Perspectives on the Global Past

Anand A. Yang and Kieko Matteson

SERIES EDITORS

Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History

Edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Anand A. Yang

Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World

Edited by Victor H. Mair

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

Edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Kären Wigen

Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935

Rainer F. Buschmann

Creating the New Man: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities

Yinghong Cheng

Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific

Fiona Paisley

The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684–1757

Gang Zhao

Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521–1898

Rainer F. Buschmann, Edward R. Slack Jr., and James B. Tueller

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors

Edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

Edited by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang

Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

Edited by Ronit Ricci

Burnt by the Sun: The Koreans of the Russian Far East

Jon K. Chang

Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee

Nancy Um

Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley

Edited by Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell

At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia’s National Identity

Paul B. Richardson

Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan

Hiroko Matsuda

Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

Roxann Prazniak

A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania

Lorenz Gonschor

Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images

Mariachiara Gasparini

Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World

Thomas R. H. Havens

Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1870–1970

Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner, and Ian Tyrrell

Imperial Islands: Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898

Edited by Joseph R. Hartman

Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World

Edited by James Beattie, Ryan Tucker Jones, and Edward Dallam Melillo