University Of Washington Press: 541 books
The Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the flight represented the culmination of a dream he’d cultivated since his childhood in the 1930s.
Eileen...
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan
The Politics of Antiquity and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators�and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced as tangible sources of immense national pride...
The Deepest Roots
Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the Depression, and the memory of planting, growing,...
Faith in Nature
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and...
Dismembered
Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
While the number of federally recognized Native nations in the United States are increasing, the population figures for existing tribal nations are declining. This depopulation is not being perpetrated by the federal government, but by Native governments that are banishing, denying, or disenrolling...
A Wealth of Thought
Franz Boas on Native American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major...
The Emotions of Justice
Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating...
by Molly Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales�a malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics today�were first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century. Because they were made...
by Onoto Watanna
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child of white parents who was raised from infancy in Japan by a Japanese foster mother and assumed to be Eurasian. A crisis occurs when, 18 years after her birth, her American father returns...
Picturing India
People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant...
Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native...
Offspring of Empire
The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative study, now available in paperback, Carter J. Eckert...
Disarmament Sketches
Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones...
Confronting Memories of World War II
European and Asian Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized,...