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Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text (the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies) is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of late antiquity from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, otherness at the center of its cultural production.

"A delightful and perceptive read. The author traces the threads which are woven throughout the land and sensory 'scapes' of a valley in Armenia: its archaeology, architecture and people's lives, past and present. She argues that, like other places across Afro-Eurasia, this valley and its people reveal their part in the wider 'scape' of a cosmopolitan medieval world, the Silk Roads."--Susan Whitfield, author of Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road "Culminating in a tasty stew shared in a medieval Armenian caravanserai, Kate Franklin's feminist analysis of different scales of the material culture of hospitality and its powers turns the heroic travel narratives of what we call the Silk Road inside out, recapturing the overlapping space-times of moving and staying that co-created the everyday cosmopolitanisms of the medieval world. A critical tour de force."--Francesca Bray, author of Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered "This is a thought-provoking work of modern scholarship, a perfect marriage of historical theory and archaeological investigation. Works concentrating on the non-European world are often concerned with regional outlooks, seldom addressing larger issues of world history. Franklin's book, on the other hand, brings the local perspective to a global context, contributing meaningfully to the emerging field of Global Middle Ages."--Khodadad Rezakhani, author of ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity "A master class in constructing an anthropological archaeological argument that incorporates a wide variety of sources in this field and others. Franklin provides us with a fresh new path along a well trodden road."--Joshua Wright, University of Aberdeen

"Full of interesting stories, We Gather Together is a very entertaining read. It is also quietly subversive. Beneath the veil of gentle humor and the perceptive readings of paintings, the book carries an important message: at a time when global warming is endangering life on this planet, the book implores us to think more deeply about our fundamental relationship with the earth."--Henry Adams, author of Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock "Wide-ranging and wonderfully illustrated, Eldredge's book examines how farming once defined America's sense of self and collective purpose."--Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

"A must-read that exposes the hidden effect of insults on national policy. Attacks on BLM, #MeToo, LGBT, immigration, and abortion rights have deflected, created headwind, and posed deadweight for reform. Ruth Colker powerfully shows how these insults can and must be countered in the future."--Suja A. Thomas, author of The Missing American Jury "A tour de force. Colker masterfully reframes debates about public insults and hate speech into a transformative playbook, arming civil rights and civil liberties proponents with insightful new approaches for understanding and addressing public insults as tools of power bullies. She brilliantly makes the case that incrementalist, neoliberal approaches do not provide for systemic change. I couldn't put the book down."--Michele Goodwin, author of Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood "Colker's insights shift our attention to a new civil rights battleground: public insults. Essential reading for anyone looking to better understand partisan political efforts to undermine civil rights and democratic governance."--Jasmine E. Harris, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law "Colker brilliantly documents how power bullies use insults to perpetuate the subordination of people with disabilities, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color. Those of us who value free speech must acknowledge these grievous harms and develop strategies to counter the pernicious effects of public insults."--Daniel P. Tokaji, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

"Providing a gripping historical account of hunger strikes over the past century, Nayan Shah sheds light on the paradox of using the frailty of the human body as a political weapon, showing how strikers slowly kill themselves in order to secure a series of rights and political goals. Refusal to Eat is as riveting as it is illuminating."--Neve Gordon, coauthor of Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire "This sweeping account of the hunger strike as form of geopolitical protest manages to be both a total history and a primer for contemporary activism. Nayan Shah materializes the agony of embodied suffering and the global consequences of the refusal to eat in a truly devastating, inspiring, read."--Antoinette Burton, coeditor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times "In this global study of the use of the hunger strike over the course of the twentieth century--by suffragists, Irish republicans, Japanese American internees, Indian decolonial activists, South African anti-apartheid activists, and more--Shah offers an affecting analysis of an embodied political weapon of last resort and a meditation on the nature of modern state and carceral power and resistance to it."--Regina Kunzel, author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality "A true tour de force. Shah's writing is clear and accessible and simultaneously engages with high-level critical discourse; it invites the reader, no matter one's background, into a serious and sustained study of hunger striking and the marginalized subjects who practice it. I really cannot heap sufficient praise on this work."--Patrick Anderson, author of So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

"This is a remarkable book. It not only tells one of the richest, most inclusive histories of Orange County out there, but it pulls you along for the ride, taking you to the places and hearing the voices of the people long ignored who made that history."--Becky Nicolaides, author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 "Dismiss clichés of what's behind the Orange Curtain. This People's Guide layers Orange County's troubled history onto today's uneasy present to reveal, in dozens of smart vignettes, the character of a place and its people. Intensely local yet expansive in their critical insight, the authors rouse true stories of desire and loss, of conflict and resistance, from Orange County's suburban dreamscape."--D. J. Waldie, author of Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place "This book showed me that history is not just in my textbooks. It's in my backyard."--Joyce Jogwe, eleventh grade student and Santa Ana resident "This engaging guide to Orange County offers a critical counterpoint to the 'happiest place on earth.' It pulls back the stucco curtain to highlight diverse histories of struggle, resistance, and place-making. A fascinating read that will be an important resource for teachers, scholars, and lovers of history."--Genevieve Carpio, author of Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race "For many, Orange County is synonymous with a host of fictional and real characters ranging from Mickey Mouse to Richard Nixon. By centering overlooked and marginalized communities, places, and people, this book challenges us to see Orange County anew. Required reading for students interested in the past and future of Southern California."--Romeo Guzmán, coeditor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

