University of Washington Press Forlag
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A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the early twentieth century China’s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia called One Hundred Illustrated Beauties.
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Post Romantic: Poems (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global historiesIn her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us.
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The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Choson Korean Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
"A William Sangki and Nanhee Min Hahn book."
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Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available todayThis volume—a completely overhauled and updated version... Læs mere
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Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods “made in China”The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) court.
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Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General NonfictionThe rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald CitySeattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine.
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DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism: Classic Texts (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides.
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Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Thousands of Kurdish politician-activists have been prosecuted and imprisoned, and hundreds have been murdered for espousing Kurdish political and cultural rights over the past twenty years.
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