University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Art and Intimacy
How the Arts Began
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy,...
by Shuishan Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely...
Taipei
City of Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal...
And the View from the Shore
Literary Traditions of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii�s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii�s...
The Fishermen's Frontier
People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts with the aboriginal fishery, in which Native fishers lived in close connection with salmon ecosystems...
Building the Golden Gate Bridge
A Workers' Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories...
Asians in Colorado
A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more...
The City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association
Seattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding...
Desert Exile
The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San...
Iceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part...
by Dean Krouk
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the...
South of the Clouds
Tales from Yunnan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province�s officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost stories, and festival tales. The tales are peopled by memorable characters, such as the Tibetan...
Idaho's Place
A New History of the Gem State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Idaho�s Place is an anthology of the most current and original writing on Gem State history. From the state�s indigenous roots and early environmental battles to recent political and social events, these essays provide much-needed context for understanding Idaho�s important role in the development...
In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project,...