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 Allure of Nezahualcoyotl
Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics
Lee offers a more realistic portrait of the legendary Aztec ruler Nezahualcoyotl, derived from examination of original Nahuatl codices and poetry, as well as Spanish chronicles.
- Copyright year: 2008
Roadside New Mexico
A Guide to Historic Markers, Revised and Expanded Edition
This revised and expanded edition of Roadside New Mexico provides additional information about these sites and includes approximately one hundred new markers, sixty-five of which document the contribution of women to the history of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2015
New Mexico 2050
Here some of the state's most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050--What can we be? What will we be?
- Copyright year: 2015
Reining in the Rio Grande
People, Land, and Water
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.
- Copyright year: 2011
Crossing Over
Poems
"Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'"--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems
- Copyright year: 2015
Religion in New Spain
This extensive study examines the variety of religious practice and tradition that developed from the confluence of the numerous beliefs and cultures in the northern colonies of New Spain.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Wild That Attracts Us
New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers
The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West.
- Copyright year: 2015
Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans
"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer's work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."--Ethnohistory
- Copyright year: 2002
Chasing the Santa Fe Ring
Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico
David L. Caffey's book tells the story of the rise and fall of the Santa Fe Ring, looking beyond myth and symbol to explore the history of this remarkably durable alliance.
- Copyright year: 2014
Abbey in America
A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century
Abbey in America, published forty years after Abbey's popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey's best friends as they explore Abbey's ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680
Presented for the first time is a detailed picture of the Spanish settlement landscape of New Mexico during the period from the beginning of colonization in 1598 up to 1680.
- Copyright year: 2012
Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini
A Rare Photographic History
"A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold.."--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook
- Copyright year: 2015
Of Love and Other Passions
Elites, Politics, and Family in Bogotá, Colombia, 1778–1870
In Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogotá from the end of the colonial period to 1870.
- Copyright year: 2015
All Trails Lead to Santa Fe
Guide and Map for Three National Historic Trails Connecting Santa Fe to the Rest of the World
This guide, created for the Three Trails Conference of 2015, tells the history of the El Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail as they traced their paths across the state of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2015
Advocates for the Oppressed
Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico
Having written about Hispano land grants and Pueblo Indian grants separately, Malcolm Ebright now brings these narratives together for the first time, reconnecting them and resurrecting lost histories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Workers Go Shopping in Argentina
The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture
Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence.
- Copyright year: 2013
Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano
This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro, Ortiz, and other lower-elevation mountains in central portions of the state.
- Copyright year: 2015
Unruly Waters
A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River
This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.
- Copyright year: 2015
Miziker’s Complete Event Planner’s Handbook
Tips, Terminology, and Techniques for Success
With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook.
- Copyright year: 2015
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them.
- Copyright year: 2015
Finding Abbey
The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey
- Copyright year: 2015
A Vision of Voices
John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--and his magnum opus, the Santa Fe Opera."--Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Copyright year: 2015
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Faster Redder Road
The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones
This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream.
- Copyright year: 2015
Community Health Narratives
A Reader
Community Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people's health experiences across cultures and nations.
- Copyright year: 2015
Report to the Department of the Interior
Poems
Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.
- Copyright year: 2015
One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen
Stories
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.
- Copyright year: 2015
Hoe, Heaven, and Hell
My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico
In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family's village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Canyon
A Novel
To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Arranged Marriage
Poems
"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
- Copyright year: 2015
Painted Turtle
Woman with Guitar
"Major brings his characters to life with the accretion of specific details. Even so, his novel is distinctly spiritual, emphasizing the significance of traditional beliefs in the lives of Painted Turtle and her family."--Publishers Weekly
- Copyright year: 1988
Four Square Leagues
Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2014
Coronado
Knight of Pueblos and Plains
Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.
- Copyright year: 1949
The Zunis
Self-Portrayals
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1972
The Hero Twins
A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Protecting Yellowstone
Science and the Politics of National Park Management
In Protecting Yellowstone, Michael Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.
- Copyright year: 2013
Laguna Pueblo
A Photographic History
Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.
- Copyright year: 2015
Jemez Spring
Rudolfo Anaya's latest Sonny Baca mystery eerily reflects current events: it involves terrorists, environmental activists, and water rights in the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2005
El Paso's Muckraker
The Life of Owen Payne White
This long-overdue biography restores this overlooked writer to the forefront of western history and journalism.
- Copyright year: 2015
Rider of the Pale Horse
A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond
A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project.
- Copyright year: 2005
Prep School Cowboys
Ranch Schools in the American West
"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
- Copyright year: 2015
Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil
This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil.
- Copyright year: 2014
Gila Country Legend
The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.
- Copyright year: 2009
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned--and sometimes celebrated--character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2014
How Long Is the Present
Selected Talk Poems of David Antin
In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin's now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author.
- Copyright year: 2014
Bush League Boys
The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest
"In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest."--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962
- Copyright year: 2014
Women Drug Traffickers
Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
- Copyright year: 2014
The Memory of Stone
Meditations on the Canyons of the West
Erv Schroeder's photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth--the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures.
- Copyright year: 2014
Massacre of the Dreamers
Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.
- Copyright year: 2014
Tortillas
A Cultural History
In this entertaining and informative account Paula E. Morton surveys the history of the tortilla from its roots in ancient Mesoamerica to the cross-cultural global tortilla.
- Copyright year: 2014