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Micaela Baranello

The Operetta Empire

$65.00

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022

"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.

Edward Duffy

Rousseau in England

$95.00

Rousseau in England: The Context for Shelley’s Critique of the Enlightenment by Edward Duffy examines how Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reputation was forged, mythologized, and transformed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, culminating in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical reinterpretation of Rousseau in *The Triumph of Life*. Whereas Napoleon dominated European political mythology for most of Shelley’s contemporaries, Duffy shows how Rousseau emerged in England as a cultural symbol—cast by Edmund Burke and others as the epitome of Enlightenment folly and blamed for the Revolution’s disasters. Against this background, Shelley recast Rousseau as a complex, ambivalent figure who embodied both the failures and the unrealized promise of Europe’s revolutionary upheavals.

The book’s first chapters reconstruct the English critical and political traditions that shaped Rousseau’s image, tracing the way reviewers, polemicists, and public intellectuals translated his works and life into a set of cultural givens. These representations provided the “grammar” within which Romantic poets engaged Rousseau. Duffy then turns to Coleridge, Hazlitt, and others before focusing on Shelley’s *The Triumph of Life* as a climactic act of myth-making that revises inherited assumptions. By situating Shelley’s poem within the dense ideological and historical discourse surrounding Rousseau, Duffy reveals how Shelley sought not simply to echo Romantic subjectivity but to rearticulate the meaning of revolution itself. Both a study of cultural reception and a close reading of Romantic poetics, Rousseau in England illuminates how myths of the Enlightenment were constructed, contested, and redeployed in the making of English Romanticism.

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

Edited by Jarrett Leplin

Scientific Realism

$39.95

Scientific Realism edited by Jarrett Leplin assembles a landmark debate over whether—and how—science tells us what the world is really like. Opening with Hilary Putnam’s “no-miracles” provocation, Leplin frames ten characteristic realist theses (about approximate truth, reference, success, progress, and literal construal) and then immediately problematizes consensus: realists disagree on which theses they can jointly endorse. The introduction spotlights two pressure points. First, the historical challenge: theory change in mature sciences looks discontinuous, threatening referential stability and suggesting that empirical success underdetermines belief about unobservables. Second, the explanatory challenge: even true (or “approximately true”) theories might fail empirically for auxiliary-assumption reasons, while false ones might succeed by luck or fit; thus abductive “inference to the best explanation” either begs the question for realism or renders realism explanatorily superfluous. Leplin sketches realist replies—causal theories of reference, nuanced accounts of approximation, and cumulativist readings of history—and also urges a methodological defense: certain scientific practices are unintelligible absent realist commitments.

Across the volume, contributors develop these lines with distinctive emphases. Putnam defends realism via method’s success and reference-preserving continuity; McMullin proposes progress through fertile metaphors that survive conceptual turnover; Leplin advances explanationist realism anchored in independent markers of progress. Method-first strategies include Levin (against instrumentalism’s content thinness), Glymour (comparative explanation and reference), Laymon (idealization and confirmation), Boyd (mature methodology’s reliability implying realism), and Hacking (experimentation’s autonomy underwriting entity realism). Powerful antirealist countermoves come from Laudan (historical rebuttal to theses on truth, reference, and success), van Fraassen (empirical adequacy over truth; underdetermination), and Fine, whose “natural ontological attitude” rejects metaphysical add-ons while preserving scientific inference. The result is a meticulous cartography of positions and problems, showing that realism’s fate hinges as much on philosophy of reference and confirmation as on sober readings of science’s past and present.

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

James M. Binnall

Twenty Million Angry Men

$95.00

Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.

Allan Rodway

English Comedy

$39.95

English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the appreciation for comic works that transcend their time. Unlike many comedies that are tied to contemporary issues and fade with their era, this study focuses on the works that stand the test of time, like Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The book addresses common misconceptions by distinguishing comedy from farce and other forms of entertainment. Its central thesis is that comedy, while often dismissed as a trivial form, serves important societal functions by critiquing and satirizing societal norms, offering both a reflection and a critique of its era. The study examines how comedy is shaped by and responds to social tensions, exploring its potential for both progressive and conservative social commentary.

The structure of the book is divided into several parts, each serving a distinct purpose. Part I focuses on the theory of comedy, establishing a framework for the subsequent analysis. It distinguishes between the concepts of laughter and comedy, and defines key terms for understanding comic works. Part II applies these theoretical ideas to different literary periods, offering a comparative analysis of representative comic works. By doing so, it offers a critical evaluation that goes beyond historical context to explore the universal and enduring qualities of comedy. The book emphasizes the role of the comic writer, who, by depicting the absurdities of society, often reflects a larger societal critique. Through this, the author aims to provide readers with both a theoretical understanding and a personal appreciation of the masterpieces of English comedy, demonstrating how these works remain relevant despite their period-specific origins.

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

Corinna Zeltsman

Ink under the Fingernails

$95.00

During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman reconstructs the practical negotiations and discursive contests that surrounded print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution. Centering the diverse communities that worked behind the scenes at urban presses and examining their social practices and aspirations, Zeltsman explores how printer interactions with state and religious authorities shaped broader debates about press freedom and authorship. Beautifully crafted and ambitious in scope, Ink under the Fingernails sheds new light on Mexico's histories of state formation and political culture, identifying printing shops as unexplored spaces of democratic practice, where the boundaries between manual and intellectual labor blurred.

Leo E. Rose

Nepal

$95.00

Nepal: Strategy for Survival delves into the intricate interplay of geography, history, and cultural dynamics that have shaped Nepal’s foreign policy and its interactions with neighboring giants, India and China. Situated along the Himalayan slopes, Nepal’s central location has historically made it both a cultural and commercial bridge between South and East Asia. The book examines Nepal’s strategic importance in controlling trans-Himalayan trade routes, its evolving border politics, and its delicate balancing act between these two influential powers. The analysis extends beyond political strategies, considering the profound impact of Nepal’s ethnic diversity, topographical challenges, and historical connections to Hindu and Buddhist traditions.

Through a detailed exploration of Nepal’s historical and modern diplomatic efforts, the book highlights the nation’s struggle to maintain autonomy while adapting to external pressures and internal complexities. It discusses key moments of Nepal's history, such as its entangled trade and territorial negotiations with Tibet and India, as well as its response to modern geopolitical shifts. Nepal: Strategy for Survival offers a comprehensive understanding of how this small but strategically vital nation has navigated its role as both a mediator and a protector of its unique identity in the midst of powerful regional influences. This work is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the nuanced challenges of small-state diplomacy in a complex and dynamic region.

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

Kate Guthrie

The Art of Appreciation

$70.00

From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these initiatives was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience but to teach a particular way of listening that would help the public "appreciate" music. This book examines for the first time how and why music appreciation has had such a defining and long-lasting impact—well beyond its roots in late-Victorian liberalism. It traces the networks of music educators, philanthropists, policy makers, critics, composers, and musicians who, rather than resisting new mass media, sought to harness their pedagogic potential. The book explores how listening became embroiled in a nexus of modern problems around citizenship, leisure, and education. In so doing, it ultimately reveals how a new cultural milieu—the middlebrow—emerged at the heart of Britain's experience of modernity.

Terry Greene Sterling

Driving While Brown

$27.95

"A smart, well-documented book about a group of people determined to hold the powerful to account."—2021 NPR "Books We Love"
"Journalism at its best."—2022 Southwest Books of the Year: Top Pick
A 2021 Immigration Book of the Year, Immigration Prof Blog
Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award Finalist 2021

How Latino activists brought down powerful Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Journalists Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block spent years chronicling the human consequences of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s relentless immigration enforcement in Maricopa County, Arizona. In Driving While Brown, they tell the tale of two opposing movements that redefined Arizona’s political landscape—the restrictionist cause advanced by Arpaio and the Latino-led resistance that rose up against it.

The story follows Arpaio, his supporters, and his adversaries, including Lydia Guzman, who gathered evidence for a racial-profiling lawsuit that took surprising turns. Guzman joined a coalition determined to stop Arpaio, reform unconstitutional policing, and fight for Latino civil rights. Driving While Brown details Arpaio's transformation—from "America’s Toughest Sheriff," who forced inmates to wear pink underwear, into the nation’s most feared immigration enforcer who ended up receiving President Donald Trump’s first pardon. The authors immerse readers in the lives of people on both sides of the battle and uncover the deep roots of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

The result of tireless investigative reporting, this powerful book provides critical insights into effective resistance to institutionalized racism and the community organizing that helped transform Arizona from a conservative stronghold into a battleground state.

Elisabeth W. Schneider

T. S. Eliot

$39.95

T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Schneider offers a searching exploration of Eliot’s poetry and criticism through what she calls “double vision”: the simultaneous awareness of each poem as an autonomous work and as part of the larger, developing pattern of a poet’s lifetime achievement. Schneider situates Eliot’s oft-cited doctrine of the “extinction of personality” within the arc of his changing critical statements, showing how his early insistence on impersonality gradually gave way to recognition of the poet’s voice, private experience, and unifying “developing personality” across his oeuvre. In her account, Eliot’s prose criticism becomes less a rigid dogma than a continuous gloss on his poetic practice, itself a record of tensions between detachment and intimate expression.

This study places Eliot’s critical pronouncements—his emphasis on impersonality, his Shakespearean analogies, his revisions of stance—into dialogue with his poetry, tracing how each informs the other. Schneider’s analysis provides readers and scholars with a framework to approach Eliot’s work as a unified whole without neglecting the individuality of its parts, and to read his poems with the tact and caution that Eliot himself demanded. At once historical and interpretive, The Pattern in the Carpet invites renewed consideration of the interplay between art and life, theory and practice, in the career of one of modernism’s most enigmatic and commanding figures.

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

Aaron S. Lecklider

Love's Next Meeting

$29.95

How queerness and radical politics intersected—earlier than you thought.

Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture.

Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love’s Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.

Jennifer Sherman

Dividing Paradise

$95.00

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022

How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream.

Late-stage capitalism is trying to remake rural America in its own image, and the resistance is telling. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining, farming, and ranching now increasingly rely on tourism, second-home ownership, and retirement migration. In Dividing Paradise, Jennifer Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth has resulted in a new social landscape of inequality and privilege, with deep fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. In this complicated cultural reality, "class blindness" allows privileged newcomers to ignore or justify their impact on these towns, papering over the sentiments of anger, loss, and disempowerment of longtime locals.

Based on in-depth interviews with individuals on both sides of the divide, this book explores the causes and repercussions of the stark inequity that has become commonplace across the United States. It exposes the mechanisms by which inequality flourishes and by which Americans have come to believe that disparity is acceptable and deserved. Sherman, who is known for her work on rural America, presents here a powerful case study of the ever-growing tensions between those who can and those who cannot achieve their visions of the American dream.

Susanna Bryant Dakin

A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles

$49.95

A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles by Susanna Bryant Dakin reconstructs the career and milieu of Hugo Reid—a Scottish trader turned Californio hacendado—through an extraordinary epistolary record, chiefly his 1836–1852 correspondence with Abel Stearns. Dakin situates Reid within the intertwined commercial, political, and domestic networks of Mexican-era Southern California, tracing parallel lives that converged in Los Angeles and San Gabriel amid secularization, the hide-and-tallow trade, and the disruptions of war and statehood. The letters—carried by runners, riders, and creaking carretas—preserve the texture of “poco tiempo” sociability as well as the practicalities of land, credit, and reputation. Dakin’s editorial frame is avowedly archival: she mines collections from Gaffey to Coronel and Wagner, supplements lacunae with contemporary diaries and mission registers, and acknowledges a sparing use of informed reconstruction where eyewitness testimony fails (Reid’s first landing in 1832, his meeting with Victoria, and their 1837 wedding). Throughout, she balances narrative warmth with documentary restraint.

The study’s interpretive core challenges received mythologies. Dakin corrects the literary afterlife of Reid in Ramona, disentangling Helen Hunt Jackson’s romantic types from the documented lives of Reid, Doña Victoria (of the Comigrabit line), and their family—especially Maria Ygnacia, the “Flower of San Gabriel.” She reads Reid not as a “squaw man” but as a bilingual, freethinking mediator whose naturalization, marriage, and public service bound him to indigenous and Californio communities while keeping a trader’s eye on Pacific circuits from Callao to San Pedro. By pairing close readings of Reid–Stearns letters with contextual chapters on commerce, secularization, the Mexican–American War, and the Gold Rush, Dakin recovers a cosmopolitan frontier in which Scots, Yankees, Kanakas, and Gabrielino-Tongva actors negotiated status, law, and belonging—an historical Los Angeles that was at once provincial and ocean-facing, leisurely and volatile, improvised and consequential.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1939.

Caetlin Benson-Allott

The Stuff of Spectatorship

$95.00

Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwind—all this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorship argues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970s—including video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violence—and shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future.

Josh Berson

The Human Scaffold

$95.00

Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today.

In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate.

The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.

George A. De Vos and L. Bryce Boyer

Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally

$95.00

Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test by George A. De Vos and L. Bryce Boyer explores how universal psychobiological processes intersect with the shaping power of culture to produce distinctive modes of perception, thought, and affective regulation. Grounded in the assumption that humans share a common mental apparatus, the authors emphasize how culturally normative child-rearing and socialization practices channelize drives and structure emotional and cognitive development. These differences in early experiences, they argue, manifest symbolically in language, behavior, and interpretive styles, offering scholars a pathway to link psychological universals with cultural variation.

At the heart of the book is a bold methodological claim: the Rorschach test, long established as a projective instrument in clinical settings, can serve as a cross-cultural tool for investigating modalities of thought and affective control. By analyzing verbal responses to inkblot stimuli across societies, De Vos and Boyer demonstrate how projective testing can illuminate cultural patterning in cognition and emotion while remaining anchored in universal psychological processes. Their work positions the Rorschach not simply as a diagnostic device but as a comparative research method, opening possibilities for advances in social psychiatry, psychological anthropology, and developmental psychology. This volume will appeal to scholars seeking to bridge individual psychology and cultural systems through rigorous and innovative analysis.

