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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Xu Ma
Boundaries and Bodhisattvas

From the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries, Neo-Confucian ideology sought to reinforce the seclusion of women within the domestic sphere, while flourishing lay Buddhism increasingly fueled their pas…

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Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Underworld Work

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, s…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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Arab American Public History

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson
Forgotten

A profound meditation on memory and the preservation of Palestinian heritage, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I.Forgotten uncovers the hidden or neglected memori…

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Jeongmin Kim
Black Market Intimacies

Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the region…

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Andy Doolen
Traitor

The story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, the v…

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William C Meadows
The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache

"The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spiri…

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Yuko Takahashi
Korean Nuclear Diaspora

Korean Nuclear Diaspora: Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-bomb Victims in Japan comprehensively explores the history of Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Following th…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Iain Jackson, Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Rixt Woudstra
Architecture, Empire, and Trade

"This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). W…

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Vincent T Davis
The Front Porch

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at theSan Antonio Express-News , Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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Andrea R Morrell
Prison Town

Andrea R. Morrell shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, New York, the town's two prisons extended far beyond their walls, intricately connecting th…

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Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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The Mahele of Our Bodies

""They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expressive. Hawaiians were like that. . . . To me it was an expression of the mahele of our bodies, t…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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