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.
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution
The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920
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
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
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
This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American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.
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Diseases and Human Evolution
Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.
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Breaking Through Mexico's Past
Digging the Aztecs with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
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.
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Bitter Harvest
The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910
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
This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.
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All Aboard for Santa Fe
Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s
How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.
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Following the Royal Road
A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.
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Spanish for Mental Health Professionals
A Step by Step Handbook
This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.
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From Sovereign Villages to National States
City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839
Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.
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Coyote and the Sky
How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began
The Santa Ana Pueblo creation legend including how Coyote tricked the other animals to join them in our world and how he was punished.
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American Indian Literary Nationalism
A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog
Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.
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Between Breaths
A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush
The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.
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Governing New Mexico
This new revision of New Mexico Government includes a brief history of the state and other chapters on government organization, local and tribal governments, elections, and education.
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Broken Glass
A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.
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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Blacks in Colonial Latin America
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
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New Mexico Past and Future
This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.
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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
Bahia, 1835-1900
The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.
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Beyond the Missouri
The Story of the American West
A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.
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Migrations
New Directions in Native American Art
Migrations features a surprising selection of the work of six contemporary artists and the master printers at Tamarind Institute along with important essays by noted critics on the new directions of Native art.
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The Guaymas Chronicles
La Mandadera
This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.
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Squares
A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists
This discussion of what makes public places appealing and useful will inspire those involved with public planning and design.
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Santa Fe Hispanic Culture
Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town
A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.
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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico
The Time is Different There
Recollections of Lawrence's life and friends in 1920s Taos.
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Tinisima
This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.
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Malintzin's Choices
An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.
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The Witches of Abiquiu
The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil
The little-known story of a priest's charges of witchcraft among Indians in mid-eighteenth-century New Mexico and how the Spanish government rejected the charges in the effort to achieve peace with their Native subjects.
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Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
All About Rodeo
The workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.
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The City of Women
This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.
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The Mountains of New Mexico
This guide to New Mexico's mountains provides information such as location, elevation and relief, ecosystems, archaeology, Native American presence, mining history, ghost towns, recreation, geology, ecology, and plants and animals.
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Photography and Writing in Latin America
Double Exposures
This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.
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Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
The archaeology of space and place is examined in this selection of papers from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference.
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San Juan Bonanza
Western Colorado's Mining Legacy
A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.
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Darkest Before Dawn
Sedition and Free Speech in the American West
Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.
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Cantemos al Alba
Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Drama of Hispanic New Mexico
New Mexico's early Hispanic liturgical literature and music are thoroughly examined in this comprehensive bilingual volume accompanied by two CDs.
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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico
A remarkable collection of New Mexico images by one of today's best-known French photographers.
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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest
Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers over 325 color photos showing Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona.
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