University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Mine Okubo
Following Her Own Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
�To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.� - Min� Okubo
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The Little Everyman
Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular...
Narwhals
Arctic Whales in a Melting World
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff...
Vacationland
Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary
Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so...
A Moveable Empire
Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Unlike earlier studies that take an evolutionary view of tribe-state relations -- casting...
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falc�n redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South...
by Ho Ahn Thai
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, �the women on the island� are prisoners of the power of the place, the power of the past, the power of desire and constraint. Yet...
The Tanoak Tree
An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon. People’s radically different perceptions of it have ranged from treasured food plant to cash crop to trash tree. Having studied the patterns of tanoak use and abuse for nearly...
Wilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged...
Conservation in the Progressive Era
Classic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. At its height, the conservation movement was a critical aspect of the broader reforms undertaken in the Progressive Era...
Proving Grounds
Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing...
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical...
Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes. In the course of his investigation, Berger brings...
Fighting for the Enemy
Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Fighting for the Enemy explores the participation of Koreans in the Japanese military and supporting industries before and during World War II, first through voluntary enlistment and eventually through conscription. Contrary to popular belief among Korean nationalists, this involvement was not entirely...