University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...
Penguins
Natural History and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Penguins, among the most delightful creatures in the world, are also among the most vulnerable. The fragile status of most penguin populations today mirrors the troubled condition of the southern oceans, as well as larger marine conservation problems: climate change, pollution, and fisheries mismanagement....
My Fight for a New Taiwan
One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Lu Hsiu-lien�s journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan�s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of...
Doing Business in Rural China
Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award
Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group), practiced...
City of Virtues
Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Throughout Nanjing’s history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with “royal qi,” making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of visionaries, drawing on past glories of the city, projected...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
An Alaska Anthology
Interpreting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples� formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North�s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination....
Seattle Walks
Discovering History and Nature in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Seattle is often listed as one of the most walkable cities in the United States. With its beautiful scenery, miles of non-motorized trails, and year-round access, Seattle is an ideal place to explore on foot.
In Seattle Walks, David B. Williams weaves together the history, natural history,...
Wrongful Deaths
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and...
Where Land and Water Meet
A Western Landscape Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries...
Calamity
The Heppner Flood of 1903
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south...
Encounters in Avalanche Country
A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Every winter settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers-and their families-forced individuals and communities to develop knowledge, share strategies, and band together as they...
Saving the Reservation
Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Joseph R. Garry (1910�1975), a Coeur d�Alene Indian, served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1950s. He led the battles to compel the federal government to honor treaties and landownership and dominated an era in government-Indian relations little attended...
by Linda Carlson, Linda Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
�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 are outdated, especially for those company towns that...