Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book PrizeCold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosureIn the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial.
The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available todayThis volume—a completely overhauled and updated version... Læs mere
Reveals the untold stories about New Mexico’s queer pastThroughout the twentieth century, New Mexico’s LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe’s nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at Los Alamos.
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.
An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrustAs wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change.
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.
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.
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.