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Patrick Vinton Kirch

The first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian c…

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Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the Ameri…

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This book tells of one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory, a pe…

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Attuned to a world of natural signs--the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells--Polynesian expl…

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The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Ca…

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For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written i…

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Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against t…

Tony Horwitz

A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the …

Richard Bassett

A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa was the singl…

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The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides…

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Excerpt from Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Out-Riddling the Judge Back in Prohibition my uncle made …

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Before Hungary's transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectu…