The Columbia Guide to Asian American History

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"A monumental achievement! Gary Okihiro has made a major contribution to the exeiting field of Asian-American studies. In graceful, readable prose, with a confident mastery of the relevanl scholarship, he offers a narrative overview, a thoughtful exploration of contested interpretive issu.es, a survey of emerging themes, and a guide to the Iiistorical sources. This invaluable work illuminates the experience of Asian and Pacific Island groups that are central to America's past, present-and future. This is American history at its newest and best." - Paul Boyer, editor in chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History "Okihiro's The Columbia Guide to Asian American History is an indispensable resource -the one book that everyone who reads, teaches, or writes Asian American history will turn to first for its insights, analyses, overviews, and guides to resources. Okihiro captures the dynamism of the field brilliantly by highlighting long-standing debates and emerging themes as... Tovább

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"A monumental achievement! Gary Okihiro has made a major contribution to the exeiting field of Asian-American studies. In graceful, readable prose, with a confident mastery of the relevanl scholarship, he offers a narrative overview, a thoughtful exploration of contested interpretive issu.es, a survey of emerging themes, and a guide to the Iiistorical sources. This invaluable work illuminates the experience of Asian and Pacific Island groups that are central to America's past, present-and future. This is American history at its newest and best." - Paul Boyer, editor in chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History "Okihiro's The Columbia Guide to Asian American History is an indispensable resource -the one book that everyone who reads, teaches, or writes Asian American history will turn to first for its insights, analyses, overviews, and guides to resources. Okihiro captures the dynamism of the field brilliantly by highlighting long-standing debates and emerging themes as well as the cumulative consensus tliat has emerged from the by-now large body of research produced by historians of Asian America. Comprehensive and complete in its coverage of Asian America, this volume alsó distinguishes itself as a sensitive and self-reflexive rumination about the generál processes of the historians craft." -George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment ín Whiteness: How White People Profit from ldentity Politics "Comprehensive, wide-ranging, and authoritative, Gary Y. Okihiro's work offers a superbly well-informed appraisal of the development of the field of Asian American history, its current status, and the new directions in which it is moving. The book will be indispensable for scholars and students in all fields of American history, for as Okihiro amply demonstrates: 'Asian American history is an account of America's past. It is America writ large.'" - Richárd Polenberg, Goldwin Smith Professor of American History, Cornell University COLUMBIA GUIDES TO AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURES Vissza