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.
Captain Jack Crawford
Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
- Copyright year: 1993
A History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
- Copyright year: 2012
Lord of the Dawn
The Legend of Quetzalcóatl
- Copyright year: 1987
Grandpa Lolo’s Navajo Saddle Blanket
La tilma de Abuelito Lolo
- Copyright year: 2012
A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
- Copyright year: 2012
Maya Medicine
Traditional Healing in Yucatán
- Copyright year: 2003
A Woman in Both Houses
My Career in New Mexico Politics
- Copyright year: 2012
Tony Hillerman's Landscapes
Southwest Map and Guide
This handsomely illustrated map shows you where to find many of the landscapes Tony Hillerman loved and wrote about.
- Copyright year: 2012
Re-creating the Circle
The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination
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
The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545
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
The Orphaned Land
New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project
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
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II
From the 1790s to the End of the Flintlock Period
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
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I
Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms
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
The Wrath of God
Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas
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
The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina from Roca to Perón
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
The Latest Word from 1540
People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition
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
Sweeney
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
Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization
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
Don't Forget the Accent Mark
A Memoir
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
Bruja
The Legend of La Llorona
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
The Case of the Indian Trader
Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post
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
Navajos Wear Nikes
A Reservation Life
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
The Mining Law of 1872
Past, Politics, and Prospects
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
La Llorona
The Crying Woman
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
Colorado Goes to the Fair
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
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
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ruins
In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement.
- Copyright year: 2011
Cowboys Don't Cry
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
Begging for Vultures
New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009
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
Wonders of Nuclear Fusion
Creating an Ultimate Energy Source
With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is--and isn't.
- Copyright year: 2011
Anthropological Perspectives on Technology
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
Roads to the Past
Highway Map and Guide to New Mexico Archaeology
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
Desert Lawmen
The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912
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
A History of New Mexico Since Statehood
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
The Society of Equality
Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851
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
The Limits of Gender Domination
Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830
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
The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School
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
Jean-Frederic Waldeck
Artist of Exotic Mexico
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