Wurgaft and White—son and mother—make delightful company as they guide us through everything from the birth of agriculture to the lamination in a croissant in modern-day Tokyo.
From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating intr...
The Tropical Turn 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 materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical T...
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Kaveh Askari
2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinem...
Nine young men and women sitting in a field, Tulare County, 1912 [229]. Roberts Family Papers, African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a mom...