Regional historia

The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of …

Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II. Meiji leaders founded Toky …

Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in …

Contending that Japan’s industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen’s interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early m …

How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan’s ’Warring States’ period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern p …

Offers a nuanced account of the multiple aspects of women’s lives and their roles in American society American Women’s History presents a comprehensive survey of women’s experience in the U.S. and No …

China Reporting is an oral history showing how the China correspondent of the 1930s and 1940s constructed his or her news reality or the network of facts from which their stories were written. How th …

This major biography of Mao draws on never before seen documents to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and leadership in China. This title is part of UC Press's Voices R …

Communications and National Integration in Communist China explores the unprecedented efforts of Mao Zedong’s government to unify a vast, diverse nation through mass persuasion and propaganda. Dr. Li …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …