University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging in the creations of contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers—and settlers—into...
A New Middle Kingdom
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after a series of devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chos n dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance. This book questions this age-old...
The Rising Tide of Color
Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too often present the U.S. state as a benevolent force in struggles against white supremacy, especially in the South. Featuring a wide range of scholars specializing in American history and ethnic studies,...
by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking...
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.
Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists,...
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized...
A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe
The Autobiography and Journals of Gabriel Arié, 1863-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Ari�s writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion...
Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945
The Reception of Western Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Taiwan�s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People�s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when it occupied Taiwan--a frontier society composed of Han Chinese...
The Rhine
An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The Rhine River is Europe�s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged...
Woke Gaming
Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant...
Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
In the early 2000s, as India was emerging as a global superpower, a key development project off the southern Indian coast was thwarted by intense opposition. The construction of a new shipping canal angered Hindu nationalists who sought to protect what they saw as the land bridge built by Hanuman...
B Street
The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard...
by Bjorn Nordfjord
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Dagur Kari�s Noi the Albino (Noi albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino taps into perennial themes of escapism and existential angst, while its setting in the Westfjords of Iceland provided...
Sexuality in China
Histories of Power and Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives...