Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ruins
In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement.
- Copyright year: 2011
Cowboys Don't Cry
As Scout McBride navigates the rugged path to becoming a man, he knows that to emulate the men he admires, he must keep one thing in mind: Cowboys don't cry.
- Copyright year: 2011
Begging for Vultures
New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009
The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the famous, the infamous, and the forgotten.
- Copyright year: 2011
Wonders of Nuclear Fusion
Creating an Ultimate Energy Source
With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is--and isn't.
- Copyright year: 2011
Anthropological Perspectives on Technology
Provides recognition that anthropology and archaeology offer diverse perspectives for studying technology in virtually all human societies-from prehistoric painting to the industrial age.
- Copyright year: 2001
Roads to the Past
Highway Map and Guide to New Mexico Archaeology
The text, photographs, graphics, and map that appear here, created with the assistance of New Mexico's Office of Archaeology, provide the curious reader and the interested explorer alike with insight into the fascinating history and archaeology of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2011
Desert Lawmen
The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912
In this carefully researched study, Ball shows that few southwestern sheriffs were genuine gunmen. Wielding firearms with nerve and determination in the line of duty, however, was expected of them by their constituents.
- Copyright year: 1996
A History of New Mexico Since Statehood
For the first time, there is now a textbook that addresses state standards for the teaching of New Mexico history at the high school level.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Society of Equality
Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851
Wood argues that the "Society of Equality" set a new standard for democratic thought and action in Chilean history and was arguably the most democratic political association of its era in all of Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Limits of Gender Domination
Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830
By documenting the progressive removal of limits to patriarchal power in the waning years of the Spanish Empire in Quito, this study traces the genealogy of legal patriarchy in Spanish America.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School
In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.
- Copyright year: 2011
Jean-Frederic Waldeck
Artist of Exotic Mexico
A rediscovery of the lively and dramatic art of one of the first European artists to visit the ruins at Palenque in the early nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2011
Hoist a Cold One!
Historic Bars of the Southwest
This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Maya of Modernism
Art, Architecture, and Film
This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sweet Nata
Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
This heartfelt memoir tells of the joys and hardships of life in a New Mexico family during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Copyright year: 2011
Primitive Revolution
Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity--and the practice of Mexican citizenship--to a more pure and essential state.
- Copyright year: 2011
Kit Carson and His Three Wives
A Family History
After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our understanding of Carson.
- Copyright year: 2011
Cuauhtémoc's Bones
Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico
In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Way of Thorn and Thunder
The Kynship Chronicles
Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy--an example of green/eco-literature--is collected here in a one-volume novel.
- Copyright year: 2011
Gerald Vizenor
Texts and Contexts
This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close reading of his texts and exploration of the intellectual contexts in which they are situated.
- Copyright year: 2011
Diseased Relations
Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924
This study examines the politics of postcolonial state-building through the lens of disease and public health policy in order to trace how indigenous groups on the periphery of power and geography helped shape the political practices and institutions of modern Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2011
A History of New Mexico, 4th Revised Edition, Teacher Resource Book
The teacher's guide has lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, answers to section and chapter reviews, four different types of student activity worksheets, tests and answer keys, bibliographies, and resource suggestions.
- Copyright year: 2011
A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, Teacher Guide Book
The Teacher Guide Book on CD for use with A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, will help in structuring lessons, tests, and student activities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Delivering Aid
Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
Krainz examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco
Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821
In this finely crafted study, Quincy Newell examines the complexity of cultural contact between Franciscans and the native populations at Mission San Francisco. Records of traditional rituals and lifeways taking place alongside introduced doctrines and practices reveal the various ways California Indians adopted, adapted, and rejected aspects of mission life.
- Copyright year: 2009
Coal Camp Days
A Boy's Remembrance
The coalfields of northern New Mexico are the setting for the remembrances of six-year-old Matias Montaño, a fictionalized version of the author's life in the last years of World War II.
- Copyright year: 2001
Come Up and Get Me
An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Kittinger, joined by author Craig Ryan, documents the heights of his extraordinary aeronautical career.
- Copyright year: 2011
A History of New Mexico, 4th Revised Edition
This updated and revised textbook for the middle school reader is an engaging and balanced account of New Mexico from earliest times to the present.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Singing Bowl
This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience.
- Copyright year: 2011