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Botany of Empire
Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
An accessible foray into botany’s origins and how we can transform its future
Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields...
ISBN: 9780295752464
more detailsNorman Maclean
A Life of Letters and Rivers
The first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the...
ISBN: 9780295752488
more detailsFrom Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry...
ISBN: 9780295752679
more detailsTent City, Seattle
Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home
Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United States
Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of...
ISBN: 9780295752617
more detailsGlorious Qing
Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911
A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objects
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced...
ISBN: 9780295751917
more detailsCleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...
ISBN: 9780295752556
more detailsGames and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agents
Games as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholarly field of game studies, but relatively little has been published on the...
ISBN: 9780295752402
more detailsAlaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
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...
ISBN: 9780295752525
more detailsOregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and...
ISBN: 9780295752587
more details50 Keystone Fauna Species of the Pacific Northwest
A Pocket Guide
A compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant animal species of the Northwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species, ecosystems would...
ISBN: 9780295752891
more details50 Keystone Flora Species of the Pacific Northwest
A Pocket Guide
A compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant plant species of the Nothwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species, ecosystems would...
ISBN: 9780295752884
more detailsArt, Activism, and Sexual Violence
Highlights the role of creative expression in exposing, preventing, and combatting sexual violence
Since 2017 the #MeToo movement has expanded cultural awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual assault and tacit support for rape culture in the...
ISBN: 9780295752105
more detailsQueer World Making
Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality....
ISBN: 9780295752297
more detailsLate Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth
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...
ISBN: 9780295752273
more detailsChina's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
In recent years China has positioned itself as a champion of state-led resource conservation and sustainable development as it seeks to combat negative ecological effects of rapid economic growth and to adapt to climate change....
ISBN: 9780295752433
more detailsTaiwan Lives
A Social and Political History
Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformation
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P....
ISBN: 9780295752167
more detailsCold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governments
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...
ISBN: 9780295752242
more detailsUnrecognized in California
Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States
With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United...
ISBN: 9780295752846
more detailsBetween the Tides in California
Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that...
ISBN: 9780295752372
more detailsPreoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...
ISBN: 9780912298023
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