University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Becoming Big League
Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots and documents their on-the-field exploits...
Landscapes of Promise
The Oregon Story, 1800-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental...
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both...
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, logging...
Stars for Freedom
Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn’t always the case. As Emilie Raymond shows, during the civil rights movement the Stars...
by Brian J. Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education...
Before Seattle Rocked
A City and Its Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked...
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was...
by Arthur R. Kruckeberg, Linda Chalker-Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The Pacific Northwest abounds with native plants that bring beauty to the home garden while offering food and shelter to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. Elegant trilliums thrive in woodland settings. Showy lewisias stand out in the rock garden. Hazel and huckleberry number among the...
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China�political, cultural, and economic�has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held...
by Suzanne Paola
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The image of the rose winds through the book, symbol of eternity and transience, gravity and folly. We find it in the ghastly bloom of the atomic bomb, in the relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, in the wool of a cloned sheep. Its image glows silently under the Waste Isolation Projects of Yucca Mountain...
The Afterlife of Sai Baba
Competing Visions of a Global Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instantly recognizable to most South Asians (and many Westerners) as a guru for all faiths—Hindus, Muslims, and others. Tracing his rise from small village...
Reading the Fire
The Traditional Indian Literatures of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Reading the Fire engages America�s �first literatures,� traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays.
Drawing on ethnographic...
The Pulse of Modernism
Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate...