University of Washington Press

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The University of Washington Press is the nonprofit book and multimedia publishing arm of the University of Washington. Since its establishment in 1920, the University of Washington Press has been the major scholarly publisher in the U.S. north of California and west of the Rockies. It has published approximately 3,800 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print.

Its titles cover a wide variety of academic fields, with distinguished lists in Asian studies, Middle East studies, anthropology, Western history and biography, environmental studies, and natural history. It is 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.

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