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

Martin Halliwell

American Health Crisis

$29.95

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide.

Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration’s antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates how—despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the world—vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.

Gustave Flaubert

The First Sentimental Education

$95.00

The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic's puppy love for Mme Arnoux is at first steadfast and idealistic, and she remains faithful to her rather frivolous husband. Frederic's love ends in disillusionment, as do the subsequent passions of his life. His youthful ambitions lead to failure and boredom, and his idealistic views of social progress are disappointed by 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 1972.

Peter Gay

A Loss of Mastery

$95.00

A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay offers a brilliant exploration of how early New Englanders wrote their history and what that writing reveals about the Puritan mind. Drawing on figures from William Bradford and Cotton Mather to Jonathan Edwards, Gay shows how colonial historians sought to order the turbulence of settlement, theology, and politics into a providential narrative. At the heart of the book is the paradox that the Puritans, for all their obsession with recording God’s design in history, failed to develop the historical consciousness that was transforming Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Written originally as Jefferson Memorial Lectures, Gay’s study balances intellectual history with close readings of canonical Puritan texts. It traces the evolution of a historiography that began in heroic self-justification but descended into elegiac lamentations of decline. For Gay, this trajectory reveals both the grandeur and the limitations of the Puritan experiment: the effort to live within a providential frame of history that could not withstand the modernizing pressures of Enlightenment thought. A Loss of Mastery thus illuminates not only the Puritan worldview but also the larger problem of cultural adaptation in the New 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 1966.

Jacques Lambert

Latin America

$95.00

Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions examines the region's historical, social, and political evolution from the colonial era to the modern day. The book traces Latin America's unique trajectory, marked by its early colonial development, the delayed progress of its nation-states post-independence, and the complex interplay between social hierarchies and political structures. The colonial legacy of Iberian rule, characterized by rigid social stratification, concentrated land ownership, and economic dependency, laid a foundation that hindered post-independence progress. Even as independence movements in the 19th century fragmented the region into sovereign states, they failed to dismantle the entrenched colonial social fabric, delaying economic diversification and democratic governance.

The book further explores Latin America's tumultuous political history, highlighting cycles of dictatorship, revolution, and reform. The region's regimes, often modeled after U.S.-style presidential systems, evolved uniquely to address local challenges, balancing the need for centralized authority with efforts to uphold democratic principles. Economic potential, fueled by vast natural resources and growing populations, underscores the region's importance on the global stage. Despite setbacks, including political instability and social inequality, the text emphasizes Latin America's persistent quest for balanced development. It argues that the region's ongoing political experiments, blending elements of democratic and authoritarian governance, could offer valuable insights into the challenges of modern nation-building.

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

Joel Best

Is That True?

$95.00

Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.

With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines the ways in which sociologists engage in fuzzy thinking through bias, faddish cultural waves, spurious reasoning, and implicit bias. The short chapters cover:

A general introduction to critical thinking and logic in the social sciences
Sociology as an enterprise
Key issues in thinking critically about sociological research
Challenging questions that confront sociologists and a call for the discipline to meet those challenges.

Students across disciplines will learn the building blocks of critical thinking in a sociological context and come away with key concepts to put into practice.

Jan Bardsley

Maiko Masquerade

$29.95

Maiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto’s classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men’s amusement, she serves as catalyst for women’s consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girls—and even one boy—striving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.

Richard Sisson

The Congress Party in Rajasthan

$49.95

The Congress Party in Rajasthan: Political Integration and Institution-Building in an Indian State offers an in-depth exploration of the Congress party’s evolution and dominance in Rajasthan's political landscape. The book examines how this party navigated the challenges of integrating diverse princely states and traditional power structures into a cohesive democratic political framework following India's independence. It delves into the processes of political mobilization, elite recruitment, and the creation of new institutional linkages, emphasizing the Congress's pivotal role in forging a unified political identity in a region previously fragmented by semi-sovereign princely rule.

The study is structured around three key dimensions: the historical antecedents of Congress's emergence, its adaptability to changing political and social environments, and the internal dynamics of factionalism and conflict management. Drawing on a rich historical perspective, the book investigates the party's ability to incorporate diverse social groups, manage intraparty conflicts, and maintain a balance between traditional authority and modern democratic norms. It highlights how the Congress party became not only a vehicle for state-level integration but also a crucial mechanism for cultivating political participation, promoting systemic stability, and nurturing a democratic political culture in a region marked by deep-rooted traditionalism.

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

Vincent Crapanzano

The Hamadsha

$39.95

The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry examines the unique religious brotherhoods of Morocco, tracing their origins to two saints from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Sidi Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi. Known for their dramatic and sometimes controversial rituals, such as trance dances and acts of self-mutilation, the Hamadsha are healers who address spiritual and psychogenic ailments through symbolic and therapeutic practices. Their activities, deeply rooted in the Moroccan cult of saints, reflect a complex interplay of Islamic mysticism, local traditions, and social dynamics. Through these rituals, the Hamadsha incorporate patients into their brotherhoods, providing them with new roles and a symbolic framework to articulate and resolve personal and societal tensions.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, historical analysis, and psychoanalytic perspectives, this study explores the Hamadsha's history, their organizational structure, and their relationship with Moroccan culture and religion. It examines the saints’ tombs as focal points of veneration, the social dynamics of the brotherhoods, and their therapeutic methods, including pilgrimages and trance dances. The book situates the Hamadsha within the broader Moroccan socio-cultural landscape, revealing how their practices both reinforce and challenge societal norms. Ultimately, the work sheds light on the enduring cultural significance of the Hamadsha as curers and keepers of a distinct spiritual tradition.

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

Sara Kamali

Homegrown Hate

$29.95

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022

To better understand current events and threats, this book outlines the organizations and beliefs of domestic terrorists in the United States and how to counter their attacks on American democracy.

Who are the American citizens—White nationalists and militant Islamists—perpetrating acts of terrorism against their own country? What are their grievances and why do they hate? How can this transnational peril be effectively addressed?

Homegrown Hate is a groundbreaking and deeply researched work that directly compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States. In this timely book, scholar and holistic justice activist Sara Kamali examines these Americans’ self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence, and details their organizational structures within a transnational context. She presents compelling insight into the most pressing threat to homeland security not only in the United States, but in nations across the globe: citizens who are targeting their homeland according to their respective narratives of victimhood. She also explains the hate behind the headlines and provides the tools to counter this hate from within, cogently offering hope in uncertain and divisive times. Innovative and engaging, this is an indispensable resource for all who cherish equity and justice in the United States and around the world.

James B. Conant

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education

$39.95

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education by James B. Conant originates from the Jefferson Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of California in 1960. Conant uses this platform to revisit Jefferson’s role as both a visionary political leader and an educational innovator, situating his ideas within the broader trajectory of American schooling. Having earlier spoken on the Jeffersonian tradition in education while serving as President of Harvard, Conant now expands beyond selective scholarship schemes to address Jefferson’s entire philosophy of public education. He explores Jefferson’s proposals for free education at all levels for talented but impoverished youth, his advocacy for diffusion of knowledge as a safeguard for democracy, and his attempts to establish systematic schooling in Virginia. The first two chapters trace Jefferson’s wide-ranging contributions to educational thought, while the third returns to the enduring question of access and merit in American society.

Conant’s study also places Jefferson’s educational vision in historical context, juxtaposing his unfulfilled proposals with the actual development of public education across the nineteenth century and beyond. By linking Jefferson’s democratic ideals to the eventual rise of America’s unique system of public schools, Conant underscores both the originality and the limitations of Jefferson’s initiatives. The volume includes a substantial appendix of Jefferson’s own writings—letters, legislative drafts, and reports—that reveal his commitment to education as a cornerstone of republican government. For Conant, understanding Jefferson’s educational philosophy is not merely an exercise in historical appreciation; it is a way of grasping how foundational ideals shaped, and continue to shape, the evolving structure of American schooling. The book thus bridges biography, intellectual history, and policy analysis, highlighting the lasting significance of Jefferson’s educational thought for modern debates about equity, opportunity, and the civic purposes of education.

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

Paul Spencer

The Samburu

$49.95

The Samburu: A Study of Gerontocracy in a Nomadic Tribe by Paul Spencer offers a rich ethnographic account of a pastoral society in northern Kenya whose political and social life is organized around the authority of elders. Closely related linguistically and culturally to the Masai, the Samburu nonetheless developed their own distinctive institutions, shaped by the arid ecology of their homeland and by crises such as the devastating rinderpest and smallpox epidemics of the late nineteenth century. Colonial intervention brought new layers of administration and, after World War II, experimental grazing schemes, yet Spencer demonstrates that Samburu society remained remarkably resilient. Elders continued to dominate decision-making, adjudicate disputes, and control marriage, while the age-set system maintained a strict separation between the power of the old and the obligations of the young. At the core of Samburu social values lies *nkanyit*—a nuanced concept of respect, shame, and duty—that governs relationships within the tribe and distinguishes the Samburu from their neighbors.

Drawing on twenty-seven months of fieldwork from 1957 to 1960, Spencer provides a vivid portrait of Samburu gerontocracy in practice. He examines the tension between elder authority and the moran, the young unmarried men who, though stripped of their historic warrior role by colonial pacification, retained their distinctive dress, camps, and rituals, remaining integral to the society’s balance of power. Detailed case studies from Pardopa clan, supplemented with comparisons across other clans and neighboring groups, illuminate how polygyny, delayed marriage, and clan corporateness reinforce elder dominance while channeling youthful energies into culturally sanctioned roles. With attention to ceremony, women’s status, and the interplay between ecological adaptation and social institutions, Spencer situates the Samburu within broader East African pastoral dynamics. This study stands as a classic account of how age, authority, and tradition structure the life of a nomadic people navigating both colonial rule and enduring cultural continuity.

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

Edited by Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles

The Trump Paradox

$95.00

The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade.

Essays by C. E. Ayres, Neil W. Chamberlain, Joseph Dorfman, R. A. Gordon, Simon Kuznets

Institutional Economics

$39.95

Institutional economics, as explored in this collection of lectures, represents a distinctly American contribution to economic theory. Rooted in pragmatism and influenced by sociological jurisprudence, institutional economics diverges from classical economic theory by emphasizing the interplay of non-economic factors and the need for rigorous, data-driven analysis of economic phenomena. The approach prioritizes a comprehensive understanding of the facts and disregards traditional disciplinary boundaries to address issues such as labor and industrial relations. This methodology has profoundly shaped contemporary practices in analyzing and resolving industrial relations problems, as highlighted by the contributions of eminent economists featured in this volume.

This book examines the pioneering work of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons, and Wesley C. Mitchell, who are widely recognized as the founders of institutional economics. The lectures, delivered by leading scholars including Joseph Dorfman, C. E. Ayres, and Simon Kuznets, honor the legacy of these thinkers while offering insights into the ongoing relevance of institutional economics. The contributors illuminate how these early economists laid the groundwork for addressing critical social and economic issues, influencing figures such as Edwin E. Witte and Sumner Slichter. By emphasizing practical application and interdisciplinary thinking, the book underscores the enduring impact of institutional economics on both theory and practice.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Henry Reichman

Railwaymen and Revolution

$49.95

Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 provides a deep and meticulously researched exploration of the role that railroad workers played in shaping one of the most transformative moments in Russian revolutionary history. More than a simple prelude to the October Revolution of 1917, the events of 1905 fundamentally redefined class struggle, social consciousness, and the relationship between workers and the broader revolutionary movement. This book situates railway workers within the broader context of Russia’s rapidly industrializing landscape, revealing how their unique position—both economically and geographically—made them central to the strike movements that characterized the revolution. As a workforce spanning across vast stretches of the empire, railroad laborers served as both a conduit for revolutionary ideas and a formidable force in their own right, shaping the dynamics of class consciousness in ways that extended beyond traditional factory settings.

Through a combination of historical analysis and political theory, the book examines how railway workers navigated the complex intersection of economic grievances, professional identity, and political struggle. The author highlights the conflicting pressures exerted by the managerial elite, liberal reformers, and socialist radicals, illustrating how these tensions played out within the labor movement itself. The study also challenges traditional interpretations of Russian labor history by demonstrating that class consciousness was not an inevitable byproduct of industrialization but rather a contested and evolving process. By focusing on the railroads, the book offers a fresh perspective on the 1905 revolution, making it an essential read for scholars of Russian history, labor studies, and revolutionary movements.

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

Jacques Lambert, Translated by Helen Katel

Latin America

$49.95

Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions examines the region's historical, social, and political evolution from the colonial era to the modern day. The book traces Latin America's unique trajectory, marked by its early colonial development, the delayed progress of its nation-states post-independence, and the complex interplay between social hierarchies and political structures. The colonial legacy of Iberian rule, characterized by rigid social stratification, concentrated land ownership, and economic dependency, laid a foundation that hindered post-independence progress. Even as independence movements in the 19th century fragmented the region into sovereign states, they failed to dismantle the entrenched colonial social fabric, delaying economic diversification and democratic governance.

The book further explores Latin America's tumultuous political history, highlighting cycles of dictatorship, revolution, and reform. The region's regimes, often modeled after U.S.-style presidential systems, evolved uniquely to address local challenges, balancing the need for centralized authority with efforts to uphold democratic principles. Economic potential, fueled by vast natural resources and growing populations, underscores the region's importance on the global stage. Despite setbacks, including political instability and social inequality, the text emphasizes Latin America's persistent quest for balanced development. It argues that the region's ongoing political experiments, blending elements of democratic and authoritarian governance, could offer valuable insights into the challenges of modern nation-building.

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

Megan D. McFarlane

Militarized Maternity

$95.00

The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet, few discussions have focused on the U.S. military, where many of the latest policy changes focus on these very issues. Despite the armed forces' increases to maternity-related benefits, servicewomen continue to be stigmatized for being pregnant and taking advantage of maternity policies. In an effort to understand this disconnect, Megan McFarlane analyzes military documents and conducts interviews with enlisted servicewomen and female officers. She finds a policy/culture disparity within the military that pregnant servicewomen themselves often co-construct, making the policy changes significantly less effective. McFarlane ends by offering suggestions for how these policy changes can have more impact and how they could potentially serve as an example for the broader societal debate.

Allan Rodway

English Comedy

$95.00

English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the appreciation for comic works that transcend their time. Unlike many comedies that are tied to contemporary issues and fade with their era, this study focuses on the works that stand the test of time, like Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The book addresses common misconceptions by distinguishing comedy from farce and other forms of entertainment. Its central thesis is that comedy, while often dismissed as a trivial form, serves important societal functions by critiquing and satirizing societal norms, offering both a reflection and a critique of its era. The study examines how comedy is shaped by and responds to social tensions, exploring its potential for both progressive and conservative social commentary.

The structure of the book is divided into several parts, each serving a distinct purpose. Part I focuses on the theory of comedy, establishing a framework for the subsequent analysis. It distinguishes between the concepts of laughter and comedy, and defines key terms for understanding comic works. Part II applies these theoretical ideas to different literary periods, offering a comparative analysis of representative comic works. By doing so, it offers a critical evaluation that goes beyond historical context to explore the universal and enduring qualities of comedy. The book emphasizes the role of the comic writer, who, by depicting the absurdities of society, often reflects a larger societal critique. Through this, the author aims to provide readers with both a theoretical understanding and a personal appreciation of the masterpieces of English comedy, demonstrating how these works remain relevant despite their period-specific origins.

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

John P. McWilliams, Jr.

Political Justice in a Republic

$49.95

Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s America by John P. McWilliams, Jr. offers the first sustained exploration of Cooper’s fiction as a vehicle for political philosophy. Rather than treating Cooper as either an apolitical romancer or a failed imitator of Scott, McWilliams demonstrates how his novels repeatedly stage contests over law, loyalty, and justice in the “neutral ground” of a changing America. From the Revolutionary War to the unsettled frontier, Cooper dramatized questions of national identity and the foundations of republican order, seeing literature as an instrument of civic instruction and a defense of constitutional ideals.

Drawing on Cooper’s entire career, McWilliams situates the Leatherstocking Tales and later social fictions within debates about divine, natural, moral, and civil law, as well as shifting notions of patriotism, property, and political authority. He argues that Cooper remained a consistent republican thinker, committed to conserving the liberties of the original republic even as American society and its politics changed around him. The book thus reclaims Cooper as a serious political and cultural critic whose fiction grappled with enduring dilemmas of democracy, law, and social order—issues as relevant to modern readers as to his nineteenth-century audience.

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

Nobuko Miyamoto. Edited by Deborah Wong

Not Yo' Butterfly

$95.00

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose.

Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art.

Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation.

Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.

V. F. Lenzen

Civilization

$39.95

In this collection of essays first published in 1941, the authors grapple with fundamental questions about the nature and evaluation of human social patterns. Their republication invites reflection on whether the intervening decades of historical turbulence and philosophical progress have addressed these enduring issues or if the analyses remain relevant. Professor Lenzen’s exploration of the scientific revolution highlights the interplay of philosophical decisions and practical conditions, such as the rejection of Aristotelian physics in favor of mathematical methods. While he underestimated the impact of military pressures on scientific progress, his central theses about the conceptual underpinnings of breakthroughs remain intact. Similarly, Professor Melden’s critique of "sociologism" and his insights into the conditions for objective judgment in the social sciences retain their pertinence in addressing the persistent challenges of relativism and explanatory frameworks.

The essays also delve into the relationship between freedom and organization, a tension explored by Professors Pepper and Mackay, whose analyses of research and communication structures are even more relevant today. At a deeper level, the works of Professors Adams, Strong, and the concluding essay tackle the philosophical core of civilization: the nature and validity of value norms. Adams’ Platonic interpretations and Strong’s naturalistic inquiries provide complementary perspectives on the grounding of values in human needs and aspirations. The concluding essay seeks to reconcile descriptive and normative perspectives on civilization while bridging natural and spiritual values. Collectively, these studies aim to stimulate rigorous reflection on civilization's intellectual and moral underpinnings, a task as vital now as when these ideas were first articulated.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Rene Lemarchand

Political Awakening in the Congo

$49.95

Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo offers a comprehensive exploration of the historical, social, and political forces that shaped the Congo's tumultuous transition from colonial rule to independence. The book provides critical insights into how ethnic diversity, regional particularisms, and the complexities of colonial legacies combined to hinder the creation of a cohesive national identity. By focusing on the years leading up to and immediately following the Congo's independence in 1960, the study delves into the rise of political parties as instruments of nationalist expression and examines their role in both reflecting and exacerbating the country’s fragmentation.

The author meticulously analyzes the challenges of building national unity within an immense and ethnically diverse territory. Spanning 905,380 square miles and home to hundreds of ethnic groups, the Congo faced unique difficulties in fostering political integration. By intertwining historical narratives with the development of political organizations, the book illuminates how colonial policies and traditional structures influenced the character and dynamics of emerging political parties. Drawing on a wealth of sources—including archival records, African newspapers, and personal interviews—the work provides a nuanced portrayal of the social changes initiated by Western influence and their profound impact on the Congolese political landscape. This volume is essential for understanding the roots of the Congo’s post-independence crises and offers broader lessons on the challenges of nation-building in diverse, post-colonial 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 1964.

Philip A. Munz

Supplement to A California Flora

$39.95

Supplement to A California Flora by Philip A. Munz is an essential update to one of the foundational references on the botany of the American West. Published a decade after the original A California Flora (1959, with David D. Keck), this volume incorporates the results of an extraordinarily active period of floristic research in the state. Drawing on a wide array of recent revisions, monographs, and international taxonomic reappraisals, Munz carefully records nomenclatural changes, corrections, and additions, particularly those prompted by renewed scrutiny of European types and older Linnaean names. The supplement not only integrates his own observations but also acknowledges the critical contributions of colleagues, collectors, and specialists across California, making it a collaborative record of botanical advancement.

Organized for direct correlation with the pagination and numbering of the 1959 Flora, the supplement is designed for practical use: owners of the original edition are encouraged to annotate their copies with these new treatments, ensuring the continued accuracy and relevance of their reference work. Abbreviations and formatting remain consistent with the parent volume, while annotations clarify instances where corrections apply only to the first printing. More than a mere errata list, Munz’s supplement reflects the dynamism of botanical science and the necessity of periodic revision in light of ongoing taxonomic debate. For professional botanists, naturalists, and serious students of California’s biodiversity, Supplement to A California Flora provides indispensable guidance for aligning fieldwork and research with the most current and authoritative identifications.

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

Peter Gay

A Loss of Mastery

$39.95

A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay offers a brilliant exploration of how early New Englanders wrote their history and what that writing reveals about the Puritan mind. Drawing on figures from William Bradford and Cotton Mather to Jonathan Edwards, Gay shows how colonial historians sought to order the turbulence of settlement, theology, and politics into a providential narrative. At the heart of the book is the paradox that the Puritans, for all their obsession with recording God’s design in history, failed to develop the historical consciousness that was transforming Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Written originally as Jefferson Memorial Lectures, Gay’s study balances intellectual history with close readings of canonical Puritan texts. It traces the evolution of a historiography that began in heroic self-justification but descended into elegiac lamentations of decline. For Gay, this trajectory reveals both the grandeur and the limitations of the Puritan experiment: the effort to live within a providential frame of history that could not withstand the modernizing pressures of Enlightenment thought. A Loss of Mastery thus illuminates not only the Puritan worldview but also the larger problem of cultural adaptation in the New 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 1966.

Wai Chee Dimock

Residues of Justice

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In Residues of Justice, Wai Chee Dimock probes the conceit of justice as a matter of measurable equivalence—those iconic scales that promise perfect balance—and finds what she calls the “residues” left behind by any attempt to translate lived conflicts into commensurate terms. Opening with Aristophanes’ The Frogs and moving through Aristotle’s proportional ethics, Kant, Rawls, and Mill, Dimock shows how justice has long been imagined as a language of ratios, universals, and adequation. Against this dream of objective fit—good for good, evil for evil—she foregrounds the incommensurate: what gets lost in translation when law seeks punishment, philosophy seeks foundations, and both presume a common currency of value. Engaging Michael Sandel’s critique of liberal justice and Carol Gilligan’s “ethic of care,” she reframes justice as one virtue among others, necessarily partial, historically contingent, and never exhaustive.

Dimock’s signal move is to put literature alongside law and philosophy as a third, stubbornly recalcitrant language of justice. Through close readings of American writers—from Whitman’s democratic personhood and Cooper’s punitive zeal to Rebecca Harding Davis’s economic dispossession, Howells’s compensatory aspirations, Warner’s luck, and Chopin’s rights—she tracks where commensuration thins, frays, or fails altogether. The result is a powerful argument that literary representation exposes the limits of juridical and philosophical balancing acts, insisting on the unweighable remnants that any settlement leaves behind—and inviting more capacious, humane supplements to our adjudicative ideals.

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

David Johnson

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

$95.00

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China delves into the vibrant and multifaceted world of non-elite Chinese culture during the late imperial period, spanning roughly from 1550 to 1920. This collection of essays challenges the overemphasis on elite narratives in Chinese historical studies, highlighting the importance of exploring the values, ideas, and cultural expressions of the broader populace. Drawing on an array of texts—scriptures, plays, almanacs, novels, and oral traditions—the contributors investigate how popular culture was produced, consumed, and transmitted across social strata. Through this lens, the book reveals a cultural landscape that was both deeply diverse and intricately integrated, reflecting shared values and beliefs despite differences in class, region, and literacy.

The essays explore topics such as local drama, sectarian religious practices, and the interplay between oral and written traditions, emphasizing how these cultural elements served as conduits for communication and the diffusion of values. The book also examines how popular culture intersected with state ideologies and policies, with some essays detailing the state's role in promoting or suppressing certain religious and cultural practices. From the transformation of folk deities into national symbols to the use of simplified explanations of imperial edicts for public instruction, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China illustrates the dynamic interaction between elite and non-elite spheres. This work is an essential resource for understanding the cultural richness of late imperial China and the social forces that shaped its historical trajectory.

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

Harvey Pitcher

The Chekhov Play

$95.00

In The Chekhov Play: A New Interpretation, the author sets out to reclaim Anton Chekhov's work from oversimplified, often misguided interpretations that have reduced his plays to clichés or misaligned political and literary agendas. The author critiques those who label Chekhov’s work as "typically Chekhovian" without truly understanding his nuanced spirit, or those who attempt to co-opt him as a revolutionary figure or a precursor to absurdist theatre. By distancing themselves from these reductive readings, the author proposes a fresh perspective, grounded in a more profound engagement with Chekhov's language, culture, and thematic subtleties. The book aims not to refute past critiques point by point but to construct an alternative framework that highlights what makes Chekhov’s plays so uniquely compelling. This effort begins with a clear and concise definition of the Chekhov play’s essence in the opening chapter, offering readers a foundational understanding that guides the subsequent exploration of his major works.

The book’s analysis traces the evolution of Chekhov’s dramatic art, with detailed studies of The Seagull and Uncle Vanya illustrating the developmental trajectory of his craft. These chapters explore how Chekhov refined his dramatic language and thematic focus over time. In contrast, the discussions of Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard serve as deeper appreciations, reinterpreting these masterpieces in a way that aims to reveal new insights and emotional resonance. This dual approach—a critical examination of Chekhov’s evolution and an emotive engagement with his later works—underscores the author’s central thesis: that Chekhov’s plays are not merely artifacts of a specific time or literary movement but profound, living works that demand thoughtful and nuanced appreciation. Through this reinterpretation, the book seeks to reconnect readers with the spirit of Chekhov’s art, emphasizing its timeless humanity and depth.

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

Vincent Crapanzano

The Hamadsha

$95.00

The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry examines the unique religious brotherhoods of Morocco, tracing their origins to two saints from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Sidi Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi. Known for their dramatic and sometimes controversial rituals, such as trance dances and acts of self-mutilation, the Hamadsha are healers who address spiritual and psychogenic ailments through symbolic and therapeutic practices. Their activities, deeply rooted in the Moroccan cult of saints, reflect a complex interplay of Islamic mysticism, local traditions, and social dynamics. Through these rituals, the Hamadsha incorporate patients into their brotherhoods, providing them with new roles and a symbolic framework to articulate and resolve personal and societal tensions.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, historical analysis, and psychoanalytic perspectives, this study explores the Hamadsha's history, their organizational structure, and their relationship with Moroccan culture and religion. It examines the saints’ tombs as focal points of veneration, the social dynamics of the brotherhoods, and their therapeutic methods, including pilgrimages and trance dances. The book situates the Hamadsha within the broader Moroccan socio-cultural landscape, revealing how their practices both reinforce and challenge societal norms. Ultimately, the work sheds light on the enduring cultural significance of the Hamadsha as curers and keepers of a distinct spiritual tradition.

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

John B. Gleason

John Colet

$95.00

John Colet by John B. Gleason offers the first comprehensive scholarly biography of the early Tudor theologian, reformer, and founder of St. Paul’s School. Long overshadowed by Erasmus and Thomas More, Colet emerges here as a central figure in the intellectual and religious life of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. Drawing on Colet’s manuscripts, sermons, and exegetical writings, as well as the shifting historiographical traditions that shaped his posthumous reputation, Gleason reconstructs the career of a thinker whose blend of humanist learning, Pauline theology, and cautious reformism complicates both Protestant and Catholic narratives of the English Reformation.

Moving beyond the Victorian image of Colet as a proto-Protestant hero, Gleason situates him in the contexts of mercantile London, Oxford and Cambridge scholarship, and the politics of Henry VII’s and Henry VIII’s courts. The book explores his exegetical method, his theology of the sacraments, his educational vision for St. Paul’s School, and his role in policing heresy and guiding reform from within the church. At once sympathetic and critical, John Colet reveals a figure at the crossroads of medieval and Renaissance intellectual cultures, whose writings anticipate modern biblical criticism while remaining embedded in the conservative hierarchies of his own day.

