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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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Tombstone's Treasure

Silver Mines and Golden Saloons

University of New Mexico Press

The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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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This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil

Bahia, 1835-1900

University of New Mexico Press

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

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Beyond the Missouri

The Story of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.

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Migrations

New Directions in Native American Art

Edited by Marjorie Devon
University of New Mexico Press

Migrations features a surprising selection of the work of six contemporary artists and the master printers at Tamarind Institute along with important essays by noted critics on the new directions of Native art.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Guaymas Chronicles

La Mandadera

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Squares

A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists

University of New Mexico Press

This discussion of what makes public places appealing and useful will inspire those involved with public planning and design.

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Santa Fe Hispanic Culture

Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town

University of New Mexico Press

A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.

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D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico

The Time is Different There

University of New Mexico Press

Recollections of Lawrence's life and friends in 1920s Taos.

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Tinisima

University of New Mexico Press

This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

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Malintzin's Choices

An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

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The Witches of Abiquiu

The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil

University of New Mexico Press

The little-known story of a priest's charges of witchcraft among Indians in mid-eighteenth-century New Mexico and how the Spanish government rejected the charges in the effort to achieve peace with their Native subjects.

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Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide

All About Rodeo

University of New Mexico Press

The workings, workers, and animals of the heartstopping world of rodeo.

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The City of Women

By Ruth Landes; Introduction by Sally Cole
University of New Mexico Press

This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.

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The Mountains of New Mexico

By Robert Julyan; Photographs by Carl Smith
University of New Mexico Press

This guide to New Mexico's mountains provides information such as location, elevation and relief, ecosystems, archaeology, Native American presence, mining history, ghost towns, recreation, geology, ecology, and plants and animals.

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Photography and Writing in Latin America

Double Exposures

University of New Mexico Press

This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.

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Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

University of New Mexico Press

The archaeology of space and place is examined in this selection of papers from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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San Juan Bonanza

Western Colorado's Mining Legacy

University of New Mexico Press

A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Darkest Before Dawn

Sedition and Free Speech in the American West

University of New Mexico Press

Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Cantemos al Alba

Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Drama of Hispanic New Mexico

By Tomás Lozano; Translated by Rima Montoya
University of New Mexico Press

New Mexico's early Hispanic liturgical literature and music are thoroughly examined in this comprehensive bilingual volume accompanied by two CDs.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Bernard Plossu's New Mexico

By Gilles Mora; Photographs by Bernard Plossu; Foreword by Edward T. Hall
University of New Mexico Press

A remarkable collection of New Mexico images by one of today's best-known French photographers.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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