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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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Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, Third Edition
Edited by Zachary A. Smith and John Freemuth
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Apocalyptic Anxiety
Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Leaders of the Mexican American Generation
Biographical Essays
Edited by Anthony Quiroz; Foreword by Arnoldo De León
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Exploring Cause and Explanation
Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest
Edited by Cynthia L. Herhahn and Ann F. Ramenofsky
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park
From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
House of Sugar, House of Stone
By Emily Pérez
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2016
Ancient Households of the Americas
Conceptualizing What Households Do
Edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin
University Press of Colorado
In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.
Frank Mechau
Artist of Colorado
By Cile M. Bach
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Voices from Vilcabamba
Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Herndon Davis
Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962
By Craig Leavitt and Thomas J. Noel
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Discover Colorado, Second Edition
By Matthey Downey and Jenny Pettit
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
The Divided Dominion
Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
University Press of Colorado
In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for land at the forefront in understanding this pivotal event.
- Copyright year: 2014
A Chorus of Cranes
The Cranes of North America and the World
By Paul A. Johnsgard; By (photographer) Thomas D. Mangelsen
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Epiphany in the Wilderness
Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Taken from the Paradise Isle
The Hoshida Family Story
Edited by Heidi Kim; Foreword by Franklin Odo
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica
Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology
Edited by Nancy Gonlin and Kirk D. French
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands
Integration, Interaction, Dissolution
Edited by Damien B. Marken and James L. Fitzsimmons
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World
By Alfredo López Austin; Translated by Russ Davidson, with Guilhem Olivier; Foreword by Davíd Carrasco
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Surplus
The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life
Edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Memory Traces
Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites
Edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and Laura M. Amrhein
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Heritage Keywords
Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
Edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Aztec Philosophy
Understanding a World in Motion
By James Maffie
University Press of Colorado
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.
Kukulcan's Realm
Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán
By Marilyn Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope
University Press of Colorado
Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.
- Copyright year: 2014
Transient Landscapes
Insights on a Changing Planet
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Thiefing a Chance
Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
The Verging Cities
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2015
The Ecology of Pastoralism
Edited by P. Nick Kardulias
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology
Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Reinhard Bernbeck
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Bridging the Gaps
Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland
Edited by Danny Zborover and Peter Kroefges
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies
Edited by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark
University Press of Colorado
Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies is the first book to address the development, change, and organizational complexity of ancient markets from a comparative archaeological perspective.
Ancient Zapotec Religion
An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective
By Michael Lind
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
In the Realm of Nachan Kan
Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna De On, Belize
University Press of Colorado
i>In the Realm of Nachan Kan</i> opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day.
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany
University Press of Colorado
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.
- Copyright year: 2014
Old Blue's Road
A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World
Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Wyoming Revisited
Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson
University Press of Colorado
In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view taken by the author in 2007–08—are accompanied by captions explaining the history and importance of each site as well as information on the process of repeat photographic fieldwork.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sacred Darkness
A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves
Edited by Holley Moyes
University Press of Colorado
. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice.
- Copyright year: 2014
Gambling Debt
Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
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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