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.
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, Second Edition
Migrating the Black Body
The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels-has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.
China's Transition to Modernity
The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
The Scholar and the State
Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
Heaven in Conflict
Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi
How Chinese Engagements Are Changing Southeast Asia
People, Money, Ideas, and Their Effects
This book is the first to focus explicitly and in a comparative manner on the effects of China's recent rise as a major economic and political actor on the societies and economies of its proximate neighbors in Southeast Asia.
Conflicts of Interest
Art and War in Modern Japan
This fascinating publication showcases the Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection of Japanese military prints and related materials-one of the largest collections of such works in the world.
Up Here
The North at the Center of the World
Onions in the Stew
Onions in the Stew is Betty MacDonald’s final memoir recounting her life on Washington’s beautiful Vashon Island with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her teenage daughters.
Anybody Can Do Anything
After the bankruptcy of the chicken ranch immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her daughters.
The Plague & I
An upbeat account of her battle at age thirty, The Plague and I is MacDonald’s witty take on her experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
From the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
This book presents the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in a “dialogue” by including an essay by Diego on Frida’s art written in 1943 and an essay by Frida on Diego’s art written in 1949.
Cities That Think like Planets
Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems
Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan
Commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals
Endeavouring Banks
Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage, 1768-1771
The surviving Endeavour voyage illustrations are the most important body of images produced since Europeans entered the South Pacific, matching the truly historic value of the plant specimens and artefacts that will be seen alongside them.
A Passion for the Arctic
The Hans van Berkel Collection
The Hans van Berkel collection portrays the norms and values of the remarkable cultures of northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia.
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Being Cowlitz
How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity
Unpleasantries
Considerations of Difficult Questions
Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
The Portland Black Panthers
Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
Counterpunch
The Cultural Battles over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
A fascinating look at early American boxing, Counterpunch provides an entertaining way to understand both the growth of the American West and the history of this popular—and controversial—sport.
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
Forest Under Story
Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest
Forest Under Story offers an illuminating and multifaceted way of understanding the ecology and significance of old-growth forests, and points the way toward a new kind of collaboration between the sciences and the humanities to better know and learn from special places.
