University of Washington Press

The University of Washington Press is the nonprofit book and multimedia publishing arm of the University of Washington. The University of Washington Press plays an important role as the major scholarly publisher in the U.S. north of California and west of the Rockies. The Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. Today we publish about sixty new titles each year.

The Press has especially distinguished lists in Asian studies, Middle East studies, anthropology, Western history and biography, environmental studies, and natural history. We are recognized as the foremost publisher in the country on the art and culture of the Northwest Coast Indians and Alaskan Eskimos, and as a leader in the publication of materials dealing with the Asian American experience. In recent years, the Press has established copublishing and distribution relationships with a growing list of art museums and other institutions around the world.

Key subject areas

Asian Studies

Art History

Anthropology

Environmental Studies

Indigenous Studies

Pacific Northwest

Asian American Fiction

Women’s & Feminist Studies


Washington Catalogues


Washington Featured Titles

Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia

Race and Reception

David C. Oh, Benjamin Min Han

5 November 2024

China's Camel Country

Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

Thomas White, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

27 August 2024

Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory

Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

Casey A. Huegel, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

23 July 2024

Mumbai on Two Wheels

Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

23 July 2024

Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures

Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, Hongmei Sun

2 July 2024

Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence

Sally L. Kitch, Dawn R. Gilpin

26 March 2024

Taiwan Lives

A Social and Political History

Niki J. P. Alsford, James Lin, William Lavely, Madeleine Yue Dong

19 March 2024

Cold War Deceptions

The Asia Foundation and the CIA

David H. Price

19 March 2024

Seeds of Control

Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

David Fedman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

5 March 2024

Treaty Justice

The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights

Charles Wilkinson

23 January 2024

Slapping Leather

Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

Elyssa Ford, Rebecca Scofield

9 January 2024

Queer Data Studies

Patrick Keilty, Rebecca Herzig, Banu Subramaniam

2 January 2024

Island X

Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

Wendy Cheng

21 November 2023

Hacking the Underground

Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System

Raquel Velho, Banu Subramaniam, Rebecca Herzig

21 November 2023

Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales

Fossils of Washington State

Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, David B. Williams

24 October 2023

Menacing Environments

Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema

Benjamin A. Bigelow

21 August 2023

The Toxic Ship

The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

Simone M. Müller, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

21 August 2023

Sustaining Natures

An Environmental Anthropology Reader

Sarah R. Osterhoudt, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

14 July 2023

Modified Bodies, Material Selves

Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai

Julie E. Starr

14 July 2023

An Ecological History of Modern China

Stevan Harrell

7 July 2023

Fukushima Futures

Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

Satsuki Takahashi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

7 July 2023

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Sumit Guha, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

7 July 2023

The Ghost in the City

Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China

Michele Matteini

16 May 2023

Charged

A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

James Morton Turner, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

9 May 2023

Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics

Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra

9 May 2023

A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry

An Anthology

Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart

2 May 2023

Porcelain for the Emperor

Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China

Kai Jun Chen

28 March 2023

Wide-Open Desert

A Queer History of New Mexico

Jordan Biro Walters

7 February 2023

The Cultivated Forest

People and Woodlands in Asian History

Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander, John S. Lee

29 November 2022

Lahore Cinema

Between Realism and Fable

Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal

8 November 2022

Spawning Modern Fish

Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon

Heather Anne Swanson, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

18 October 2022

The Swedish Theory of Love

Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden

Henrik Berggren, Lars Trägårdh, Stephen Donovan

6 September 2022

New Lives in Anand

Building a Muslim Hub in Western India

Sanderien Verstappen, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

26 July 2022

Unshaved

Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics

Breanne Fahs

14 June 2022

Communist Pigs

An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

Thomas Fleischman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

10 May 2022

Debating Malthus

A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment

Robert J. Mayhew, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

3 May 2022

Misreading the Bengal Delta

Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh

Camelia Dewan, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

29 March 2022

Pure and True

The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims

David R. Stroup, Stevan Harrell

7 March 2022

Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang

15 February 2022

Dancing Transnational Feminisms

Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, Alessandra Lebea Williams, D. Soyini Madison, Piya Chatterjee

21 January 2022

The City in Time

Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia

Pamela N. Corey

29 October 2021

Footprints of War

Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

David Andrew Biggs, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

31 August 2021

Chinese Village Life Today

Building Families in an Age of Transition

Gonçalo Santos

22 August 2021

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

13 July 2021

Healing with Poisons

Potent Medicines in Medieval China

Yan Liu

27 June 2021


Washington Featured Series

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Series editor: Paul S. Sutter

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us.

Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis

Series editor: Piya Chatterjee

Decolonizing Feminisms explores the integral connections between theory, activism, policy making and other forms of social action. The series brings together new work by US women of color, Indigenous, and transnational feminists to envision critical and imaginative frameworks for political resistance and progressive social change.


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