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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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Don't Forget the Accent Mark

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Bruja

The Legend of La Llorona

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Case of the Indian Trader

Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Navajos Wear Nikes

A Reservation Life

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Mining Law of 1872

Past, Politics, and Prospects

University of New Mexico Press

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
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La Llorona

The Crying Woman

By Rudolfo Anaya; Illustrated by Amy Córdova; Translated by Enrique R. Lamadrid
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Colorado Goes to the Fair

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World

University of New Mexico Press

Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Ruins

University of New Mexico Press

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Cowboys Don't Cry

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Begging for Vultures

New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009

By Lawrence Welsh; Foreword by V. B. Price
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Wonders of Nuclear Fusion

Creating an Ultimate Energy Source

University of New Mexico Press

With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is--and isn't.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Anthropological Perspectives on Technology

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Roads to the Past

Highway Map and Guide to New Mexico Archaeology

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

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
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Desert Lawmen

The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912

University of New Mexico Press

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
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A History of New Mexico Since Statehood

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Society of Equality

Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Limits of Gender Domination

Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Jean-Frederic Waldeck

Artist of Exotic Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Hoist a Cold One!

Historic Bars of the Southwest

By Melody Groves; Photographs by Myke Groves
University of New Mexico Press

This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Maya of Modernism

Art, Architecture, and Film

University of New Mexico Press

This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sweet Nata

Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This heartfelt memoir tells of the joys and hardships of life in a New Mexico family during the 1950s and 1960s.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Primitive Revolution

Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968

University of New Mexico Press

In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity--and the practice of Mexican citizenship--to a more pure and essential state.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Kit Carson and His Three Wives

A Family History

University of New Mexico Press

After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our understanding of Carson.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Cuauhtémoc's Bones

Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Way of Thorn and Thunder

The Kynship Chronicles

University of New Mexico Press

Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy--an example of green/eco-literature--is collected here in a one-volume novel.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Natural History of Tassel-Eared Squirrels

University of New Mexico Press

This comprehensive book, the first text on this species, has an extensive literature review and list of references, and beautiful full-color photography illustrating the squirrels and their magnificent ponderosa habitat.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Gerald Vizenor

Texts and Contexts

University of New Mexico Press

This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close reading of his texts and exploration of the intellectual contexts in which they are situated.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Diseased Relations

Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924

University of New Mexico Press

This study examines the politics of postcolonial state-building through the lens of disease and public health policy in order to trace how indigenous groups on the periphery of power and geography helped shape the political practices and institutions of modern Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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