University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Education at the Edge of Empire
Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means...
The Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical...
Ipse Dixit
How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. In one of his most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber industry in a heavily publicized and emotionally fraught battle over the territory...
A Storied Wilderness
Rewilding the Apostle Islands
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by humans. The people who lived and worked...
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence.
The crisis...
The Country in the City
The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award
Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million...
Cottonwood and the River of Time
On Trees, Evolution, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime of work in forestry and genetics to guide him, Reinhard Stettler celebrates both what has been learned and what still remains a mystery as he examines...
Tangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian�and thru-hiker�Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the effects that spectacles have on their observers, the authors...
Heroines of the Qing
Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, “exemplary women” (lienu)—heroic martyrs, chaste widows,...
Margins and Mainstreams
Asians in American History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.
While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social...
Eat Everything Before You Die
A Chinaman in the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this vibrant and original novel, Christopher Columbus Wong, orphan son of a Chinatown bachelor community, is trying to invent a family for himself while all around him American popular culture is reinventing itself with sex, drugs, and rock �n� roll. Christopher finds himself on a wild journey...
Vigilante Newspapers
Tales of sex, religion, and murder in the northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This riveting work of social history documents the role the news media played in spurring two murders revolving around Edmund Creffield, a charismatic "Holy Roller" evangelist who arrived in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1903 and quickly enraged the citizenry by defiantly challenging the religious...
by Stevan Harrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues...