University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
by Mette Hjort
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian...
Shaping the Shoreline
Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor...
Imperial Illusions
Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western...
Gender and Chinese History
Transformative Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals...
Sanyan Stories
Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Presented here are nine tales from the celebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574�1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he collected were pivotal to the development of Chinese...
Eric Voegelin
Philosopher of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
"The order of history emerges from the history of order" is the sentence that opens Eric Voegelin's multivolume work, Order and History. A search for an understanding of the order that can be found in history, and within the human being who is the subject of history, has resulted in a large...
A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pin as Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior....
Philosophers of Consciousness
Polanyi, Lonergan, Voegelin, Ricoeur, Girard, Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Philosophers of Consciousness is both an expository study of the thought of the six figures it focuses on and an original exploration of the themes they address. In addition, as Eugene Webb states, "it does not hesitate to probe the more problematic areas of the thought of each thinker and to...
Enduring Conviction
Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came...
Down with Traitors
Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931�1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, �traitors to the Han Chinese�). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating...
Too High and Too Steep
Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Residents and visitors in today�s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate their changing visions. In Too High and Too Steep, David B. Williams uses...
Nature Next Door
Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although...
John Okada
The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
No-No Boy, John Okada�s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection...
Shiraz in the Age of Hafez
The Glory of a Medieval Persian City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In the fourteenth-century Persian city of Shiraz, poets composed, scholars studied, mystics sought hidden truths, ascetics prayed and fasted, drunkards brawled, and princes and their courtiers played deadly games of power. This was the world of Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, a classical poet...