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Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands

Archaeological Perspectives

University Press of Colorado

Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces.

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A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land

Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes

University Press of Colorado

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.

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Beyond the Betrayal

The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

University Press of Colorado

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.

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Human Is to Wander

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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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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