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The Beach Cure
A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores
How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coast
For centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the...
ISBN: 9780295753959
more detailsRed Harbor
Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflict
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers fought for...
ISBN: 9780295754000
more detailsBack East
How Westerners Invented a Region
Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alike
Just as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, reshaping American culture. Back East flips the script of American...
ISBN: 9780295753867
more detailsContaminated Country
Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia
The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order
Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth...
ISBN: 9780295753799
more detailsContested Taiwan
Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Where statehood is contested, questions of identity and territory define the political landscape
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today’s international system because another power claims the state as part...
ISBN: 9780295753928
more detailsFighting for the Puyallup Tribe
A Memoir
A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwest tribes around fishing...
ISBN: 9780295753508
more detailsThe Tlingit in Sitka
The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a...
ISBN: 9780295753478
more detailsWrecked
Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast
The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar...
ISBN: 9780295753768
more detailsIndigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture
Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial rule
Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma...
ISBN: 9780295753584
more detailsIndia's Mithila Painting
A woman's art form transforms from home to high art
Since at least the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symbolizing fertility...
ISBN: 9780295753225
more detailsWaves of Belonging
Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
Showcases surfing as a site of social belonging and power formation
The surf zone—the place between ocean and shore—offers a powerful space to reflect on the dynamic contemporary politics of our worlds. Surfing always occurs on...
ISBN: 9780295753416
more detailsSeattle Walks
Discovering History and Nature in the City
An updated and expanded new edition of the definitive walking guide to Seattle
One of America's most walkable cities, Seattle rewards urban trekkers with expansive scenery and architectural and historical riches. The second...
ISBN: 9780295753577
more detailsBiking Uphill in the Rain
The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars
Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine....
ISBN: 9780295753218
more detailsStomp and Shout
R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction
Parking lot rumbles, teen dance riots, and the rise of the Northwest Sound
Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to...
ISBN: 9780295753256
more detailsCaring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis
A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices
Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout...
ISBN: 9780295753140
more detailsNature Unfurled
Asian American Environmental Histories
Explores Asian Americans' diverse connections and interactions with the natural world
As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring...
ISBN: 9780295753171
more detailsThree Impeachments
Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court
A probe into corruption in late Imperial China
At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty...
ISBN: 9780295752938
more detailsNative Alienation
Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions
Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions
Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region’s Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents...
ISBN: 9780295753270
more detailsAnimating Central Park
A Multispecies History
The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central...
ISBN: 9780295753195
more detailsRefusing Settler Domesticity
Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers
In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor...
ISBN: 9780295753003
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