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The importance of being gorgeous
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As she shows, the so-c...
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Industrial revolution in mexico
The industrial revolution in Mexico, beginning in the mid-20th century, marked a significant shift in the nation's economic and social trajectory. Following decades of agrarian focus and reform that characterized the earlier phases of the Mexican Revolution, attention turned decisively to industr...
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Introduction to detonation theory
Introduction to Detonation Theory provides a streamlined and insightful exploration of the mathematical principles underlying compressible flow with chemical reactions, with a special focus on detonation phenomena. Designed as an accessible analog to the full equations of reactive flow, this work...
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Senate and general
Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264–194 B.C. by Arthur M. Eckstein reconsiders the traditional view that the Roman senate exercised consistent and centralized control over foreign policy in the middle republic. Building on close readings of Livy, Polybi...
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Henry christophe and thomas clarkson
Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson: A Correspondence provides a detailed and illuminating exploration of the correspondence between Henry Christophe, the self-declared king of Haiti, and Thomas Clarkson, the renowned English abolitionist. Preserved in the British Museum, these letters shed ligh...
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The american temper
The American Temper: Patterns of Our Intellectual Heritage explores the evolution of American intellectual thought through four major movements—Puritanism, Republicanism, Transcendentalism, and Pragmatism—each contributing distinctively to the American mind. The Puritans provided a foundational s...
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The africanization of the labor market
This book offers a detailed analysis of the labor market segmentation in Cameroon, examining the social, educational, and occupational divides that influence labor market access and mobility. The author’s primary focus is on how these divisions, rooted in colonial history and ethnic fragmentation...
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Korean studies guide
The Korean Studies Guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for exploring the diverse aspects of Korean culture, history, and society. Developed in 1951 under the auspices of the University of California’s Institute of East Asiatic Studies, this guide reflects a renewed Western interest in Korea ...
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Transnational cinema solidarity
After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. José Miguel Palacios builds upon...
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Public opinion and canadian identity
Public Opinion and Canadian Identity offers a profound exploration of the complex and evolving nature of Canadian national identity, as seen through the lens of public opinion data spanning two decades. Mildred Schwartz's work examines the deep-seated historical and ideological contrasts between ...
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Fulke greville, lord brooke 1554-1628
Dive into the enigmatic and intellectual world of Fulke Greville, a towering yet often misunderstood figure of the English Renaissance. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, 1554–1628: A Critical Biography unveils the life and works of this poet, statesman, and thinker whose writings combine political ins...
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Yesterday
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...
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Plant nutrition and crop production
Plant Nutrition and Crop Production offers an insightful exploration of the scientific discoveries that have shaped our understanding of how plants derive nutrients and the profound implications for agricultural practices. The book traces the historical journey of thought and experimentation, beg...
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The metalogicon of john of salisbury
Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium stands as a seminal work in the history of medieval educational theory. Completed in 1159, this treatise passionately defends the liberal arts, specifically the Trivium—grammar, logic, and rh...
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The kiss sacred and profane
The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism and Related Religio-Erotic Themes is an ambitious exploration of the kiss as a complex and multifaceted symbol throughout Western culture. Rather than cataloging the kiss in all its varieties, the book focuses on its role as...
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One reel a week
One Reel a Week by Fred J. Balshofer and Arthur C. Miller, with the assistance of Bebe Bergsten, offers an unparalleled firsthand chronicle of the formative years of American cinema. Balshofer, a pioneering producer-director, and Miller, who rose from lab assistant to Academy Award–winning cinema...
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The heart of the pearl shell
For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyze...
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North for the trade
North for the Trade: The Life and Times of a Berber Merchant offers a fascinating lens into the life of Hadj Brahim, a Soussi merchant, as a means of exploring the broader socio-economic and cultural transformations in 20th-century Morocco. The book delves into Brahim's life, not as a tale of ext...
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Archipelagic cinemas
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Archipelagic Cinemas compares trajectories of cinematic and political development across Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth c...
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John webster's borrowing
John Webster’s tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, stand as monumental achievements in Jacobean drama, often regarded as second only to Shakespeare’s work. Yet, Webster’s creative process—marked by extensive borrowing from contemporary and classical sources—raises compelling ques...
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Conrad's short fiction
In recent years, critics and readers alike have increasingly recognized the unique brilliance of Joseph Conrad's short fiction, elevating it to the pinnacle of his artistic achievements. Marvin Mudrick, in his provocative analysis, even argues that Conrad’s finest works are his novellas, suggesti...
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The emergence of moscow, 1304-1359
The Emergence of Moscow: 1304-1359 provides a comprehensive political history of Moscow's rise to dominance over other northeast Russian principalities such as Tver', Suzdal', and Rostov. Focused on the period between 1304 and 1359, the study explores the political dynamics that led to Moscow's e...
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The speedy extinction of evil and misery
The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson (B.V.), edited by William David Schaefer, offers the first truly representative collection of Thomson’s prose, rescuing a neglected body of work from obscurity and scattered editions. While Thomson’s poetry—most notably The...
