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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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Man vs Fish

The Fly Fisherman's Eternal Struggle

By Taylor Streit; Foreword by John Nichols
University of New Mexico Press

"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

University of New Mexico Press

This fascinating rediscovery of Josephine Foard highlights her work at Laguna Pueblo beginning in 1899 and her efforts to improve and market pueblo pottery for the Lagunas' economic benefit.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Eye of the West

Photographs by Nancy Wood
University of New Mexico Press

This collection of photographs from the last three decades by Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood captures the people and places of rural Colorado and New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest

An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

University of New Mexico Press

The culmination of recent restoration and analysis, these richly illustrated essays examine the history and meaning of one of Mesoamerica's surviving documents dating from the 1540s.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Voyage of the Beetle

A Journey around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle

By Anne H. Weaver; Illustrated by George Lawrence
University of New Mexico Press

The whimsical story of Rosie the Beetle who assisted Charles Darwin on his trip around the world as he developed his Theory of Natural Selection.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Sor Juana's Second Dream

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Raising an Empire

Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Rabbit Goes to Kansas

By Deborah L. Duvall; Illustrated by Murv Jacob
University of New Mexico Press

A new Ji-Stu adventure with his friend Wildcat and mythical birds in the land of sunflowers.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Playing the Odds

Las Vegas and the Modern West

University of New Mexico Press

"Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Lines in the Sand

Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.

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Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer

A Critical Biography

University of New Mexico Press

The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.

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Creating a Third World

Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era

University of New Mexico Press

White examines the complex political relationships among the three countries during the sixties and how Mexico and Cuba utilized the Cold War to define themselves as influential leaders in the developing world.

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Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls

Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930

University of New Mexico Press

This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

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A Woman in the Great Outdoors

Adventures in the National Park Service

University of New Mexico Press

Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy.

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Bunion Derby

The 1928 Footrace Across America

University of New Mexico Press

The story of Charley Pyle's 3,400-mile cross country race and extravaganza and the men who endured 84 days of mountains, deserts, mud, and sandstorms to compete for a $25,000 grand prize.

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The Will to Heal

Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers

University of New Mexico Press

How six Latina authors, whose works combine autobiography and fiction, use this technique to heal from personal and political trauma.

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Derivative of the Moving Image

University of New Mexico Press

Translucent with humane insight, Bartlett's poetry embodies an intense awareness of what it takes to prevail over life's misfortunes.

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Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador

The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory

University of New Mexico Press

The authors provide the first systematic study of the infamous massacre now regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history.

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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches

Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century

University of New Mexico Press

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

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The Idea of Cuba

By (photographer) Alex Harris; Introduction by Lillian Guerra
University of New Mexico Press

Alex Harris beautifully captures many archetypes of today's Cuba, and Lillian Guerra's essay discusses what it means to be Cuban.

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Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888

University of New Mexico Press

This detailed history of Remington's role in the development of military weapons is the result of twenty-five years of research of the company's records and military archives.

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New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo

Edited by Polly Schaafsma; Preface by Linda S. Cordell
University of New Mexico Press

Noted archaeologist Polly Schaafsma presents new research by current scholars on this largely neglected ancestral Puebloan site.

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Broken and Reset

Selected Poems, 1966 to 2006

University of New Mexico Press

These poems reveal Price's healing from the crippling traps of childhood and the rejection of the conformity required by modern American life.

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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining

University of New Mexico Press

Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.

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Making the Americas

The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization

University of New Mexico Press

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

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Death and Dying in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This thoroughly researched study uses death to explore the intersection of religious culture and politics in colonial New Mexico.

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Private Passions and Public Sins

Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima

University of New Mexico Press

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

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Four and Twenty Photographs

Stories from Behind the Lens

Photographs by Craig Varjabedian
University of New Mexico Press

One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Bluefeather Fellini

University of New Mexico Press

This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.

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Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache

Abáachi Mizaa Ilkee' Siijai

University of New Mexico Press

The first large-scale dictionary of any of the Eastern Apachean languages.

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Tortilla Chronicles

Growing Up in Santa Fe

University of New Mexico Press

The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.

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The Shaman and the Water Serpent

University of New Mexico Press

Dewey tells the stories of early Puebloan peoples and their reverance for the land and animals on which their survival depended.

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Sing My Whole Life Long

Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism

University of New Mexico Press

"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols

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Native American Life-History Narratives

Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography

University of New Mexico Press

The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.

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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers

University of New Mexico Press

Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

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The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807

University of New Mexico Press

This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.

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Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains

University of New Mexico Press

These tales of the mountains, mines, and characters of the Guadalupe range were collected over many years by the author who has explored the area since he was a boy.

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Hip to the Trip

A Cultural History of Route 66

University of New Mexico Press

Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.

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Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West

University of New Mexico Press

A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.

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Tombstone's Treasure

Silver Mines and Golden Saloons

University of New Mexico Press

The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution

The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920

University of New Mexico Press

The authors document the secret role of the Mexican president in the insurgency against Anglos during the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Rangers' role in ending the uprising.

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The Ecuador Effect

University of New Mexico Press

Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.

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Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World

University of New Mexico Press

Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.

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D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations

The Evolution of a Novel

Edited by Birgit Hans
University of New Mexico Press

This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American Indian literature.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Diseases and Human Evolution

University of New Mexico Press

Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Breaking Through Mexico's Past

Digging the Aztecs with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

University of New Mexico Press

The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Bitter Harvest

The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910

University of New Mexico Press

The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.

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The Taos Truth Game

University of New Mexico Press

This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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All Aboard for Santa Fe

Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s

University of New Mexico Press

How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Following the Royal Road

A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

By Hal Jackson; Foreword by Marc Simmons
University of New Mexico Press

Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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