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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.

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The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution

The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Ecuador Effect

University of New Mexico Press

Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World

University of New Mexico Press

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
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D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations

The Evolution of a Novel

Edited by Birgit Hans
University of New Mexico Press

This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American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
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Diseases and Human Evolution

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Breaking Through Mexico's Past

Digging the Aztecs with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Bitter Harvest

The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910

University of New Mexico Press

The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Taos Truth Game

University of New Mexico Press

This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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All Aboard for Santa Fe

Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s

University of New Mexico Press

How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Following the Royal Road

A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

By Hal Jackson; Foreword by Marc Simmons
University of New Mexico Press

Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Spanish for Mental Health Professionals

A Step by Step Handbook

University of New Mexico Press

This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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From Sovereign Villages to National States

City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Coyote and the Sky

How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began

University of New Mexico Press

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
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American Indian Literary Nationalism

University of New Mexico Press

A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Between Breaths

A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush

University of New Mexico Press

The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Governing New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Broken Glass

A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness

University of New Mexico Press

The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives

Blacks in Colonial Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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New Mexico Past and Future

University of New Mexico Press

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
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