The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, <I>The Boundless Sea </I>is Gary Y. Okihiro’s most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro’s previous books, <I>Island World</I> and <I>Pineapple Culture</I>, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian and the writing of...
A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, <I>American History Unbound</I> reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding of the United States. This text is accessible and filled with engaging stories and themes that draw attention to key theoretical and historical interpretations....
