The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau
A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.
The Fifth Border State
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.
War at the Margins
Indigenous Experiences in World War II
The Indonesian Military Enjoys Strong Public Trust and Support
Reasons and Implications
Taiwan Archaeology
Local Development and Cultural Boundaries in the China Seas
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
Ke Kumu Aupuni
The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood
Connecting the Kingdom
Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840
Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963
A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto
Edo-Period Writings on Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, and Customs
Archaeology on the Threshold
Studies in the Processes of Change
Ancient Foodways
Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society
Through various case studies, this volume illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to interpret past foodways and reconstruct past social worlds.
They Also Write for Kids
Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature
A compelling study of activist cross-writing by authors better known for their work “for adults”
Rethinking Racial Uplift
Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era
A reconsideration of Black unity, racial uplift, and the role of the Talented Tenth
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Hidden in Plain Sight
Intriguing essays on Welty’s literary play with a beloved popular genre
Do You Remember?
Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire
The first serious study of one of America’s favorite bands
Distant Readings of Disciplinarity
Knowing and Doing in Composition/Rhetoric Dissertations
In Distant Readings of Disciplinarity, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015.
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Interviews with the queer Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor known for her novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands
Archaeological Perspectives
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces.
Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture