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.
Secret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842-1929
The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.
- Copyright year: 2010
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
"What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
- Copyright year: 2015
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition
Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Maya of the Cochuah Region
Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Northern Lowlands
This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.
- Copyright year: 2015
Quills
In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills--Mr. Porcupine!
- Copyright year: 1948
Hop-a-long
In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long.
- Copyright year: 1944
Dumbee
“An engaging account of the adventures of a bumblebee.â€�â€"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Copyright year: 1945
Cocky
Cocky, a rollicking little roadrunner, joins baby jack rabbit Hop-a-long and the other creatures of the desert in the fourth book of the Mesaland Series.
- Copyright year: 1946
Big Fat
The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat.
- Copyright year: 1947
Baby Jack and Jumping Jack Rabbit
Join Baby Jack in the first book of the Mesaland Series as he explores the desert and encounters other creatures, including a little bee, a grasshopper, and a pile of big red ants.
- Copyright year: 1943
3 Toes
The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.
- Copyright year: 1949
The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies
Spies, Noirs, and Trust
Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.
- Copyright year: 2015
North American Hummingbirds
An Identification Guide
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.
- Copyright year: 2015
In This Body
Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit
This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.
- Copyright year: 2015
Beyond Geopolitics
New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations
Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.
- Copyright year: 2015
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.
- Copyright year: 2015
Pie Town Revisited
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
- Copyright year: 2015
From Shipmates to Soldiers
Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Just South of Zion
The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands
Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947.
- Copyright year: 2015
Brazil through French Eyes
A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics
In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.
- Copyright year: 2015