Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast
Episodes
Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her phenomenal new book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (U California Press, 2021), Nada Moumtaz charts the historical co...
Peter Richardson, "American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams" (U California Press, 2019)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Kevin Starr described Carey McWilliams as "the finest nonfiction writer on California—ever" and "the state's most astute political observ...
Robin Globus Veldman, "The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change" (U California Press, 2019)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive...
oStephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what hap...
Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan (University of California Press, 2021) explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or appre...
Corinna Zeltsman, "Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for p...
Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally availabl...
Jenny Stuber, "Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification" (U California Press, 2021)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? In Aspen an...
Paul Michael Hedges, "Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies" (U California Press, 2021)
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This innovative coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies--bo...
Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs a...
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural ...
Joseph P. Laycock, "Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds" (U California Press, 2015)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that include...
Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how yo...
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roa...
Megan D. McFarlane, "Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces" (U California Press, 2021)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United St...
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit t...
Rod Phillips, "French Wine: A History" (U California Press, 2016)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, talks about his book, French Wine: A Hist...
George J. Sánchez, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy" (U California Press, 2021)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ...
Emily Ng, "A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao" (U California Press, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If China’s Mao era is seen by many as a time of great upheaval and chaos, there are also people and places for whom things appear quite different. W...
Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, "We Are the Land: A History of Native California" (U California Press, 2021)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
California is often used as a synecdoche for the United States itself - America in microcosm. Yet, California was, is, and will always be, Native spac...
Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining featu...
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Robert Bartlett spoke with the New Books in Political Science podcast about two of his recent publications, which take on translati...
Axel Englund, "Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage" (U California Press, 2020)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (University of California Press, 2020), Axel Englund examines an increasingly common trope in...
Jennifer Sherman, "Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream" (U California Press, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining,...
Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Amanda Ciafone's (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) about her book Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Cor...
Christine M. Philliou, "Turkey: A Past Against History" (U California Press, 2021)
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christine M. Philliou's Turkey: A Past Against History (University of California Press, 2021) challenges conventional understandings about the trans...
Linda Gibbs et al., "How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness: Innovations That Work" (U California Press, 2021)
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness: Innovations That Work (U California Press, 2021) provides a first-hand account of the challenges of homel...
Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia," (U California Press, 2020)
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia (University of California Press, 2020), Dr. Rustam Urinboyev pre...
Andrew Konove, "Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City" (U California Press, 2018)
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of California Press, 2018), Andrew Konove traces the hist...
Megan Ryburn, "Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile" (U California Press, 2018)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited eth...
Robert T. Tierney, "Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame" (U California Press, 2010)
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (U California Press, 2010) is an incisive and provocative study of the figur...
William B. Taylor, "Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and...
Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focus...
Nicola Pratt, "Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon" (U California Press, 2020)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, Int...
Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fiel...
Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire" (UC Press, 2021)
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What role did culture play in the British Empire? In Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire Caroline Ritter, an Assistant ...
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context (University of California Press, 2014) situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli...
Christy Thornton, "Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy" (U California Press, 2021)
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) uncovers the surprising influence ...
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1" (U California Press, 2020)
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected is one of the most important Daoist texts, and a literary classic in its own right. The Declarati...
M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Nestle describes her new book as “a small, quick and dirty reader for the general audience” summarizing some of her biggest and most influe...
Nicholas Bartlett, "Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China" (U California Press, 2020)
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period...
William W. Kelly, "The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan" (University of California Press, 2018)
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. In The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (Un...
Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary historians have searched for the historical Muhammad along many paths. In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet o...
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, "Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan" (U California Press, 2020)
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yuc...
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways...
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals" (U California Press, 2020)
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of parti...
Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Tony K. Stewart’s book, Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination (University of California Press, 2019), we are taken into the imagi...
Claire Herbert, "A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality" (U California Press, 2021)
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality (University of California Pr...
Jennifer M. Randles, "Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering" (U California Press, 2020)
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering (University of California Press, 2020), sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stor...
