University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books

Kirtland Cutter

Architect in the Land of Promise

by Henry C. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889. Major credit for the city's distinctive character was extended to Kirtland Kelsey Cutter for his...

Free Boy

A True Story of Slave and Master

by Lorraine McConaghy, Judy Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad. When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he brought with his household young Charles Mitchell, a slave he had likely...

Carl Maxey

A Fighting Life

by Jim Kershner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Carl Maxey was, in his own words, �a guy who started from scratch - black scratch.� He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other �colored� orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as...

Radical Heritage

Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.
by Alvin J. Ziontz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian...

Rural China on the Eve of Revolution

Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950

by G. William Skinner, Zhijia Shen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to leave....

Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet

Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879)

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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013

In 1846, French Canadian-born A. M. A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail to date. During the thirty-two years of Blanchet's...

I'm No Hero

Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor

by Henry Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had...

The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff

The Redemption of Herbert Nicholls Jr.

by Nancy Bartley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention,...

Temple Grove

A Novel

by Scott Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013

Deep in the heart of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula lies Temple Grove, one of the last stands of ancient Douglas fir not protected from logging. Bill Newton, a gyppo logger desperate for work and a place to hide, has come to Temple Grove for the money to be made from the timber. There to stop...

Imprisoned Apart

The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple

by Louis Fiset
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

�Please don�t cry,� wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana, and she was incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their separation would continue for more...

Classical Seattle

Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers

by Melinda Bargreen
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists. From Igor Stravinsky’s presence as guest conductor at the...
by Linda Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist "Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores, of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes...

Forbidden Games and Video Poems

The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing

by Yang Mu, Lo Ch'ing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b. 1940) and Lo Ch�ing (pen name for Lo Ch�ing-che, b. 1948), are represented in this bilingual edition of Chinese poetry ranging from the romantic to the postmodern. Both poets were involved in the selection of poems...
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