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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.

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The Coronado Expedition

From the Distance of 460 Years

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2003
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Reshaping Our National Parks and Their Guardians

The Legacy of George B. Hartzog Jr.

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Obsidian and Ancient Manufactured Glasses

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Modernizing Minds in El Salvador

Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain

The Site and Its Holocene Archaeological Record

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539–1542

“They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects”

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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Children of Time

Evolution and the Human Story

By Anne H. Weaver; Illustrated by Matt Celeskey
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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A Mad, Crazy River

Running the Grand Canyon in 1927

By Clyde L. Eddy; Introduction by Peter D. Miller
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Writings of Eusebio Chacón

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2010
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Captain Jack Crawford

Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 1993
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A History of Mining in Latin America

From the Colonial Era to the Present

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Secrets of the Tsil Café

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2001
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rode

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Lord of the Dawn

The Legend of Quetzalcóatl

By Rudolfo Anaya; Introduction by David M. Johnson
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 1987
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Grandpa Lolo’s Navajo Saddle Blanket

La tilma de Abuelito Lolo

By Nasario García; Photographs by Richard Moeller
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Maya Medicine

Traditional Healing in Yucatán

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2003
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A Woman in Both Houses

My Career in New Mexico Politics

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Tony Hillerman's Landscapes

Southwest Map and Guide

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

This handsomely illustrated map shows you where to find many of the landscapes Tony Hillerman loved and wrote about.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Re-creating the Circle

The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination

University of New Mexico Press

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545

University of New Mexico Press

This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Orphaned Land

New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project

By V. B. Price; Photographs by Nell Farrell
University of New Mexico Press

Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II

From the 1790s to the End of the Flintlock Period

University of New Mexico Press

American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I

Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms

University of New Mexico Press

Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Wrath of God

Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas

University of New Mexico Press

Deliberately provocative, Evan Balkan's The Wrath of God examines Aguirre, a symbol of Basque fury and rampage, arguing that Aguirre's historical representation as a one-dimensional madman deserves revisiting.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina from Roca to Perón

University of New Mexico Press

Providing an overview of the women's suffrage movement from its earliest stages through the passage of the 1947 law, this study examines what Argentina's history can tell us about the moment when a society agrees to the equal participation of women in the political realm.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Latest Word from 1540

People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition

University of New Mexico Press

This book examines the environmental and cultural impact of the Coronado expedition while also placing it in the context of what was happening in Mexico as Spain expanded west and north of Mexico City.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sweeney

University of New Mexico Press

This quixotic tale of Sweeney's journey of survival and self-discovery offers a wry glimpse of the oddities and opportunities of small-town life, featuring aliens, nudists, naked bull riders, Druids, phony Indians, real Indians, and above all, Sweeney's crazy citizens, because, as one of them says, "Crazy ideas are the only kind that work around here."

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization

University of New Mexico Press

Gender is at the center of D'Amico's analysis as she looks beyond the overlapping lives of Elsie Clews Parsons and Rosa Lema, both innovators and adept at crossing cultural boundaries, to explore the interrelationship between gender, ethnicity, and globalization.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Don't Forget the Accent Mark

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

This autobiography of an outstanding mathematician, dedicated to others, whose career included stints as a senior university and federal administrator, is also the story of a young man of mixed Mexican and American parentage.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Bruja

The Legend of La Llorona

University of New Mexico Press

In this powerfully eerie tale, the legend of La Llorona is recast as the tale of a witch intent on doing evil in modern Santa Fe.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Case of the Indian Trader

Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post

University of New Mexico Press

In an intriguing account of whistle-blowing, Berkowitz tells how he bypassed his chain-of-command and delivered his findings directly to the Office of the Inspector General.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Navajos Wear Nikes

A Reservation Life

University of New Mexico Press

With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author's own experience of sincere friendships that lead to ho?zho? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic's memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on--and growing to love--the Reservation.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Mining Law of 1872

Past, Politics, and Prospects

University of New Mexico Press

Bakken traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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La Llorona

The Crying Woman

By Rudolfo Anaya; Illustrated by Amy Córdova; Translated by Enrique R. Lamadrid
University of New Mexico Press

The legend of La Llorona as retold by Rudolfo Anaya is storytelling anchored in a very human experience. His book helps parents explain to children the reality of death and the loss of loved ones.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Colorado Goes to the Fair

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

University of New Mexico Press

In this heavily illustrated text, the authors trace the glory of the World's Fair and the impact it would have on Colorado, where Gilded Age excess clashed with the enthusiasm of westward expansion.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World

University of New Mexico Press

Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Ruins

University of New Mexico Press

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Cowboys Don't Cry

University of New Mexico Press

As Scout McBride navigates the rugged path to becoming a man, he knows that to emulate the men he admires, he must keep one thing in mind: Cowboys don't cry.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Begging for Vultures

New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009

By Lawrence Welsh; Foreword by V. B. Price
University of New Mexico Press

The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the famous, the infamous, and the forgotten.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Wonders of Nuclear Fusion

Creating an Ultimate Energy Source

University of New Mexico Press

With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is--and isn't.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Anthropological Perspectives on Technology

University of New Mexico Press

Provides recognition that anthropology and archaeology offer diverse perspectives for studying technology in virtually all human societies-from prehistoric painting to the industrial age.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Roads to the Past

Highway Map and Guide to New Mexico Archaeology

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

The text, photographs, graphics, and map that appear here, created with the assistance of New Mexico's Office of Archaeology, provide the curious reader and the interested explorer alike with insight into the fascinating history and archaeology of New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Desert Lawmen

The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912

University of New Mexico Press

In this carefully researched study, Ball shows that few southwestern sheriffs were genuine gunmen. Wielding firearms with nerve and determination in the line of duty, however, was expected of them by their constituents.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A History of New Mexico Since Statehood

University of New Mexico Press

For the first time, there is now a textbook that addresses state standards for the teaching of New Mexico history at the high school level.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Society of Equality

Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851

University of New Mexico Press

Wood argues that the "Society of Equality" set a new standard for democratic thought and action in Chilean history and was arguably the most democratic political association of its era in all of Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Limits of Gender Domination

Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830

University of New Mexico Press

By documenting the progressive removal of limits to patriarchal power in the waning years of the Spanish Empire in Quito, this study traces the genealogy of legal patriarchy in Spanish America.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School

University of New Mexico Press

In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Jean-Frederic Waldeck

Artist of Exotic Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

A rediscovery of the lively and dramatic art of one of the first European artists to visit the ruins at Palenque in the early nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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