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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.
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Elusive Unity
Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico
University Press of Colorado
In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.
- Copyright year: 2013
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East
Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology
Edited by Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
- Copyright year: 2014
No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
By Duane A. Smith and Ronald C. Brown
University Press of Colorado
No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.
Obsidian Reflections
Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica
Edited by David M. Carballo and Marc Levine
University Press of Colorado
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.
- Copyright year: 2014
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology
From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
Edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado
The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community
University Press of Colorado
In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul.
- Copyright year: 2014
Industrializing the Rockies
Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
University Press of Colorado
In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
- Copyright year: 2014
A Prehistory of South America
Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
The Logan Notebooks
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2014
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