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

Walter Galenson

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

$95.00

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe offers both a lucid survey of European labor organizations and a provocative mirror for American debates about union structure and democracy. Walter Galenson provides a comparative account of how unions in Belgium, Holland, Austria, France, Italy, Britain, and Sweden have evolved distinctive responses to the challenges of representation, political fragmentation, and member participation. He pays particular attention to the phenomenon of “dual unionism,” long rejected in the United States but widely accepted in parts of Europe as a positive feature of union life. By situating organizational forms within their economic, political, and social contexts, Galenson demonstrates that no single model of union democracy can be transplanted wholesale; each reflects the historical choices and institutional legacies of its setting.

At the same time, the study speaks directly to American concerns. Questions about exclusive jurisdiction, rank-and-file participation, and the organization of white-collar workers gain fresh perspective when viewed alongside European practices. Case studies of Swedish white-collar unions, for example, highlight possibilities for independent, politically neutral, and workplace-centered organization in sectors of growing importance to U.S. labor. Comparisons with Britain, France, and Italy underscore both the dangers of fragmentation and the adaptive strengths of centralized bargaining traditions. Galenson’s work thus serves as both an authoritative introduction to European labor structures and an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to rethink the future of union democracy in the United States. By “visiting other nations,” as Clark Kerr observes in his preface, readers gain not only knowledge of Europe but also a sharpened perspective on their own institutions.

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

Jenny Stuber

Aspen and the American Dream

$29.95

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible" math of Aspen, Colorado, Stuber explores how middle-class people have found a way to live in this supergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials, Stuber shows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Colorado—the X-factor that makes middle-class life possible—is the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidies—including an extensive affordable housing program—that redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there.

Stuber further examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall, Stuber argues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholders—citizens, government, developers, and vacationers—to preserve the town’s unique feel and value, and "keep Aspen, Aspen" in all its complex dynamics.

Paul Spencer

The Samburu

$95.00

The Samburu: A Study of Gerontocracy in a Nomadic Tribe by Paul Spencer offers a rich ethnographic account of a pastoral society in northern Kenya whose political and social life is organized around the authority of elders. Closely related linguistically and culturally to the Masai, the Samburu nonetheless developed their own distinctive institutions, shaped by the arid ecology of their homeland and by crises such as the devastating rinderpest and smallpox epidemics of the late nineteenth century. Colonial intervention brought new layers of administration and, after World War II, experimental grazing schemes, yet Spencer demonstrates that Samburu society remained remarkably resilient. Elders continued to dominate decision-making, adjudicate disputes, and control marriage, while the age-set system maintained a strict separation between the power of the old and the obligations of the young. At the core of Samburu social values lies *nkanyit*—a nuanced concept of respect, shame, and duty—that governs relationships within the tribe and distinguishes the Samburu from their neighbors.

Drawing on twenty-seven months of fieldwork from 1957 to 1960, Spencer provides a vivid portrait of Samburu gerontocracy in practice. He examines the tension between elder authority and the moran, the young unmarried men who, though stripped of their historic warrior role by colonial pacification, retained their distinctive dress, camps, and rituals, remaining integral to the society’s balance of power. Detailed case studies from Pardopa clan, supplemented with comparisons across other clans and neighboring groups, illuminate how polygyny, delayed marriage, and clan corporateness reinforce elder dominance while channeling youthful energies into culturally sanctioned roles. With attention to ceremony, women’s status, and the interplay between ecological adaptation and social institutions, Spencer situates the Samburu within broader East African pastoral dynamics. This study stands as a classic account of how age, authority, and tradition structure the life of a nomadic people navigating both colonial rule and enduring cultural continuity.

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

William Henry Ellison

A Self-Governing Dominion

$95.00

A Self-governing Dominion: California, 1849–1860 by William Henry Ellison traces California’s turbulent political evolution from the framing of its first constitution to the factional battles that culminated on the eve of the Civil War. Ellison interprets the decade as a formative era when Californians, spurred by circumstance and necessity, developed a strong ethos of self-rule—sometimes cooperative, often contentious, but always marked by a determination to assert autonomy in shaping local and state institutions. The narrative begins with military occupation and improvised legal systems in the wake of conquest, moving through the gold rush and the constitutional convention at Monterey, and continuing into the 1850s with debates over land ownership, Indian policy, vigilante justice, sectional division, and political patronage. At each stage, Ellison underscores the central theme: Californians perceived themselves as a people apart, compelled to devise political structures without waiting for distant authority.

Drawing upon both archival sources and established scholarship, Ellison reconstructs how the new state managed competing claims of sovereignty and legitimacy while simultaneously navigating national controversies over slavery, federal land policy, and Native dispossession. The book highlights emblematic episodes: the Bear Flag Revolt’s improvised republicanism, the persistence of alcalde justice amid American common-law innovations, the explosive constitutional debates over suffrage and slavery, and the dramatic contests between William Gwin and David Broderick, whose rivalry epitomized California’s struggle to define its political identity. Ellison emphasizes how fortuitous circumstances—California’s distance from Washington, the sudden influx of gold seekers, and the sectional tensions rending the nation—magnified the stakes of local decision-making. In presenting California as a “self-governing dominion,” Ellison provides not only a detailed account of a unique frontier political culture but also a reinterpretation of how the state’s formative decade secured its place within the Union while cultivating a tradition of political independence.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Edited by John M. Rist, General Editor Amelie Oksenberg Rorty

The Stoics

$95.00

The Stoics, edited by John M. Rist, gathers leading scholarship to reassess one of antiquity’s most influential philosophical schools. Once dismissed as pedantic or derivative, the Stoics are now recognized as innovators whose contributions to logic, ethics, physics, and philosophical psychology rival those of Aristotle and Plato. This volume traces that reappraisal, showing how figures such as Chrysippus crafted a system of logic based on propositions rather than terms, developed a rich theory of signs and language, and articulated a vision of human rationality that shaped centuries of intellectual history. Essays range from technical studies of Stoic logic and grammar to explorations of their enduring ethical and metaphysical concerns, offering a multifaceted view of the school’s intellectual achievement.

Designed for both specialists and readers encountering Stoicism in depth for the first time, this collection captures the dynamism of current debates while consolidating the gains of twentieth-century scholarship. By situating Stoic thought alongside modern developments in logic and philosophy of language, the contributors reveal its continued philosophical relevance. The Stoics is not simply a survey but a set of arguments for why Stoicism must be taken seriously today: as a system of logic of startling originality, as a rigorous moral philosophy, and as a comprehensive worldview that continues to provoke, inspire, and challenge. This volume is indispensable for philosophers, classicists, and historians of ideas seeking to understand both the foundations and the lasting significance of Stoic 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 1978.

Megan A. Carney

Island of Hope

$29.95

With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.

Ruth A. Fox

The Tangled Chain

$49.95

The Tangled Chain: The Structure of Disorder in the Anatomy of Melancholy by Ruth A. Fox offers a formalist reading of Robert Burton’s monumental work, concentrating on the problems of structure and theme that shape the Anatomy of Melancholy. Rather than surveying its broader place among medical treatises, psychological writings, or Elizabethan anatomies, Fox focuses closely on the ways in which Burton organizes, fragments, and ultimately stabilizes his sprawling text. Her approach, attentive to partitions, subsections, and the author’s methods of citation and interpolation, reveals the deliberate yet paradoxical logic that governs Burton’s treatment of disorder. By restricting her scope, Fox is able to excavate the tensions in the *Anatomy* itself—between encyclopedic ambition and structural chaos, between scholarly compilation and creative design—that continue to puzzle readers.

Fox’s study situates itself as complementary to contextual works by Lawrence Babb and Bridget Gellert Lyons while carving out a distinctive analytical position. Drawing on her own close readings, aided by the Everyman edition of Holbrook Jackson, she emphasizes the textual mechanics of Burton’s book: the layering of Latin, the handling of translations, and the editorial traditions that mediate modern access. The project’s rigor is underscored by Fox’s careful citation practices and by her attention to Burton’s Latin, whether preserved, paraphrased, or omitted. The Tangled Chain thus provides scholars of Renaissance literature and intellectual history with a sustained inquiry into how Burton’s famously digressive text fashions coherence out of disorder, illuminating both the Anatomy’s literary artistry and its enduring interpretive challenges.

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

Anthony Trollope

The Tireless Traveler

$95.00

The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury by Anthony Trollope offers readers a vivid and revealing account of Anthony Trollope’s 1875 journey from Ceylon through Australia, Hawai‘i, San Francisco, and overland to New York. Edited and introduced by Bradford Allen Booth, this volume publishes for the first time twenty long-lost letters that fill a major gap in Trollope’s biography and illuminate his role as both novelist and indefatigable observer of British colonial life. Unlike his better-known travel books, these letters were written for the Liverpool Mercury and thus speak directly to a broad provincial audience eager for practical knowledge of colonial societies. Trollope reports not on art or landscape but on institutions, commerce, labor conditions, and the day-to-day realities of settlement. His concerns, he repeatedly emphasizes, are “political, social, and material,” and he measures colonies by their capacity to sustain working families rather than by their picturesque allure.

Booth’s introduction situates the letters within Trollope’s broader career and highlights their value for multiple fields of study. For biographers, they clarify an eight-month period of his life previously shrouded in uncertainty. For social and economic historians, they provide thick description of late nineteenth-century Australia and Ceylon in transition, down to wages, prices, and civic institutions. For literary scholars, they showcase Trollope’s pragmatic voice, skeptical of imperial expansion and missionary interference yet steeped in Victorian assumptions about class, comfort, and utility. Vivid episodes—including the attack at Santa Cruz that cost Commodore Goodenough his life—sit alongside candid missteps, such as Trollope’s erroneous claims about Hawai‘i’s distance from California or his dismissive view of San Francisco. As such, the letters capture both the strengths and limits of Trollope’s worldview, offering indispensable insights into Victorian travel writing, colonial history, and the global imagination of one of Britain’s most industrious novelists.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1941.

Jacques Lévesque

The Enigma of 1989

$39.95

The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. The book centers on the unexpected Soviet passivity in the face of these changes, particularly under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. Unlike the rigid Soviet policies of the past, Gorbachev’s approach allowed for a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The author examines how this surprising turn of events was not just a sign of Soviet weakness but also a strategic move within Gorbachev’s broader vision for a transformed international order, where Eastern European democratization was part of a controlled process aimed at benefiting the USSR.

The study argues that Gorbachev’s policies were driven by a new ideology of transition, which, despite its roots in Marxism and Leninism, sought to establish a world order based on new, universal values. This ideology, coupled with the immense risks Gorbachev took, helped him manage the crises in Eastern Europe, neutralize conservative opposition, and maintain Soviet influence in international politics until the fall of Eastern Europe in 1989. The book delves into the internal and external dynamics that led to the USSR’s passive role in the dissolution of Eastern Europe and links it to Gorbachev's broader efforts to transform both Soviet foreign policy and domestic politics. Ultimately, it concludes that the collapse of the Eastern European regimes marked the breaking point of Gorbachev’s ambitions, as it led to a loss of control over both the Soviet Union and his foreign policy initiatives.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Elora Shehabuddin

Sisters in the Mirror

$29.95

"A must read."—CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022
"Holds up a mirror to the unifying, braided futures underlying so-called 'Western' and 'Muslim' feminism that are both undermined by the power of capital, the world trade order, and cynical geopolitics."—2023 Association for Asian Studies Coomaraswamy Book Prize

A crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and Muslim feminisms.

Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies. Muslim women, like other women around the world, have been engaged in their own struggles for generations: as individuals and in groups that include but also extend beyond their religious identity and religious practices. The modern and globally enmeshed Muslim world they navigate has often been at the weaker end of disparities of wealth and power, of processes of colonization and policies of war, economic sanctions, and Western feminist outreach. Importantly, Muslims have long constructed their own ideas about women’s and men’s lives in the West, with implications for how they articulate their feminist dreams for their own societies.

Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics. Muslim women, like non-Muslim women in various colonized societies and non-white and poor women in the West, have found themselves having to negotiate their demands for rights within other forms of struggle—for national independence or against occupation, racism, and economic inequality. Through stories of both well-known and relatively unknown figures, Shehabuddin recounts instances of conflict alongside those of empathy, collaboration, and solidarity across this extended period. Sisters in the Mirror is organized around stories of encounters between women and men from South Asia, Britain, and the United States that led them, as if they were looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own society, including cherished ideas about women’s roles and rights. These intertwined stories confirm that nowhere, in either Western or Muslim societies, has material change in girls’ and women’s lives come easily or without protracted struggle.

John P. McWilliams, Jr.

Political Justice in a Republic

$95.00

Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper’s America by John P. McWilliams, Jr. offers the first sustained exploration of Cooper’s fiction as a vehicle for political philosophy. Rather than treating Cooper as either an apolitical romancer or a failed imitator of Scott, McWilliams demonstrates how his novels repeatedly stage contests over law, loyalty, and justice in the “neutral ground” of a changing America. From the Revolutionary War to the unsettled frontier, Cooper dramatized questions of national identity and the foundations of republican order, seeing literature as an instrument of civic instruction and a defense of constitutional ideals.

Drawing on Cooper’s entire career, McWilliams situates the Leatherstocking Tales and later social fictions within debates about divine, natural, moral, and civil law, as well as shifting notions of patriotism, property, and political authority. He argues that Cooper remained a consistent republican thinker, committed to conserving the liberties of the original republic even as American society and its politics changed around him. The book thus reclaims Cooper as a serious political and cultural critic whose fiction grappled with enduring dilemmas of democracy, law, and social order—issues as relevant to modern readers as to his nineteenth-century audience.