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Experimentation in american religion
Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticism and Their Implications for the Churches explores the emergence of new religious movements in America, particularly those outside the traditional Judeo-Christian framework. Wuthnow examines these movements in the context of the societal shift...
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Literature of agricultural research
Literature of Agricultural Research provides an exhaustive overview of the vast and rapidly expanding body of literature surrounding agriculture and its related fields. This guide addresses the challenges posed by the immense growth in agricultural publications, including journals, research repor...
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Why the lyrical ballads?
Why the Lyrical Ballads? illuminates the background, making, and distinctive character of Wordsworth’s 1798 experiment by tracking a recurrent “common resonance” across poems, prefaces, and critical contexts. John E. Jordan’s lucid study resists a single, neat thesis; instead it pursues the book’...
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Kigali
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the government of Rwanda hired American and Singaporean design firms to transfo...
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Struggle for democracy
Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution by K. S. Liew offers a penetrating study of one of the central yet often overlooked figures of modern Chinese history. Sung Chiao-jen, revolutionary organizer, party founder, and political visionary, emerged as a leader during...
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The renaissance of asia
The Renaissance of Asia brings together a series of lectures delivered in 1939 under the auspices of the Committee on International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles, capturing the extraordinary moment when Asia’s political future stood at a crossroads on the eve of the Secon...
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Wordsworth's heroes
Wordsworth’s Heroes reframes the poet of “egotistical sublime” fame as a maker of ordinary heroism—someone who finds grandeur not at Thermopylae but in cottages, churchyards, and the habits of speech that shape moral character. Willard Spiegelman assembles a gallery of Wordsworth’s “representativ...
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Art and artist
The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artist's purpose and process. Rico Lebrun, during an evening discussion in San Miguel de Allende, highlighted the importance of giving artists a plat...
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Indefensible spaces
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los An...
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Music streaming around the world
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and those offered by Chinese web giant Tencent are now central ...
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Chaucer's poetics and the modern reader
In Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader, the focus shifts from a realist interpretation of Chaucer's works to a nuanced exploration of his rhetorical poetics, emphasizing the poet's ambivalence about the nature of truth and language. The study aligns Chaucer’s fragmented and contingent narrati...
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Liberalism in modern japan
Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 offers a compelling exploration of the evolution of liberal thought in Japan during a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation. By focusing on the lives and ideas of figures such as Tanaka Odo, Ishib...
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Chaucerian play
In Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales, the author examines the intricate relationship between laughter, fiction, and the human condition in Chaucer’s work. Drawing on Baudelaire’s assertion that humor reflects humanity’s fallibility and serves as a coping mechanism for im...
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German exile politics
The Social Democratic Executive Committee in the Nazi Era provides a comprehensive and deeply researched account of the German Social Democratic Party's (S.P.D.) resistance during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history. As Germany's largest and most influential political party for de...
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Goethe's faust
Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport offers an exploration of one of the most complex and multifaceted works in literary history. The author delves into Faust's intricate layers, examining its genesis, historical context, and Goethe's personal experiences that influenced the play. The work nav...
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Pioneer jesuits in northern mexico
Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico is the third volume in a compelling series exploring the Jesuits' transformative efforts in Spanish North America. Following the acclaimed works Educational Foundations of the Jesuits in Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Jacobsen and Pioneer Black Robes on the West...
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The country house in english renaissance poetry
The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry explores a unique literary genre that emerged during the seventeenth century, celebrating the ideals of the English manor estate while critiquing the societal shifts that threatened its values. These poems, written by figures such as Ben Jonson, And...
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The nature of competition in gasoline distribution at the retail level
The Nature of Competition in Gasoline Distribution at the Retail Level presents a detailed and methodologically innovative study of competitive behavior in the retail gasoline industry, with a specific focus on the Los Angeles market area. This work blends microeconomic analysis with practical bu...
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The french revolution and the birth of modernity
Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem...
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Viator, medieval and renaissance studies, volume 7 (1976)
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 gathers an impressive range of scholarship that spans late antiquity through the Renaissance, reflecting the journal’s distinctive breadth across periods, disciplines, and geographies. The volume opens with Gerhart B. Ladner on Roman attitudes to...
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Anxiety aesthetics
Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Le...
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The urge to the sea
The Urge to the Sea by Robert J. Kerner offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Russian expansion by centering the humbler infrastructures—rivers, portages, ostrogs (frontier forts), monasteries, and the fur trade—that powered a continental “urge to the sea.” Moving across the long durée from the e...
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Prosperity without progress
Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines offers a compelling examination of Kabikolan's transformation from a subsistence agrarian economy to a commercialized export sector based on abaca (Manila hemp) production. The study situates the region's econo...
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Queen elizabeth and the revolt of the netherlands
Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands provides a deeply insightful analysis of one of the most pivotal conflicts of the sixteenth century, exploring England’s complex and often fraught relationship with the Dutch Revolt. This meticulously researched work traces the origins of the upri...
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Loyola's acts
Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self offers a nuanced exploration of Iñigo López de Loyola's pivotal spiritual transformation and its rhetorical framing within the Christian tradition. Far from being a straightforward autobiography, the text, titled Acta, is positioned as a work of epideictic ...
