Western History Association
Though we couldn’t connect with you in-person at the Western History Association conference this year, we would still like to highlight our new books and share our conference discount.
If you’re registered for the virtual conference, you can access our booth in the exhibit hall here.
We are pleased to offer WHA members a 40% discount with free shipping on all orders placed through December 31. Enter promo code WASH20 at checkout through our website or by calling 1-800-537-5487.
Our acquisitions editors are still eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. They have been working to transition their usual in-person conference appointments to virtual meetings by phone or Zoom. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with one of our editors:
Larin McLaughlin, Editor in Chief
Critical ethnic studies; American studies; Asian American studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; Native and Indigenous studies; visual culture
Andrew Berzanskis, Senior Acquisitions Editor
Social justice, environmental history, general interest books about science, the environment, and the Pacific Northwest
Mike Baccam, Acquisitions Editor
Asian American studies, western US history, critical ethnic studies
We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.
New in Western History
Emerald Street
A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
$29.95
Paperback
320 Pages
The Great Quake Debate
The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
$29.95
Hardcover
328 Pages
The Port of Missing Men
Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95
Hardcover
296 Pages
The Unsung Great
Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans
$29.95
Paperback
312 Pages
The River That Made Seattle
A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
$29.95
Hardcover
240 Pages
Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
$27.95
Paperback
264 Pages
Nisei Radicals
The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
$29.95
Paperback
272 Pages
Becoming Nisei
Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
$29.95
Paperback
312 Pages
Fire
A Brief History
$24.95
Paperback
240 Pages
Alaska
An American Colony
$34.95
Paperback
440 Pages
Oregon
This Storied Land
$24.95
Paperback
256 Pages
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
$24.95
Paperback
376 Pages
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
$35.00
Paperback
392 Pages
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
$29.95
Paperback
288 Pages
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
$24.95
Paperback
384 Pages
Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
$35.00
Paperback
424 Pages
Becoming Mary Sully
Toward an American Indian Abstract
$34.95
Paperback
336 Pages
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
$30.00
Paperback
208 Pages