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In the video introduction to Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, written by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, Bruce Springsteen talks about how the authors inspired him to write the song “Youngstown.” Springsteen often gave this introduction to “Youngstown” on his Ghost of Tom Joad tour. Maharidge and Williamson have started [more...]  In an incisive op-ed for the New York Times, Hans Lucht, author of the forthcoming book Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today, highlights the perils faced by sub-Saharan migrants who attempt to reach Europe by way of Libya. To control the flow of migrant workers across the Mediterranean Sea, [more...] In the latest UC Press podcast, Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, talks about his experiences reporting on working-class America for the last three decades. Maharidge describes the emerging class of “new homeless” across the country, the symbolic significance of Youngstown, Ohio, and the way Bruce Springsteen took [more...] Distinguished author and archaeology scholar Lewis Binford died on Monday at age 79. UC Press published his last major work, Constructing Frames of Reference, which won the Society for American Archaeology’s book prize, as well as his essay collection In Pursuit of the Past. Binford was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences [more...] In this guest post, Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet (UC Press, June 2011) sheds light on the chilling case of Professor Boris Weisfeiler, one of thousands who disappeared during Pinochet’s regime. Professor Boris Weisfeiler Chile’s American Desaparecido He was respected mathematician who had published over three dozen [more...] UC Press is pleased to announce that Joel Robbins has received the J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research for Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and the recipient of a UCSD Academic [more...] What’s your favorite vintage? 2005? 2007? How about 4100 B.C.? That’s the year scientists have dated the earliest known winery, discovered in a cavern in Armenia. The international team of researchers, based out of UCLA, found a vat they believe was used for pressing grapes, along with the remains of crushed grapes, seeds, vine leaves, [more...] The label for Dogfish Head's Egyptian brew, Ta Henket Patrick McGovern, author of Uncorking the Past, accompanied the owners of Dogfish Head Brewery on their quest to create an ancient Egyptian beer on the Discovery Channel show “Brew Masters” last week. McGovern, an archaeologist whose research specializes in the origins of alcoholic beverages, traveled to Egypt [more...] We’re pleased to announce that UC Press’s Native Tribes of North America map is now available digitally. The map displays the boundaries of hundreds of tribes across the continent, from the Eskimo and Ammassaling Miut of Greenland to the Guaymi and Coiba of Panama. Originally published to accompany Volume 38 of the series University of [more...] UC Press author William F. Hanks was recently awarded the 2010 Sapir Book Prize at the annual meeting of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. The Edward Sapir Book Prize is awarded in alternate years to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways [more...] |
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