University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books
Baking Powder Wars
The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's...
Networking China
The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China , Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state,...
Shame
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame 's power to complicate...
Chino
Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their...
Across the Waves
How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American...
Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives,...
Lingua Cosmica
Science Fiction from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some...
Dockworker Power
Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative...
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Women Transforming Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and...
The Media Commons
Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's...
Media Localism
The Policies of Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy...
Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles
The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential question. Triumphs and turning points, rivalries and record-setters ”each chapter tracks down the real...
English Pastoral Music
From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war,...
by Katherine Fusco, Nicole Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American avant-garde, independent film, and the emerging...