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Walls and Mirrors
Covering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed—and continues to shape—the political, social, and ...
University of California Press11h
Shakespeare's Proverbial Language
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 ...
University of California Press12h
Lost Illusions
The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but ...
University of California Press2d
Participant Observers
Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid ...
University of California Press2d
To Place Our Deeds
To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable, extremely well-researched social history, based on ...
University of California Press3d
A Grammar of Motives
About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject ...
University of California Press3d
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 Press14d
Free trade’s legacy of grief for families of the disappeared in Mexico
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Although disappearances in Mexico trace back to the Cold ...
University of California Press14d
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In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that ...
University of California Press16d
Building Farming Resilience with Climate-Smart Intervention
Donovan Campbell and Shaneica Lester are co-authors of “Building Resilience in Jamaica’s Farming Communities: Insights From a Climate-Smart Intervention,” which won top prize in the 2023 Case Studies ...
University of California Press17d
Q&A with Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua, series editors of “California Studies in Global Musicology”
We’re thrilled to announce our new California Studies in Global Musicology series, led by series editors Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua! In this interview, Calico and Chua introduce the series, ...
University of California Press17d
Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural ...