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The Sung Dynasty (960?1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and...

Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru...

According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home of the most sacred and oldest of all beloved or mother towns. Just by entering Kituwah,...

How does a personality characteristic such as self-esteem become translated into political convictions? How do individual differences in self-esteem affect who becomes a politcal activist and a...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press? Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late nineteenth and...

Plantation pedagogy is a form of teaching that draws on human-space relations in an attempt to transform Black and Indigenous peoples as well as land. This mode of education and the formal...

In the early 1970s, the major industrial states were preparing to shift to nuclear fission as their principal source of electrical power. But that change has not occurred. In part, this is due to a...

Poems to the Child-God is the first full-length study in English of the verse of Surdas, or Sur, traditionally ranked among the three greatest poets writing in Hindi. Combining introduction, critical...

Who advises our policy makers in Washington? What brings these advisors to the federal bureaucracy and keeps them there? And how do their clients and the bureaucratic context influence the choices...

Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism : A ReinterpretationAuthor: David McnallyPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 348 pagesLanguage:...

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. Melodrama films dominated the...

Politics of Discourse : The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century EnglandAuthor: Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. ZwickerPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of...

Pope Alexander III And the Council of Tours (1163) : A Study of Ecclesiastical Politics and Institutions in the Twelfth CenturyAuthor: Robert SomervillePublisher: Univ of California PressPublication...

Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979Author: Bonnie S. McdougallPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages:...

This book understands the postracial as a genre--like the zombie apocalypse--that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press?s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press?s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and...

The story of the U.S. women's movement and television in the 1970s has been told primarily in two, often coordinating, ways: through feminist reform efforts that originated outside of the television...

Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late AntiquityAuthor: Richard LimPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 302 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This critical edition publishes--for the first time anywhere--the original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Mark Twain's story of the antebellum South, first published in 1894,...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press? Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Conflicts about space and...

Quichean Civilization : The Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic, and Archaeological SourcesAuthor: Robert M. CarmackPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 460...

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. What happens after colonial...

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 recent decades, many...

Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways is the first relational ethnography of Quechua and Måaori peoples' philosophies of well-being, traditional ecological knowledge, and contributions to sustainable...

Religion and Rajput Women : The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary NarrativesAuthor: Lindsey HarlanPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 276...

Revolution and Cosmopolitanism : The Western Stage and the Chinese StagesAuthor: Joseph LevensonPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage:...

Revolution and Repetition : Marx/Hugo/BalzacAuthor: Jeffrey MehlmanPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 142 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Revolutionary Diplomacy : Chinese Foreign Policy and the United Front DoctrineAuthor: J. D. ArmstrongPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 260...

A persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements. Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy,...