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.
Hoist a Cold One!
Historic Bars of the Southwest
This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop in and belly up to the bar.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Maya of Modernism
Art, Architecture, and Film
This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sweet Nata
Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
This heartfelt memoir tells of the joys and hardships of life in a New Mexico family during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Copyright year: 2011
Primitive Revolution
Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968
In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity--and the practice of Mexican citizenship--to a more pure and essential state.
- Copyright year: 2011
Kit Carson and His Three Wives
A Family History
After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our understanding of Carson.
- Copyright year: 2011
Cuauhtémoc's Bones
Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico
In this engaging study, Paul Gillingham uses the revelation of the forgery of Cuauhte?moc's tomb and the responses it evoked as a means of examining the set of ideas, beliefs, and dreams that bind societies to the nation-state.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Way of Thorn and Thunder
The Kynship Chronicles
Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy--an example of green/eco-literature--is collected here in a one-volume novel.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Natural History of Tassel-Eared Squirrels
This comprehensive book, the first text on this species, has an extensive literature review and list of references, and beautiful full-color photography illustrating the squirrels and their magnificent ponderosa habitat.
- Copyright year: 2011
Gerald Vizenor
Texts and Contexts
This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close reading of his texts and exploration of the intellectual contexts in which they are situated.
- Copyright year: 2011
Diseased Relations
Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924
This study examines the politics of postcolonial state-building through the lens of disease and public health policy in order to trace how indigenous groups on the periphery of power and geography helped shape the political practices and institutions of modern Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2011