American Historical Association

Though we aren’t able to connect with you in-person at the American Historical Association conference this year (January 6–9, 2022), we would still like to highlight our new books and share our conference discount.

 

We are pleased to offer AHA members a 30% discount on all orders placed through February 28. Enter promo code WST30 at checkout through our website or by calling 1-800-537-5487.

 

Our acquisitions editors are still eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. They have been working to transition their usual in-person conference appointments to virtual meetings by phone or Zoom. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with one of our editors:

 

Larin McLaughlin, Editorial Director, lmclaugh@uw.edu

Native and Indigenous studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies

 

Lorri Hagman, Executive Editor, lhagman@uw.edu

Asian studies, cultural and environmental anthropology

 

Andrew Berzanskis, Senior Acquisitions Editor, andrewlb@uw.edu

Social justice, environmental history

 

Mike Baccam, Acquisitions Editor, mbaccam@uw.edu

Western US history, critical ethnic studies

 

We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.

New in History

Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

Afro-Indigeneity and Community

Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthé, Andrew J. Jolivétte

$30.00

Paperback

304 Pages

Temples in the Cliffside

Temples in the Cliffside

Buddhist Art in Sichuan

Sonya S. Lee

$65.00

Hardcover

296 Pages

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑

Liu Xiang, Eric Henry, Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan

$125.00

Hardcover

1360 Pages

Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan

Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan

Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea

Maya K. H. Stiller, Clark W. Sorensen

$65.00

Hardcover

224 Pages

Footprints of War

Footprints of War

Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

David Andrew Biggs, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

$30.00

Paperback

288 Pages

Arranged Companions

Arranged Companions

Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China

Weijing Lu

$32.00

Paperback

264 Pages

Ancient Egypt and Early China

Ancient Egypt and Early China

State, Society, and Culture

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

$50.00

Hardcover

352 Pages

Love for Liberation

Love for Liberation

African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground

Robin J. Hayes

$30.00

Paperback

252 Pages

Wetlands in a Dry Land

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

$30.00

Paperback

288 Pages

Timber and Forestry in Qing China 

Timber and Forestry in Qing China 

Sustaining the Market

Meng Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages

Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights

Jonathan I. Israel

$39.95

Hardcover

560 Pages

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Mytheli Sreenivas

$30.00

Paperback

284 Pages

The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China

The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China

State News and Political Authority 

Emily Mokros

$32.00

Paperback

280 Pages

Consuming Ivory

Consuming Ivory

Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England

Alexandra Celia Kelly, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

278 Pages

The Empress in the Pepper Chamber

The Empress in the Pepper Chamber

Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction

Olivia Milburn

$32.00

Paperback

234 Pages

Mapping Water in Dominica

Mapping Water in Dominica

Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

Mark W. Hauser, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

$32.00

Paperback

284 Pages

Outcaste Bombay

Outcaste Bombay

City Making and the Politics of the Poor

Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

$32.00

Paperback

242 Pages

Opening Kailasanatha

Opening Kailasanatha

The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space

Padma Kaimal

$65.00

Hardcover

288 Pages

The Social Life of Inkstones

The Social Life of Inkstones

Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

Dorothy Ko

$35.00

Paperback

336 Pages

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

Thomas F. Thornton, Madonna L. Moss

$32.00

Paperback

276 Pages

Seeds of Control

Seeds of Control

Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

David Fedman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

$40.00

Hardcover

320 Pages

Fir and Empire

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Ian M. Miller, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

$40.00

Hardcover

296 Pages

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks

Emily L. Moore

$29.95

Paperback

288 Pages