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.
Medicine Women
The Story of the First Native American Nursing School
In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
- Copyright year: 2019
Governing Gifts
Faith, Charity, and the Security State
Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective.
- Copyright year: 2019
A Most Splendid Company
The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective
This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540.
- Copyright year: 2019
Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition
This classic hiking guide to Albuquerque's Sandia Mountain is completely updated with color photographs, up-to-date trail descriptions, detailed maps, additional GPS data, and modified difficulty ratings for many of the featured hikes.
- Copyright year: 2019
Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide Map, Revised and Expanded Edition
This full-color map of the mountain, printed on waterproof and tear resistant paper,has been updated to accompany the Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition.
- Copyright year: 2019
Reckless Steps toward Sanity
A Memoir
Throughout her memoir Gelt reflects upon how risk taking has shaped her relationships with and her attitudes toward men and sex, her daughter, Judaism, and her own eventual diagnosis of major depressive disorder.
- Copyright year: 2019
Land of Nuclear Enchantment
A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry
In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people.
- Copyright year: 2019
Jai Alai
A Cultural History of the Fastest Game in the World
Paula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the sport's power and spectacle.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy
A Rare Photographic History
This engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the United States' space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
- Copyright year: 2019
Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion
Archaeological Perspectives
This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica.
- Copyright year: 2019
Spooky Archaeology
Myth and the Science of the Past
By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters.
- Copyright year: 2018
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West.
- Copyright year: 2019
Equal under the Sky
Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism
Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America
Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis
This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America.
- Copyright year: 2019
Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control
The contributors utilize insights gained from studies on cancer to extend structural vulnerability beyond its original conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements.
- Copyright year: 2019
Cabañuelas
A Novel
In Cantú's latest novel Nena must decide where she can best be true to her entire self: in Spain with Paco or in Laredo, her home, where her job and family await her return.
- Copyright year: 2019
The News as Usual
Poems
The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest.
- Copyright year: 2019
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma
William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.
- Copyright year: 2010
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Three Texts in Context
Consisting of three rare documents about miracles from this period, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study serves as a source book and complement to the author's Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ballad of a Slopsucker
Stories
Based in Northern California and examining a variety of themes, including love, family, and masculinity, these stories offer an important new perspective on the experiences of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and complicate ideas of nationhood, identity, and the definition of home.
- Copyright year: 2019
After Party
Poems
By turns funny and heartbreaking, flirtatious and frank, Blaustein never lets his aggravation or confusion overwhelm his sense of gratitude for the life he leads and those he loves.
- Copyright year: 2019
The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico
World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.
- Copyright year: 2014
Why Should I Write a Poem Now
The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958
Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.
- Copyright year: 2018
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.
- Copyright year: 2018
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.
- Copyright year: 2018
Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality
Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Presences
A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition
Now in a new edition, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley's prose poems.
- Copyright year: 2018
Imagine a City That Remembers
The Albuquerque Rephotography Project
This expanded and updated collection juxtaposes historic and contemporary photographs of Albuquerque to show diverse moments in the city's history and development.
- Copyright year: 2018
Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes
This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally.
- Copyright year: 2018
Citizens and Believers
Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930
This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution.
- Copyright year: 2018