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

Translated and Annotated by Melvin E. Jahn and Daniel J. Woolf

The Lying Stones of Dr. Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer

$39.95

The Lying Stones of Dr. Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer is a fascinating chronicle of scientific misjudgment, academic rivalry, and the consequences of intellectual hubris in the 18th century. This edition revisits the curious case of Dr. Beringer, a Würzburg physician and collector of fossils, whose career was upended by an elaborate hoax involving hand-carved stones—later termed the "Lügensteine" or "lying stones." These fraudulent artifacts, seemingly bearing impossible inscriptions and images, were deliberately planted by colleagues envious of Beringer's reputation. Despite initial enthusiasm for these finds, Beringer's eventual discovery of the deceit led to public humiliation and financial ruin. The publication of his treatise, Lithographiae Wirceburgensis in 1726, ironically immortalized his misstep as both a cautionary tale and an artifact of scientific history.

This edition not only translates and contextualizes Beringer’s original work but also incorporates appendices that unravel the broader narrative of the hoax. Judicial records, scholarly debates on fossil theories, and the contributions of Beringer’s contemporaries are examined to shed light on the intellectual climate of the era. By revisiting this episode, the volume underscores the importance of skepticism and methodological rigor in scientific inquiry. Far from being a mere curiosity, Beringer’s story serves as a reminder of the complexities of knowledge formation and the enduring need to balance ambition with humility in the pursuit of truth.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Blake Nevius

Robert Herrick

$95.00

Blake Nevius’s Robert Herrick: The Development of a Novelist offers a rigorously contextualized reassessment of an American realist whose reputation straddles the interregnum between Howells and the moderns. Eschewing formal biography, Nevius reconstructs Herrick’s artistic formation through a dense weave of memoir variants, archival traces (municipal and university records, correspondence), and close readings that track the transmutation of lived incident into narrative design. The study’s throughline is methodological: Nevius demonstrates how Herrick’s compulsive recourse to autobiographical matter—family psychodramas, Chicago’s academic and commercial milieus, and a gallery of recognizably roman-à-clef portraits—both powered and constrained his fiction. Chapters align compositional problems with career stages, returning to the acknowledged masterworks—*The Common Lot* (1904), *The Memoirs of an American Citizen* (1905), and *Together* (1908)—to show how Herrick’s documentary impulse, liberal reform commitments, and formal pragmatics coalesced into an unusually capacious social canvas.

For scholars of American realism, Nevius’s contribution is twofold: a clarified textual genealogy and a reframed critical history. He reconstructs the early reception (from Howells’s championship to the 1910 collapse of *A Life for a Life* and the long eclipse) and parses the interwar reassessments (Van Doren, Hicks, Arvin, Kazin), situating Herrick as a diagnostician of upper–middle-class ethos and Progressive-era institutions rather than a mere period “documentarian.” The book is equally attentive to ethics and craft: it probes Herrick’s habitual redeployment of private lives, the aesthetic liabilities of “fact-tyranny,” and the oscillation between sociological breadth and imaginative invention across the late autobiographical novels (*Waste*, *Chimes*, *The End of Desire*) and the Virgin Islands turn. Nevius thus restores Herrick to the cultural and institutional center of early twentieth-century U.S. fiction, mapping the feedback loop between personality, professional life, and novelistic practice with a precision that invites renewed archival, editorial, and theoretical 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 1962.

James J. Parsons

Antioqueno Colonization in Western Colombia, Revised Edition

$95.00

This title provides a detailed exploration of the historical and cultural development of the Antioqueño people and their distinctive colonization patterns in western Colombia. Originally published in 1949, the study is rooted in J. J. Parsons’ fieldwork conducted in 1946, primarily based in Medellín. Under the guidance of Carl O. Sauer, Parsons focused on Antioquia as a unique cultural region, examining its geography, society, and the expansion of its population and influence through colonization. This updated edition incorporates the author’s additional visits to Colombia, substantial revisions to chapters on population, transportation, and industry, and updates from recent census data and scholarly contributions.

The book paints a picture of an Antioquia that has transformed significantly, particularly Medellín, which has grown into a major metropolitan hub since Parsons’ first visit. However, the study highlights that despite rapid modernization and population growth, the region continues to maintain a relatively high standard of living and literacy. By tracing the evolution of the Antioqueño culture and economy, Parsons provides insights into the area’s historical resilience and adaptability, shedding light on the forces that have shaped its unique identity within Colombia’s national 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 1949.

Antioqueno Colonization in Western Colombia, Revised Edition

Corinna Zeltsman

Ink under the Fingernails

$34.95

During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman reconstructs the practical negotiations and discursive contests that surrounded print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution. Centering the diverse communities that worked behind the scenes at urban presses and examining their social practices and aspirations, Zeltsman explores how printer interactions with state and religious authorities shaped broader debates about press freedom and authorship. Beautifully crafted and ambitious in scope, Ink under the Fingernails sheds new light on Mexico's histories of state formation and political culture, identifying printing shops as unexplored spaces of democratic practice, where the boundaries between manual and intellectual labor blurred.

Walter Galenson

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe

$39.95

Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe offers both a lucid survey of European labor organizations and a provocative mirror for American debates about union structure and democracy. Walter Galenson provides a comparative account of how unions in Belgium, Holland, Austria, France, Italy, Britain, and Sweden have evolved distinctive responses to the challenges of representation, political fragmentation, and member participation. He pays particular attention to the phenomenon of “dual unionism,” long rejected in the United States but widely accepted in parts of Europe as a positive feature of union life. By situating organizational forms within their economic, political, and social contexts, Galenson demonstrates that no single model of union democracy can be transplanted wholesale; each reflects the historical choices and institutional legacies of its setting.

At the same time, the study speaks directly to American concerns. Questions about exclusive jurisdiction, rank-and-file participation, and the organization of white-collar workers gain fresh perspective when viewed alongside European practices. Case studies of Swedish white-collar unions, for example, highlight possibilities for independent, politically neutral, and workplace-centered organization in sectors of growing importance to U.S. labor. Comparisons with Britain, France, and Italy underscore both the dangers of fragmentation and the adaptive strengths of centralized bargaining traditions. Galenson’s work thus serves as both an authoritative introduction to European labor structures and an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to rethink the future of union democracy in the United States. By “visiting other nations,” as Clark Kerr observes in his preface, readers gain not only knowledge of Europe but also a sharpened perspective on their own institutions.

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

Lynn T. White III

Careers in Shanghai

$39.95

Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966 offers a penetrating exploration of how modernization influenced individual lives in post-revolutionary Shanghai, China’s largest metropolis. This in-depth study focuses on the intricate career guidance system employed by state authorities to align personal ambitions with collective goals. Through mechanisms such as education policies, youth rustication programs, job allocations, and household registration systems, the book reveals how the government channeled citizens' aspirations to meet the demands of social and economic development. Each chapter examines a distinct stage of the career journey, shedding light on the interplay between state-imposed incentives and individual agency in a rapidly evolving urban environment.

Drawing from extensive primary sources, including local newspapers, official documents, and interviews, Careers in Shanghai offers a nuanced perspective on the policies shaping urban life during this transformative period. The book situates Shanghai’s experience within the broader context of modernization in rapidly developing cities, exploring the effectiveness and implications of state-controlled career systems. With its comparative insights and detailed local analysis, this volume is an essential resource for scholars of urban studies, political science, and Chinese history, offering valuable lessons on the relationship between governance and individual trajectories in a modernizing 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 1978.

M. N. Pearson

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat

$39.95

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century offers a compelling reevaluation of the Portuguese influence in early modern South Asia, specifically in Gujarat. Challenging the notion that the Portuguese were a mere prelude to the larger colonial enterprises of the Dutch and British, this study posits that their impact during the sixteenth century was profound and disruptive. Unlike the Dutch and English, who integrated as additional foreign merchants within the pre-existing commercial networks, the Portuguese sought to monopolize and tax Indian Ocean trade aggressively. This approach, while never fully realized, allowed them to dominate much of Gujarat’s maritime trade through the Gulf of Cambay for decades. The book explores the mechanisms of this dominance and the complex interplay between Portuguese traders and Gujarati society, particularly its merchants, who operated with little political support or intervention from the region’s rulers.

Through a detailed examination of historical records and case studies, the monograph illuminates the broader dynamics of merchant-state relationships in medieval Gujarat. It argues that the Portuguese success stemmed not from superior logistics or economics but from the lack of strong political connections between merchants and rulers in Gujarati society. This disconnect, emblematic of the state’s general disengagement with various social groups, allowed the Portuguese to impose their systems of control with relative ease. The study also contextualizes the Portuguese influence within the slow-changing social and political structures of premodern Gujarat, offering insights into the enduring nature of ruler-subject relations and contributing significantly to the historiography of colonial and maritime Asia.

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

Edited by G. E. von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois

The Dream and Human Societies

$49.95

The study of dreams and their role in human societies, particularly within classical Islam, provides a fascinating lens through which to understand both individual and collective psychology. In medieval Islamic culture, dreams were seen not only as personal experiences but as profound communications from the divine or supernatural. This belief system imbued the dream with cognitive power, often interpreting dreams as forms of prophecy or divine messages, a view that transcended the individual's inner psyche and extended into the realm of objective truth. Dreams were considered a bridge to understanding the future, the Hereafter, and the will of God, with scholars like ‘Abdalghani an-Nâbulusî developing elaborate systems for interpreting their meanings. These interpretations drew heavily from religious texts, such as the Koran and Hadith, and offered guidance on a variety of matters ranging from personal conduct to political affairs.

The significance of dreams within classical Islam is also evident in their societal and political implications. Dreams were not only seen as personal revelations but also as instruments of prophecy, often used to predict the death of rulers, the success of military campaigns, or the outcomes of political struggles. They were deeply intertwined with religious doctrines, with the Prophet Muhammad and various saints appearing in dreams to guide or advise key figures in Islamic history. These dream visions were viewed as essential tools for navigating both the personal and political spheres, reinforcing the belief that the dream world was closely linked with the divine order. The widespread acceptance of dreams as a form of truth is a striking contrast to contemporary Western thought, where dreams are more commonly seen as reflections of the subconscious mind. In this sense, the historical and cultural context of classical Islam elevated the dream to a status that intertwined it with both personal and societal identity, suggesting a powerful intersection of religion, politics, and individual experience.

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

Wai Chee Dimock

Residues of Justice

$95.00

In Residues of Justice, Wai Chee Dimock probes the conceit of justice as a matter of measurable equivalence—those iconic scales that promise perfect balance—and finds what she calls the “residues” left behind by any attempt to translate lived conflicts into commensurate terms. Opening with Aristophanes’ The Frogs and moving through Aristotle’s proportional ethics, Kant, Rawls, and Mill, Dimock shows how justice has long been imagined as a language of ratios, universals, and adequation. Against this dream of objective fit—good for good, evil for evil—she foregrounds the incommensurate: what gets lost in translation when law seeks punishment, philosophy seeks foundations, and both presume a common currency of value. Engaging Michael Sandel’s critique of liberal justice and Carol Gilligan’s “ethic of care,” she reframes justice as one virtue among others, necessarily partial, historically contingent, and never exhaustive.

Dimock’s signal move is to put literature alongside law and philosophy as a third, stubbornly recalcitrant language of justice. Through close readings of American writers—from Whitman’s democratic personhood and Cooper’s punitive zeal to Rebecca Harding Davis’s economic dispossession, Howells’s compensatory aspirations, Warner’s luck, and Chopin’s rights—she tracks where commensuration thins, frays, or fails altogether. The result is a powerful argument that literary representation exposes the limits of juridical and philosophical balancing acts, insisting on the unweighable remnants that any settlement leaves behind—and inviting more capacious, humane supplements to our adjudicative ideals.

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

J. Victor Koschmann

The Mito Ideology

$39.95

The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 provides a deep dive into the pivotal role played by the Mito branch of the Tokugawa family in shaping ideological activism and reformist discourse during the late Edo period. This groundbreaking study explores how Mito scholars and leaders combined historical reflection with political action to address both internal and external threats to Japan's stability. From the formulation of reformist slogans like "Revere the emperor and expel the barbarian" (sonnō jōi) to the violent activism culminating in the assassination of Ii Naosuke and the Tengu Rebellion, the book examines the ways in which Mito ideologues influenced Japan's trajectory toward modernization and the eventual collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The narrative contextualizes Mito's intellectual and political contributions within broader ideological trends of the time, including the interplay of neo-Confucianism, Shinto, and nativist thought. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, the author investigates how Mito discourse operated not only as a form of scholarly inquiry but as a practical tool for mobilizing social and political change. The book also highlights the paradox of Mito's ideological legacy: while its reformist zeal contributed significantly to the erosion of the Tokugawa order, its internal conflicts and premature insurrections sidelined its radicals from the ultimate Meiji Restoration. This meticulous study sheds light on the dynamic interaction between ideology, action, and historical transformation in a period of profound upheaval in Japan.

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

Jacques Lévesque

The Enigma of 1989

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The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. The book centers on the unexpected Soviet passivity in the face of these changes, particularly under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. Unlike the rigid Soviet policies of the past, Gorbachev’s approach allowed for a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The author examines how this surprising turn of events was not just a sign of Soviet weakness but also a strategic move within Gorbachev’s broader vision for a transformed international order, where Eastern European democratization was part of a controlled process aimed at benefiting the USSR.

The study argues that Gorbachev’s policies were driven by a new ideology of transition, which, despite its roots in Marxism and Leninism, sought to establish a world order based on new, universal values. This ideology, coupled with the immense risks Gorbachev took, helped him manage the crises in Eastern Europe, neutralize conservative opposition, and maintain Soviet influence in international politics until the fall of Eastern Europe in 1989. The book delves into the internal and external dynamics that led to the USSR’s passive role in the dissolution of Eastern Europe and links it to Gorbachev's broader efforts to transform both Soviet foreign policy and domestic politics. Ultimately, it concludes that the collapse of the Eastern European regimes marked the breaking point of Gorbachev’s ambitions, as it led to a loss of control over both the Soviet Union and his foreign policy initiatives.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Mara Buchbinder

Scripting Death

$26.95

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives.

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice. Sociological studies of new health policies have repeatedly demonstrated that the realities often fall short of advocacy visions, raising questions about how much choice and control aid-in-dying actually affords.

Scripting Death chronicles two years of ethnographic research documenting the implementation of Vermont’s 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act. Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators to illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new medical frontier in the aftermath of legalization. Scripting Death explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the “right to die” is very different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States.

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David E. Pollard

A Chinese Look at Literature

$39.95

A Chinese Look at Literature: The Literary Values of Chou Tso-jen in Relation to the Tradition delves into the complex and fascinating literary philosophy of Chou Tso-jen, a key figure in modern Chinese literature. Blending traditional Chinese values with a modern, Western-educated perspective, Chou's work offers a rare lens through which to explore the intersections of cultural heritage and contemporary thought. This book focuses on the middle period of Chou's career, a time when he withdrew from national politics to concentrate on literary and cultural questions. It provides a nuanced analysis of his ideas about literature while situating them within the broader context of Chinese critical traditions, including comparisons to the Kung-an and T’ung-ch’eng schools. With a balanced view, the author examines Chou's essays and their interplay of modern rationalism and age-old Chinese aesthetic principles.

The book also includes an exploration of Chou's biography, from his early education in naval studies to his formative years in Japan, where he developed his deep engagement with foreign literatures. It traces his influential role in China's New Culture Movement and the intellectual challenges he faced during times of political upheaval, including his controversial collaboration with the Japanese during their occupation of China. By contextualizing Chou’s work within both his personal history and the traditions he sought to reinterpret, this study illuminates the enduring relevance of his contributions to Chinese literature and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for readers seeking a deeper understanding of modern Chinese intellectual history and its enduring dialogue with its rich cultural past.

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

O. O. Gruzenberg Edited by Don C. Rawson Translated by Don C. Rawson and Tatiana Tipton

Yesterday

$95.00

Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer by O. O. Gruzenberg, edited and introduced by Don C. Rawson, offers an extraordinary insider’s view of the Russian judiciary during the last half-century of the tsarist regime. Gruzenberg (1866–1940), one of the empire’s most prominent defense lawyers, wrote these memoirs in exile after the Bolshevik revolution, reflecting on a career that unfolded in a paradox: an autocracy with one of Europe’s most independent judicial systems. His recollections illuminate not only the workings of Russian courts but also the tensions of Jewish assimilation, liberal politics, and personal identity in a society marked by anti-Semitism and revolutionary upheaval.

Rawson’s introduction situates Gruzenberg at the intersection of law, liberalism, and Jewish experience. Born in Ekaterinoslav to a family steeped in the Jewish haskalah (enlightenment), he was raised to be Russian as well as Jewish, producing an enduring identity conflict—never fully at home in either world. His memoirs recount struggles with professional exclusion under tightening anti-Jewish restrictions, his celebrated defenses in ritual-murder cases, and his role in political trials of figures such as Trotsky, Gorky, and the Beilis affair, which made him internationally known. Equally vivid is his account of a judiciary both modernized and compromised after the Great Reforms of 1864: courts formally independent, with trial by jury and professional advocates, yet still pressured in political cases. Gruzenberg’s liberal commitments—civil liberties, individual rights, and constitutional reform—were eclipsed in 1917, when Bolsheviks dismantled the legal institutions that had defined his life. Exiled in western Europe, he reflected on the irony that he had flourished more under tsarism than under the revolutionary regime he once welcomed.

Both memoir and testament, Yesterday captures a liberal lawyer’s devotion to justice and the fragile space carved out for law in an autocratic state. It is essential reading for scholars of Russian legal history, Jewish emancipation, and the fate of liberalism on the eve of 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 1981.

John S. Galbraith

Crown and Charter

$49.95

Crown and Charter: The Early Years of the British South Africa Company delves into the complex origins and operations of one of the most controversial enterprises of European expansion in Africa. This meticulously researched volume examines the British South Africa Company, a chartered venture driven by Cecil John Rhodes' ambition and the permissive stance of the imperial government. While Rhodes' dominance shaped much of the company’s direction, the book illuminates the broader dynamics, including the interactions between the London board, imperial policymakers, and local contexts in Central Africa. Through vivid detail, the narrative explores the bold ambitions, ethical ambiguities, and far-reaching consequences of the company's early activities, including its ties to stock market speculation and its impact on indigenous populations.

The book balances a critical lens with historical analysis, capturing the contradictions between the company's stated ideals of promoting Christianity, commerce, and civilization and its often self-serving pursuits. With nuanced discussions on Rhodes' character, the moral implications of colonial endeavors, and the passive complicity of other stakeholders, the text provides a comprehensive view of this pivotal chapter in British imperial history. A compelling read for scholars and history enthusiasts alike, Crown and Charter offers both a detailed study of the British South Africa Company and a broader reflection on the ethics and realities of colonialism.

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

William Henry Ellison

A Self-Governing Dominion

$49.95

A Self-governing Dominion: California, 1849–1860 by William Henry Ellison traces California’s turbulent political evolution from the framing of its first constitution to the factional battles that culminated on the eve of the Civil War. Ellison interprets the decade as a formative era when Californians, spurred by circumstance and necessity, developed a strong ethos of self-rule—sometimes cooperative, often contentious, but always marked by a determination to assert autonomy in shaping local and state institutions. The narrative begins with military occupation and improvised legal systems in the wake of conquest, moving through the gold rush and the constitutional convention at Monterey, and continuing into the 1850s with debates over land ownership, Indian policy, vigilante justice, sectional division, and political patronage. At each stage, Ellison underscores the central theme: Californians perceived themselves as a people apart, compelled to devise political structures without waiting for distant authority.

Drawing upon both archival sources and established scholarship, Ellison reconstructs how the new state managed competing claims of sovereignty and legitimacy while simultaneously navigating national controversies over slavery, federal land policy, and Native dispossession. The book highlights emblematic episodes: the Bear Flag Revolt’s improvised republicanism, the persistence of alcalde justice amid American common-law innovations, the explosive constitutional debates over suffrage and slavery, and the dramatic contests between William Gwin and David Broderick, whose rivalry epitomized California’s struggle to define its political identity. Ellison emphasizes how fortuitous circumstances—California’s distance from Washington, the sudden influx of gold seekers, and the sectional tensions rending the nation—magnified the stakes of local decision-making. In presenting California as a “self-governing dominion,” Ellison provides not only a detailed account of a unique frontier political culture but also a reinterpretation of how the state’s formative decade secured its place within the Union while cultivating a tradition of political independence.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Guillermo O’Donnell

Bureaucratic Authoritarianism

$95.00

Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966–1973, in Comparative Perspective provides a rigorous and multidimensional analysis of Argentina’s political and economic trajectory during a pivotal period in its history. Through the lens of the bureaucratic-authoritarian (BA) state, the book explores the complex interactions between structural conditions, institutional frameworks, and the perceptions of key actors. By situating Argentina’s experience within a comparative framework—including Brazil post-1964, Uruguay and Chile after 1973, and Argentina’s subsequent BA regime after 1976—this study offers valuable insights into the origins, dynamics, and consequences of authoritarian rule.

Combining empirical data, historical narratives, and theoretical critique, the book examines the profound social and economic costs of authoritarian governance. It interrogates the ideological and structural conditions that fostered political violence and recurrent authoritarianism, while reflecting on the enduring impact of the 1966–1973 crises on Argentina's political evolution. Written with both academic rigor and a personal commitment to understanding Argentina’s turbulent history, this volume provides essential reading for scholars of political science, Latin American studies, and modern history.

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

Translated and Annotated by Albert E. Dien

Biography of Yu-Wen Hu

$39.95

Albert E. Dien’s Biography of Yü-Wen Hu offers a comprehensive translation and analysis of a pivotal historical figure in northern China’s sixth century. Through a detailed rendering of the Chou shu biography, this work explores the complex interplay between Confucian ideals and the governance of the Northern Chou dynasty, a state ruled by leaders of non-Chinese origin. Dien’s annotations illuminate how the historian of the Chou shu adeptly portrays the Yü-Wen rulers as fully sinified, reflecting the successful integration of Confucian moral and political norms into their administration. This biography not only captures the turbulent dynamics of the era but also reveals the broader sociocultural transition from tribal leadership to a Confucian state.

Scholars and students of Chinese history will find this volume invaluable for its rigorous attention to historical detail and sociopolitical context. Yü-Wen Hu’s rise to power as regent and his deft handling of internal court conflicts are presented as a lens to examine broader themes of authority, loyalty, and cultural transformation. Dien’s work underscores the Northern Chou’s ambitious emulation of the ancient Chou dynasty, offering a nuanced perspective on how Confucian principles shaped political legitimacy and statecraft in early medieval China. Ideal for sinologists and comparative historians, this translation bridges historical narrative and cultural analysis, making it an essential resource for understanding this transformative period in Chinese 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 1962.

Herbert Kaplan

Russia and the Outbreak of the Seven Years' War

$95.00

Russia and the Outbreak of the Seven Years' War by Herbert H. Kaplan reconsiders one of the great turning points of eighteenth-century Europe by placing Russia at the center of the story. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years’ War highlight the balance of power among Austria, France, Great Britain, and Prussia, often relegating Russia to a secondary role. Kaplan draws extensively on Russian archival materials to show that the empire acted not merely as an auxiliary ally of Maria Theresa, but as an independent power pursuing its own interests with deliberation and force. By reconstructing the origins of the war from the vantage of St. Petersburg, he demonstrates that Russia’s policies decisively shaped the alliances and choices of Europe’s other major states.

Kaplan explores how Empress Elizabeth’s determination to secure Russia’s place in continental affairs prompted sweeping reforms of her administrative and diplomatic machinery. Internal divisions among her closest advisers exacerbated court rivalries, as questions of who should direct diplomacy became entangled with broader struggles for political power. These conflicts were intensified by Elizabeth’s chronic illness and the looming issue of succession, which drew Grand Duke Peter and Grand Duchess Catherine into the political foreground. Kaplan shows how the uncertainty surrounding Russia’s imperial future influenced both her foreign policy orientation and the calculations of her allies and adversaries. Focusing on the intersection of diplomacy, court politics, and questions of succession, this study restores Russia to its rightful place as a principal actor in the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War and underscores the broader significance of imperial decision-making in shaping the international system.

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

Sheila Faith Weiss

Race Hygiene and National Efficiency

$39.95

Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer offers an in-depth examination of the intellectual foundations of German eugenics, centering on the life and work of Wilhelm Schallmayer. A pivotal figure in the early eugenics movement in Germany, Schallmayer played a crucial role in shaping the theoretical and ideological framework of race hygiene. Unlike many accounts that retrospectively link German eugenics exclusively to the Nazi regime, this book places Schallmayer within the broader international context of eugenic thought, revealing striking parallels between German, British, and American eugenic movements. By shifting the focus from racial ideology to the technocratic concerns of national efficiency, the study challenges common misconceptions about the origins and motivations of German eugenics, presenting it as part of a wider effort to regulate population quality through scientific and managerial interventions.

This work critically reassesses the logic underpinning Schallmayer’s advocacy for reproductive control, which aimed at limiting the reproduction of the "unfit" while encouraging higher birth rates among the educated middle classes. His approach, rooted in concerns over national strength and cultural preservation, highlights the extent to which eugenics was framed as a tool for social engineering rather than merely racial purification. By tracing the continuity of these ideas from the Wilhelmine period through the Weimar Republic and into the Nazi era, Race Hygiene and National Efficiency provides a crucial perspective on how eugenics became intertwined with state policies. This book is an essential contribution to the scholarship on eugenics, illuminating its complex and often unsettling intersections with modern notions of public health, governance, and social order.

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

Arturo Serrano-Plaja

Magic Realism in Cervantes

$39.95

"Magic" Realism in Cervantes: Don Quixote as Seen Through Tom Sawyer and The Idiot explores the enduring impact of Cervantes' Don Quixote through the works of Mark Twain and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The essay draws on the author's conversations with Ernest Hemingway about the significance of Mark Twain, highlighting parallels between Twain's protagonists and Cervantes' iconic knight-errant. The thesis asserts that Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dostoevsky's The Idiot, extend Cervantes’ world rather than merely comment on it. These works, through characters like a child and an “idiot,” delve into themes of sincerity, play, and the human condition. The essay suggests that Don Quixote’s actions—whether deeply earnest or whimsically playful—reflect a profound engagement with life, not mockery, as earlier interpretations have suggested.

Building on Ortega y Gasset’s philosophical inquiries about the ambiguity of Don Quixote, the study proposes a fresh perspective by examining the "descendants" of Cervantes' creation in Twain and Dostoevsky. It posits that Cervantes' masterpiece is a "game of life," blending the serious with the playful, and transcending traditional narrative boundaries. By viewing Don Quixote through the lens of Twain's childlike adventurers and Dostoevsky's tragic hero, the essay uncovers a deeper understanding of Cervantes’ intentions, affirming that his work is less a satire and more a celebration of the paradoxes of human existence—an interplay of earnestness and imagination, where life itself becomes both dream and play.

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

M. N. Pearson

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat

$95.00

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century offers a compelling reevaluation of the Portuguese influence in early modern South Asia, specifically in Gujarat. Challenging the notion that the Portuguese were a mere prelude to the larger colonial enterprises of the Dutch and British, this study posits that their impact during the sixteenth century was profound and disruptive. Unlike the Dutch and English, who integrated as additional foreign merchants within the pre-existing commercial networks, the Portuguese sought to monopolize and tax Indian Ocean trade aggressively. This approach, while never fully realized, allowed them to dominate much of Gujarat’s maritime trade through the Gulf of Cambay for decades. The book explores the mechanisms of this dominance and the complex interplay between Portuguese traders and Gujarati society, particularly its merchants, who operated with little political support or intervention from the region’s rulers.

