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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 1d

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...

Book cover for The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores by Meghan Crnic, with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter. The cover features a vintage photo of a crowded beach with people in early 20th-century swimwear wading in the ocean, set against a teal sky.

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 2d

🎉 We’re excited to celebrate with you at WHA!

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 7d

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

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Global Sixties Journal @globalsixties.bsky.social · 8d

"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

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Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest @centernorthwest.bsky.social · 9d

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.

Author Coll Thrush stands at a podium in front of a large seated crowd and next to a projection of the Title Page information for his book Wrecked.

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 13d

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...

Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh

Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change.

www.thedailystar.net

University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 13d

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...

Promotional graphic for event at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park. Lynda Mapes, Scott Schuyler, and Jeremiah “Jay” Julius speak on Wed 10/8 at 7pm about Treaty Justice by Charles Wilkinson. Includes book cover and headshots of the three speakers.

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Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest @centernorthwest.bsky.social · 14d

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

Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest @centernorthwest.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 19d

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.

Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76

Quintard Taylor Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.

www.seattletimes.com

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 21d

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.”

Menacing Environments by Benjamin Bigelow

Nordic horror films, says Bigelow, hold a mirror to human and environmental interaction.

www.strangehorizons.com

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 21d

"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:

A living legend publishes her memoir

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Sep 9

Join us for the RED HARBOR launch event tomorrow, September 10, at 7 pm at Elliott Bay Book Co. Aaron will be in conversation with Conor Casey, head of the Labor Archives of Washington. Learn more: www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47680

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Sep 9

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.

The Radical Roots of the Pacific Northwest Labor Movement: Q&A with Aaron Goings, Author of “Red Harbor”

In his new book, Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest, leading Pacific Northwest labor historian Aaron Goings brings to life the fiery legacy of class conflic…

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9

ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. These prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023: bit.ly/4mS9oDX

ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

$50,000 prizes award four open access books in the humanities and fund future open access publications

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9

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)

Cover of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Sep 8

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...

Book cover of Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore by Ruth E. Toulson. The image shows a night scene of a funeral ritual with a large burning pyre surrounded by scattered paper offerings. In the background, a person in a white shirt throws paper joss money into the air, which glows orange against the dark sky. The title text is displayed prominently across the top and center in white capital letters.

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Sep 3

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

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Sep 2

@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

Book cover of Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation by Lev Nachman, featuring a close-up photograph of a bright yellow sunflower against a dark background. The title is in bold white capital letters across the flower, with the author’s name at the top left and the subtitle in smaller white text at the bottom left.

"Likely to be seen as a Taiwan studies classic." —Dafydd Fell, author of Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan

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KNKX Public Radio @knkx.org · Sep 2

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

The Understory: Journalist Lynda Mapes urges local solutions for local forests

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

www.knkx.org

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Aug 27

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...

Book cover for "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" by Micah S. Muscolino. Features workers digging on a barren hillside under a pale sky, with bold title text overlayed.

"A remarkably nuanced and textured picture of agricultural policies, and their implementation, in post-1949 China." —David Pietz, author of "The Yellow River: The Problem with Water in China"

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Aaron Goings @aarongoings.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Aug 26

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...

Book cover of The Not-Quite Child by Liina-Ly Roos. The top half has a cream background with the title in bold red text and the author’s name in small dark blue text. The bottom half shows a photograph of Sámi children in traditional clothing, with the subtitle in white text: “Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism.”

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Aug 21

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.

'Old trees matter.' Seattle author Lynda Mapes is writing to save them in her new book

The KUOW Book Club is continuing its summer reading series with Seattle Public Library this month. We're reading environmental journalist and author Lynda V. Mapes' new book, "The Trees are Speaking: ...

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Aug 20

"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.

Why amphibious, wet environments hold the key to climate adaptation

As the planet braces for climate-change-induced fluctuations, the wisdom of communities living at the intersection of land and water could offer valuable lessons.

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Aug 15

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.

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How Westerners Reimagined the American East: A Q&A with “Back East” Author Flannery Burke

Discover how Westerners reimagined the American East in Flannery Burke’s book, Back East. In this Q and A, Burke discusses regional identity, US historiography, and the cultural influence of the Am…

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