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.
Telling Western Stories
From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry
Narrates the evolution of the western story from the Civil War to the present, focusing on books, movies, and people.
- Copyright year: 1999
Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt
Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940
Mexico's relationship with the world during the 1930s is revealed as a fascinating series of calculated responses to domestic political changes and international economic shifts.
- Copyright year: 1999
Education and the American Indian
The Road to Self-Determination Since 1928
This revised edition provides an overview of American Indian/Alaska Native education from 1928 to 1998.
- Copyright year: 1999
Capirotada
A Nogales Memoir
Vignettes of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses--in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1999
Frida Kahlo
An Open Life
Uses medical records, journals, letters, interviews, and personal recollections to bring us closer than ever to the Mexican artist and her milieu.
- Copyright year: 1999
Intimate Frontiers
Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California
Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America
Traces the development of U.S. business interests in Latin America from the early 19th century to the present.
- Copyright year: 1999
Cities of Gold
A Journey Across the American Southwest
A modern horseback journey across 1,000 miles of desert and wilderness following the trail of the first European explorer in the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 1999
Bloody Valverde
A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862
The first complete account of the largest battle in New Mexico, and a turning point in the Civil War in the West.
- Copyright year: 1999
Mayan Folktales
Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Whether tragic or comic, fantastic or earthy, whimsical or profound, these tales capture the mystery, fragility, and power of the Mayan world.
- Copyright year: 1999
Human/Nature
Biology, Culture, and Environmental History
Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.
- Copyright year: 1999
A Patriot After All
The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
An honest portrayal of a life marked forever by the Vietnam war told from the perspective of a Chicano soldier.
- Copyright year: 1999
Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933
Examines the lives and experiences of Show Indians from their own point of view.
- Copyright year: 1999
European Immigrants in the American West
Community Histories
An anthology of historical articles on European immigration to the American West in the 19th century.
- Copyright year: 1998
American Indians in World War I
At War and at Home
Provides the first broad survey of Native American contributions during the war, examining how military service led to hightened expectations for changes in federal Indian policy and their standard of living.
- Copyright year: 1998
New Views of Borderlands History
An ethnohistorical history of the Spanish Borderlands written by specialists in the history of each region.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Sense of the American West
An Environmental History Anthology
An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Book of Memories
The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.
- Copyright year: 1998
Acequia Culture
Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest
Lays out the contemporary legal and administrative status of these ancient irrigation institutions, suggesting public policy measures to keep the system alive.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Navajo Verb
A Grammar for Students and Scholars
For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Faces of Honor
Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.
- Copyright year: 1998
Posada's Broadsheets
Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1910
An intriguing study of the popular culture of early twentieth century Mexico as seen through the penny broadsheets--bullfighters, bandits, politics, and the revolution.
- Copyright year: 1998
La Fiesta de los Tastoanes
Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance
An intimate study of a religious festival in contemporary Mexico that skillfully weaves together ethnography, history, and folklore.
- Copyright year: 1998
Fly-Fishing in Southern New Mexico
An overview of the streams of Southern New Mexico that support trout, the natural history of the streams, and the habitats of the trout that live there.
- Copyright year: 1998
Cuentos de Cuanto Hay
Tales from Spanish New Mexico
A collection of traditional New Mexican Hispanic folktales gathered from the oral tradition in 1931 and translated by famed storyteller Joe Hayes.
- Copyright year: 1998
Bone Voyage
A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
A lively account of the role of the forensic anthropologist in the Office of the Medical Investigator--recovering bodies, establishing identities, and solving the puzzles of death.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Iguana Killer
Twelve Stories of the Heart
Set along the Southwestern border, these stories explore growing up Hispanic and weaving together three distinct worlds--Mexico, the United States, and childhood.
- Copyright year: 1998
Blood on the Boulders
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697
Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era in this boxed set.
- Copyright year: 1998
Native American Identities
From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature
An engaging study of stereotypes and archetypes of Native Americans in fiction and art.
- Copyright year: 1998
Que vivan los tamales!
Food and the Making of Mexican Identity
This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Garlic Testament
Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Meditations on growing garlic and on the farming way of life.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Gift of Life
Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
This remarkable work of anthropology breaks new ground in the study of Latin American female shamanism.
- Copyright year: 1998
Fire from the Andes
Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
South American women authors look at the female experience.
- Copyright year: 1998
Utopian Vistas
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
The story of the house that Mabel built, and the artists, dreamers, hippies, and freaks that followed.
- Copyright year: 1998
A Zuni Life
A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds
An account of Virgil Wyaco's life in both the traditional Zuni and modern Anglo worlds. His varied career demonstrates the heartbreaks and rewards of a Native American life bridging two cultures in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.
- Copyright year: 1997
Tejano Legacy
Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900
A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.
- Copyright year: 1998
Coachella
This desert mystery novel, set in Palm Springs in 1983, is from one of Chicana literature's finest writers.
- Copyright year: 1998
Show and Tell
Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction
Explores issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in nine recent novels by U.S. Latina/o writers.
- Copyright year: 1997
People of the Peyote
Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
- Copyright year: 1997