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Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
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ISBN: 9780295752693
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring...
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824894207
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet,...
Navigating the Spanish Lake
The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898
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ISBN: 9780824896799
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and...
Lahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
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ISBN: 9780295750811
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative...
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
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CA$85.00
ISBN: 9780824891060
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet,...
New Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749648
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town...
Mumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749860
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for...
Adivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749716
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country?s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight...
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Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen's Age of Coffee
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824893927
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west, seeking and offering a range of...
Outcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
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ISBN: 9780295748504
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay?s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan....
Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824889906
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth...
The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295747699
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad...
Land of Plants in Motion
Japanese Botany and the World
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824889739
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant...
A Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
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ISBN: 9780295747088
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law?s advocates, secularism?s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic...
At the Edge of the Nation
The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824888879
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and beliefs on what constitutes the “national” identity...
Transcending Patterns
Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824888435
Pub Date: December 2020
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture...
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295752693
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824894207
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Navigating the Spanish Lake
The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824896799
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Lahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295750811
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
CA$85.00
ISBN: 9780824891060
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
New Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749648
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Mumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749860
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Adivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749716
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Shipped but Not Sold
Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen's Age of Coffee
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824893927
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Outcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295748504
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824889906
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295747699
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Land of Plants in Motion
Japanese Botany and the World
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824889739
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
A Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295747088
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
At the Edge of the Nation
The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824888879
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Transcending Patterns
Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780824888435
Pub Date: December 2020
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press