University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
No Starling
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The new century peeled me bone bare like a song
inside a warbler - that bird, people,
who knows not to go where the sky's
stopped.
Over the years, Nance Van Winckel's extraordinarily precise and energetic voice has built upon its strengths. Unpredictable, wry, always provocative,...
by Brett L. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing...
Underdog
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In Underdog, poet Katrina Roberts draws on wide-ranging historical and cultural sources to consider questions of identity, to ask us to meditate on how each of us is “other” - native, immigrant, sojourner, alien - and to examine our at-once shared and foreign frontiers and margins. Throughout...
Trout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing...
The Social Life of Inkstones
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity...
The Art of Resistance
Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters�Ding Cong (1916�2009), Feng Zikai (1898�1975), Li Keran (1907�89), Li Kuchan (1898�1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897�1971), and Shi Lu (1919�82)�during China�s Cultural Revolution (1966�1976), a time when...
Art by the Book
Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format...
How to Read the American West
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to Read the American West, William Wyckoff introduces readers anew to these familiar landscapes. A geographer...
The Nature of California
Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America�s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck�s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan�s America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes�s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies,...
Transforming Monkey
Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
An analysis of historical, transcultural, and transmedia adaptation, Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic examines the ever-changing image of Sun Wukong (aka Monkey, or the Monkey King), in literature and popular culture both in China and the United States. A protean...
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a...
Firebrand Feminism
The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science. In Firebrand Feminism, Breanne Fahs brings together ten years of dialogue with four founders of the radical feminist movement: Ti-Grace...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam�s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam�s turbulent past,...
by Katrine Barber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited...