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A historical study of the debate over income taxes in Washington State.

A contribution to the field of American architectural history focusing on Seattle in the 1880s and 1890s.

Describes the early stages of the tribe's (Makah Indians of Washington State) implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This book explores how NAGPRA implementation has been working at the tribal level, from the perspective of a tribe struggling to fit the provisions of the law.

This is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.

A fascinating study of the popular culture of religious storytelling in the medieval Near East

Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, Polish-Lithuanian state enjoyed unusual domestic tranquillity, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century. This title presents an account that deals with this important era.

Examining land reform and agricultural development in Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, this work emphasizes the need to understand the political, historical, and geographic contexts of rural development. It is for regional specialists, historians, economists, and those working on rural development issues in Eurasia.

Presents a biography of Reverend Mark Allison Matthews, a Presbyterian minister who played a significant public role in Seattle from 1900 to 1940. This book discusses Matthew's multiple facets - a Southern-born, fundamentalist proponent of the Social Gospel, and a national leader during the years of schism within the American Presbyterian church.

An innovative, comparative study of the origins, development, and enforcement of antitrust law in Germany and Japan over the course of 50 years.

A landmark study offering an interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.

A memoir that threads a man's search for the truth about his grandfather into a call for reconciliation between individuals and generations, between history and our own lives, between the men who fought the Vietnam war and all the rest of us for whose sins they suffered.

Presents a collection of short stories. This book features stories that cover a geography that spans hemispheres, and an emotional landscape that is wider still: life and death, desire and repulsion, freedom and humiliation, the body and the spirit.

Reflects on questions that have troubled Chinese scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. This book covers a wide range of topics like interpreting the rationale for and legacy of Qing practices of collective punishment, and assessing the political forces that continue to limit the authority of formal legal institutions in China.

A collection of remembrances of David Hellyer's life, leading up to the opening of the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Washington State. Hellyer was a physician, naturalist, world traveler, horseman, boxing enthusiast, and creator of Northwest Trek wildlife sanctuary.

Documents how Western traditions influenced the formation of Taiwan's legal structure through the conduit of Japanese colonial rule and demonstrates the extent to which legal concepts diverged from the Chinese legal tradition and moved toward Western law. This work is an analysis of the history and evolution of "western" law in Taiwan.

Focuses on the people of Hong Kong and how they are defining themselves under altered circumstances. This work is a broad multi-disciplinary view of Hong Kong's transformation. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to China was a historical event, signifying the end of West's presence in Asia and the rise of China's hegemony.

Basing his work on primary sources - Russian picture books from the Russian State Library, private collections, and publishers' archives - the author tells his story in deft prose with a wry sense of humor. He forcefully demonstrates that the Constructivists were as committed to implementing Utopia as their establishment counterparts.

Based on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. This book illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.

Captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes, this book includes background information on Scandinavian culture and immigration.

In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator front Spokane, Washington, named Albert Canwell set out to combat the "communist menace" through a state version of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. University of Washington professor Melvin Rader was a victim of the Canwell Committee's rush to judgment, but he fought back. False Witness tells of his struggle to clear his name. It is a testament of personal courage in the face of mass hysteria and a cautionary example of how basic freedoms can rapidly erode when the powers of the state are allowed to serve a rigid ideological agenda. Fifty years after the Canwell Committee's inception, False Witness is reissued as part of the All Powers Project, a multidisciplinary effort by the University of Washington to recreate, reexamine, and redefine the significance today of those tumultuous times. The book includes a new Afterword by Leonard Schroeter, a Seattle attorney and activist who succeeded Melvin Rader as president of the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The colorful saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West is recreated in this book combining historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts. The author describes in detail the technology of pre-industrial modes of transportation.

Twelve powerful stories by award-winning novelist Peter Bacho. Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, "Dark Blue Suit" depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories--their landmarks, activities, settings, and events--are grounded in historical fact.

Recent events in the Philippines - the 1986 People Power Revolution, the ouster of President Marcos, the election of Corazon Aquino, and the coup of 1989 - are the backdrop of this new novel by a celebrated Filipina writer. She focuses on the experiences of the people in and beyond Gulod, a barrio that "has spread like a field sown by a blind hand" on the outskirts of Manila, on the fringes of power, in the tangled roots of dreams. The story is told through the conflicting lives and ambitions of disillusioned lawyer Benhur, the politician Osong for whom he works, Osong's wife Sally, the retired Col. Moscoso, and many others whose potent but fragile hopes are shaped and destroyed in a context of ceaseless revolutionary change. Linda Ty-Casper combines historical objectivity with convincing moral authority and provides readers with a remarkable sense of people and place, a leap of insight into what it is to live in the Philippines today at a critical juncture in the nation's history. Research in newspaper archives and interviews with participants in the revolution inform her narrative. The events are actual; her fictional characters are believable; her prose is sardonic, compassionate, and virtuosic.

A memoir of a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France that recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. It focuses on Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who is cherished by the girl, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

A description of how the Washington State Legislature works. Presenting information on women in the legislature, the role of the governor, and the various origins of legislation, it explains the process by which thousands of proposed laws are introduced each year and are culled down to the approximately twenty per cent that are eventually enacted.

Examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.