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.
Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
- Copyright year: 2018
Sandia
Seasons of a Mountain
This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Writer's Portable Mentor
A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought.
- Copyright year: 2018
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the Westâ€"from California to Montana to New Mexicoâ€"serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
- Copyright year: 2018
Below Freezing
Elegy for the Melting Planet
Below Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction, history, creative nonfiction, and poetry--a commonplace book for our era of altering climate.
- Copyright year: 2018
A Persistent Revolution
History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Handyman's Guide to End Times
Poems
In Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative.
- Copyright year: 2018
Social Skins of the Head
Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject.
- Copyright year: 2018
No More Bingo, Comadre!
Stories
It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sacred Smokes
This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.
- Copyright year: 2018