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Borderless Fashion Practice

Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age

Rutgers University Press

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice engages the work of fashion designers whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design.  

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Alimentary Orientalism

Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East

Bucknell University Press

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.

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Thing

Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

Island Press
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The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School

University of New Mexico Press

In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.

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Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats

Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy

Foreword by John R. English; Edited by Patrice Dutil
UBC Press

Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats is an incisive look at the history of Canadian foreign policy through the actions of prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.

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Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers

Edited by Rita Malenczyk
Utah State University Press

In this collection writing program and writing center administrators from a range of academic institutions come together to explore their work through the lens of sensemaking.

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Professionalizing Multimodal Composition

Utah State University Press

Multimodal composition is becoming increasingly popular in university classrooms as faculty, students, and institutions come to recognize that old and new technologies have enabled, and even demanded, the use of more than one composing mode for communicating, solving problems, and keeping up with the latest discourse. 

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Part of the Magic

A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness

University Press of Mississippi

A behind-the-scenes history of Disney’s greatest creative legends as told by an industry insider

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Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

University Press of Colorado
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King and Chaos

The 1935 Canadian General Election

UBC Press

King and Chaos is the first close study of the issues, personalities, and significance of the 1935 federal election, a turning point that fractured the two-party system and permanently changed Canada’s political landscape.

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Hydraulic Societies

Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History

Oregon State University Press

Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspectives, the essays in this book address how humans have long harnessed water and sought to contain its destructive power for political, economic, and social ends. Water defines every aspect of life and remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; boundaries and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy.

From the earliest large irrigation works thousands of years ago, control over water has involved control over people, as the essays in this volume reflect. The intersections of water and political, economic, and social power historically span international as well as domestic politics and operate at scales ranging from the local to the global. The authors consider the role of water in national development schemes, water distribution as a tool of political power, international disputes over waterways and water supplies, and the place of water in armed conflicts. They explore the ways in which political power and social hierarchies have themselves been defined and redefined by water and its control, how state leaders legitimized their rule both culturally and economically through the control of water, and how water management schemes were a means to impose and refine colonial power.

 

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Childfree and Happy

Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices

Utah State University Press

Childfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm.

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A History of Utah Radicalism

Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary

Utah State University Press
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Where We Belong

Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains

The University of Arizona Press

This comparative work dispels the harmful myth that Native people are unfit stewards of their sacred places. This work establishes Indigenous preservation practices as sustaining approaches to the caretaking of the land that embody ecological sustainability, spiritual landscapes, and community well-being.

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Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World

Learning to Thrive Without Growth

Island Press

Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been “more, more, more” in terms of growth – of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods. But reality is changing from the population boom of the 1960s and 1970s, as the earth’s population begins to decline.
 
In Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World, urban policy expert Alan Mallach seeks to understand how declining population and economic growth, coupled with the other forces that will influence their fates, particularly climate change, will affect the world’s cities over the coming decades.
 
Mallach has woven together his vast experience, research, and analysis in this fascinating, realistic-yet-hopeful look at how smaller, shrinking cities can thrive, despite the daunting challenges they face.

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Plant Foods of Greece

A Culinary Journey to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients
 

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Glancing Visions

Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

University of Alabama Press

How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism
 

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From Death Row to Freedom

The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case

University Press of Florida

This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to death during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

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Bold Conscience

Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

University of Alabama Press

How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action

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After Apollo

Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon

University of Florida Press

This book explores how NASA’s space program impacted American society and culture during and after the race to the Moon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing from the perspective of the present day.

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Playing House in the American West

Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839–1987

University of Alabama Press

Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life

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They Never Asked

Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

Oregon State University Press

In 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration forcibly held these Japanese Americans at the Portland Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to newly built permanent incarceration camps at Minidoka, Heart Mountain, and Tule Lake.

The Japanese American communities in Oregon and southern Washington were relatively small and many of the detainees knew each other; they drew on existing family and community networks to help each other through the long summer, living in inhumane conditions under the constant threat of violence. Several members of Bara Ginsha, a Portland poetry group, decided to continue their work while imprisoned at the center, primarily by writing senryū, a type of Japanese poetry related to haiku.

They Never Asked is a collection of work produced by Bara Ginsha members in the WCCA camp, based on a journal kept by Masaki Kinoshita. The senryū collected here were written by a group of twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems. Individually, the poems reflect the thoughts and feelings the authors experienced while being detained in the center; collectively, they reflect the resilience and resistance of a community denied freedom. Editors Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling, and Satsuki Takikawa present translations of the poems alongside the originals, supplemented by historical and literary context and a foreword by Duane Watari, Masaki Kinoshita’s grandson.


 

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The Wounds That Bind Us

West Virginia University Press

The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.

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The Upper Tanana Dene

People of This Land

University of Alaska Press

The Upper Tanana Deneconveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations.

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The Slow Rush of Colonization

Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790

UBC Press

This history analyzes over one hundred years of complex interactions between the Mi’kmaw, Wabanaki, Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik, French, and English to show the continuity of Indigenous independence from the European newcomers.

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The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940

University of New Mexico Press

Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest.

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The New Mexico Magazine Centennial Cookbook

A Century of Flavors

Edited by Molly Boyle and Lynn Cline
New Mexico Magazine
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Protecting the Coast and Ocean

A Guide to Marine Conservation Law in British Columbia

UBC Press

Protecting the Coast and Ocean, the first comprehensive guide to marine protection law in British Columbia, analyzes and compares the legal tools available to reverse ocean decline.

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Pablo Abeita

The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871–1940

University of New Mexico Press
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