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The essays in this volume form a rich collage of the central Mekong basin spanning nearly 1, 400 years of history. Gathered from an international group of scholars, each with a unique approach to the region, this research draws upon materials in more than a dozen languages scattered in archives around the world. Topics include basic structural problems in writing Lao history, political geography from the 600s to 800s, separate discussions of L...

This original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages of the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day.

Paul S. Sutter is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia.

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Focuses on comparing attitudes toward private property and the persistence of Eastern forms of land ownership. This work presents an analysis of Western development that offers a perspective on private ownership of property in relation to government ownership that explains a about the evolution of socioeconomic and political systems East and West.

This manual is essentially a condensation of the five-volume work, 'Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest.' The sequence of families is the same in the two works except for the transposition of the monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

Edward Schatz is assistant professor of political science at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has been a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University and at the Kellog Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Gathered here are the most significant interviews give by the author of the National Book Award-winning "Middle Passage"and other acclaimed works, spanning from the 1970s to the early years of the 21st century.

This book is about mid-Columbia Indians and their land. The author overturns many of the myths the dominant culture holds about Native Americans and even some misconceptions perpetrated by earlier scholarship in the field.

In his Afterword to this finely honed and memorable collection, written over some 40 years' time, Hazard Adams characterizes these poems as "those I am willing to stand by." He has chosen well. This is a radiant volume, rich with imagery and enlivened with a wry and witty sensibility, its five parts charged with the sweep of a small drama. These are poems that wear well and welcome repeated reading. They are a pleasure to read aloud.Adams open...

A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w, photos, and a chronology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Port

The African American artist Dox Thrash has been frequently included in dictionaries, text books, and group exhibitions. This book catalogs prints, drawings, and watercolors through which Thrash expressed a consciousness about the perception of blacks within the racist structures of both American society and Western art history.

Michael Stanislawski is Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, Columbia University. He is the author of Zionism and the Fin de Si¿e, For Whom Do I Toil?, and Psalms for the Tsar.

Twelve powerful stories by award-winning novelist Peter Bacho. Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, "Dark Blue Suit" depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories--their landmarks, activities, settings, and events--are grounded in historical fact.