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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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The Archaeology of Wak'as
Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Edited by Tamara L. Bray
University Press of Colorado
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the sacred.
- Copyright year: 2014
Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest
By Karen Harry and Barbara J. Roth
University Press of Colorado
This book explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2018
Contested Waters
An Environmental History of the Colorado River
University Press of Colorado
The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion.
- Copyright year: 2013
Distant Islands
The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s
By Daniel H. Inouye; Foreword by David Reimers
University Press of Colorado
A modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century
By Christine Bradley and Duane A Smith
University Press of Colorado
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.
- Copyright year: 2018
Making an American Workforce
The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya
University Press of Colorado
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce.
- Copyright year: 2014
Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
Edited by Thomas R. Rocek and Nancy A. Kenmotsu
University Press of Colorado
An up-to-date summary of the major developments in the region and their implications for Southwest archaeology in particular and anthropological archaeological research more generally.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Nature of Hope
Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane
University Press of Colorado
The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Foraging in the Past
Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
By Lemke
University Press of Colorado
Foraging in the Past takes an explicitly archaeological approach to the potential of the archaeological record to document the variability and time depth of hunter-gatherers.
- Copyright year: 2018
Maya Narrative Arts
University Press of Colorado
Authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts.
- Copyright year: 2018
Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire
University Press of Colorado
Examines the role played by the shifting concept of idolatry in the conquest of the Americas, as well as its relation to the subsequent construction of imperial power and hegemony.
- Copyright year: 2018
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past
Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words
University Press of Colorado
A critical, annotated anthology of indigenous-authored texts through which native peoples and Spaniards were able to convey their own perspectives on Spanish colonial order.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
In The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Gillian Cummings gives voice to her version of Ophelia, a young woman shattered by unbearable losses, and questions what makes a mind unwind till the outcome is deemed a suicide.
- Copyright year: 2018
Making the White Man's West
Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán
University Press of Colorado
This book investigates how the elites of the Tarascan kingdom of Central Mexico sought to influence interactions with Spanish colonialism by reworking the past to suit their present circumstances.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Colorado State Capitol
History, Politics, Preservation
University Press of Colorado
As the representative building of the state, the Capitol has served as a silent witness to the evolving needs and interests of all Colorado citizens. The statehouse provided a proud testament for nineteenth-century Coloradoans who wanted to prove their state's potential through grand architecture and it represents "the heart of Colorado" to this day.
In one comprehensive volume historian Derek Everett traces the establishment, planning, construction, and history of Colorado's state capitol - including a discussion on the importance of restoring and preserving the building for current and future generations of Coloradoans.
- Copyright year: 2005
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta
The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
Edited by John G. Douglass and William Graves
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ethnohistorical, historical, and landscape data, contributors examine how the processes of colonialism played out in the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2017
Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past
An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community
By Daniel Bauer
University Press of Colorado
Combining personal narrative and ethnography, Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past examines cultural change in a rural Ecuadorian fishing village where the community has worked to stake claim to an Indigenous identity in the face of economic, social, and political integration.
- Copyright year: 2018
Unitary Caring Science
Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing
By Jean Watson
University Press of Colorado
Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fifth Edition
University Press of Colorado
The most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- Copyright year: 2018
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