Perspectives on the Global Past

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Contemporary globalization requires today’s historians to develop new perspectives and approaches for the construction of national and regional histories and to increase their awareness and understanding of the wider world. World history encompasses these changes in a particularly meaningful way, and this series is an effort to extend the field in new directions. Perspectives on the Global Past welcomes a variety of analytical approaches and the methods and insights of different disciplines. Books may focus on specific cultural groups and regions or range comparatively worldwide in analysis of large-scale processes, cross-cultural encounters, and global themes.

Series Editors: Anand Yang and Kieko Matteson

Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley, edited by : Karras, Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell (June 2017)

Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee, by Nancy Um (May 2017)

Burnt by the Sun: The Koreans of the Russian Far East, by Jon K. Chang (July 2016)

Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration, edited by Ronit Ricci (May 2016)

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700, edited by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang (March 2016)

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors, edited by Reuvan Amitai and Michael Biran (December 2014)

Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898, by Rainer F. Buschmann, Edward R. Slack Jr., and James B. Tueller (May 2014)

The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757, by Gang Zhao (February 2013)

Creating the “New Man”: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities, by Yinghong Cheng (2009)

Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific, by Fiona Paisley (2009)

Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935, by Rainer F. Buschmann (2008)

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges, ed. by Jerry H. Bentley; Renate Bridenthal; Kären Wigen (2007)

Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World, ed. by Victor H. Mair (2005, out of print)

Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History, ed. by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Anand A. Yang (2005)

Please send a copy of your prospectus or inquiry to:

Masako Ikeda
Acquisitions Editor
2840 Kolowalu St.
Honolulu, HI 96822
masakoi@hawaii.edu