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The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies

Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century

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.

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Making an American Workforce

The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow

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.

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Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon

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.

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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.

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Foraging in the Past

Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Making the White Man's West

Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

University Press of Colorado
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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.

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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.

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

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.

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Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past

An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community

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.

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Unitary Caring Science

Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing

University Press of Colorado

Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar.

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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

University Press of Colorado
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The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey

The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting

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.

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Leisure and Death

An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying

Edited by Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner; Foreword by Jane Desmond; Epilogue by James Fernandez
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.

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Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains

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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Season of Terror

The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March–October 1863

University Press of Colorado

Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.

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Jeannette Rankin

A Political Woman

University Press of Colorado

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, stands tall among American icons. The representative from Montana won her seat at a time when women didn't have the right to vote in most states. Her firm stances inspired both admiration and fury across party lines, and she gained nearly canonical status among feminists and pacifists. In Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman, James Lopach and Jean Luckowski demythologize Rankin, showing her to be a talented, driven, and deeply divided woman.

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Life beyond the Boundaries

Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest

University Press of Colorado

Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and history to investigate themes related to the construction of social identity along the perimeters of the American Southwest.

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Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes

University Press of Colorado

Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical, generational, eschatological, and mythical time.

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A History of Mortgage Banking in the West

Financing America's Dreams

University Press of Colorado

Part economic history, part public history, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West is an insider’s account of how the mortgage banking sector worked over the last 150 years, including analysis of the causes of the 2007 mortgage crisis. Beginning with the land and railroad development acts that encouraged settlement in the west, E. Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders trace the laws, institutions, and individuals that contributed to the economic growth of the region.

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Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas—a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala.

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Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib' K’iche’ Títulos

"The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors"

University Press of Colorado

Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century.

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Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib' K'iche' Títulos

"The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors"

University Press of Colorado

Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century.

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Words and Worlds Turned Around

Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America

Edited by David Tavárez; Foreword by William Taylor
University Press of Colorado

A sophisticated, state-of-the-art study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies, Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas.

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The Lisu

Far from the Ruler

University Press of Colorado

This first-ever book about the Lisu brings their ironic worldview to life through vivid, often amusing accounts of individuals, communities, regions, and practices. One of the smallest and last groups of stateless people, and the most egalitarian of all Southeast Asian highland minorities, the Lisu have not only survived extremes at the crossroads of civil wars, the drug trade, and state-sponsored oppression but adapted to modern politics and technology without losing their identity.

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