Books published by University of Washington Press

With influences as varied as the megaliths of the British Isles and the totemic Native American art of her home and birthplace, the Pacific Northwest, Spiedel's work builds on organic forms, reinterpreting them with a clear, contemporary vision. Her sculptures are a tribute to the power of ancient monuments and their power to link the world of the senses to the world of the spirits.

Considers why Turkey was the only Middle Eastern country to evolve lasting competitive political institutions. This work argues that democracy and dictatorship in the Middle East can be understood by studying the nature and status of political parties operating at the moment of independence.

Describes why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. This book aims to make possible a religious response to the Holocaust.

Traces a spiritual pilgrimage, weaving autobiography into a larger meditation on the materials of language and of the life of the spirit. This title offers the opportunity to experience a poet's evolution and to follow a creative mind as it reaches, through interrogations of faith, science, and art, toward some form of resolution.

Establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's democratic revolution.

Explores a group of like-minded designers in France, the architects-decorateurs, who also committed themselves to designing and equipping the modern house. This title traces the development of these ideas in France from the Salons d'Automne displays of 1900 through the post-World War I period. It is of interest to art and architectural historians.

Presents illustrations - by painters, printmakers, photographers, ceramists, sculptors, conceptual artists, fiber artists, and art historians - that celebrate an intersection of contemporary art with the fabulist tradition. This title provides translated sixty-five fables of revered French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95).

Explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. This book argues that National parks did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads.

Tells the story of how a great foundation touched dozens of organizations and countless people. This work includes stories about the golden years in Seattle's arts community, as well as candid comments from many of the leading administrators of the Puget Sound region's prominent educational and cultural organizations.

Brings together more than sixty artists from across the United States, Europe, and Asia to create artwork for "Fables of La Fontaine". This book features illustrations celebrating an intersection of art with the fabulist tradition. It includes tales such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "The Man Between Two Ages and His Two Mistresses".

Takes an ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. This book views that European colonization in southern Africa has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture, as neo-liberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress.

Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People's Republic of China hardly existed. This book offers an exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state.

Considering the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India, this book shows the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process.

Offers a the history of Native peoples, presenting the glory, endurance, and renewal of the life ways of Plains peoples. This book traces the story of the Plains peoples through adversity to the renewal of their cultures in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It illustrates their life in over 250 colour images.

Presents an essay by and about French composer Joel-Francois Durand, in which Durand speaks about how and why he became a composer and about the ways in which this choice has shaped his musical and intellectual development. This title comprises four essays on Durand's music. It offers the portrait of this composer.

In 1978, Dr Chu-Tsing Li became the first Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas. With essays by friends and former students, this book commemorates Dr Li's achievements as educator and scholar, marking his teaching career at the University of Kansas, and his contribution to Asian studies.

Explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. With illustrations from newspapers, novels, travel guides, and postcards, as well as written descriptions of life in Shanghai, this study traces the influences among courtesans, intellectuals, and the city itself in creating a market-oriented leisure culture in China.

Shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. This book examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature.

Examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha in political contexts. Drawing on anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia, this book shows how people live in a state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological.

Discusses land-use issues by examining how resources were used in Sabah from 1881 to 1996 and rights of access to land and resources enjoyed by local people. This book looks at how control over and access to resources have been defined, negotiated, and contested by colonial state agents, the postcolonial Malaysian state, and local people.

Explores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature, and deals with the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature.

Anchored by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles the author's pregnancy and the birth of her son, this book asks how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns.

Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became animals that needed to be killed. To contrast wolf killings before and after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, this work offers a look at the killings on the island of Hokkaido.