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 Cherokee Nation
A History
Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Time
A Yellowstone Memoir
Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.
- Copyright year: 2008
Myth of the Hanging Tree
Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico
Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2008
Antonio's Gun And Delfino's Dream
True Tales of Mexican Migration
These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.
- Copyright year: 2008
Salvation Through Slavery
Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
Stockel examines the brutal history of forced conversion and subjection of the Chiricahua Apaches by Spanish priests during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Cherokee Encyclopedia
Conley has compiled a guide to historical and contemporary members of the Cherokee tribe and their roles in their clans and nations.
- Copyright year: 2007
Weaving Women's Lives
Three Generations in a Navajo Family
Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Allen Site
A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska
Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants.
- Copyright year: 2007
Powwow's Coming
Cut-paper collage illustrations and engaging verse give young readers a new look at American Indian culture today.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies
Revealing Their Natural History
For both visitors and natural history buffs, this book includes seventy-five examples of some of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains from southern Wyoming to New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2007
Man vs Fish
The Fly Fisherman's Eternal Struggle
"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword
- Copyright year: 2007
Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo
This fascinating rediscovery of Josephine Foard highlights her work at Laguna Pueblo beginning in 1899 and her efforts to improve and market pueblo pottery for the Lagunas' economic benefit.
- Copyright year: 2007
Eye of the West
This collection of photographs from the last three decades by Western writer and photographer Nancy Wood captures the people and places of rural Colorado and New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2007
Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest
An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2
The culmination of recent restoration and analysis, these richly illustrated essays examine the history and meaning of one of Mesoamerica's surviving documents dating from the 1540s.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Voyage of the Beetle
A Journey around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle
The whimsical story of Rosie the Beetle who assisted Charles Darwin on his trip around the world as he developed his Theory of Natural Selection.
- Copyright year: 2007
Sor Juana's Second Dream
A Novel
This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.
- Copyright year: 2007
Raising an Empire
Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America
Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.
- Copyright year: 2007
Rabbit Goes to Kansas
A new Ji-Stu adventure with his friend Wildcat and mythical birds in the land of sunflowers.
- Copyright year: 2007
Playing the Odds
Las Vegas and the Modern West
"Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon
- Copyright year: 2007
Lines in the Sand
Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier
Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.
- Copyright year: 2007
Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer
A Critical Biography
The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.
- Copyright year: 2007
Creating a Third World
Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era
White examines the complex political relationships among the three countries during the sixties and how Mexico and Cuba utilized the Cold War to define themselves as influential leaders in the developing world.
- Copyright year: 2007
Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls
Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930
This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.
- Copyright year: 2007
A Woman in the Great Outdoors
Adventures in the National Park Service
Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy.
- Copyright year: 2007
Bunion Derby
The 1928 Footrace Across America
The story of Charley Pyle's 3,400-mile cross country race and extravaganza and the men who endured 84 days of mountains, deserts, mud, and sandstorms to compete for a $25,000 grand prize.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Will to Heal
Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers
How six Latina authors, whose works combine autobiography and fiction, use this technique to heal from personal and political trauma.
- Copyright year: 2007
Derivative of the Moving Image
Translucent with humane insight, Bartlett's poetry embodies an intense awareness of what it takes to prevail over life's misfortunes.
- Copyright year: 2007
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador
The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory
The authors provide the first systematic study of the infamous massacre now regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history.
- Copyright year: 2007
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches
Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Idea of Cuba
Alex Harris beautifully captures many archetypes of today's Cuba, and Lillian Guerra's essay discusses what it means to be Cuban.
- Copyright year: 2007