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.
Damned Notions of Liberty
Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769
This study explores the lived experience of slavery from the perspective of slaves themselves to reveal how the enslaved may have conceptualized and contested their subordinated social positions in New Spain's middle colonial period (roughly 1630-1760s).
- Copyright year: 2011
Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico
While most historians have argued that Díaz's reign owed its longevity to extralegal activities and personal appeals to loyalty, this study examines Díaz's successful manipulation of cults of the dead, hero cults, and national memory to shape the perception of his leadership.
- Copyright year: 2010
Giveaways
An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas
Linda Boyden shares an alphabet list of indigenous loanwords from North, South, and Central America that have found their way into common usage either nationally or regionally.
- Copyright year: 2010
Blood Desert
Witnesses, 1820-1880
In narrative poems that take us back to New Mexico during the nineteenth century, Renny Golden resurrects the spirits of native people and of those who came West.
- Copyright year: 2010
Beyond Wari Walls
Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru
Wari culture and its influence in Andean prehistory is investigated here from a variety of geographic locales.
- Copyright year: 2010
Nicaragua Before Now
Factory Work, Farming, and Fishing in a Low-wage Global Economy
Farrell weaves together interviews, photographs, and her own observations to illustrate the relationship between Nicaraguan laborers, international politics, and global markets.
- Copyright year: 2010
Tamarind Touchstones
Fabulous at Fifty: Creating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography
Showcasing the broad aesthetic capabilities of lithography, Tamarind Touchstones demonstrates the diversity of the artists who have embraced lithography and their increased facility and comfort with the medium.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Risen Horse
This story of the tribulations of early reservation life that led to the modern-day triumphs of the Mescalero people also offers a rare glimpse at the strengths of education at Carlisle, largely remembered for its flaws.
- Copyright year: 2010
Golden States of Grace
Prayers of the Disinherited
Taking California as a window into the diversity of religion in America, Golden States of Grace documents marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions.
- Copyright year: 2010
What Are Global Warming and Climate Change?
Answers for Young Readers
Using a question-and-answer format supplemented by hands-on activities, this book fosters an understanding of the complex processes at work in global warming and climate change.
- Copyright year: 2010
Raptors of New Mexico
This beautifully illustrated study is the first book to focus on the birds of prey of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2010
Powering the Future
New Energy Technologies
This lively introduction to alternative energy sources highlights the science that will play a vital role in our lives today and in the future.
- Copyright year: 2010
Old Yellowstone Days
This new edition of the first book to collect accounts of early visits to Yellowstone includes a new Foreword by park historian Lee H. Whittlesey.
- Copyright year: 2010
Notes from a Miner's Canary
Essays on the State of Native America
A leading scholar takes on a variety of contemporary issues as they relate to Native Americans.
- Copyright year: 2010
Los Alamos
The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943
Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the school's curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection.
- Copyright year: 2010
Invitation to an Execution
A History of the Death Penalty in the United States
These original essays examine the complex history of the death penalty, focusing on specific geographic areas to illuminate the circumstances of law and politics.
- Copyright year: 2010
Allies at Odds
The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671
Explores the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of Andean Christian society.
- Copyright year: 2010
Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed
The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
Monnett takes a closer look at the struggle between the mining interests of the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations in 1866 that climaxed with the Fetterman Massacre.
- Copyright year: 2010
The War for Mexico's West
Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Altman has undertaken the challenging task of examining the Spaniards' attempt to conquer and settle the western region of Mexico (New Galicia).
- Copyright year: 2010
Land, Wind, and Hard Words
A Story of Navajo Activism
Because of his friendship with the Jacksons, Sherry was on the scene during the aftermath of the mysterious death of Leroy Jackson in 1993. His vivid account of the resulting journalistic feeding frenzy and heightened conflict on the reservation adds an unusual dimension to this intimate and unpretentious story.
- Copyright year: 2010
How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.
- Copyright year: 2010
Hard Grass
Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
These colorful tales highlight the complex relationships that comprise life in the rural West today.
- Copyright year: 2010
Come with Me to Babylon
The saga of an early twentieth-century Russian Jewish family and how they learn to find hope amidst many disappointments in America.
- Copyright year: 2008
Bolitas de Oro
Poems from My Marble-playing Days
These vivid memories of the poet's life in rural New Mexico in the 50s were written first in Spanish then translated to English.
- Copyright year: 2010
Wolves at Our Door
A close-knit group of Anglo and Hispanic families struggle to keep their southern Arizona ranches alive amidst the dual threats of drug lords and smugglers.
- Copyright year: 2010
Schools of Their Own
The Education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940
Demonstrates how educational inequality persisted in a democracy and how Hispanos tried to secure more and better schools in New Mexico prior to 1940.
- Copyright year: 2010
Educational Reform in New Mexico
Tireman, San José, and Nambé
In the 1930s Loyd Tireman organized two experiments in cross-cultural education in New Mexico. These experiments were remarkably successful and anticipated contemporary trends, yet they remained unacknowledged and, until now, unstudied. Bachelor makes Tireman's insights available to modern teachers.
- Copyright year: 2010
Singing to the Plants
A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
This accessible study of ayahuasca shamanism introduces its ritual practices including healers' spiritual relationships with the native plants used in its ceremonies.
- Copyright year: 2010
Crash of TWA Flight 260
Williams documents the tragic crash of TWA Flight 260 in the Sandia Mountains in 1955 and the fifty years that he has spent unraveling the mysteries of the crash, many still unresolved today.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mexican Community Health and the Politics of Health Reform
This very human study of emerging medical services in Morelos, Mexico, illustrates the variety of grassroot solutions to health care delivery in response to rising costs and restrictions on access.
- Copyright year: 2010
This High, Wild Country
A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
A colorful gift of words and art from two of the West's most knowledgeable and talented naturalists.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Very Nature of God
Baroque Catholicism and Religious Reform in Bourbon Mexico City
Using wills and other testaments of faith, Larkin examines the complex efforts by secular and religious authorities to reform religious practice during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Rounders
This is the 50th anniversary edition of the western that made Max Evans famous.
- Copyright year: 2010
For Every Indio Who Falls
A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990
By following indigenous organizing experiences at multiple levels--local, regional, national, and international--this book explores how some Mayas became involved in political activism and opposition to a repressive state.
- Copyright year: 2010
Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies
The Dry Fly and the Nymph, Evolution and Conflict
Through stories of numerous historical characters Black details the long debate among fly-fishing devotees on the relative merits of dry or wet flies.
- Copyright year: 2010
Dreaming the Biosphere
The Theater of All Possibilities
Reider tells the tangled tale of the creation, and eventual disintegration, of the experimental eco-utopia known as Biosphere 2.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mother Jones
Raising Cain and Consciousness
The details of the life and work of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones are skillfully told here for those who have not heard her story and those who know it well.
- Copyright year: 2010
Dance of the Eggshells
Baile de Los Cascarones
A little girl and her brother are introduced to the Baile de los Cascarones in this charming bilingual story of family and cultural tradition.
- Copyright year: 2010
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute
The Memoirs of George A. Cowan
Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.
- Copyright year: 2010
Picturing an Exhibition
The Family of Man and 1950s America
Examines a major photography exhibit and its connections with the politics and culture of the 1950s, and how the U.S.I.A. used it to project a view of American culture abroad.
- Copyright year: 2010