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The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, ...
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Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural ...
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Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism
I was at an Innovation Fair, passing desultorily by stalls advertising funding opportunities and state schemes for entrepreneurship, when a sudden crush of people caught my eye. I walked up to see ...
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Actual Malice
"A detailed examination of . . . the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for journalists."—The New York Times Book Review A deeply researched legal ...
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Q&A with Allen James Fromherz, author of "The Center of the World"
For over four thousand years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf, sometimes the Arabian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. In ...
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The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
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Q&A with Benjamin Snyder, author of "Spy Plane"
In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this ...
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One Hundred Years of Border Control
A new special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924. The issue includes new research that critically examines the troubled ...
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Music Perception Announces New Associate and Consulting Editors
Music Perception is thrilled to welcome a new cohort of Associate Editors with expertise in music information retrieval, cross-cultural research, music performance and expertise, cognitive ...
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In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based ...
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Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
When I began writing Women, Faith, and Family, I couldn’t help but see the complex tensions that shape conversations around women’s rights in Muslim societies—especially in Iran. In many of these ...
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UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) is joining UC Press's journals publishing program. The first issue published by UC Press will be Volume 37, No. 1, in ...