University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Windshield Wilderness
Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and...
A Principled Stand
The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries...
by Linda K. Chalker-Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Winner of the Best Book Award in the 2009 Garden Writers Association Media Awards
Named an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009
In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses...
The Everyday Life of the State
A State-in-Society Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the...
Spaces of Possibility
In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington�s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of...
Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition updates and expands the original with new information...
Gay Seattle
Stories of Exile and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Winner of a 2004 Washington State Book Award
Winner of a 2004 Alpha Sigma Nu (ASN) Jesuit Book Award
In 1893, the Washington State legislature quietly began passing a set of laws that essentially made homosexuality, and eventually even the discussion of homosexuality, a crime. A century...
The Goldmark Case
An American Libel Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
In 1962 John Goldmark, cattle rancher, Harvard Law School graduate, and distinguished three-term state legislator for a lightly populated area in north central Washington, was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for reelection. He and his wife, Sally, had been accused of being communists by a small...
Neighbor Power
Building Community the Seattle Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle�s communities. This book not only gives hope that participatory...
The Wicked Wine of Democracy
A Memoir of a Political Junkie, 1948-1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Wicked Wine of Democracy is a frank account by a political operative and practicing lobbyist who in the early 1950s went from being a journalist in Seattle to working on the campaigns of such important political figures as Warren G. Magnuson, Henry �Scoop� Jackson, Frank Church, William Proxmire,...
Mexican Labor and World War II
Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
�Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region�s agriculture today, they have been virtually invisible in the region�s written labor history. Erasmo Gamboa�s...
Looking for Betty MacDonald
The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s...
Puer Tea
Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the �Six Great Tea Mountains� of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea�s...
by Ana Maria Spagna
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington�s White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries...