Books list 7 from University Of Washington Press imprint

Money Matters

Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850

by Richard T. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

World Order after Leninism

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to exert a strong influence in contemporary foreign affairs--most visibly in Poland and other post-communist states...

Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925

by Michael Edson Robinson, Michael Edson Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

By studying the early splits within Korean nationalism, Michael Robinson shows that the issues faced by Korean nationalists during the Japanese colonial period were complex and enduring. In doing so, Robinson, in this classic text, provides a new context with which to analyze the difficult issues of political identity and national unity that remain central to contemporary Korean politics.

Japan's Commission on the Constitution

The Final Report

by John M. Maki
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report

Guest People

Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014

The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.

What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what...

Power in the Telling

Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era

by Brook Colley
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Empire and Identity in Guizhou

Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

by Jodi L. Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013

This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities� attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state�s quest...

Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia

How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China�s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors...

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

Los Angeles--Struggles toward Multiethnic Community

Asian American, African American, and Latino Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Banaras Reconstructed

Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

by Madhuri Desai
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront...