University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Sanctuary and Asylum
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The practice of sanctuary�giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger�may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern...
China's New Socialist Countryside
Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until...
Reconciliation Road
A Family Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In his prize-winning memoir, Reconciliation Road, John Marshall recounts a road trip around America in search of the truth about his famous grandfather General S. L. A. (Slam) Marshall, author of Pork Chop Hill. In the process he comes to terms with his own past and that of others whose families were torn apart by the Vietnam War.
Unlikely Alliances
Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment�such as mines, dams, or an...
Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Arguing that our definition of Islamic journalism is too narrow, this study examines day-to-day journalism as practiced by Muslim professionals at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their...
Mending Fences
The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Mending Fences illuminates the forces driving Moscow�s China policy, from the Ussuri River clashes in 1969 to the "strategic partnership" of the 1990s. Elizabeth Wishnick analyzes the efforts of Soviet leaders simultaneously to maintain their supremacy in the international communist movement,...
Iran and the Surrounding World
Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
These essays examine Iran�s place in the world--its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and superpowers from the beginning of the Safavid period in 1501 to the present day. The book provides important historical background on recent political and social...
by Kyoo Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist...
Radical Theatrics
Put-Ons, Politics, and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance,...
by Joseph Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to the literature on the political cultures of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the Baltic states.
New Land, New Lives
Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes�more than half of them women�the...
Living Together, Living Apart
Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status families—families that include both citizens and noncitizens—this is more than a political issue: it’s a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights...
The New Way
Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees...
by Al Hurd, A-P Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse...