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The Northern Region of Korea
History, Identity, and Culture
The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the...
ISBN: 9780295990415
more detailsMarginality and Subversion in Korea
The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812
In the history of Korea, the nineteenth century is often considered an age of popular rebellions. Scholarly approaches have typically pointed to these rebellions as evidence of the progressive direction of the period, often using...
ISBN: 9780295989310
more detailsWrongful Deaths
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday...
ISBN: 9780295993133
more detailsIndian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon
Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon is a richly illustrated, detailed study of the Native American basketry of this fascinating region. The book is the result of decades of research by Ralph Shanks who...
ISBN: 9780930268220
more detailsNorth Pacific Temperate Rainforests
Ecology and Conservation
The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of key issues important for the management and conservation of...
ISBN: 9780295992617
more detailsThe Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road
Trade, Security, and State Formation
Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China’s...
ISBN: 9780295752792
more detailsRussia's Far East
The security environment of Northeast Asia is increasingly affected by developments in the Russian Far East, including a longstanding economic crisis, changes in Russia's military policies, and the devolution of power to regional governments. Continuing...
ISBN: 9780295982106
more detailsCashing In across the Golden Triangle
Thailand's Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar
Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and southern China. In the latter half of the 20th century, it was known as...
ISBN: 9786169005346
more detailsIndian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau
From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created...
ISBN: 9780295971605
more detailsUpland Geopolitics
Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries...
ISBN: 9780295750491
more detailsGreat Bear Wild
Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
A stunning celebration of British Columbia's vast pristine wilderness
The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and...
ISBN: 9780295749143
more detailsGreening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of...
ISBN: 9780295747910
more detailsMountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a...
ISBN: 9780295744513
more detailsFlora of the Pacific Northwest
An Illustrated Manual
Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa...
ISBN: 9780295742885
more detailsMirroring Power
Ethnogenesis and Integration among the Phunoy of Northern Laos
The Phunoy are a Tibeto-Burmese population group in Phongsaly Province that has long been considered acculturated because of its adoption of various features of neighboring Tai societies, particularly Buddhism. This pioneering ethnography examines the Phunoy’s...
ISBN: 9786162151453
more detailsIceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the...
ISBN: 9780295992938
more detailsChronicle of Sipsong Panna
History and Society of a Tai Lu Kingdom, Twelfth to Twentieth Century
The Tai Lü are a Tai-speaking group closely related to the Khon Müang or Tai Yuan, the dominant ethnic group in Northern Thailand. According to their own historical tradition, the ancestors of the Tai Lü...
ISBN: 9786169005339
more detailsGandharan Buddhist Reliquaries
Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations...
ISBN: 9780295992365
more detailsEnclosed
Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders
This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the...
ISBN: 9780295991665
more detailsVarilaku
Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands
Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use...
ISBN: 9780642334206
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