University of California Press5 小时
Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery
From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
University of California Press6 小时
From the Royal to the Republican Body
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the ...
University of California Press7 小时
Freud and His Critics
Wars against Freud were waged along virtually every front in the 1980s. In Freud and His Critics, Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable detractors, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ...
University of California Press8 小时
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand ...
University of California Press4 个月
From Fascism to Populism in History
What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a ...
University of California Press3 年
Being Single in India
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with ...
University of California Press3 年
The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
University of California Press4 个月
Book Authors
Meet the UC Press acquisitions team! Interested in publishing with UC Press? You can find the editors and learn about their specific areas of acquisition from the list below. Before sending an email ...
University of California Press3 年
That's Not Funny
A rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon ...
University of California Press2 个月
The Googlization of Everything
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling ...
University of California Press4 个月
The End of Burnout
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and ...