University Of Washington Press: 541 books
The Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better stocked than ever. Where did the curious idea of buying one�s way to sustainability come from?
In...
Homebase
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history...
Reading Seattle
The City in Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a...
Mills and Markets
A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Bike Battles
A History of Sharing the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over...
by Toshio Mori
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.
Replaces ISBN 9780295961675
Zakhor
Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
“Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review
by Ruth R. Wisse
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
I. L. Peretz (1852�1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz�s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.
Reporting for China
How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence and improve its public image. But do these reporters willingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies,...
Writing in Tongues
Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have...
Coyote Was Going There
Indian Literature of the Oregon Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.
Burning Bush
A Fire History of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.�Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is...
by Kazuhiro Oharazeki
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very personal accounts with never before examined Japanese...