University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Plume
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared...
Broken Ground
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which...
by Margaret Elley Felt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Margaret Elley Felt�s autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "gyppo" loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the...
Pests in the City
Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features...
Roots and Reflections
South Asians in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region since World War II. Roots and Reflections uses...
Purple Flat Top
In Pursuit of a Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with...
by Shelby Scates
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for Seattle, championing consumer protection legislation, reorganizing the railroads,...
Plowed Under
Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought. During the twentieth century, the Palouse...
by Albert Furtwangler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America,...
Where the Salmon Run
The Life and Legacy of Bill Frank Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped bring about the 1974 ruling by Federal Judge George...
Yellowfish
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one of whom has been grievously...
A Year Right Here
Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Armed with “The Here List” and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family. Planning to revel in the culinary riches of the region and hoping to break her son, Graham, of his childhood...
Seeking Salaam
Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa, the northeastern corner of the continent, has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities,...
Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography
In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations....