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Temples in the Cliffside
Winner of the 2023 IPPY – Gold – Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award Centuries of monumental sculpture, embedded in the landscapeAt …
The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China
Tyrant or national hero? An interdisciplinary exploration of China's First EmperorYing Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, …
A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Winner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History from the Western History AssociationA Drum in One Hand, a …
Turning Land into Capital
In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by …
The Forging of a Black Community
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 …
Contemporary Asian American Activism
Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical careIn the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, …
Three Early Mahayana Treatises from Gandhara
The Gandharan birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume …
Adivasi Art and Activism
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movementAs India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to …
People of the Ecotone
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History AssociationIndigenous power in a significant cultural and …
Pioneering Death
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 …
A Ming Confucian’s World
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 …
Material Contradictions in Mao's China
An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commoditiesThe growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic …