Spring 2012 - University of California Press

history
Hanna Holborn Gray
Searching for Utopia
Universities and Their Histories
As Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on major
trends and debates since the 1960s, she
illuminates the continuum of utopian
thinking about higher education over time,
revealing how it applies even in today’s
climate of challenge.
Hanna Holborn Gray was President of the
University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993 and
is presently the Emeritus Harry Pratt Judson
Distinguished Professor of History there.
An Atkinson Book in Higher Education
AVAILABLE
130 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"
US History/Education
World
cloth 978-0-520-27065-7 $39.95tx/£27.95
Ian J. Miller
The Nature
of the Beasts
Empire and Exhibition at the
Tokyo Imperial Zoo
Focusing on Tokyo’s historic Ueno Zoo,
Ian J. Miller shows how the facility
played a critical role in legitimating
Japan’s project of imperial expansion in
the public mind. Founded in 1882, the
zoo served as one of the primary arenas
of Japan’s imperialist spectacle.
Ian J. Miller is Assistant Professor in the
Department of History at Harvard University.
JULY
350 pages, 6 x 9”
Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27186-9 $49.95tx/£34.95
Shawn Bender
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in
Place and Motion
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling
choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has
captivated audiences in Japan and across the
world, making it one of the most successful
performing arts to emerge from Japan in the
past century. While its popularity has created
new opportunities for Japanese to participate
in community life, this study also
reveals how the discourses and practices of
taiko drummers dramatize tensions inherent
in Japanese conceptions of race, the
body, gender, authenticity, and locality.
Shawn Bender is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at Dickinson College.
JULY
250 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 b/w photographs,
2 line illustrations, 1 map
Asian Studies/Performing Arts
World
cloth 978-0-520-27241-5 $60.00tx/£41.95
paper 978-0-520-27242-2 $24.95tx/£16.95
Amy Stanley
Selling Women
Prostitution, Markets, and the
Household in Early Modern Japan
This book traces the social history of early
modern Japan’s sex trade from its beginnings
in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis
in the nineteenth-century countryside.
Amy Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at
Northwestern University.
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 21
JUNE
258 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w photographs, 4 maps
Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27090-9 $49.95tx/£34.95
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