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 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.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Ecuador Effect
Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.
- Copyright year: 2007
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This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American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.
- Copyright year: 2007
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
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.
- Copyright year: 2006
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
Spanish for Mental Health Professionals
A Step by Step Handbook
This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.
- Copyright year: 2006
From Sovereign Villages to National States
City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839
Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.
- Copyright year: 2006
Coyote and the Sky
How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began
The Santa Ana Pueblo creation legend including how Coyote tricked the other animals to join them in our world and how he was punished.
- Copyright year: 2006
American Indian Literary Nationalism
A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.
- Copyright year: 2006
Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog
Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.
- Copyright year: 2006
Between Breaths
A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush
The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.
- Copyright year: 2006
Governing New Mexico
This new revision of New Mexico Government includes a brief history of the state and other chapters on government organization, local and tribal governments, elections, and education.
- Copyright year: 2006
Broken Glass
A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.
- Copyright year: 2006
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Blacks in Colonial Latin America
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
- Copyright year: 2006
New Mexico Past and Future
This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.
- Copyright year: 2006