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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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Orange County Housecleaners

University of New Mexico Press

Orange County Housecleaners documents the lives of seven women who make their livings cleaning houses in Orange County, California; five are Latina immigrants and two are Orange County natives.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Decade of Betrayal

Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s

University of New Mexico Press

Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.S. to Mexico in the 1930s and the recent questions of a formal apology and fiscal remuneration.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars

University of New Mexico Press

This history and guidebook is composed of two parts: first, narratives of the Plains Indian conflicts and, second, directions to battle sites in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs

University of New Mexico Press

Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs lists 350 Navajo verbs in paradigm form, conjugated for the Imperfective, Perfective, and Future modes.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe

The Discoveries of the Very Large Array Telescope

University of New Mexico Press

Karen Taschek introduces teen readers to the wonders revealed by the VLA telescope, beginning with basic information on our solar system and our Milky Way galaxy.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Corridos in Migrant Memory

University of New Mexico Press

Corridos in Migrant Memory examines the role of ballads in shaping the cultural memories and identities of transnational Mexican groups.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Sausage Rebellion

Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917

University of New Mexico Press

This study of the Mexican meat industry's resistance to American processing methods illustrates one of the popular origins of the Revolution of 1910 and how Mexican butchers preserved their traditional craft.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Local Religion in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation

Alcohol Among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador

University of New Mexico Press

Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation examines how the defense of drinking and getting drunk ended abruptly as the people of Otavalo re-evaluated their traditional religious life and their relationship with the wider Ecuadorian society.

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Ch'orti'-Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Indigeneity in Transition

University of New Mexico Press

An ethnographic study of the Ch'orti' Maya of Guatemala and their reformulation of their history and identity.

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Albuquerque Remembered

University of New Mexico Press

An informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City" and its inhabitants by a longtime New Mexico reporter.

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Rabbit Plants the Forest

By Deborah L. Duvall; Illustrated by Murv Jacob
University of New Mexico Press

Based on the ancient Cherokee teaching that squirrels keep the woods alive and should not be hunted, Rabbit Plants the Forest tells the story from Cherokee mythology about animals and their places in our world.

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New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

New Mexico is a single volume presentation of the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up the state's past.

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Larger Than Life

New Mexico in the Twentieth Century

University of New Mexico Press

Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.

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The Eyes of the Weaver

Los Ojos del Tejedor

University of New Mexico Press

Cristina Ortega shares with children her memories of visits with her grandfather who taught her how to weave when she was ten years old.

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National Parks and the Woman's Voice

A History

University of New Mexico Press

In this updated study, Polly Kaufman discovers that staff are no longer able to fulfill the National Park Service mission without outside support.

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Healing with Herbs and Rituals

A Mexican Tradition

University of New Mexico Press

Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of herbalists as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

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Hoyt Street

An Autobiography

University of New Mexico Press

This story of a Mexican American childhood in the barrios of Southern California will touch your heart and make you laugh out loud.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice in the Balance

University of New Mexico Press

Learn how O'Connor became the Court's most important vote on such issues as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, the role of religion in society, and the election of a president, decisions that shaped a generation of Americans.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Into the Canyon

Seven Years in Navajo Country

University of New Mexico Press

"A delight to read; an invaluable historical and cultural narrative."--Leslie Marmon Silko

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Finding the West

Explorations with Lewis and Clark

University of New Mexico Press

Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.

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Alburquerque

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family."--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War

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Silver Cities

Photographing American Urbanization, 1839–1939

University of New Mexico Press

This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Our New Mexico

A Twentieth Century History

University of New Mexico Press

Twentieth century New Mexico history for high school courses.

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Yellow Cab

University of New Mexico Press

The sharp insights of a cab driver into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.

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The Jicarilla Apache

A Portrait

University of New Mexico Press

This well-rounded portrait of the Jicarilla people and lands reveals a culture and lifestyle seldom studied in the past.

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Interpreting Spanish Colonialism

Empires, Nations, and Legends

University of New Mexico Press

Scholars from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss historical writings of the past and how our understanding of the colonial era has been influenced by the expectations of the day.

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Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather

Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West

University of New Mexico Press

The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.

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Seeing Indians

A Study of Race, Nation, and Power in El Salvador

University of New Mexico Press

A cross disciplinary study of the political motives for eradicating indigenous identity in El Salvador.

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Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion

Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers

University of New Mexico Press

This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.

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Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun

Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975

University of New Mexico Press

A broad study of the Chicano/a movement in the Viet Nam War era.

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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

University of New Mexico Press

The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.

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Faraway Blue

University of New Mexico Press
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Our New Mexico

A Twentieth Century History, Teacher's Guide

University of New Mexico Press

Supplementary teacher/student materials (activities, tests, etc.)

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Stories of Mexico's Independence Days and Other Bilingual Children's Fables

University of New Mexico Press

Six bilingual children's stories from Mexico.

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Coal Camp Justice

Two Wrongs Make a Right

University of New Mexico Press

Garcia's novel focuses on life and death in the coal mines and camps of 1930s northern New Mexico.

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The Alabados of New Mexico (Spanish and English Edition)

University of New Mexico Press

The sacred hymns of New Mexico compiled by the expert on church literature in a handsome bilingual volume.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas

University of New Mexico Press

Examines over 270 species of birds known to breed in Arizona, complete with color photos and nesting and migratory data.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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AfterBurn

Reflections on Burning Man

University of New Mexico Press

Stories of the counterculture event that brings together thousands each year for a weeklong spasm of self-expression in the Nevada desert.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Preserving Western History

University of New Mexico Press

The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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