University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Kirtland Cutter
Architect in the Land of Promise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889. Major credit for the city's distinctive character was extended to Kirtland Kelsey Cutter for his...
Free Boy
A True Story of Slave and Master
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.
When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he brought with his household young Charles Mitchell, a slave he had likely...
Carl Maxey
A Fighting Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Carl Maxey was, in his own words, �a guy who started from scratch - black scratch.� He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other �colored� orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as...
Radical Heritage
Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.
A Lawyer in Indian Country
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian...
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to leave....
Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet
Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879)
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
In 1846, French Canadian-born A. M. A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail to date. During the thirty-two years of Blanchet's...
I'm No Hero
Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had...
The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff
The Redemption of Herbert Nicholls Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention,...
Temple Grove
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Deep in the heart of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula lies Temple Grove, one of the last stands of ancient Douglas fir not protected from logging. Bill Newton, a gyppo logger desperate for work and a place to hide, has come to Temple Grove for the money to be made from the timber. There to stop...
Imprisoned Apart
The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
�Please don�t cry,� wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana, and she was incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their separation would continue for more...
Classical Seattle
Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists. From Igor Stravinsky’s presence as guest conductor at the...
by Linda Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist
"Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores, of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes...
Forbidden Games and Video Poems
The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b. 1940) and Lo Ch�ing (pen name for Lo Ch�ing-che, b. 1948), are represented in this bilingual edition of Chinese poetry ranging from the romantic to the postmodern. Both poets were involved in the selection of poems...