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Public law in a hybrid state
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Public Law in a Hybrid State presents a broad sociological analysis of legal developments in contemporary Uzbekistan, using this ...
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Injustice, inc.
An unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty Injustice, Inc. exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to generate reven...
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Rules, exceptions, and social order
Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order by Robert B. Edgerton explores one of the most basic but perplexing questions of human social life: why do societies both insist on rules and simultaneously create exceptions to them? Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history, Edgerton examine...
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The enigma of 1989
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 i...
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Lu xun and his legacy
Lu Xun and His Legacy explores the profound and complex impact of Lu Xun, a towering figure in modern Chinese literature, whose influence has extended far beyond his writings. Hailed as a revolutionary thinker and a literary pioneer, Lu Xun's works, including Call to Arms and Wild Grass, were ins...
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The she-wolf and other stories
The She-Wolf and Other Stories, translated and introduced by Giovanni Cecchetti, presents the definitive English collection of Giovanni Verga’s most powerful short fiction, placing the Sicilian master of *verismo* in his full literary and historical context. Verga began his career with sentimenta...
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A cultural history of spanish america
This book describes the development of Hispanic-American culture. It examines which European elements of their culture changed in migration to the New World, and which elements grew out of the mestizo or hybrid spirit.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates Uni...
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Politics and religion in seventeenth-century france
Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in Frenc...
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Shakespeare's military world
Shakespeare’s Military World by Paul A. Jorgensen offers a penetrating study of how Shakespeare imagined and dramatized the life of war. Rather than focusing only on battles staged in the theater, Jorgensen explores the full breadth of Shakespeare’s military imagination—from the music of war and ...
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A self-governing dominion
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 Califo...
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The faerie queene
The Faerie Queene: A Companion for Readers is an insightful study of Edmund Spenser's epic poem, offering a comprehensive exploration of its intricate themes, allegory, and narrative structure. Divided into two parts, the book first delves into general topics such as the poem's design, the signif...
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Modern islam
Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural Identity offers a compelling examination of the Islamic community's evolving response to its encounters with Western influence over the past century. This anthology of papers explores the trials and transformations that have emerged from these interactions, h...
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Doors to jobs
Doors to Jobs: A Study of the Organization of the Labor Market in California explores the challenges of connecting job seekers with employment in California during the 1930s. Conducted in 1938, this study examines the fragmented and inefficient state of the labor market, where workers often found...
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The drama of speech acts
This study delves into the role of language and speech in Shakespeare's Lancastrian tetralogy: Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V. It aims to provide an integrated analysis of how language is conceived and utilized across these plays, exploring both thematic and dramaturgical element...
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Agrarian socialism
This work seeks to analyze the political and social conditions that enabled the rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Saskatchewan, examining how such an agrarian socialist movement emerged and succeeded within a capitalist society. Author Seymour Martin Lipset approaches the C...
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The asami library
The Asami Library catalogue documents an extraordinary collection of Korean printed books, manuscripts, maps, and rubbings acquired by the East Asiatic Library of the University of California in 1950. Compiled by Chaoying Fang, this catalogue highlights the Asami collection’s unparalleled contrib...
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The political economy of germany in the twentieth century
The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century offers a comprehensive examination of how political decisions have shaped the economic trajectory of Germany from World War I onward. Eschewing narrow historical or economic perspectives, the book positions politics as the dominant force i...
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Fifty spanish poems
Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez, the poet at the center of Spain’s modernist revival. This bilingual edition, with translations by J. B. Trend, highlights Jiménez’s delicate verbal music and his lifelong quest f...
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The metamorphoses of ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar. Written in elegant Latin hexameter, the poem stands as both a monumental work of storytelling...
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Making health work
Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change 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, rea...
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Beryllium
Beryllium: Its Metallurgy and Properties is a comprehensive exploration of the metal's characteristics, processing, and applications, based on lectures delivered at the University of California, Los Angeles, in March 1963. The book focuses on beryllium as a construction material, recent advanceme...
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Architects of the self
In the post-Jane Austen era, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster uniquely probe the evolving nature of selfhood, each contributing to a broader dialogue on what it means to be fully human. Eliot embodies the Victorian commitment to duty and moral conscience, where restraint and selfless...
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Medico-surgical tributes to harold brunn
Medico-Surgical Tributes to Harold Brunn: A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Surgery and Medicine Written by His Pupils and Friends pays homage to one of the most distinguished figures in American surgery. Harold Brunn’s career, spanning the transformative era of late 19th and early 20th-ce...
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Business cycles and their causes
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 cau...
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Beyond second opinions
Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposé of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and ...
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Chaucer's dante
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "ep...
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The invisible code
The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814–1848 explores the transformation of social norms and personal identity during a pivotal era in French history. While the Napoleonic legal codes institutionalized key revolutionary principles like equality before the law and...
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Ecuador
Ecuador: Constitutions and Caudillos is a scholarly exploration of the political system and instability of Ecuador, offering valuable insights into Latin American governance. The book addresses the broader issues of political instability that have plagued many Latin American countries, particular...
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