University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Environmental Justice in Postwar America
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence�but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution-emitting factories,...
The Dance of Legislation
An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Dance of Legislation has long been considered a classic description of the legislative process. In it, Eric Redman draws on his two years as a member of Senator Warren Magnuson�s staff to trace the drafting and passing of a piece of legislation � S.4106, the National Health Service Bill �...
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping...
American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in...
Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years.
Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan�s...
Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson�s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The �songs� of the film�s title refer to Andersson�s artistic ruminations on the state...
Sacred to the Touch
Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the Touch examines the spiritual and intellectual projects of six twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists...
Qing Governors and Their Provinces
The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
During the Qing dynasty (1644�1911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors -- those in charge of these increasingly influential administrative units -- playing key roles. R. Kent Guy�s comprehensive study of this shift concentrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Included in this volume are studies of the traditional leadership of the Yi dynasty as well as twentieth-century legislative, party, and bureaucratic leadership, and an evaluation of views of political leaders in South Korea, as well as two studies of the Communist system in North Korea.
by Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his English-language film Mammoth (2009) as well as his heartbreaking indictment of sex-trafficking in Sweden, Lilya 4-Ever (2002), debuted as a writer and director...
by Russell Charles Leong
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans.
In styles ranging from naturalism...
Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had...
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian...
Vagabond Life
The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War.
In...