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.
New Mexico's High Peaks
A Photographic Celebration
Photographer-author Mike Butterfield has spent forty years hiking New Mexico's high mountains, and his magnificent images are paired here with the chronicle of his adventures.
- Copyright year: 2014
Making Aztlán
Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977
This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in their quest for basic equities for Mexican Americans in U.S. society.
- Copyright year: 2014
An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier
Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890
This selection of Lauderdale's writings, edited and annotated by a premier historian of the American West, offers an insightful account of army life that will teach readers much about the settlement and growth of the West in a time of rapid change.
- Copyright year: 2014
Xylotheque
Essays
Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating, section by section, a life.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Politics of Giving in the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata
Donors, Lenders, Subjects, and Citizens
This book examines an eighteenth century Spanish state finance based on voluntary donations rather than taxes. The author analyzes the "gifts" (donativos) that residents of colonial Argentina gave to the Spanish Crown and the city council of Buenos Aires.
- Copyright year: 2014
Mono Lake
From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure
Environmental controversy brought so much attention to Mono Lake in the late twentieth century that it became best known for its appearance on "Save Mono Lake" bumper stickers. This thoughtful study is the first book to explore the lake's environmental and cultural history.
- Copyright year: 2014
An Elegy for September
A Novel
A brief, poignant, and eloquent novel that renders an age-old story in a fresh and powerful form, An Elegy for September captures the turning point in the life of a man as he confronts his own mortality.
- Copyright year: 1992
American Blood
A Novel
Though Michael Smith cannot forget the pornographic atrocities he witnessed abroad during the Vietnam war, it is the pervasive brutality of civilian life that threatens to destroy him. American Blood is a timely and fiercely moral statement on violence and loss.
- Copyright year: 1987
A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora
The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser
The Swiss Jesuit missionary Philipp Segesser was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain.
- Copyright year: 2014
Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism
Alongside the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects, Hucks weaves historical and sociological analyses of the relationship between black cultural nationalism and reinterpretations of the meaning of Africa from within the African American community.
- Copyright year: 2012
New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano
Treasures of a People/El Tesoro del Pueblo
This bilingual panoramic book presents the songs that are the life's work of Cipriano Frederico Vigil, the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2014
Meaningful Places
Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest
A Self-Portrait of a People
First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb.
- Copyright year: 1980
Wings for My Flight
The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock, Updated Edition
First published in 1991 and winner of several national awards, this book chronicles Marcy Cottrell Houle's work at Chimney Rock along with the recovery of the once endangered peregrine falcon.
- Copyright year: 1991
The Goldilocks Zone
"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us."--Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Copyright year: 2014
The Deportation of Wopper Barraza
A Novel
After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.
- Copyright year: 2014
O'Keeffe
Days in a Life
"Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."--Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses
- Copyright year: 1996
Native Brazil
Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Cormac McCarthy
New Directions
Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy's indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues as gender and race in McCarthy's work.
- Copyright year: 2002
Philmont
A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country
This classic account is the first and still the best comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1972
Inside the New Mexico Senate
Boots, Suits, and Citizens
In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico's legislature, Dede Feldman reveals how the work of governing is actually accomplished.
- Copyright year: 2014
Wilderness
Debra Bloomfield engaged for five years on a photographic project in the wilderness. After photographing the desert in Four Corners and the ocean in Still, she has moved on in this new book to the forest.
- Copyright year: 2014
Correspondence Analysis and West Mexico Archaeology
Ceramics from the Long-Glassow Collection
- Copyright year: 2013
Cables, Crises, and the Press
The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866-1903
- Copyright year: 2013
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
New Histories of Latin America's Cold War
- Copyright year: 2013
Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910
- Copyright year: 2013
The Shoshoneans
The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition
- Copyright year: 1966
Mexico's Supreme Court
Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867-1934
- Copyright year: 2013
Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn
The Collected Letters
The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.
- Copyright year: 2013
Violent Delights, Violent Ends
Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
- Copyright year: 2013