Through a detailed examination of historical records and case studies, the monograph illuminates the broader dynamics of merchant-state relationships in medieval Gujarat. It argues that the Portuguese success stemmed not from superior logistics or economics but from the lack of strong political connections between merchants and rulers in Gujarati society. This disconnect, emblematic of the state’s general disengagement with various social groups, allowed the Portuguese to impose their systems of control with relative ease. The study also contextualizes the Portuguese influence within the slow-changing social and political structures of premodern Gujarat, offering insights into the enduring nature of ruler-subject relations and contributing significantly to the historiography of colonial and maritime Asia.

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

Avi Shlaim

The United States and the Berlin Blockade 1948-1949

$95.00

The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making by Avi Shlaim offers a penetrating analysis of one of the most dangerous confrontations of the early Cold War. When Stalin moved to blockade Berlin, Western leaders faced a sudden test of will, values, and resolve under the pressure of time and the threat of armed conflict. Drawing on extensive archival research, Shlaim reconstructs the flow of decisions taken in Washington as policymakers weighed options ranging from negotiation to military force, ultimately settling on the unprecedented airlift that became a defining episode of the postwar order. In doing so, he not only illuminates a turning point in East–West relations but also probes the psychological strains of crisis leadership itself.

Part of the International Crisis Behavior series, the book employs a common research design to examine decisional units, perceptions of threat, and the narrowing of choices under extreme stress. Shlaim demonstrates how American leaders understood Soviet intentions, how they defined the stakes of Western security, and how they sought to balance risk with credibility in the eyes of allies and adversaries alike. The narrative offers both the drama of unfolding crisis and a systematic inquiry into how statesmen process information, consult, and decide when events threaten to spiral into war. Combining the craft of the historian with the analytical tools of social science, The United States and the Berlin Blockade remains an essential case study in Cold War history and in the broader study of crisis decision-making—revealing how even under acute pressure, leaders can sometimes marshal clarity, restraint, and imagination in the defense of international order.

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

Jack R. Censer

Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France

$95.00

Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the role of the press in shaping public opinion and political culture in eighteenth-century France. Traditionally, historians have viewed the French Revolution as a sharp break in press history, marking the transition from an authoritarian model under the monarchy to an unregulated, libertarian press after 1789. However, this collection of essays argues that the transformation was more gradual, with significant elements of a free press emerging well before the Revolution. By examining periodicals that operated outside the official framework—such as the Gazette de Leyde, the Courrier d'Avignon, and the Journal des dames—the contributors reveal a vibrant, semi-independent press that helped shape the political discourse of the era.

This volume situates the pre-revolutionary press within a broader historiographical debate about the nature of the French Revolution itself. Were the upheavals of 1789 a radical break with the past, or did they build upon long-standing political and cultural shifts? The authors make a compelling case for continuity, showing how informal mechanisms of political engagement—through the press, reading groups, and Masonic lodges—created a space for public debate that eroded absolutist control well before the Revolution. With its meticulous case studies and theoretical insights, Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France is an essential resource for scholars of media history, political culture, and the origins of modern democracy.

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

Translated and Annotated by Albert E. Dien

Biography of Yu-Wen Hu

$95.00

Albert E. Dien’s Biography of Yü-Wen Hu offers a comprehensive translation and analysis of a pivotal historical figure in northern China’s sixth century. Through a detailed rendering of the Chou shu biography, this work explores the complex interplay between Confucian ideals and the governance of the Northern Chou dynasty, a state ruled by leaders of non-Chinese origin. Dien’s annotations illuminate how the historian of the Chou shu adeptly portrays the Yü-Wen rulers as fully sinified, reflecting the successful integration of Confucian moral and political norms into their administration. This biography not only captures the turbulent dynamics of the era but also reveals the broader sociocultural transition from tribal leadership to a Confucian state.

Scholars and students of Chinese history will find this volume invaluable for its rigorous attention to historical detail and sociopolitical context. Yü-Wen Hu’s rise to power as regent and his deft handling of internal court conflicts are presented as a lens to examine broader themes of authority, loyalty, and cultural transformation. Dien’s work underscores the Northern Chou’s ambitious emulation of the ancient Chou dynasty, offering a nuanced perspective on how Confucian principles shaped political legitimacy and statecraft in early medieval China. Ideal for sinologists and comparative historians, this translation bridges historical narrative and cultural analysis, making it an essential resource for understanding this transformative period in Chinese 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 1962.

Joy Grant

Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop

$49.95

Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop chronicles the life and legacy of Harold Monro, a pivotal figure in literary London during the early 20th century. Monro's unwavering dedication to poetry shaped his multifaceted career as a poet, bookseller, publisher, and advocate for verse. Known for his idealism tempered by practicality, Monro’s efforts established him as a central figure in the poetry community. Through his Poetry Bookshop, he fostered a welcoming space for poets of diverse styles and temperaments, transcending literary factions and trends. Esteemed figures like Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Osbert Sitwell praised his impartiality, generosity, and commitment to poetry, with Pound lamenting his passing as a significant loss to the literary world.

While Monro's personal poetic achievements have often been overshadowed by his role as a champion for others, this biography reveals the depth of his contributions. His poetry, though marked by melancholy and introspection, was central to his identity. Monro’s vision extended beyond individual recognition, as he prioritized the promotion of poetry as an art form over personal gain or fame. Despite his reserved demeanor and private struggles, Monro’s work left an indelible mark on the literary landscape, bridging gaps between poets and readers, and securing his place as one of the most influential advocates for poetry of his generation.

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

The Research Foundations of Graduate Education

$49.95

The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan, edited by Burton R. Clark, provides a comparative portrait of how five leading national systems connect research with advanced study. The essays examine both the broad organization of higher education and the day-to-day practices of graduate training, tracing how historical traditions, state policy, and disciplinary structures shape the education of researchers. Germany’s Humboldtian model of uniting teaching and inquiry, Britain’s increasingly centralized system, France’s separation of teaching and research through institutions like the CNRS, the decentralized but highly competitive American research university, and Japan’s postwar system with its distinctive emphasis on engineering are each analyzed in depth. Complementing these national portraits are microstudies in physics, economics, history, and other fields that reveal how faculty and students negotiate research training within universities and laboratories.

Together these accounts highlight both striking differences and emerging commonalities across countries. They show how graduate education reflects larger concerns about scientific capacity, economic development, and government policy, while also demonstrating the importance of local practices in laboratories, seminars, and departments. By comparing national traditions and contemporary reforms, The Research Foundations of Graduate Education illuminates the fragile but vital nexus of research, teaching, and study at the graduate level. It remains an essential resource for scholars of higher education, policymakers, and anyone concerned with how modern societies sustain universities as centers of knowledge production and prepare new generations of researchers.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Neal Wood

John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism

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John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism by Neal Wood reframes Locke’s political and economic thought by situating it in the profound agrarian changes of seventeenth-century England. Rather than reading Locke as a theorist of emerging mercantile or industrial capitalism, Wood presents him as an interpreter of agrarian capitalism—the transformation of English countryside through enclosures, competitive tenancy, and the triadic structure of landlord, tenant farmer, and wage laborer. Through close readings of Locke’s economic memoranda, Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest (1692), and the pivotal “Of Property” chapter in the Second Treatise, Wood demonstrates how Locke’s reflections on property, labor, and improvement directly expressed the social relations of an agricultural economy in transition.

By grounding Locke’s political philosophy in the economic realities of landholding and husbandry, Wood challenges the prevailing interpretations of Locke as the spokesman of bourgeois possessive individualism. He shows instead how Locke’s insistence on industry, frugality, and improvement, his valorization of the productive tenant, and his critique of unproductive brokers and idlers reflected the values of a gentry class grappling with the imperatives of capitalist farming. Linking Locke to the Baconian natural historians and agricultural improvers, the book repositions Locke’s thought within the material processes of agrarian transformation that prepared the way for political economy and, ultimately, industrial capitalism. The result is a provocative reassessment that bridges the history of ideas and social history, restoring Locke to the world of fields, rents, and labor from which his most influential political categories emerged.

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

A Chinese Look at Literature

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A Chinese Look at Literature: The Literary Values of Chou Tso-jen in Relation to the Tradition delves into the complex and fascinating literary philosophy of Chou Tso-jen, a key figure in modern Chinese literature. Blending traditional Chinese values with a modern, Western-educated perspective, Chou's work offers a rare lens through which to explore the intersections of cultural heritage and contemporary thought. This book focuses on the middle period of Chou's career, a time when he withdrew from national politics to concentrate on literary and cultural questions. It provides a nuanced analysis of his ideas about literature while situating them within the broader context of Chinese critical traditions, including comparisons to the Kung-an and T’ung-ch’eng schools. With a balanced view, the author examines Chou's essays and their interplay of modern rationalism and age-old Chinese aesthetic principles.

The book also includes an exploration of Chou's biography, from his early education in naval studies to his formative years in Japan, where he developed his deep engagement with foreign literatures. It traces his influential role in China's New Culture Movement and the intellectual challenges he faced during times of political upheaval, including his controversial collaboration with the Japanese during their occupation of China. By contextualizing Chou’s work within both his personal history and the traditions he sought to reinterpret, this study illuminates the enduring relevance of his contributions to Chinese literature and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for readers seeking a deeper understanding of modern Chinese intellectual history and its enduring dialogue with its rich cultural past.

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

Jesse S. G. Wozniak

Policing Iraq

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Policing Iraq chronicles the efforts of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to rebuild their police force and criminal justice system in the wake of the US invasion. Jesse S. G. Wozniak conducted ethnographic research during multiple stays in Iraqi Kurdistan, observing such signpost moments as the Arab Spring, the official withdrawal of coalition forces, the rise of the Islamic State, and the return of US forces. By investigating the day-to-day reality of reconstructing a police force during active hostilities, Wozniak demonstrates how police are integral to the modern state’s ability to effectively rule and how the failure to recognize this directly contributed to the destabilization of Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State. The reconstruction process ignored established practices and scientific knowledge, instead opting to create a facade of legitimacy masking a police force characterized by low pay, poor recruits, and a training regimen wholly unsuited to a constitutional democracy. Ultimately, Wozniak argues, the United States never intended to build a democratic state but rather to develop a dependent client to serve its neoimperial interests.

Klaus Mehnert Translated by Helmut Fischer and Luther Wilson

Moscow and the New Left

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Moscow and the New Left is a detailed exploration of the Soviet Union's reaction to the emergence of the New Left movement in the West during the 1960s and early 1970s. This sequel to Peking and the New Left shifts focus from China's domestic radicalism to Moscow's interpretation of revolutionary leftist movements outside its sphere of influence. These movements, including Paris's student uprisings, the American and German SDS, and other Trotskyist, Maoist, and anarchist groups, posed ideological challenges to the USSR's dogmatic stance on socialism. The book scrutinizes whether the Soviet leadership viewed these groups as allies, rivals, or threats and examines their responses to these unorthodox leftist ideologies, which often rejected Moscow's claim to define socialism.

Drawing on a meticulous analysis of Soviet publications, including over 3,000 pages of articles from 25 Moscow-based periodicals, the author dissects how the USSR's ideological apparatus grappled with the New Left's critique of its policies. The study reveals the evolving Soviet attitude, initially marked by ignorance and later by cautious acknowledgment following events like the Paris revolt of 1968. By presenting excerpts from Soviet documents and contextualizing them within a broader ideological struggle, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the USSR's intellectual and political engagement with global leftist movements. This work offers an indispensable lens for scholars of Cold War history, socialism, and ideological conflicts during a transformative era.

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

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

The Sermons of John Donne, Volume VII

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The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume VII, presents Donne at the very height of his preaching powers, a period when his imagination, theological insight, and rhetorical mastery converge with unusual force. Preached in 1626 and 1627, these sermons emerge in the shadow of plague, political unease, and personal loss, yet they are dominated not by despair but by Donne’s determination to console and strengthen his hearers. Where some contemporaries thundered only judgment, Donne insists on mercy, peace, and the consolations of faith. His Second Prebend Sermon in particular stands as one of the great monuments of English prose, a meditation on joy and glory that has been praised for its grandeur of rhythm and vision. Again and again Donne lifts his congregation above melancholy and fear, reminding them that true joy is already a foretaste of heaven, uninterrupted even by death itself.

The volume also demonstrates Donne’s skill in adapting his message to occasion and audience—whether in state sermons before Charles I, in public addresses at Paul’s Cross, or in parish preaching at St. Dunstan’s. His themes range widely: the dignity of the body destined for resurrection, the futility of despair, the mercy that undergirds all divine judgment, and the unity of the Church Militant and Triumphant under one roof of Christ. He does not shrink from controversy, defending the ceremonies, images, and sacramental theology of the Church of England against Puritan detractors, while rebuking Rome with equal vigor. Yet even in polemic his deeper concern is pastoral, offering reassurance to troubled consciences and urging confidence in God’s everlasting mercy. The sermons of these years, often shadowed by Donne’s grief at the death of his daughter Lucy, reveal his most personal theology: that in death there is no separation, only a passage from one room of God’s house to another. In their richness and range, the sermons collected here embody Donne’s vision of preaching as both poetry and cure of souls, a vision that shaped his reputation as one of the greatest voices in the English pulpit.

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

Joseph Levenson

The Mozartian Historian

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The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson is a profound tribute to the intellectual legacy of Joseph Levenson, an innovative historian whose interpretations of Chinese history reshaped the discipline. Edited by Maurice Meisner and Rhoads Murphey, this volume emerged from the shared sense of loss and intellectual urgency felt by colleagues after Levenson’s untimely death. More than a commemorative festschrift, the book serves as an analytical deep dive into the themes and methods that defined Levenson’s work, emphasizing their lasting relevance to historical and intellectual inquiry.

Levenson’s scholarship, particularly in his seminal trilogy Confucian China and Its Modern Fate, challenged conventional historiographical norms by intertwining Chinese history with universal historical discourse. His comparative approach revealed the unique dimensions of Chinese traditions while situating them within broader human experiences of modernity and change. The essays in this collection reflect on Levenson’s radical conception of historical continuity, his dialectical understanding of change, and his incisive critique of cultural determinism. Balancing rigorous analysis with personal recollections, the contributors illuminate the intellectual audacity and humanity that defined Levenson’s career, making this book a vital resource for historians, Sinologists, and anyone engaged with the enduring tensions between tradition and modernity.

