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UC Press March and April Award Winners

May 05 2021
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Milena Belloni2020 Best Book Honorable MentionInternational Studies Associatio
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UC Press February Award Winners

Mar 03 2021
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Angela S. GarcíaMirra Komarovsky Book Award 2021Eastern Sociological Society
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#RaisingOurVoices2020: New and Notable in Anthropology

Nov 05 2020
UC Press is thrilled to be publishing a number of new groundbreaking books in Anthropology.The United States of WarA Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic Stateby David Vine In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody co
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Watch: Why is the U.S. Always at War?

Oct 13 2020
The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In his new book, The United States of Wa
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Reading List for Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Oct 12 2020
To honor Indigenous communities and their resiliency in the face of violence by European explorers and the U.S. government, UC Press is spotlighting several titles that acknowledge the lives of Indigenous peoples in California and beyond.Tending the WildNative American Knowledge and the
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The Chilling Truth: Post-9/11 Wars Have Displaced 37 Million People

Sep 11 2020
by David Vine, author of The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State.This week, in recognition of the nineteenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the twentieth consecutive year of U.S. war, a team of students
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Fourth of July: Challenging Freedom

Jul 04 2020
This Independence Day—as our nation is grappling with radical upheaval around health equity, inequality, and necessary social change—UC Press has chosen to feature titles that challenge the traditional ideas of freedom in the United States. The following books range in topics from immigration to the
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