From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico
Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire
From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity.
Forced Out
A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America
Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology
Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.
The Power of Nature
Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics
Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human capacities.
Paul Kontny
A Modern Artist in Europe and America
The Community in Rural America
The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies
Zooarchaeological Perspectives
Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.
Sweeping the Way
Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine
The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States.
Came Men on Horses
The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate
Archaeology without Borders
Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico
Western Water A to Z
The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource
Western Water A to Z is the first ever field guide to Western water.
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain
Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico.
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands
Archaeological Perspectives
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces.
A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land
Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes
The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O’odham—arguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal prehistoric and early historic periods, yet one of the least understood and under-studied to have occupied the region.
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
Living Ruins
Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
Aztec Antichrist
Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?
The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?Brent E. Metz explores the complicatedissue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over thepast two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya.
Life at the Margins of the State
Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds
Confronting the "Good Death"
Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
Mining Irish-American Lives
Western Communities from 1849 to 1920
After Dark
The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities
After Darkexplores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings.
Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary
Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond
Materializing Ritual Practices
Communities of Ludlow
Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission
Bound by Steel and Stone
The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier.
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing examines the ways in which the Akimel O’odham (“River People”) and their ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political, and environmental constraints imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population in Arizona’s Gila River Valley.
The Mountaineer Site
A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies
The Mountaineer Site presents over a decade’s worth of archaeological research conducted at Mountaineer, a Paleoindian campsite in Colorado’s Upper Gunnison Basin.
Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare
Gold Metal Waters
The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill
Gold Metal Waters presents a uniquely inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when more than three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary of the Animas River.
Finding Solace in the Soil
An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache
Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado.
Profiting from the Peak
Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs
In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces.
Teotihuacan and Early Classic Mesoamerica
Multiscalar Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Interregional Relations
The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869
Second Edition
During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth.
Adapting to the Land
A History of Agriculture in Colorado
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks: or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection
by Mary Dartt
Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica
Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.
The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa
Anthropology, Literature, and History
The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual
This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.
Becoming Colorado
The Centennial State in 100 Objects
In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.