"Gendering Criminology is a must for instructors looking to teach gender and crime from a modern and holistic lens."--Christina Mancini, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Virginia Commonwealth University "An in-depth exploration of the ways in which gender and sexuality impact the experience of criminal justice across a range of key contexts, including in offending, victimization, and criminal justice responses. A comprehensive and strong piece of scholarship."--Matthew Ball, Associate Professor of Criminology, Queensland University of Technology

"We read a lot, perhaps too much about 'X-treme' food and macho food adventures these days, but this anthology calls to mind a better side of the subject: by showing us how food affects us in the most improbable and resistant circumstances, it reminds us again and again of why eating is one of the great continuities of life, even in scary places with scary people and scary-seeming plates."--Adam Gopnik, author of The Table Comes First "Compelling and powerful, these personal accounts by reporters assigned to hot spots from Haiti to Kosovo, from Rwanda to Kandahar, cut to the bone. They expose the hard truth that hunger for survival is as universal as battle, that food itself is a metaphor for war, and that eating is war by other means. This is a brilliant collection of stories that satisfies our hunger for words with the intensity of our hunger to live."--Betty Fussell, author of My Kitchen Wars and Raising Steaks "These are powerful, intimate stories from some of the best war correspondents of our time--the kind of stories they tell each other about everyday life in some of the most difficult places on Earth. These simple tales of food seduce you--your defenses are down, you get lost in a good tale, and then, suddenly, you realize you are fascinated by and finally understand a part of the world that had previously been just confusing and overwhelming. With one great read after another, you will remember these scenes, these characters, for a long time."--Adam Davidson, founder and host, NPR's Planet Money "The way to a nation's soul is through its stomach, and that is precisely the territory that these writers explore in this delightful anthology. Whether breaking bread with Palestinian militants, enduring army rations with US troops in Afghanistan, or attempting to cook a turkey in Baghdad, they write with dollops of humanity, heapings of insight, and a dash of humor. Read this book but be forewarned: you'll turn the last page hungry for more."--Eric Weiner, author of The Geography of Bliss

"Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate. The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized--or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized? Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s. The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco. Some titles of essays in the book: Whose English? by Sidney Greenbaum Look, Ma, I'm Talking by Sandra Gilbert Fighting Talk by Marina Warner No Opera Please--We're British by Michael Bawtree Changing What We Sing by Margaret Doody On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today by David Dabydeen Talking Black by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Subway Graffiti by Walter J. Ong Doublespeak by William Lutz It's a Myth, Innit? Politeness and the English Tag Question by John Algeo 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 impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

"Stephen G. Bloom deftly narrates and analyzes a complex story. The reader is hooked from the start. I kept thinking this would make a great movie."--Kathryn Olmsted, author of Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism "This book is a vital record, part of a mosaic of analysis on racial attitudes in post mid-century America and how to address racism in the era Jane Elliott was in her zenith. It's important for many reasons, but doubly more so now in the era of BLM. Bloom brings this story forward and makes it essential reading for today."--Dale Maharidge, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children after Them "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes is a great story, brilliantly told. But more than that, it is just what the subtitle advertises--a cautionary tale of race and brutality. For many, Jane Elliott is a hero. But, she and her legendary experiment are much more complicated than the celebratory lore would have us believe. Set aside what you think you know about racism, power, and privilege; forget what you may have heard about Elliott. Read this book and you will understand them in a way you never did before."--Joseph Margulies, Professor of Law and Government, Cornell University "Bloom delivers a compelling and cautionary tale of how Jane Elliott's eye experiment, with all white people, turned her into the foremother of today's puzzling "diversity training" industry. He takes us to Riceville and the world of classroom no. 10 to uncover the person behind the looming well-manicured persona by talking to the children, neighbors, and teachers who were all affected at different distances by Elliott's audacious and some say exploitative work. Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes is a gripping story of love, betrayal, social justice, and personal ambition, a celebration of tradition and intolerance of difference wrapped up in one woman's bullheaded drive to make America confront its own racism but on her own terms. This is a book Elliot once commissioned and then soundly denounced, perhaps the best kind of endorsement."-- Davarian L. Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities

"An invaluable read for anyone interested in Ottoman, European, and early modern history. This rich and lively memoir, written by an Ottoman captive who enters into Viennese society, will change your view of where Muslims belong in European history."--Molly Greene, Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University "The account of Osman of Timişoara is unique as one of the few examples of early modern Ottoman autobiography, as well as a very rare Muslim slave narrative. Giancarlo Casale breathes life into Osman's tale in this sparkling translation, which will be of great value and interest to scholars and students alike."--Eric Dursteler, Professor of History, Brigham Young University

