Books published by University of California Press

"As someone who attended and participated in the 1999 Interactive Fictions conference, which in many ways consolidated more than a decade of theorizing about and experimenting with digital media, I was uncertain what to expect from Transmedia Frictions. What I found was a rich collection that looks both backward to reconstruct the paths not taken in digital theory and forward to imagine alternative ways of framing issues of medium specificity, digital identities, embodiment, and space/place. This collection is sure to transform how we theorize--and teach--the next phases of our profound and prolonged moment of media transition."--Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide "This anthology is both an essential document in the history of new media studies and a springboard for critical future work in this field. The breadth of this impressive work is itself instructive about our twenty-first-century academic and scholarly goals."--Mark J. Williams, coeditor of Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture series

"This book is a godsend. More than that, it's a perfect example of precisely the kind of research that is most needed now, at a moment when human rights have never been more delegitimized on the international stage and abuses more rampant across the Middle East and North Africa."--Mark LeVine, author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam "Clear, concise, accessible, and detailed, this unique book sheds extensive light on how and why al-Haq developed as it did. And in doing so it offers original material on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the development of the human rights movement in Palestine and globally, and the creation and management of civil society organizations."--Mouin Rabbani, coeditor of Jadaliyya and former Senior Analyst and Special Advisor on Palestine, International Crisis Group

"This is one of those books of such obvious importance that it leaves you wondering why no one has ever thought to do this before. Bringing together the many texts and traditions of Perpetua and Felicitas, this volume does a great service to scholarship."--Paul Middleton, author of The Violence of the Lamb: Martyrs as Agents of Divine Judgement in the Book of Revelation "What happened to the reputations of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas after their deaths? This fine book provides answers to that question, offering a compilation of sources from the familiar to the obscure, along with introductory analyses of each text that are always helpful and often extraordinarily insightful. It's a must for researchers."--Joyce E. Salisbury, author of Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Late Roman Woman

It is often assumed that surrealism did not survive beyond the Second World War and that it struggled to take root in America. This book challenges both assumptions, arguing that some of the most innovative responses to surrealism in the postwar years took place not in Europe or the gallery but in the United States, where artistic and activist communities repurposed the movement for their own ends. Far from moribund, surrealism became a form of political protest implicated in broader social and cultural developments, such as the Black Arts movement, the counterculture, the New Left, and the gay liberation movement. From Ted Joans to Marie Wilson, artists mobilized surrealism's defining interests in desire and madness, the everyday and the marginalized, to craft new identities that disrupted gender, sexual, and racial norms. Remade in America ultimately shows that what began as a challenge to church, family, and state in interwar Paris was invoked and rehabilitated to diagnose and breach inequalities in postwar America.

"Painstakingly researched and richly illustrated, this pioneering work presents some major insights into Ottoman textiles, showing how markets and manufacturers, not just patrons and sultans, influenced their production. This book is a powerful appeal to discard the belief that written sources tell the whole story: objects themselves have so much to teach us!"--Suraiya Faroqhi, author of Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans and A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and Its Artefacts "This book skillfully guides the reader on a journey into the long history of Ottoman textiles, considering magnificent, mundane, and rare artifacts. With an innovative emphasis on craft and a transnational perspective, Phillips reaches beyond the Ottomans' well-known relationship with Italy to investigate their connections with Iran, Egypt, Eastern Europe, and, most importantly, India, providing a wide-ranging analysis of Ottoman textile culture."--Giorgio Riello, Professor of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute "Phillips's study is based not only on an impressive amount of work but also on an impressive conceptualization of the place of textiles within an early modern world that stretched from England in the West to India in the East. It is a brilliant and engaging book that brings the study of textiles into the mainstream of art history--where it belongs."--Scott Redford, Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

"Utilizing rich ethnographic fieldwork, Perla Issa provides an engaging analysis of Palestinian factions in the refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared. Her book illuminates the centrality of political factions to quotidian social interactions and the rhythms of everyday life."--Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East "How do political factions maintain centrality in Palestinian political life even when they are widely unpopular and even delegitimized? How are such factions reproduced in the face of widespread condemnation? The questions that animate this manuscript are vitally important."--Ilana Feldman, author of Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics "The implications of Issa's theoretical frame, methodological approach, and empirical findings are significant for Palestinian studies. It is the first granular study of how political factions are produced and one of the rare few on Nahr al-Bared camp, which was viciously destroyed in 2007, then partially rebuilt." -- Bershara Doumani, author of Family LIfe in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History

"The focus on safety is a brilliant narrative choice that allows the text to quickly jump to the heart of many of the most contentious issues in nuclear power regulation and politics over the past fifty years."--Robert Lifset, author of Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism "I know of no other book that so authoritatively recounts how the very notion of safety was forged in the US nuclear industry over the decades."--Sonja D. Schmid, author of Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry "An authoritative insider account of the different technical approaches taken to assess the risks of nuclear power accidents. It also examines the disputes over the reliability and relevance of these approaches, and whether they could be implemented in the field by the industry."--John Krige, Regents Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Worlds of Care is a powerful and admirably candid deep dive into the experiences of men raising kids with significant cognitive and physical disabilities. By blending intimate accounts of his own experiences with insightful ethnographic research, Jackson casts light on a long-neglected realm of human experience."--Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity "Many men are caring, supporting, championing their children with disabilities. Aaron J. Jackson's warm, rich, and nuanced account provides a welcome window into their lives and challenges us all to rethink who we are and who we can be."--Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "Worlds of Care is the rare book that advances scholarship, addresses significant contemporary issues, and is poignantly personal in a very accessible read. Aaron J. Jackson leverages his experience and ethnographic research on fathers caring for their disabled children to provide compelling analysis regarding the fraught relationship between masculinity and care."--Maurice Hamington, Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University "Worlds of Care draws you deep into the everyday embodied experiences of fathers caring for children with major disabilities in a world that too often turns a blind eye. Richly and reflexively observed, analytically inspiring and utterly moving, this is an ethnographic tale with gravitas that will stay with you."--Tamara Kohn, Professor of Anthropology, University of Melbourne "Intellectually, Jackson provides us with rich phenomenological insights into the experience of fathers bringing up children with profound cognitive disabilities. Moreover, at a personal level, he has given us a perceptive and profoundly moving insight into the disruptions that the care of such children brings to family life."--Bob Simpson, Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK

All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central-perhaps the central-aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

"What a treasured compilation of essays, interviews, and thoughts about one of the most important artists of the late twentieth century! Jordana Moore Saggese, an accomplished Basquiat scholar in her own right, has selected a broad spectrum of key writings that, in their entirety, capture a comprehensive art history which will be of lasting value to artists, scholars, and admirers of Jean-Michel Basquiat's exuberant, redolent, exegetic paintings."--Richard J. Powell, author of Going There: Black Visual Satire "This indispensable volume offers a set of vital documents critical for the analysis of the work and career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was mythologized early on and barely understood even after he passed. This extraordinary, riveting scholarly reader is a significant contribution to the fields of contemporary art, American art, and the discipline of art history at large."--Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University "An artist with a rare and acute understanding of the power of language, Basquiat withheld his words, sous rature, disassembling them, scattershot and specific, to allow hidden meanings and associations. Saggese does a splendid job gathering them here through his interviews and notebooks along with the insights of contemporaneous critics and the recollections of his contemporaries. A vital compendium for future scholarship."--Carlo McCormick, critic and curator "An invaluable survey of critical writing on the praxis of art phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat, including his own textual obsessions--which presents a varied yet precise chronology of his short but art history-changing career."--Diego Cortez, curator

"Smith's book brings together a broad variety of interesting artworks, some of them hardly known, by one of the most important artists of the last fifty years. Her deep research reveals the connections between Oldenburg's art and the fascinating postwar decades that thoroughly changed American urban life."--Joshua Shannon, author of The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City "Smith persuasively argues that Oldenburg's ebullient interventions in public space result from a unique perspective on the ordinary, pedestrian life of the street. The more I think about this book, the more I am convinced that Oldenburg--an immigrant and an erstwhile Midwesterner--is the quintessentially American sculptor."--Miguel de Baca, author of Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture "A thoughtful and illuminating account of the city as both the material and the subject of Claes Oldenburg's art. Smith builds on substantive archival and historical research to uncover hitherto unexplored aspects of the artist's project, presenting Oldenburg as an artist whose work is inextricably connected to the spaces, personages, and tensions of postwar urban experience."--Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

"Contains a wealth of new information and brings a fresh perspective to the subject."--Peter Laki, editor of Bartók and His World "Provides a critically sophisticated treatment of the Hungarian composer, musical ethnologist, and pedagogue Zoltán Kodály. Kodály emerges as more surprising, more flawed, more human, and more impressive than his besainted reputation in his native Hungary and his relative scholarly neglect elsewhere has allowed until now."--David E. Schneider, author of Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition

Daisetsu Teitarп̿ Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This fourth volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a range of Suzuki‿s writings in the area of Buddhist studies. Based on his text-critical work in the Chinese canon, these essays reflect his commitment to clarifying MahÄ?yÄ?na Buddhist doctrines in Indian, Chinese, and Japanese historical contexts. Many of these innovative writings reflect Buddhological discourse in contemporary Japan and the West‿s pre-war ignorance of MahÄ?yÄ?na thought. Included is a translation into English for the first time of his "MahÄ?yÄ?na Was Not Preached by Buddha." In addition to editing the essays and contributing the translation, Mark L. Blum presents an introduction that examines how Suzuki understood MahÄ?yÄ?na discourse via Chinese sources and analyzes his problematic use of Sanskrit.

The wines of Tuscany were famous long before Leonardo da Vinci described them as 'bottled sunshine'. This book discusses such subjects as geology and geography, grape varieties, and research into Sangiovese, the variety used in the top wines of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a half years. This book analyzes the experiences of that part of the detained group - some 18,000 in total - whose response was to renounce America as a homeland.

"e;What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it."e; Mark Twain's "e;tale"e; became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince endures "e;rags & hardships"e; while the pauper suffers the "e;horrible miseries of princedom."e; Mark Twain called his book a "e;tale for young people of all ages,"e; and it has become a classic of American literature. The first edition in 1881 was fully illustrated by Frank Merrill, John Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. The boys in these illustrations, Mark Twain said, "e;look and dress exactly as I used to see them cast in my mind. . . . It is a vast pleasure to see them cast in the flesh, so to speak."e; This Mark Twain Library edition exactly reproduces the text of the California scholarly edition, including all of the 192 illustrations that so pleased the author.

A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "e;one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race."e; The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "e;boss the whole country inside of three weeks."e; And so he does. Emerging as "e;The Boss,"e; he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central-and contested-role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price-Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.

Covering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, this title includes essays that depict a various non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders.