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Chinese Autobiographical Writing
An Anthology of Personal Accounts
Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in...
ISBN: 9780295751238
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
more detailsThe Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The...
ISBN: 9780295751184
more detailsThe Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the...
ISBN: 9780295750903
more detailsPeople of the Ecotone
Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America
In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most...
ISBN: 9780295750880
more detailsBlack Lives in Alaska
A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest
The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in Alaska’s politics and culture. They...
ISBN: 9780295750934
more detailsBotticelli and Renaissance Florence
Masterworks from the Uffizi
This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence, featuring essays and entries written by an international team of scholars and experts in the field.
The authors examine both...
ISBN: 9780998587226
more detailsNew Women of Empire
Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America
Strong, bold, and vivacious—Japanese American young women were leaders and heroines of the Roaring Twenties. Controversial to the male immigrant elite for their rebellion against gender norms, these women made indelible changes in the community,...
ISBN: 9780295750521
more detailsThe Many Lives of the First Emperor of China
Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of...
ISBN: 9780295750224
more detailsCharged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
For a clean energy future, 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: 9780295750248
more detailsThe Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
A Woman of Power and Privilege
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war,...
ISBN: 9780295750361
more detailsLabor under Siege
Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU’s Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era
At six feet four inches and with a powerful speaking style, Big Bob—Robert McEllrath's waterfront handle—was heralded for his charisma, unifying vision, and negotiating prowess. President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for...
ISBN: 9780295750330
more detailsThe Forging of a Black Community
Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle...
ISBN: 9780295750415
more detailsPioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's...
ISBN: 9780295750637
more detailsThe Great Quake Debate
The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
In the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in its infancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with fellow high-profile scientist Robert T. Hill in a debate with life-or-death consequences...
ISBN: 9780295750729
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...
ISBN: 9780295750699
more detailsThree Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra
Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11
The Gandhāran birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of...
ISBN: 9780295750736
more detailsDebating Malthus
A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment
For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions...
ISBN: 9780295749907
more detailsA Ming Confucian’s World
Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden
A forgotten century marks the years between the Ming dynasty's (1368–1644) turbulent founding and its sixteenth-century age of exploration and economic transformation. In this period of social stability, retired scholar-official Lu Rong chronicled his observations...
ISBN: 9780295749938
more detailsTemples in the Cliffside
Buddhist Art in Sichuan
At sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is the world’s tallest premodern statue. Carved out of a riverside cliff in the eighth century, it has evolved from a religious center to a UNESCO...
ISBN: 9780295749303
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