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In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.
The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.
- Copyright year: 2019
Pleas and Petitions
Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
- Copyright year: 2017
Colorado Day by Day
A readable, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures, developments, and forces that shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Minuses
The Minuses beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues, amplifying the endangerments predicating women’s lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact.
- Copyright year: 2020
Rewriting Maya Religion
Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum
- Copyright year: 2019
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
- Copyright year: 2018
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.
- Copyright year: 2019
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.
- Copyright year: 2019
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
- Copyright year: 2019