{"product_id":"common-ground-reimagining-american-history-9780691070070","title":"Common Ground  Reimagining American History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. This book examines a set of binaries - East and West, black and white, man and woman - that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Common Ground] should take its place ... as a standard reference. Deftly referencing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Madame Butterfly (Puccini's opera and the modern play,) his own childhood experiences ... and other richly varied illustrations, Okihiro offers important insights... A must read.\"--Choice \"Okihiro is a masterly stylist, able to interweave theoretical insight and historical argument in language that is at once sophisticated and colloquial. Individually these essays are fully complete, but read consecutively they assume an added resonance and depth. In this regard, Common Ground is in a class all its own.\"--Louise M. Newman, Journal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix  PREFACE xi  CHAPTER 1 West and East 3  CHAPTER 2 White and Black 28  CHAPTER 3 Man and Woman 55  CHAPTER 4 Heterosexual and Homosexual 87  CHAPTER 5 American History 114  NOTES 139  INDEX 153","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403707457879,"sku":"9780691070070","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/common-ground-reimagining-american-history-9780691070070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}