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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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LEGEND

The Complete Facsimile in Context

University of New Mexico Press

Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The King of Taos

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

University of New Mexico Press

The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

The Complete Facsimile

University of New Mexico Press

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights

Edward C. Mazique, M.D.

University of New Mexico Press

Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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With This Root about My Person

Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion

University of New Mexico Press

Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Shakespeare in Montana

Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer

University of New Mexico Press

Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a vast array of different voices that capture the state's love affair with the world's most famous writer.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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In the Bear's House

University of New Mexico Press

In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Frontier Cavalry Trooper

The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869–1874

University of New Mexico Press

Private William Edward Matthews letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier's experiences in the garrison and in the field in the post-Civil War Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Prizefighting and Civilization

A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940

University of New Mexico Press

In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its exponential rise in popularity during the early twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ladina Social Activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954

University of New Mexico Press

In this groundbreaking new study on ladinas in Guatemala City, Patricia Harms contests the virtual erasure of women from the country's national memory and its historical consciousness.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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From the Galleons to the Highlands

Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

University of New Mexico Press

Students and scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the slave trade to colonial Spanish America.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Walling In and Walling Out

Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world--in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Archaeology of Burning Man

The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City

University of New Mexico Press

For nearly a decade Carolyn L. White has employed archaeological methods to analyze the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Wrenched from the Land

Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey

By ML Lincoln; Edited by Diane Sward Rapaport; Foreword by Bill McKibben
University of New Mexico Press

The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Troubled Marriage

Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

University of New Mexico Press

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace

Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape

University of New Mexico Press

In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to survey every corner of the Grand Canyon State.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Crazy Fourth

How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map

University of New Mexico Press

In Crazy Fourth Toby Smith tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson--the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion--met Jim Flynn on the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World

University of New Mexico Press

Through these ten essays, each further broken into ten smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Shadowgraph

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In The Shadowgraph James Cihlar explores the ways images, performances, and memories shape and inform LGBTQ+ identity.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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