Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.
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.
Southeastern Mesoamerica
Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change
Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area.
- Copyright year: 2020
Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru
Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse north coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.
- Copyright year: 2020
Archaeology of the Night
Life After Dark in the Ancient World
- Copyright year: 2017
Energy Impacts
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of North American Energy Development
Energy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development.
- Copyright year: 2020
Sorcery in Mesoamerica
Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Poetics of Processing
Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead
The Poetics of Processing combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes.
- Copyright year: 2020
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists.
- Copyright year: 2020
Mapping Identity
The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902
Representing Aztec Ritual
Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagun
- Copyright year: 2020