University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Verse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation...
Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
The Roles and Representation of Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted �the Jews� as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between...
Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples
Readings in Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment�in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern...
A Place for Utopia
Urban Designs from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America. It charts the valency of "utopia"...
Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people...
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants...
Alaska
An American Colony
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to Western culture, the spread of European political economy to the New World, and the expansion of American capitalism and culture.
Alaska, an American...
The Environmental Moment
1968-1972
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government...
DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism
Classic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources:...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Howard Zahniser (1906�1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was...
by David Biespiel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
David Biespiel�s long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric...
by Katrina Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's large-spirited and exhilarating poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles...
China Watcher
Confessions of a Peking Tom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People�s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author�s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s...
Seattle in Black and White
The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town.
Energized...