Ellen Lamont, "The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date" (U California Press, 2020)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Lamont's new book The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date (University of California Press, 2020) offers an in-depth analysis of ...
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years. Across nearly two-and-a-half centuries, that’s a lot of war. In his...
Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution" (U California Press, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal ...
Kathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States" (U California Press, 2019)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2019) offers an ethnography of adoption pr...
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Repatriates (University of California Press, 2020) is an in-depth study of the fate of the nearly 80...
Li Zhang, "Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy" (U California Press, 2020)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced wit...
Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (University of California Press, 2020),...
Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020)
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Almeling’s new book GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) provides an in-dep...
Michael Slouber, "A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Slouber's new book A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (University of California Press, 2020...
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...
Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920" (U California Press, 2008)
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas R. Metcalf’s Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 (University of California Press) is an innovative remapping of ...
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press), ...
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shankar Nair’s new book Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press, 2020)...
Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite being a minor contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, like many other small island nations, The Bahamas’s ecology and society are es...
G. S. Rosenthal, "Beyond Hawai‘i: Native Labor in the Pacific World" (U California Press, 2018)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Haw...
David G. Atwill, "Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960" (U California Press 2018)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Centering on the Tibetan Muslims (the Khache) from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lha...
David G. Atwill, "Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960" (U California Press 2018)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Centering on the Tibetan Muslims (the Khache) from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lha...
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is...
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion" (U California Press, 2020)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although it has largely been erased from the collective memory of American Christianity, the debate over eugenics was a major factor in the history of...
Aliya Hamid Rao, "Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment" (U California Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (University of California Press, 2020), Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with coll...
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sandie Holguín speaks with Jennifer L. Holland about her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (University of California ...
Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms (University of California Press, 2020) is the first in-depth look at the ...
Macabe Keliher, "The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China" (U California Press, 2019)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing attention to the importance of li (an articulated system of social domination and political legitimization, consisting of rituals, ceremonies...
Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards, "Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research" (U California Press, 2019)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are oft...
Scott Laderman, "Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing" (U California Press, 2014)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020 has been such a horrifying year (and it’s only June!), it would be nice to relax a bit this summer and talk about something fun and apoli...
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay of Oakland University on their new book Women...
Jennifer Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although much has been written about the anti-abortion movement in the United States, Jennifer Holland (Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Universit...
Robert A. Karl, "Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia" (U California Press 2017)
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia (University of California Press 2017), Robert Karl explores how Colombian...
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Friedman's new book Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life (University of California Press, 2020) should be required reading for anyone sit...
Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic inquiry...
Lina Britto, "Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise" (U California Press, 2020)
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her recently published book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press 2020), Lina Britto ...
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most Americans have a limited understanding of the history of segregation in the United States. While many are taught that segregation was as an insti...
Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey" (U California Press, 2020)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, Christopher Houston's new book Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, a...
Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on year...
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all...
Norman A. Kutcher, "Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule" (U California Press, 2018)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing. Norman...
Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ollett, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, argues in his book, Langua...
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critical...
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with ch...
Joseph O. Baker, "Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters" (U California Press, 2019)
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher D. Bader and Joseph O. Baker's book Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters (University of California Press, 2019) ...
Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (U California Press, 2019)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period t...
Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America" (U California Press, 2019)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-F...
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproduc...
Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length st...
Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th ...
Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America" (U California Press, 2018)
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Noelle Giuffrida’s book, Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America (University of California Press, ...
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing" (U California Press, 2019)
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a wor...
L. A. Kauffman, "How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" (U California Press, 2018)
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were...
Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History" (U California Press, 2015)
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Al Zambone this week is Rachel Laudan, author of the fascinating Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (University of California Press, 20...
Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World" (U California Press, 2019)
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Building on nearly two decades of scholarship about sectarianism and communal relations in the Modern Middle East, Ussama Makdisi’s latest book, Age...
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet" (U California Press, 2018)
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (University of California Press, 2018) discusses the position of the monasteri...