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Transpacific, Undisciplined
Antinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese teahouses, art illuminating everyday convergences between migrant workers in Hawai‘i’s...
ISBN: 9780295752754
more detailsGood Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age...
ISBN: 9780295752648
more detailsCleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of...
ISBN: 9780295752556
more detailsAlaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and...
ISBN: 9780295752525
more detailsBotany of Empire
Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to...
ISBN: 9780295752464
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love," the colonial government...
ISBN: 9780295752860
more detailsFir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern...
ISBN: 9780295752877
more detailsExiled to Motown
A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit
During World War II, Detroit emerged as a relative space of freedom for Nisei permitted by the War Relocation Authority to leave sites of incarceration but banned from returning to their homes in the exclusion...
ISBN: 9780295749020
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 detailsTreaty Justice
The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States...
ISBN: 9780295752723
more detailsResisting 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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