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.
The Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege uncovers nature’s presence in religious beliefs, founding documents, presidents, battles, technologies, examining how biophysical conditions have American history.
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
The Carbon Efficient City
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency.
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.
Four Thousand Hooks
A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
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.
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.
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.