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Peter Fidler

From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains

Edited by Barbara Belyea
University Press of Colorado

This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.

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America's Switzerland

Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

University Press of Colorado

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer.

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Reshaping the World

Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies

Edited by Ana Díaz
University Press of Colorado

A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.

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Pleas and Petitions

Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado

University Press of Colorado

Virginia Sánchez sheds new light on the political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of the legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado.

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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

University Press of Colorado

Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery.

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Colorado Day by Day

University Press of Colorado

A readable, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures, developments, and forces that shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present.

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The Minuses

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

The Minuses beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues, amplifying the endangerments predicating women’s lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact.
 

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Rewriting Maya Religion

Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum

University Press of Colorado

Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the Theologia Indorum.

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Hidden Out in the Open

Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)

University Press of Colorado

The first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Historicizing Fear

Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering

University Press of Colorado

A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.

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Detachment from Place

Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment

University Press of Colorado

The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.

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Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands

Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings

University Press of Colorado

Researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the pre-Columbian communities of the Mexican highlands.

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Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

University Press of Colorado

Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican urban centers.

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Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems

A Theoretical Approach

University Press of Colorado

Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems reports new results and insights into the meaning of the rich and varied content of indigenous American graphic expression and culture.

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As Precious as Blood

The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970

University Press of Colorado

Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between Colorado’s Eastern and Western Slopes and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.

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