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

Mark J. Van Aken

King of the Night

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King of the Night: Juan José Flores and Ecuador, 1824–1864 offers a nuanced exploration of the political turbulence in early independent Ecuador, focusing on the monarchical aspirations of its first president, General Juan José Flores. Set against the broader context of nineteenth-century Latin America, the book examines the region’s grappling with governance models—especially the allure of monarchy in the wake of colonial rule. Flores, disillusioned with the inefficacies of republicanism, sought to establish a monarchy in Ecuador as a means to bring stability, believing European royal legitimacy could temper political chaos. This study sheds light on the complexities of monarchist sentiment in Latin America, contrasting it with republican ideals and situating Ecuador within a regional struggle for political identity.

The narrative weaves together diplomatic correspondence, historical records, and Flores’ political maneuvers to uncover the motivations and failures of monarchist endeavors. Despite Flores' efforts, including collaboration with Spain, his schemes ultimately faltered, reflecting the broader challenges of imposing monarchy in a region steeped in revolutionary republicanism. By tracing Flores' political biography, the book highlights how his leadership and monarchical ambitions intensified domestic and foreign crises, culminating in the ultimate rejection of royalist ideologies. Through this lens, King of the Night underscores the enduring tensions between authoritarian and representative governance in Ecuador's formative years, while contributing to a deeper understanding of Latin America's political evolution.

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

Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda

The Trump Paradox

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The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade.

Eric O. Johannesson

The Novel of August Strindberg

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The Novels of August Strindberg: A Study in Theme and Structure offers a comprehensive exploration of the psychological depths and artistic innovations of one of literature's most enigmatic figures. This book focuses on Strindberg's quest for identity—a central and universal theme—tracing its evolution across his novels and examining how it shaped his experimental narrative styles. The author delves into Strindberg's works not merely as reflections of the author's turbulent life but as sophisticated explorations of the human psyche that resonate with broader literary and psychological themes. By integrating elements of psychoanalysis and modern narrative theory, the study highlights Strindberg's contribution to the development of the psychological novel and his ability to transcend the confines of realism through symbolism and myth.

While Strindberg's dramatic works have long been celebrated for their influence on modern theater, this study asserts the equal significance of his novels. Through careful analysis of his major works, the book reveals how Strindberg's shifting narrative structures mirror his introspective and often conflicted engagement with the self. With an emphasis on psychological integration, the study underscores Strindberg's innovative exploration of personal experience as a lens for understanding universal human struggles. This insightful examination of Strindberg's literary artistry provides an enriched perspective on his novels and positions them as vital contributions to modern literature.

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

Avi Shlaim

The United States and the Berlin Blockade 1948-1949

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The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making by Avi Shlaim offers a penetrating analysis of one of the most dangerous confrontations of the early Cold War. When Stalin moved to blockade Berlin, Western leaders faced a sudden test of will, values, and resolve under the pressure of time and the threat of armed conflict. Drawing on extensive archival research, Shlaim reconstructs the flow of decisions taken in Washington as policymakers weighed options ranging from negotiation to military force, ultimately settling on the unprecedented airlift that became a defining episode of the postwar order. In doing so, he not only illuminates a turning point in East–West relations but also probes the psychological strains of crisis leadership itself.

Part of the International Crisis Behavior series, the book employs a common research design to examine decisional units, perceptions of threat, and the narrowing of choices under extreme stress. Shlaim demonstrates how American leaders understood Soviet intentions, how they defined the stakes of Western security, and how they sought to balance risk with credibility in the eyes of allies and adversaries alike. The narrative offers both the drama of unfolding crisis and a systematic inquiry into how statesmen process information, consult, and decide when events threaten to spiral into war. Combining the craft of the historian with the analytical tools of social science, The United States and the Berlin Blockade remains an essential case study in Cold War history and in the broader study of crisis decision-making—revealing how even under acute pressure, leaders can sometimes marshal clarity, restraint, and imagination in the defense of international order.

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

Walter Starkie

Scholars and Gypsies

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Scholars and Gypsies offers readers an absorbing glimpse into the life of Walter Starkie—scholar, musician, traveler, and lifelong wanderer between the lecture hall and the Romany road. In this richly textured autobiography, Starkie recounts his Dublin childhood, shaped by the rival worlds of classical scholarship and music, his youthful conflict with a domineering father, and the transformative influence of poets and storytellers like James Stephens. As he moves through Trinity College and into the upheavals of the Easter Rising, the First World War, and the cultural ferment of early twentieth-century Europe, Starkie’s memoir captures the tensions of identity, loyalty, and vocation. At once a record of intellectual apprenticeship and a coming-of-age narrative, the book situates his development within the Anglo-Irish world of Trinity, the broader landscape of Irish nationalism, and the burgeoning modernist stage.

Yet Scholars and Gypsies is also the story of a restless spirit whose true education took place on the road. Starkie’s years in Italy with a makeshift concert troupe, his encounters with Gabriele D’Annunzio and Pirandello, and above all his immersion in Romany camps opened a life-long dialogue between the “tame” and the “wild” in art, poetry, and music. By joining Hungarian and Irish gypsies in their caravans and listening to their “magic tunes,” he found what he calls the wisdom of sun, moon, and wind—a counterpoint to his formal training. Written with a shanachie’s verve and a scholar’s eye for detail, Starkie’s memoir blends personal confession, cultural history, and travelogue into a narrative that bridges salon and caravan, library and fairground. This reissue will speak to scholars of Irish studies, modernist culture, music and folklore, and anyone drawn to the interplay of erudition and vagabondage.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Richard T. Curley

Elders, Shades, and Women

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In Elders, Shades, and Women, Richard T. Curley describes the ceremonial life of a Nilotic community in northern Uganda and traces the alterations in its ceremonial activities from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of extensive contact between the Langi and Europeans in the 1960s. Setting his analysis within the broad context of Lango social organization, Curley discusses the makeup of the community and shows how the innovations of the colonial period led to changes in kinship relations and residential patterns. He is particularly attentive to the husband-wife relationship and to the changing status of women within a patrilineal system.

After describing Lango social organization and the changes that it has undergone, Curley turns to the three complexes of Lango ceremonial activity. One of these, traditionally performed by older men, has virtually disappeared, a victim of altered political relationships. The second set, comprising eight separate ceremonies performed for married women, concerns the problem of incorporating a women into her husband's lineage while recognizing that she was born in her father's. The third complex, centering on spirit possession, has become increasingly popular, and women participate to a much greater extent than men.

The author treats his religious material within the framework of structural-functionalism by concentrating on ceremonial activities rather than on belief and by relating the ceremonies to social processes. He departs from structural-functionalism, however, in borrowing heavily from work on the analysis of symbols, and he attempts to describe change rather than analyzing Lango religious activity at a single point in time.

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

Wesley Clair Mitchell

Business Cycles and Their Causes

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Business Cycles and Their Causes offers a reprint of the third part of a seminal 1913 work on economic fluctuations, addressing the dynamics and interrelations within business cycles. Authored by a pioneer in economic theory, this book captures a foundational understanding of the patterns and causes of cyclical movements in economies operating under private property, a monetary economy, and profit-driven enterprise. While much has evolved since the initial publication, the enduring relevance of these insights lies in their theoretical rigor and realistic depiction of economic activity during cyclical fluctuations.

This reprint preserves the original's core analysis, supported by historical data and a comprehensive theoretical framework. By revisiting this classic work, readers gain valuable perspectives on the persistent and sometimes violent nature of business cycles, as well as the underlying mechanisms that drive them. Whether for historians of economic thought or contemporary analysts seeking foundational knowledge, this volume remains a significant contribution to understanding the rhythms of business activity in market economies.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1941.

Sheila Faith Weiss

Race Hygiene and National Efficiency

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Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer offers an in-depth examination of the intellectual foundations of German eugenics, centering on the life and work of Wilhelm Schallmayer. A pivotal figure in the early eugenics movement in Germany, Schallmayer played a crucial role in shaping the theoretical and ideological framework of race hygiene. Unlike many accounts that retrospectively link German eugenics exclusively to the Nazi regime, this book places Schallmayer within the broader international context of eugenic thought, revealing striking parallels between German, British, and American eugenic movements. By shifting the focus from racial ideology to the technocratic concerns of national efficiency, the study challenges common misconceptions about the origins and motivations of German eugenics, presenting it as part of a wider effort to regulate population quality through scientific and managerial interventions.

This work critically reassesses the logic underpinning Schallmayer’s advocacy for reproductive control, which aimed at limiting the reproduction of the "unfit" while encouraging higher birth rates among the educated middle classes. His approach, rooted in concerns over national strength and cultural preservation, highlights the extent to which eugenics was framed as a tool for social engineering rather than merely racial purification. By tracing the continuity of these ideas from the Wilhelmine period through the Weimar Republic and into the Nazi era, Race Hygiene and National Efficiency provides a crucial perspective on how eugenics became intertwined with state policies. This book is an essential contribution to the scholarship on eugenics, illuminating its complex and often unsettling intersections with modern notions of public health, governance, and social order.

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

Ronald J. Manheimer

Kierkegaard as Educator

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Kierkegaard as Educator explores the multifaceted approach of Søren Kierkegaard's authorship, emphasizing his role as an indirect educator through his rich and varied literary styles. Kierkegaard's work employs pseudonyms, dialectical perspectives, and intricate narrative structures to engage readers on multiple levels of their being—philosophical, existential, and spiritual. His writing is not simply didactic; it is a performative act, designed to provoke reflection and personal transformation. By weaving together the "what" and "how" of existence, Kierkegaard offers a form of education rooted in the individual's process of becoming. This self-reflective authorship draws readers into an active engagement with their own possibilities, embodying a Socratic model of teaching that relies on awakening the reader's inner capacities for self-discovery and growth.

Kierkegaard's educational philosophy stands apart from traditional systems of instruction, focusing instead on indirect communication that challenges individuals to confront their own limits and potential. He places himself within the lineage of great thinkers such as Socrates and Augustine, whose methods prioritize awakening over instruction. By utilizing irony, metaphor, and layered narrative forms, Kierkegaard addresses the reader as a complex, evolving being, navigating life stages and existential choices. His work underscores the interplay of possibility and limitation, inviting educators, thinkers, and learners alike to embrace the transformative power of language and communication. Ultimately, Kierkegaard's authorship serves as an enduring model for those seeking to foster self-awareness and personal development through the art of dialogue and introspection.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Kimberly Hannon Teal

Jazz Places

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The social connotation of jazz in American popular culture has shifted dramatically since its emergence in the early twentieth century. Once considered youthful and even rebellious, jazz music is now a firmly established American artistic tradition. As jazz in American life has shifted, so too has the kind of venue in which it is performed. In Jazz Places, Kimberly Hannon Teal traces the history of jazz performance from private jazz clubs to public, high-art venues often associated with charitable institutions. As live jazz performance has become more closely tied to nonprofit institutions, the music's heritage has become increasingly important, serving as a means of defining jazz as a social good worthy of charitable support. Though different jazz spaces present jazz and its heritage in various and sometimes conflicting terms, ties between the music and the past play an important role in defining the value of present-day music in a diverse range of jazz venues, from the Village Vanguard in New York to SFJazz on the West Coast to Preservation Hall in New Orleans.

Edited by D. A. Low

Soundings in Modern South Asian History

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Soundings in Modern South Asian History, edited by D. A. Low, is a wide-ranging collection of essays that probes the complexity of India’s political and social transformation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book opens with the 1907 travels of Keir Hardie, the British Labour M.P., whose encounters with India’s nationalist leaders reveal both the commonalities and striking regional contrasts in political life at the time. Hardie’s meetings with Bengali bhadralok elites, Punjabi Arya Samaj activists, and divided factions in Bombay demonstrate how nationalist energy was concentrated unevenly across the subcontinent. His relative lack of reception in the United Provinces underscores the political inertia of a region that would later dominate Indian politics through figures like Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru. Low uses this narrative as a springboard to emphasize the importance of studying regional variations, cautioning against overly unified, textbook accounts of the national movement.

From this starting point, the essays expand into broader explorations of social, cultural, and political change. Contributions investigate the persistence of local elite cultures, such as the Indo-Persian husk tradition of Oudh, and their gradual decline under the pressures of agrarian unrest, linguistic shifts, and nationalist mobilization. Other chapters juxtapose regional case studies—Maharashtra, the Panjab, Bengal—highlighting the different trajectories of agrarian society, elite reform, and popular politics under colonial rule. Running through the collection is a concern with authority, identity, and ideology: whether in debates over liberal constitutionalism, the rise of mass nationalism, or the tensions between Hindu and Muslim political identities. Taken together, the essays argue that modern South Asian history cannot be reduced to a simple story of British impact and nationalist response, but must be understood as a kaleidoscope of shifting regional dynamics, social transformations, and contested visions for India’s future.

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

Leonard Michael Koff

Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling

$95.00

Uncover the intricate artistry behind Geoffrey Chaucer's storytelling in this compelling study that redefines our understanding of his narratives and their profound social and moral dimensions. This book offers a fresh perspective on Chaucer's role as a storyteller, emphasizing his dedication to the collective wisdom of "olde bokes" and the communal experience of reading. Through a blend of historical and theoretical exploration, alongside close readings of The Canterbury Tales, it reveals how Chaucer's narratives create a shared space for reflection, blending medieval traditions with universal themes. By exploring concepts like "parabolic listening" and the moral implications of storytelling, the book connects Chaucer's tales to their historical roots while showcasing their enduring relevance.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling argues that Chaucer's works are not cryptic puzzles but accessible narratives designed to inspire collective understanding and individual self-awareness. Through in-depth analyses of tales like the Merchant's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Parson’s Tale, the book illustrates Chaucer's ability to balance humor, morality, and social commentary. A must-read for anyone interested in medieval literature, this study illuminates Chaucer’s narratives as living texts that connect readers across time, offering both historical insight and a celebration of the timeless art of storytelling.

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