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The Title of Totonicapán

University Press of Colorado

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.

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Living Ruins

Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes

University Press of Colorado
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Aztec Antichrist

Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico

University Press of Colorado
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Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?

The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity

University Press of Colorado

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.

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Life at the Margins of the State

Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds

University Press of Colorado
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Confronting the "Good Death"

Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953

University Press of Colorado

Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the “Good Death” Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciary’s attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war.

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Mining Irish-American Lives

Western Communities from 1849 to 1920

University Press of Colorado
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After Dark

The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities

University Press of Colorado

After Darkexplores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings.

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Communities of Ludlow

Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission

University Press of Colorado
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Bound by Steel and Stone

The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960

University Press of Colorado

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.

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Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing

The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin

University Press of Colorado

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.

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