore the fascinating world of the threespine stickleback in A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks, a compelling synthesis of empirical research and theoretical ecology. This groundbreaking book uses the stickleback, a versatile teleost fish, as a model organism to illuminate the intricate relationships between environmental factors, life-history strategies, and evolutionary processes. With their global distribution, remarkable variability, and adaptability to diverse habitats, sticklebacks offer a unique opportunity to test ecological and evolutionary theories in real-world contexts. From their energy budgets to their reproductive strategies, this book provides a holistic view of how these fish thrive in dynamic and often hostile environments.

Structured around a functional input-output framework, the book delves into the physiological, morphological, and behavioral mechanisms that enable sticklebacks to convert resources into reproductive success. It highlights the pivotal role of natural selection and ecological interactions—such as predation, competition, and parasitism—in shaping their growth, survival, and reproduction. With its seamless integration of theoretical models and empirical data, A Functional Biology of Sticklebacks not only sheds light on this remarkable fish family but also sets a precedent for studying life-history strategies across other species. Perfect for students, researchers, and enthusiasts of ecology and evolutionary biology, this book is a testament to the power of merging theory with biological reality.

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

David W. Plath

The After Hours

$95.00

This book explores how modernization has influenced Japan, especially in terms of its people's quest for enjoyment and leisure within the context of their industrialized and democratic society. The author describes Japan not as an exotic or mysterious culture, but as a "cultural opposing self" that provides a contrasting perspective on the human condition shaped by industrialization and democracy. Unlike Western societies, where terms like "alienation" and "mass leisure" have defined social challenges, Japan's unique approach to modernization invites a fresh examination of how people engage in enjoyment beyond mere work.

In modern Japan, the pursuit of enjoyment is not defined by rigid Western ideals of "pursuit of happiness" or "hedonism." Instead, Japanese culture has its own nuanced relationship with leisure, which the author terms "the search for enjoyment." This concept encompasses not just leisure but the broader desire for well-being and fulfillment in life, which may differ significantly from Western interpretations. Japanese culture, according to the author, resists Western biases that view leisure merely as a break from work; instead, it integrates work and enjoyment, allowing for a fluid transition between the two.

Through an ethnographic approach, combining field observations, surveys, and popular media, the book provides a comprehensive look at Japanese life, particularly outside of traditional work hours. The "after hours" are more than just periods of rest—they serve as a reflection of Japanese identity and values in a modernized world, capturing the ways people seek balance, leisure, and cultural fulfillment. The author's perspective is both empathetic and critical, acknowledging Japan's unique synthesis of modernity while examining how the quest for enjoyment differs from Western models.

Ultimately, the book argues that Japan's modern journey offers valuable insights for Western readers seeking to understand how non-Western societies approach the challenges of industrialized living, enjoyment, and identity within a globalized context.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.