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.
Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888
This detailed history of Remington's role in the development of military weapons is the result of twenty-five years of research of the company's records and military archives.
- Copyright year: 2007
New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo
Noted archaeologist Polly Schaafsma presents new research by current scholars on this largely neglected ancestral Puebloan site.
- Copyright year: 2007
Broken and Reset
Selected Poems, 1966 to 2006
These poems reveal Price's healing from the crippling traps of childhood and the rejection of the conformity required by modern American life.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.
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Making the Americas
The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.
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Death and Dying in New Mexico
This thoroughly researched study uses death to explore the intersection of religious culture and politics in colonial New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2007
Private Passions and Public Sins
Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.
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Four and Twenty Photographs
Stories from Behind the Lens
One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.
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Bluefeather Fellini
This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.
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Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache
Abáachi Mizaa Ilkee' Siijai
The first large-scale dictionary of any of the Eastern Apachean languages.
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Tortilla Chronicles
Growing Up in Santa Fe
The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.
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The Shaman and the Water Serpent
Dewey tells the stories of early Puebloan peoples and their reverance for the land and animals on which their survival depended.
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Sing My Whole Life Long
Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism
"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols
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Native American Life-History Narratives
Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.
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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers
Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.
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The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807
This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.
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Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains
These tales of the mountains, mines, and characters of the Guadalupe range were collected over many years by the author who has explored the area since he was a boy.
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Hip to the Trip
A Cultural History of Route 66
Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.
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Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West
A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.
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Tombstone's Treasure
Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.
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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.
- Copyright year: 2007
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
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.
- Copyright year: 2006