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Sources of Western Zhou History
The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions ...
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Emperors and Rhetoricians
Panegyric, the art of publicly praising prominent political figures, occupied an important place in the Roman Empire throughout late antiquity. Orators were skilled political actors who manipulated ...
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The Tropical Turn
This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological ...
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Q&A with Laureen Hom author of "The Power of Chinatown"
Working from ethnographic fieldwork, Hom chronicles how Chinese Americans continue to gravitate to this space—despite being a geographically dispersed community—and how they have both resisted and ...
University of California Press16d
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through Poetry
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15-October 15. For this year's celebration, we present three poems featured in the upcoming poetry anthology The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of ...
University of California Press21d
Public History in the South
Public history practice in the southern United States faces multidirectional threats. Climate change–with attendant warming temperatures, rising waters, and extreme weather events–threatens historic ...
University of California Press21d
The Anatomy of Fake News
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals ...
University of California Press22d
Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, author of "Real Food, Real Facts"
In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating "real" food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry ...
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UC Press Blog
In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real ...
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An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
This interview was originally published here, and is reposted with permission. The Ben Cao Gang Mu is not only an ancient pharmacopoeia, but also a living museum. In the 16th century, after 27 years ...
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UC Press September Award Winners
Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's ...
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The Modern World-System I
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global ...