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
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.
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
Wetlands in a Dry Land
More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
The City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
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.
Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
Making Livable Worlds
Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
The Borders of AIDS
Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
Axis of Hope
Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
Resisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
Tea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Transnational Testimonios
The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Humanizing the Sacred
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia
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