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.
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Blacks in Colonial Latin America
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
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New Mexico Past and Future
This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.
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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
Bahia, 1835-1900
The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.
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Beyond the Missouri
The Story of the American West
A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.
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Migrations
New Directions in Native American Art
Migrations features a surprising selection of the work of six contemporary artists and the master printers at Tamarind Institute along with important essays by noted critics on the new directions of Native art.
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The Guaymas Chronicles
La Mandadera
This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.
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Squares
A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists
This discussion of what makes public places appealing and useful will inspire those involved with public planning and design.
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Santa Fe Hispanic Culture
Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town
A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.
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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico
The Time is Different There
Recollections of Lawrence's life and friends in 1920s Taos.
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Tinisima
This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.
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Malintzin's Choices
An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.
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The Witches of Abiquiu
The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil
The little-known story of a priest's charges of witchcraft among Indians in mid-eighteenth-century New Mexico and how the Spanish government rejected the charges in the effort to achieve peace with their Native subjects.
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Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
All About Rodeo
The workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.
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The City of Women
This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.
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The Mountains of New Mexico
This guide to New Mexico's mountains provides information such as location, elevation and relief, ecosystems, archaeology, Native American presence, mining history, ghost towns, recreation, geology, ecology, and plants and animals.
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Photography and Writing in Latin America
Double Exposures
This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.
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Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
The archaeology of space and place is examined in this selection of papers from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference.
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San Juan Bonanza
Western Colorado's Mining Legacy
A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.
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Darkest Before Dawn
Sedition and Free Speech in the American West
Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.
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Cantemos al Alba
Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Drama of Hispanic New Mexico
New Mexico's early Hispanic liturgical literature and music are thoroughly examined in this comprehensive bilingual volume accompanied by two CDs.
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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico
A remarkable collection of New Mexico images by one of today's best-known French photographers.
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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest
Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers over 325 color photos showing Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona.
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Orange County Housecleaners
Orange County Housecleaners documents the lives of seven women who make their livings cleaning houses in Orange County, California; five are Latina immigrants and two are Orange County natives.
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Decade of Betrayal
Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.S. to Mexico in the 1930s and the recent questions of a formal apology and fiscal remuneration.
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A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars
This history and guidebook is composed of two parts: first, narratives of the Plains Indian conflicts and, second, directions to battle sites in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
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Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs
Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs lists 350 Navajo verbs in paradigm form, conjugated for the Imperfective, Perfective, and Future modes.
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Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe
The Discoveries of the Very Large Array Telescope
Karen Taschek introduces teen readers to the wonders revealed by the VLA telescope, beginning with basic information on our solar system and our Milky Way galaxy.
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Corridos in Migrant Memory
Corridos in Migrant Memory examines the role of ballads in shaping the cultural memories and identities of transnational Mexican groups.
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The Sausage Rebellion
Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917
This study of the Mexican meat industry's resistance to American processing methods illustrates one of the popular origins of the Revolution of 1910 and how Mexican butchers preserved their traditional craft.
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Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.
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