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Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to...
ISBN: 9780295752341
more detailsCold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and...
ISBN: 9780295752242
more detailsLate Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely...
ISBN: 9780295752273
more detailsCops on Campus
Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence
Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within...
ISBN: 9780295752211
more detailsCapturing Glaciers
A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming
Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized visualizations of human-caused climate change....
ISBN: 9780295752020
more detailsIsland X
Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact...
ISBN: 9780295752051
more detailsSlapping Leather
Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the...
ISBN: 9780295752136
more detailsThe Unknown Great
Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History
Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg...
ISBN: 9780295751894
more detailsThe Empire Looks South
Chinese Perceptions of Cambodia before and during the Kingdom of Angkor
The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it....
ISBN: 9786162151965
more detailsThe Toxic Ship
The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after...
ISBN: 9780295751832
more detailsMiscellany of the South Seas
A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam
In 1835 young Chinese scholar Cai Tinglan was caught in a typhoon while sailing across the Taiwan Strait. He and his shipmates spent a harrowing week at sea before drifting to the coast of central...
ISBN: 9780295751672
more detailsGood Formulas
Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts
Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length study of the use of...
ISBN: 9780295751399
more detailsEcologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands...
ISBN: 9780295751498
more detailsAn Ecological History of Modern China
Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of...
ISBN: 9780295751719
more detailsBellwether Histories
Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's...
ISBN: 9780295751429
more detailsSettler Cannabis
From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion....
ISBN: 9780295751566
more detailsA Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
In the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously...
ISBN: 9780295751061
more detailsInsect Histories of East Asia
Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on...
ISBN: 9780295751801
more detailsCharged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling...
ISBN: 9780295752181
more detailsWide-Open Desert
A Queer History of New Mexico
Throughout the twentieth century, New Mexico’s LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe’s nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at Los Alamos. Shifting focus away from the urban...
ISBN: 9780295751023
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