"Sewing, like this book, is bringing together pieces of life to create a new being. We stitch together the parts of ourselves that feel raw and unfinished and we are clothed and rendered, reborn in full."--Margaret Cho, Grammy and Emmy Award-nominated stand-up comedian, actress, and singer-songwriter "During this terrible time, when people like me are being attacked, the Auntie Sewing Squad gives me heart. They have written a practical guide--including patterns--for making masks, making community, and making us safer. Thank you, Aunties."--Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Fifth Book of Peace and winner of the National Book Award "This is far more than the important account of women warriors, armed with sewing needles, who organized organically yet deliberately into a movement for social change in the time of Covid--it's an inspiring manifesto on building the Beloved Community. Please follow up with the field manual for global distribution!"--Helen Zia, activist, journalist, and author of Asian American Dreams and Last Boat Out of Shanghai "The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a wonderful, motley, no-bullshit collective history of a singular and beautiful mutual aid project--a collective that, in crafting and distributing masks as an expression of radical solidarity and capacity-building, reclaims the politicization of masks from the Right. In valuing care and beauty, embracing individual multiplicity and internal debate, the Aunties have assembled a subversive vision of liberation through accountability. This book makes for encouraging, galvanizing company for anyone interested in translating desire into action and moving from isolation into community."--Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror "Decades later, these stories will shimmer as individual and collective testimonies of how a multigenerational, grassroots coalition of mask-making Aunties saved lives and celebrated life during a worldwide pandemic. This book sparks joy! It vivifies 'creativity as resistance' and everyday activism in ways that will add depth and breadth to the transdisciplinary study of social movements and social justice."--Vickie Nam, editor of YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American "Kristina Wong used her crafty skills from sewing sets and props for stage to start making masks in an effort to help others and she quickly assembled a team of volunteers called the Auntie Sewing Squad, and together the group has distributed more than 55,000 masks in three months! I'm a big fan."--Good Morning America, July 28, 2020 "This book reflects a historical moment--the pandemic--yet links the response to the history of anti-Asian American racism, to solidarity instead of charity, and to challenges to the nuclear family. It captures the importance of mutual aid and how mostly Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and Queer and Trans people of color respond at the intersection of feminism, racial justice, and gender fluidity."--Yvonne Yen Liu, Co-founder and Research Director of Solidarity Research Center "This indispensable book presents an unseen side of the restructuring of the global economy, which placed feminized Asian labor at the center of both garment production and reproductive and care labor. The Auntie Sewing Squad's work also critiques the notion that market forces will step in to solve the problem of state failure, as they realized that even inexpensive masks were inaccessible to the most vulnerable communities. From all this comes an expanded and vital conception of solidarity."--Grace Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference "This is the book we need right now! Through prose, poetry, interviews, and memoir, this inspiring collection shares the power of women of color, predominantly Asian American women, forming grassroots, guerilla-style sewing groups to care for racialized and Indigenous communities suffering disproportionality from Covid-19, systemic poverty, and state violence. These badass Asian Aunties offer a model for us all."--Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity

"This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world's best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author's manuscript. It includes all of the '200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume also contains a wealth of helpful explanatory notes, along with a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication--everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again"--Back cover.

This is a painstaking reconstruction of the original version of Orson Welles's film, which was drastically recut by RKO Studios in 1942 before its release. It examines all surviving evidence, including rare studio documents and the recollections of Welles and other participants in the film.

"La Güera Rodríguez is a well-paced, well-written story of one of Mexico's most interesting and controversial women. It will fascinate experts, history fans, and undergraduates alike, and it will thrill teachers, not only with its abundance of angles for re-interpreting Mexican history and women's roles in it, but also for Arrom's smart and insightful dissection of the ways La Güera's life story was--and continues to be--manipulated by contemporaries and historians after her death."--Margaret Chowning, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley "Writing an important and long overdue book for Mexican history, Silvia Marina Arrom has carried out a truly herculean task ferreting out the facts in archives, newspapers, memoirs, travel accounts, and other nineteenth-century primary and secondary sources to skillfully construct and bring to life the true history of La Güera Rodríguez, leaving the hoary myths by the wayside."--Francie R. Chassen-López, author of From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911 "La Güera Rodríguez exposes the vicissitudes of life for women in Mexico in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the high stakes of family politics in battles over land and inheritance, marriage, domestic violence, religious faith, and strategic alliances with Church authorities. While historians have addressed the themes raised in this book, they have not done so with the detail we get from reading the history of a life as it unfolds. This book is beautifully written, striking a balance between historical context, biographical details, and the politics of memory. It does important work in revealing the way women's history has been devalued through construing female historical figures as famous for their sexual freedom."-- Susie S. Porter, author of From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950