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.
Captain Jack Crawford
Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
- Copyright year: 1993
A History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
- Copyright year: 2012
Lord of the Dawn
The Legend of Quetzalcóatl
- Copyright year: 1987
Grandpa Lolo’s Navajo Saddle Blanket
La tilma de Abuelito Lolo
- Copyright year: 2012
A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
- Copyright year: 2012
Maya Medicine
Traditional Healing in Yucatán
- Copyright year: 2003
A Woman in Both Houses
My Career in New Mexico Politics
- Copyright year: 2012
Tony Hillerman's Landscapes
Southwest Map and Guide
This handsomely illustrated map shows you where to find many of the landscapes Tony Hillerman loved and wrote about.
- Copyright year: 2012
Re-creating the Circle
The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination
A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.
- Copyright year: 2011
The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545
This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Orphaned Land
New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project
Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.
- Copyright year: 2011
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II
From the 1790s to the End of the Flintlock Period
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.
- Copyright year: 2011
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I
Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Wrath of God
Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas
Deliberately provocative, Evan Balkan's The Wrath of God examines Aguirre, a symbol of Basque fury and rampage, arguing that Aguirre's historical representation as a one-dimensional madman deserves revisiting.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina from Roca to Perón
Providing an overview of the women's suffrage movement from its earliest stages through the passage of the 1947 law, this study examines what Argentina's history can tell us about the moment when a society agrees to the equal participation of women in the political realm.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Latest Word from 1540
People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition
This book examines the environmental and cultural impact of the Coronado expedition while also placing it in the context of what was happening in Mexico as Spain expanded west and north of Mexico City.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sweeney
This quixotic tale of Sweeney's journey of survival and self-discovery offers a wry glimpse of the oddities and opportunities of small-town life, featuring aliens, nudists, naked bull riders, Druids, phony Indians, real Indians, and above all, Sweeney's crazy citizens, because, as one of them says, "Crazy ideas are the only kind that work around here."
- Copyright year: 2011
Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization
Gender is at the center of D'Amico's analysis as she looks beyond the overlapping lives of Elsie Clews Parsons and Rosa Lema, both innovators and adept at crossing cultural boundaries, to explore the interrelationship between gender, ethnicity, and globalization.
- Copyright year: 2011