Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution
The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920
The authors document the secret role of the Mexican president in the insurgency against Anglos during the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Rangers' role in ending the uprising.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Ecuador Effect
Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.
- Copyright year: 2007
Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt
Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World
Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.
- Copyright year: 2007
D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations
The Evolution of a Novel
This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American Indian literature.
- Copyright year: 2007
Diseases and Human Evolution
Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.
- Copyright year: 2006
Breaking Through Mexico's Past
Digging the Aztecs with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.
- Copyright year: 2006
Bitter Harvest
The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910
The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Taos Truth Game
This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.
- Copyright year: 2006
All Aboard for Santa Fe
Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s
How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.
- Copyright year: 2006
Following the Royal Road
A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.
- Copyright year: 2006