The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
Patrick Chung
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828733
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Coming to Terms with Solitude, Decline, and Death in Tibetan Exile
Harmandeep Kaur Gill
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512827354
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Waiting at the Mountain Pass offers an intimate meditation on aging and dying among elderly exiled Tibetans living in Dharamsala, India. Through closely drawn portraits of these elders, readers walk with them through the heartaches and hopes of facing death alone and on a foreign soil.
Through extensive archival research on the information gathering, record-keeping, and diplomatic correspondence of Portuguese officials, Jorge Flores demonstrates how the Portuguese territories along the western coast of India were incorporated into the Persianate cultural sphere.
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World reveals that Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers allied behind Spain’s colonial officials and missionaries to wage wars against pirates and argues that anti-piracy politics held Spain’s Asian empire together and ensured its surprising resilience and longevity.
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan’s efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.
Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits. The Violence of Recognition reveals the violent implications of minority recognition in creating and maintaining hierarchies of racial capitalism.
