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Joy Schulz explores Polynesia’s nineteenth-century women rulers, who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.

Back from the Collapse covers the evolution, Euro-American-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by the nonprofit organization American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres on the plains of northeast Montana.

Michael J. Devine explores the public memory of the Korean conflict of 1950–1953 to show how these memories have evolved over time in a complex and changing international environment and how they continue to impact U.S. efforts to resolve tensions with East Asia.

Harvesting History focuses on the example of Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831 to reveal connections between the historical profession and economic power in the competitive harvesting machine industry of the late nineteenth century.

Tom Lynch examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing the expressions of settler colonialism in the literary output of the American West and Australian Outback.

Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, this epic poem is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.

John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant and distinctive region.