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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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Secret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842-1929

University of New Mexico Press

The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Native Women and Land

Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence

University of New Mexico Press

"What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Enchantment and Exploitation

The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Maya of the Cochuah Region

Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Northern Lowlands

Edited by Justine M. Shaw
University of New Mexico Press

This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Quills

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills--Mr. Porcupine!

  • Copyright year: 1948
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Hop-a-long

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long.

  • Copyright year: 1944
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Dumbee

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

“An engaging account of the adventures of a bumblebee.â€�â€"Fort Worth Star-Telegram

  • Copyright year: 1945
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Cocky

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

Cocky, a rollicking little roadrunner, joins baby jack rabbit Hop-a-long and the other creatures of the desert in the fourth book of the Mesaland Series.

  • Copyright year: 1946
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Big Fat

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat.

  • Copyright year: 1947
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Baby Jack and Jumping Jack Rabbit

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

Join Baby Jack in the first book of the Mesaland Series as he explores the desert and encounters other creatures, including a little bee, a grasshopper, and a pile of big red ants.

  • Copyright year: 1943
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3 Toes

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.

  • Copyright year: 1949
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The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies

Spies, Noirs, and Trust

University of New Mexico Press

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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North American Hummingbirds

An Identification Guide

University of New Mexico Press

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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In This Body

Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit

University of New Mexico Press

This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Beyond Geopolitics

New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations

University of New Mexico Press

Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas

University of New Mexico Press

Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Pie Town Revisited

University of New Mexico Press

In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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From Shipmates to Soldiers

Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata

University of New Mexico Press

This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Just South of Zion

The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands

University of New Mexico Press

Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Brazil through French Eyes

A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics

University of New Mexico Press

In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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You Must Fight Them

A Novella and Stories

University of New Mexico Press

In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Quotable Amelia Earhart

University of New Mexico Press

This definitive resource provides a concise, documented collection of Earhart's quotations so that her words, as well as her achievements, may inspire a new generation.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo

A Rare Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press

Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program's twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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¡Corrido!

The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast

University of New Mexico Press

The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia

University of New Mexico Press

Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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¡Cancerlandia!

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Comic and unsparing, ¡Cancerlandia! chronicles Alvarado Valdivia's journey as he not only fights to survive his personified adversary, Mr. Hodgkins, but also as he struggles with his own self-destructive spirit.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Haunting of the Mexican Border

A Woman's Journey

University of New Mexico Press

"This is an important book at the right time. We need to read this story and understand its vision. Recommended."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway: A True Story

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Heresies

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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A Life on Hold

Living with Schizophrenia

University of New Mexico Press

Méndez-Negrete's powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with schizophrenia.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl

Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics

University of New Mexico Press

Lee offers a more realistic portrait of the legendary Aztec ruler Nezahualcoyotl, derived from examination of original Nahuatl codices and poetry, as well as Spanish chronicles.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Roadside New Mexico

A Guide to Historic Markers, Revised and Expanded Edition

By David Pike; Foreword by Beverly Duran
University of New Mexico Press

This revised and expanded edition of Roadside New Mexico provides additional information about these sites and includes approximately one hundred new markers, sixty-five of which document the contribution of women to the history of New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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New Mexico 2050

Edited by Fred Harris
University of New Mexico Press

Here some of the state's most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050--What can we be? What will we be?

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Reining in the Rio Grande

People, Land, and Water

University of New Mexico Press

This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Crossing Over

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'"--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Religion in New Spain

University of New Mexico Press

This extensive study examines the variety of religious practice and tradition that developed from the confluence of the numerous beliefs and cultures in the northern colonies of New Spain.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Wild That Attracts Us

New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers

University of New Mexico Press

The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans

University of New Mexico Press

"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer's work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."--Ethnohistory

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Chasing the Santa Fe Ring

Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

David L. Caffey's book tells the story of the rise and fall of the Santa Fe Ring, looking beyond myth and symbol to explore the history of this remarkably durable alliance.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Abbey in America

A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century

Edited by John A. Murray
University of New Mexico Press

Abbey in America, published forty years after Abbey's popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey's best friends as they explore Abbey's ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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