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.
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Playing While White
Privilege and Power on and off the Field
From media commentary to the games themselves, from online chatter to the larger discursive positioning of sports celebrities and events, Playing While White focuses on the ways that sports culture narrates an athletic world defined by exceptional whiteness, victimized whiteness, transgressive whiteness, marginal whiteness, exceptional whiteness, and redemptive whiteness.
Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.
The Gift of Knowledge
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
Unlikely Alliances
Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Unlikely Alliances explores the evolution from conflict to cooperation between Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous neighbours through place-based case studies in Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, from the 1970s to the 2010s.
The Hope of Another Spring
Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness
Making Climate Change History
Documents from Global Warming’s Past
Reporting for China
How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
Seattle Walks
Discovering History and Nature in the City
These seventeen walks often venture off the beaten path – such as a route following the buried and then daylighted Ravenna Creek – but also illuminate familiar areas with interesting viewpoints.
Frontier Livelihoods
Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
God's Little Daughters
Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria
Dismembered
Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights
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.
