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The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

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Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District

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Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California

Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics

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Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4

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The Vertebrates of Arizona

With Major Section on Arizona Habitats

Edited by Charles H. Lowe
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The Sonoran Desert

Its Geography, Economy, and People

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The Politics of Water in Arizona

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The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest

With an Arizona Check List

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The Clifton-Morenci Strike

Labor Difficulty in Arizona, 1915–1916

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Spanish Colonial Tucson

A Demographic History

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Sonoran Strongman

Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times

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People of the Desert and Sea

Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians

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Northern New Spain

A Research Guide

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Mission of Sorrows

Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767

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Life and Labor on the Border

Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886–1986

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This book traces the development of the urban working class in northern Sonora over the period of a century. Drawing on an extensive collection of life histories over several generations, Heyman describes what has happened to families as people have left the countryside to work for American-owned companies in northern Sonora or to cross the border to find other employment.

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John Spring's Arizona

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers

Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856

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Forging the Copper Collar

Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921

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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology

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An Arizona Chronology

The Territorial Years, 1846–1912

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An Arizona Chronology

Statehood, 1913–1936

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With the River on Our Face

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Emmy Pérez’s With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands while merging and diverging like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection.

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Ancient Plants and People

Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany

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Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of humans, their culture, and their landscapes.

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Mañana Means Heaven

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In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940’s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an young, aspiring writer.

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Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul

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In Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul Bryan Allen Fierro brings to life the people and places that form the fragile heart of East Los Angeles. Bearing witness to transformation, the Latino boys and men in this collection defy masculine stereotypes, while the girls and women challenge gender roles. Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul is a tour de force—the first collection of an authentic new voice examining community with humor, hope, and brutal honesty.

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Critical Indigenous Studies

Engagements in First World Locations

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson and the contributors to this important volume deploy incisive critique and analytical acumen to propose new directions for critical Indigenous studies in the First World. Leading scholars offer thought-provoking essays on the central epistemological, theoretical, political, and pedagogical questions and debates that constitute the discipline of Indigenous studies, including a brief history of the discipline.

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Stealing the Gila

The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921

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