University of California Press Puts 400 Books Online, free

I'm not 100% sure I see what's in it for them to make 400 books available to the general public, completely free. (Thanks, Bookish) But there will be time enough for analysis later. In the short run, I'm celebrating, passing it on, and hoping other presses will follow suit.

Here are some of the titles that interested me (not that I have time to actually read through many of them in the week before classes start). The books at the top of the list are generally books I've read parts of already:

Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Parama Roy

Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics by Frances Pritchett

A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity by Daniel Boyarin

At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain

The Irish Ulysses by Maria Tymoczko

J.M Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing by David Attwell

The Travels of Dean Mahomet:
An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India
by Dean Mahomet (!)

The Magic Mountain: Hill Stations and the British Raj

Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia

Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918

A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity

Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines

Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars

Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India

The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India

The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

Freud and His Critics

Hysteria Beyond Freud