@historytoday.com names LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA by Jessica Rawson a 2025 Book of the Year. This "richly evidenced book" on material life and burials in Chinese antiquity is available to North American readers from UW Press. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Happy to report that _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ is now on JSTOR thanks to the Path to Open program. @uwapress.uw.edu @acls1919.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...

Today's featured title: “Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West,” by Cassandra Tate, University of Washington Press, 2025 @uwapress.uw.edu uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Micah S. Muscolino discusses REMAKING THE EARTH, EXHAUSTING THE PEOPLE, tracing how state-led conservation transformed China’s countryside and how rural communities bore the costs. 🎧Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/remaking-the...

Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25 Quyaana! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Well, you'd have to wait a while for delivery, but you can preorder my book at 40% off with free domestic shipping with promo code WINTER25! #TransformingNight 🌃🌌💡 #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

📢 The annual UW Press Holiday Sale is here! November 17, 2025–January 2, 2026, get 40% off and free domestic shipping on all books sitewide with promo code WINTER25 at checkout. Start browsing: bit.ly/UWPressHolidaySale2025

Today in the ARB: @davidchaffetz reviews “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World” by Ping Wang @UWAPress “highly readable and comprehensive” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-poetic-w...

Got to write about 2 books that examine indigenous sovereignty: Ryan Emanuel's ON THE SWAMP & the late Charles Wilkinson's TREATY JUSTICE. Wilkinson looks back at revolutionary work in the not-distant past while Emanuel shows a path forward. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon" (2012) from @uwapress.uw.edu: Who would have known that a silly little vegetable has such an interesting story? 8/10.

Tamiko Nimura's long-awaited memoir is set to release next year, and today she reveals its cover on Discover Nikkei! Find out why she chose such a personal photo for the book, and what the memoir is about.

For Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous authors, scholars, and historians recommend five books that center Native voices and experiences. Find the reading list on our blog:

Watch Northwest Public Broadcasting's short documentary based on Coll Thrush's book, WRECKED, at the link below. Many thanks to senior correspondent Anna King, who joined the author on the Northwest Coast to explore how the echoes of shipwrecks still resonate today.

Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific Live talk details: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhum #envhist

"What makes FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE such a compelling work is its unwavering refusal to sanitize or sugarcoat history. Bennett does not romanticize activism or hide its conflicts or personal costs." For American Indian Republic, Miguel Douglas reviews Ramona Bennett Bill's memoir:

In TAIWAN LIVES, Niki J. P. Alsford "has given Taiwan something many contested entities still lack: a history told from within," writes Mitchell Gallagher in a review for China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. Read the full review:

That's a wrap for #WHA2025! Big thanks to the Western History Association and everyone who came by our booth. A reminder for all WHA members: our 40% off conference discount code, WWHA25, is valid through October 31! Browse and save on books in #WesternHistory: uwapress.uw.edu/western-hist...

Join us to celebrate the 2025 ACLS #OpenAccess Book Prize winners at The New York Public Library on October 22 at 4:15 PM! This free event will feature discussions with winning publishers & authors moderated by Beth Daley of The Conversation Register here: https://bit.ly/46wpxtk

Congratulations to Holly Miowak Guise whose book ALASKA NATIVE RESILIENCE won three book awards from the Western History Association! #WHA2025 @hollyguise.bsky.social

It's a literal beach read! THE BEACH CURE by historian of medicine Meghan Crnic explores how physicians, tourists, and families transformed the Northeastern US shoreline into a medical and cultural landscape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Listen to Timothy Thurston talk about "Satirical Tibet" on Ep. 25 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/07/e...

"The book forces area studies scholars to think deeper about identity formation & the range of forces affecting #Taiwanese students’ choices" Meredith Oyen on "Island X" by Wendy Cheng @uwapress.uw.edu doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2025.2511379

Thank you so much to everyone that came out last week to hear @collthrush.bsky.social talk on his newest @uwapress.uw.edu title Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. And special thanks to UW History and UW Libraries for their support.

Read Camelia Dewan's piece on climate-reductive development that threatens a complex waterscape for Bangladesh's The Daily Star. Dewan is the author of MISREADING THE BENGAL DELTA, available #OpenAccess through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot: uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/mis...

Marking 50 years since the landmark Boldt Decision, Lynda V. Mapes and tribal leaders Jay Julius and Scott Schuyler discuss TREATY JUSTICE, the final work of legal scholar Charles Wilkinson. 📅 Wed. October 8 at 7 pm 📍 Third Place Books Lake Forest Park RSVP: www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/treaty...

Don't miss this event sponsored by us, the UW Department of History, @uwapress.uw.edu and the University of Washington Libraries. Tomorrow! Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm Petersen Room of Allen Library North

We are mourning the loss of historian Quintard Taylor, who was the founder of BlackPast.org and an esteemed UW professor. It was our great honor to publish one of his landmark books, THE FORGING OF A BLACK COMMUNITY.

It’s always a good day when we publish @octavia-cade.bsky.social on climate, and here she is on Benjamin Bigelow on ecohorror in Nordic cinema (@uwapress.uw.edu): “films … hold a mirror to human and environmental interaction, how the exploitation of natural resources is integrated into culture.”

"Among the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, elder Ramona Bennett Bill is a most notable historic figure and veritable force of nature to this very day." Read an article on Ramona Bennett Bill's new memoir, FIGHTING FOR THE PUYALLUP TRIBE:

Now on our blog: Aaron Goings @aarongoings.bsky.social shares how RED HARBOR uncovers the forgotten history of lumber workers in a bastion of labor radicalism.

Congratulations to our members @ucpress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social & @uwapress.uw.edu. Must be something in the water out West!

The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)

Anthropologist and former mortician Ruth Toulson discusses NECROPOLITICS OF THE ORDINARY: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/necropolitic...

Are you in Seattle for #4S2025? Join us for a UW Social! As a Society + Technology at UW community partner, we are thrilled to cohost a gathering of #STS faculty and students on Friday, September 5 at 8:30 PM—free for 4S attendees. Register here: tinyurl.com/uwsocialat4s

@lnachman32.bsky.social's exploration of Taiwan's political landscape after the 2014 Sunflower Movement brings a fresh perspective to understanding social movement mobilization and political party formation. Learn more about CONTESTED TAIWAN: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... #TaiwanAndTheWorld

Now retired from The Seattle Times, Lynda Mapes examines the future of forests in her sixth book, “The Trees are Speaking.”

REMAKING THE EARTH, EXHAUSTING THE PEOPLE by Micah S. Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social examines how Chinese state-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—and how rural communities bore the costs. Available now: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Woohoo! Look what came in the mail today. At long last, decades after I started my study of community and radicalism in Grays Harbor, “Red Harbor” is here. Big thanks to the @uwapress.bsky.social and the coolest book blurbers around. And that’s Sabo—named for you know who 15 sweet years ago

The newest release in our New Directions in Scandinavian Studies series, THE NOT-QUITE CHILD by Liina-Ly Roos examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchies. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

THE TREES ARE SPEAKING is a @kuow.org Book Club pick! It's not too late to start reading along—then join us for a special conversation with author Lynda V. Mapes and KUOW Book Club host Katie Campbell on Wednesday, August 27 at 7 PM at the Seattle Public Library.

"In AMPHIBIOUS ANTHROPOLOGIES, nine essays explore these watery, in-between landscapes, offering insights from people who have long lived in the nebulous zones between land and water," writes Ananya in a review for @nature.com.

The American cultural landscape comes into sharper focus if we take a moment to look through westerners’ eyes. In a Q&A on our blog, author Flannery Burke discusses her new book, BACK EAST: HOW WESTERNERS INVENTED A REGION. Read more: uwpressblog.com/2025/08/12/h...

Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific edited by @elyssafaison.bsky.social and Alison Fields @uwapress.bsky.social explores #AntiNuclear resistance through #art, #activism and #survival. #Review by Oliver Thomas on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social #Hiroshima80 #Nagasaki80

Coeditors of AMPHIBIOUS ANTHROPOLOGIES share how their newly released volume frames wetness not simply as a mix of land and water, but as a "third space" rich with cultural, ecological, and political meaning. Read the Q&A: uwpressblog.com/2025/07/31/a...

#AAS2025 #book highlights: David Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose, 2023. Insect Histories of East Asia. University of Washington Press. #insects #asia #animals @uwapress.bsky.social #chinesehistory

Our Summer Book Sale is live! 📚 Enjoy 40% off and free domestic shipping with code WARM25 on orders through our website. Start browsing: bit.ly/UWPressSummerSale25 For orders outside of North America, visit combinedacademic.co.uk and use code WARM25 for 40% off all UW Press books.

Our Fall 2025 catalog is here! Get a sneak peek at upcoming releases and new-in-paperback books landing this September and beyond. Browse the catalog: ow.ly/FQNs50Wnn3H

Drops today: on this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast, Nicholas Gordon talks to @zevhandel.bsky.social about his book “Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese” @uwapress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

@melaniekiechle.bsky.social, author of SMELL DETECTIVES, breaks down miasma theory, "suddenly newsworthy, roughly 150 years after germ theory displaced this explanation for the origins and spread of diseases, because of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." More at the link ⬇

"Shen Xue's call for phoneticization being only one of several ideas for reform advanced at the time." Colin Marshall reviews two books about the past and present of the Chinese writing system. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-undying-chinese-writing-system/