Books published by University of Washington Press

Presents a portrait of the cultures and trends that shape Washington State. From the role of Native American tribal governments to the administration of Governor Gary Locke, this book examines changes in the political arena including the events of the 2000 elections. It addresses issues such as: environmental controversies and multiculturalism.

The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest. This volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle-born artist's highly gestural and vividly colored abstract paintings.

The lives of the saints take place all around us, under us, so much of the earth they seethe in it. This book brings the author's voice to the meditative tradition. It presents poems that trace the spiritual inquiries of a series of linked personae adrift in bodies and a world made toxic by the residues of scientific experimentation.

A contribution to Alaska's history and to the history of the American environmental movement

Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), this title undertakes the interdisciplinary task of telling the story of oceanography's past, drawing on diverse methodologies.

A historical study of the debate over income taxes in Washington State.

A contribution to the field of American architectural history focusing on Seattle in the 1880s and 1890s.

Describes the early stages of the tribe's (Makah Indians of Washington State) implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This book explores how NAGPRA implementation has been working at the tribal level, from the perspective of a tribe struggling to fit the provisions of the law.

This is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.

A fascinating study of the popular culture of religious storytelling in the medieval Near East

Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. This title describes the contradictory strategies used by Mao Zedong and other leaders to assert China's absolute self-sufficiency while also striving to modernize the economy and achieve maximum prosperity as rapidly as possible.

Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, Polish-Lithuanian state enjoyed unusual domestic tranquillity, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century. This title presents an account that deals with this important era.

Examining land reform and agricultural development in Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, this work emphasizes the need to understand the political, historical, and geographic contexts of rural development. It is for regional specialists, historians, economists, and those working on rural development issues in Eurasia.

Presents a biography of Reverend Mark Allison Matthews, a Presbyterian minister who played a significant public role in Seattle from 1900 to 1940. This book discusses Matthew's multiple facets - a Southern-born, fundamentalist proponent of the Social Gospel, and a national leader during the years of schism within the American Presbyterian church.

An innovative, comparative study of the origins, development, and enforcement of antitrust law in Germany and Japan over the course of 50 years.

A landmark study offering an interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

A memoir that threads a man's search for the truth about his grandfather into a call for reconciliation between individuals and generations, between history and our own lives, between the men who fought the Vietnam war and all the rest of us for whose sins they suffered.

Presents a collection of short stories. This book features stories that cover a geography that spans hemispheres, and an emotional landscape that is wider still: life and death, desire and repulsion, freedom and humiliation, the body and the spirit.

Reflects on questions that have troubled Chinese scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. This book covers a wide range of topics like interpreting the rationale for and legacy of Qing practices of collective punishment, and assessing the political forces that continue to limit the authority of formal legal institutions in China.

A collection of remembrances of David Hellyer's life, leading up to the opening of the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Washington State. Hellyer was a physician, naturalist, world traveler, horseman, boxing enthusiast, and creator of Northwest Trek wildlife sanctuary.

Documents how Western traditions influenced the formation of Taiwan's legal structure through the conduit of Japanese colonial rule and demonstrates the extent to which legal concepts diverged from the Chinese legal tradition and moved toward Western law. This work is an analysis of the history and evolution of "western" law in Taiwan.