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.
Creative Collectives
Chicana Painters Working in Community
Creative Collectives follows the artistic and ideological journeys of two groups of northern California Chicana artists involved in collectives which created complex images whose powerful visual social commentary sprang from the daily experiences of their lives.
- Copyright year: 2003
Writing About Nature
A Creative Guide
Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook covers genres, techniques, and publication issues for aspiring writers, scholars, and students who want to share their experiences in nature and the outdoors.
- Copyright year: 2003
The Silver King
The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico
Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710, but when he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain to assume control of the family's businesses. Edith Couturier uses Regla's career to address the growing social tensions of the eighteenth century in New Spain.
- Copyright year: 2003
The Indian Frontier 1846-1890
First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.
- Copyright year: 2003
Life In Search of Readers
Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature
In this examination of Chicano/a literature, Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez analyzes the ways it connects with and is shaped by the interaction with its audiences.
- Copyright year: 2003
Western Women's Lives
Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
The seventeen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2003
Ghost Towns Alive
Trips to New Mexico's Past
Author Linda G. Harris and photographer Pamela Porter have divided the state into eleven regions comprising seventy ghost towns, from the Santa Fe Trail and Colfax County in the north to the boot heel in the south.
- Copyright year: 2003
Under the Palace Portal
Native American Artists in Santa Fe
A study of the Native American Vendors Program, which provides Santa Fe-area American Indian vendors space under the Portal of the Palace of the Governors to sell jewelry, pottery, and other items they have made.
- Copyright year: 2003
The Lore of New Mexico
This award-winning text on New Mexico folklore traditions is now available in a shorter edition.
- Copyright year: 2003
Ceramica y Cultura
The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayilica
By examining both historic and contemporary examples, the editors move discussion of the enameled earthenware known as mayolica beyond its stylistic merits in order to understand it in historic and cultural context. It places the ceramics in history and daily life, illustrating their place in trade and economics.
- Copyright year: 2003