University of Washington Press
The University of Washington Press (UWP) is the nonprofit book and multimedia publishing arm of the University of Washington. The Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. From the beginning, the Press has reflected the University’s major academic strengths. Building on those strengths, the Press has achieved recognition as the leading publisher of scholarly books and distinguished works of regional nonfiction in the Pacific Northwest. The Press has especially distinguished lists in Asian studies, Middle East studies, anthropology, Western history and biography, environmental studies, and natural history.
A Principled Stand
The Story of Hirabayashi v. the United States
For the first time, tells in Gordon Hirabayashi’s own words the story of the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, vacated on appeal in 1987.
Narwhals
Arctic Whales in a Melting World
This stunning book reveals the world and plight of the most unusual and least-studied of the large whales, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming.
Different Horrors, Same Hell
Gender and the Holocaust
A Storied Wilderness
Rewilding the Apostle Islands
Roots and Reflections
South Asians in the Pacific Northwest
Uses oral history to examine the experiences of immigrants from South Asia in the Pacific Northwest.
Icons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity – issues that continue to be significant in today's multi-ethnic Denmark.
Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
Tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation.
Klallam Dictionary
Tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation.