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A special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity" explores debates about urban development in the Mediterranean from the late third to seventh century.

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.

In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that allowed criminal organizations to thrive—and ordinary people have paid the price.

Rural communities and livelihoods can be transformed into more resilient entities by focusing on knowledge transfer, better resource management, and livelihood diversification.

We’re thrilled to announce our new California Studies in Global Musicology series, led by series editors Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua! In this interview, Calico and Chua introduce the series, describe the types of projects they’re looking for, and provide advice for scholars hoping to submit to the series.

In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.

Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.

In their insistence on reworking what labor means and how it is experienced, women workers in Bengaluru offer significant insights into the time, space, and meaning of work under startup capitalism.

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our October 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.