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Univ California Press F19 Lo.Pdf UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Fall 2019 FALL 2019 Dear Readers, Imagination is at the center of publishing: authors who foster 1 TRADE ideas and see them through, publishers who bring books to 12 ACADEMIC TRADE life, booksellers who believe in the power of the written word— 30 ART all stem from the deeply human ability to imagine something 35 NEW IN PAPERBACK that has never existed before. We are proud to kick off the Fall 2019 catalog with Out of Our Minds, a splendid traverse across 45 SOCIAL SCIENCES science, politics, religion, culture, and history that explores 61 HISTORY our human imaginations and how we came to have ideas in 67 FILM & MEDIA STUDIES the first place. Historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto perfectly 69 MUSIC sets the stage for the authors and books that follow—from 71 ANCIENT WORLD Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft's Meat Planet to Rabbi Michael Lerner’s 75 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS Revolutionary Love and beyond. 77 SALES INFO King and Emperor, a stunning new biography of Charlemagne 79 INDEX OF TITLES AND by Dame Janet L. Nelson, offers a vivid portrait of this complex AUTHORS character. Ithaca Forever complicates our understanding of the Odyssey by retelling the story from Penelope's perspective. And in The Silk Roads Susan Whitfield yet again brings to life a history that captivates the public's imagination. By drawing on works from across the world, we reimagine how classic literature is conceived of and recognized within the SUPPORT THE canon. In the World Literature in Translation series, we juxtapose UC PRESS the traditional with the unconventional, setting Pindar's Odes FOUNDATION and Euripides's Medea against The Celestina, The Mabinogi, and The Poem of the Cid, among others. www.ucpress.edu/supportus And finally we are pleased to publish UC Press classics in new formats: the paperback of Paul Farmer's To Repair the World will inspire the next generation of readers to tackle the challenges we face today. And we introduce the Infinite Cities boxed set, a trilogy of atlases and a feat of genius that illustrates the imagination and inventiveness of Rebecca Solnit and her collaborators. Follow UC Press Tim Sullivan, Executive Director Blog www.ucpress.edu/blog Facebook facebook.com/ucpress Twitter @ucpress Instagram @uc_press LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/university-of-california-press Out of Our Minds What We Think and How We Came to Think It Felipe Fernández-Armesto To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps—from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. A magisterial paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds is a unique history of our species and the ideas that have defined Bronze Age thinking all the way up to today. “Brilliant and profound, Out of Our Minds is a masterly survey of humanity’s unique imaginative leaps, from hominid cannibalism to our current global convergence. Written with Fernández-Armesto’s trademark panache and wry humor, this book challenges every assumption you’ve ever had about who we are and where we came from.” —Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 Maps Praise for Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s previous books: “Our America is perhaps the first history to make the case for this nation’s becoming a bright Latin American country. Fernández-Armesto dutifully deals with this An extraordinary journey through the changing landscape, writing with detail and gusto.” history of the human imagination. —New York Times Book Review, on Our America “Students and politicians alike could benefit from the scholarship of Fernández- Armesto. We owe him a debt of gratitude for deepening our comprehension of JUNE Hispanics in the US—how they came to be here and how their shared narrative has History/World shaped our nation.” 480 pp. 6 x 9 —Janet Napolitano, Wall Street Journal Book Review, on Our America US AND TERRITORIES $32.95T | £26.00 Cloth 978-0-520-33107-5 Felipe Fernández-Armesto is an award-winning historian and the author of several bestselling books, including 1492, Ideas that Changed the World, and The Americas. He lives in Indiana and is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. ALSO OF INTEREST A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore 978-0-520-29993-1, $24.95T | £20.00 Paper On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail 978-0-520-25812-9, $24.95tx | £27.00 Paper Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present by Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail 978-0-520-27462-4, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper www.ucpress.edu TRADE | 1 Meat Planet Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft In 2013 a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger, and since then the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat researchers race against population growth and climate change in an effort to make sustainable protein. Meat Planet explores the quest to generate meat in the lab—a substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat. Based on five years of fieldwork, Meat Planet reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, by examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually be the object of our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? The meat problem is not merely a problem of production. Like all problems in our food system, it is intrinsically social and political, and demands that we examine questions of justice and desirable modes of living in a shared and finite world. With cultured meat not yet in supermarkets or restaurants, Benjamin Wurgaft tells a story that could utterly transform the way we think of animals, the way we relate to farmland, the way we use water and the way we think about population and our fragile ecosystem’s capacity to sustain life. He argues that even if cultured meat does not “succeed,” it functions—much like science fiction —as a crucial mirror that we can hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 69 A provocative inquiry into the complex issues surrounding the future of lab- “As a thoughtful and informed meditation on the ambiguities of killing animals and grown meats. eating their flesh, Meat Planet offers a welcome change from the boosterism of the proponents of cultured meat on the one hand and the shrill anthropomorphism of many of the opponents of meat eating on the other.” SEPTEMBER —Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History Social Science/Agriculture & Food 272 pp. 6 x 9 “Ben Wurgaft’s account of his five years stalking the promise of a lab-grown burger WORLD is a restless narrative, told with grace and wit, about our modern hunger for meat. $27.95T | £22.00 Cloth Meat Planet questions what it is to be an eating, thinking human, caught between the 978-0-520-29553-7 imagined past of bucolic farms and a hyped future of gleaming bioreactors.” —John Birdsall, James Beard Award-winning food writer Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, and currently a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research. His essays on food and other topics appear regularly in publications from Gastronomica to the Los Angeles Review of Books to the Hedgehog Review. He is @benwurgaft on Twitter. ALSO OF INTEREST Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco 978-0-520-25035-2, $34.95tx | £27.00 Paper Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington 978-0-520-26093-1, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan 978-0-520-28631-3, $29.95T | £24.00 Paper 2 | TRADE University of California Press Revolutionary Love A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World Rabbi Michael Lerner For those who are tired of screaming across the table as they debate the future of the country and the planet, Revolutionary Love brings hope, respect, and love to today’s political divide. Rabbi Michael Lerner offers concrete solutions for future development by identifying why the Left and the Right have been so ineffective in achieving any lasting change and discussing what it will take to actually heal and repair the world, both spiritually and physically. He reminds us that ethical and spiritual qualities—compassion, respect, love, and a strong sense of community—can bring people together in a beneficial and constructive way that has the possibility of effecting real change.
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