Upa: 654 books
Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)
A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked...
August 1941
The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Coming shortly after the British occupation of Iraq and the German invasion of Russia, the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran secured a vital route for supplies to Russia and assured British control of the oilfields. To save the Pahlavi regime, Reza Shah was replaced by his son and Iranians were given...
Literary Creations on the Road
Women's Travel Diaries in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Keiko Shiba, a noted researcher in early modern Japanese history, has spent years collecting hundreds of travel diaries written by women during the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate (17th through mid-19th centuries). The fruit of her research, originally published in Japanese, is now available in an...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
Servants of the Law
Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest...
by William J. Hemminger
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
African Son is a record of the author’s many trips to Africa—as a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright scholar, teacher, and traveler—over the course of thirty years. These personal essays range from sympathetic descriptions of village life in Senegal and Cameroon to detailed accounts of the rich...
Image and Imagination
Picturing the Old French Epic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The first in-depth interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste, Image and Imagination: Picturing the Old French Epic examines the fascinating relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study...
by Steven K. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this...
Jewish Secularity
The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or “somewhat secular.” Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its future? In reflecting on secular forms of Jewishness, the...
A Focus on Hope
Fifty Resilient Students Speak
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific...
The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968
José María Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968: José Maria Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix serves multiple purposes. Most importantly, it is an overview of an important moment in Spanish literary history that is connected to an extremely important moment in world history, 1968, as well as...
The Right to Write
The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...
The Reluctant Combatant
Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility...
Contemporary Africa's Growth and Development
Issues, Paradox and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. After discussing and weighing the schools of thought that have attempted to explain the paradox of Africa’s reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources, this...