University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
A Chemehuevi Song
The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until now, historical narratives that have all...
Making Mountains
New York City and the Catskills
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come...
A Time to Rise
Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s and �80s. Overcoming cultural and class differences, members of the KDP banded together in a single national...
On the Road Again
Montana's Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana�s changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken at the same sites today. The older photographs, preserved in the archives of the Montana Historical...
Over the Mountains Are Mountains
Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.
Still one of the only book-length studies of rural, peasant Korean households,...
The Nature of Gold
An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled to the area, hoping to find wealth in a rugged and challenging setting. Ever since that time, the Klondike...
Wilderness in National Parks
Playground or Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...
Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers,...
Fair Trade from the Ground Up
New Markets for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:
- worldwide minimum prices for commodities
- support for democratically governed cooperatives
- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers
- training to help producers improved...
Dark Rose
Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland�s law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city�s lucrative prostitution, gambling,...
by Christie Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Raven�s Cry is a Northwest Coast classic -- a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation.
The Haida are a proud and cultured people, whose home is Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of northern British Columbia....
Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila�a place that previously had existed only in fiction�had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been...
Technological Competition and Interdependence
The Search for Policy in the United States, West Germany, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Advanced industrial nations face many difficult political and economic problems due to the accelerating pace and evolving character of technological change. In this volume, economists and political scientists discuss analytic and policy issues relating to the current state of technological capability...