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.
Finding the West
Explorations with Lewis and Clark
Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.
- Copyright year: 2006
Alburquerque
A Novel
"Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family."--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War
- Copyright year: 2006
Silver Cities
Photographing American Urbanization, 1839–1939
This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.
- Copyright year: 2005
Our New Mexico
A Twentieth Century History
Twentieth century New Mexico history for high school courses.
- Copyright year: 2005
Yellow Cab
The sharp insights of a cab driver into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Jicarilla Apache
A Portrait
This well-rounded portrait of the Jicarilla people and lands reveals a culture and lifestyle seldom studied in the past.
- Copyright year: 2006
Interpreting Spanish Colonialism
Empires, Nations, and Legends
Scholars from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss historical writings of the past and how our understanding of the colonial era has been influenced by the expectations of the day.
- Copyright year: 2005
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather
Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West
The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.
- Copyright year: 2005
Seeing Indians
A Study of Race, Nation, and Power in El Salvador
A cross disciplinary study of the political motives for eradicating indigenous identity in El Salvador.
- Copyright year: 2005
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion
Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers
This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.
- Copyright year: 2005
Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun
Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975
A broad study of the Chicano/a movement in the Viet Nam War era.
- Copyright year: 2005
Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska
The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.
- Copyright year: 2005
Our New Mexico
A Twentieth Century History, Teacher's Guide
Supplementary teacher/student materials (activities, tests, etc.)
- Copyright year: 2005
Stories of Mexico's Independence Days and Other Bilingual Children's Fables
Six bilingual children's stories from Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2005
Coal Camp Justice
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Garcia's novel focuses on life and death in the coal mines and camps of 1930s northern New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Alabados of New Mexico (Spanish and English Edition)
The sacred hymns of New Mexico compiled by the expert on church literature in a handsome bilingual volume.
- Copyright year: 2005
Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas
Examines over 270 species of birds known to breed in Arizona, complete with color photos and nesting and migratory data.
- Copyright year: 2005
AfterBurn
Reflections on Burning Man
Stories of the counterculture event that brings together thousands each year for a weeklong spasm of self-expression in the Nevada desert.
- Copyright year: 2005
Preserving Western History
The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.
- Copyright year: 2005