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The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century
By Christine Bradley and Duane A Smith
University Press of Colorado
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.
Making an American Workforce
The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya
University Press of Colorado
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce.
Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
Edited by Thomas R. Rocek and Nancy A. Kenmotsu
University Press of Colorado
An up-to-date summary of the major developments in the region and their implications for Southwest archaeology in particular and anthropological archaeological research more generally.
The Nature of Hope
Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane
University Press of Colorado
The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society.
Foraging in the Past
Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
By Lemke
University Press of Colorado
Foraging in the Past takes an explicitly archaeological approach to the potential of the archaeological record to document the variability and time depth of hunter-gatherers.
Maya Narrative Arts
University Press of Colorado
Authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts.
Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire
University Press of Colorado
Examines the role played by the shifting concept of idolatry in the conquest of the Americas, as well as its relation to the subsequent construction of imperial power and hegemony.
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past
Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words
University Press of Colorado
A critical, annotated anthology of indigenous-authored texts through which native peoples and Spaniards were able to convey their own perspectives on Spanish colonial order.
The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
In The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Gillian Cummings gives voice to her version of Ophelia, a young woman shattered by unbearable losses, and questions what makes a mind unwind till the outcome is deemed a suicide.
Making the White Man's West
Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
University Press of Colorado
The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán
University Press of Colorado
This book investigates how the elites of the Tarascan kingdom of Central Mexico sought to influence interactions with Spanish colonialism by reworking the past to suit their present circumstances.
The Colorado State Capitol
History, Politics, Preservation
University Press of Colorado
As the representative building of the state, the Capitol has served as a silent witness to the evolving needs and interests of all Colorado citizens. The statehouse provided a proud testament for nineteenth-century Coloradoans who wanted to prove their state's potential through grand architecture and it represents "the heart of Colorado" to this day.
In one comprehensive volume historian Derek Everett traces the establishment, planning, construction, and history of Colorado's state capitol - including a discussion on the importance of restoring and preserving the building for current and future generations of Coloradoans.
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta
The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
Edited by John G. Douglass and William Graves
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ethnohistorical, historical, and landscape data, contributors examine how the processes of colonialism played out in the American Southwest.
Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past
An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community
By Daniel Bauer
University Press of Colorado
Combining personal narrative and ethnography, Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past examines cultural change in a rural Ecuadorian fishing village where the community has worked to stake claim to an Indigenous identity in the face of economic, social, and political integration.
Unitary Caring Science
Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing
By Jean Watson
University Press of Colorado
Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar.
The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fifth Edition
University Press of Colorado
The most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
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"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
By Steven Sabol
University Press of Colorado
The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey
The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting
Edited by Kristen A. Carlson and Leland C. Bement
University Press of Colorado
Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting strategies are ubiquitous in human prehistory and exhibit culturally specific economic, social, environmental, and demographic markers. Here, seven case studies—primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom period on the Great Plains to the ethnographic present in Australia—expand the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms within which large-scale hunting adaptations evolved.
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
University Press of Colorado
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, Leisure and Death delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology.
Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains
Edited by Andrew Clark and Douglas Bamforth
University Press of Colorado
In Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped human societies of the region.
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