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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.
Came Men on Horses
The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate
Archaeology without Borders
Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico
Western Water A to Z
The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource
Western Water A to Z is the first ever field guide to Western water.
- Copyright year: 2022
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain
Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2022
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands
Archaeological Perspectives
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land
Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes
The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O’odham—arguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal prehistoric and early historic periods, yet one of the least understood and under-studied to have occupied the region.
- Copyright year: 2022
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.
- Copyright year: 2021
Human Is to Wander
- Copyright year: 2022
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
- Copyright year: 2022
Living Ruins
Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
- Copyright year: 2022
Aztec Antichrist
Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico
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Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
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Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?
The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?Brent E. Metz explores the complicatedissue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over thepast two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya.
- Copyright year: 2022
Life at the Margins of the State
Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds
- Copyright year: 2022
Confronting the "Good Death"
Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
- Copyright year: 2022
Mining Irish-American Lives
Western Communities from 1849 to 1920
- Copyright year: 2022
After Dark
The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities
After Darkexplores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings.
- Copyright year: 2022
Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary
- Copyright year: 2021
Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond
- Copyright year: 2021
Materializing Ritual Practices
- Copyright year: 2021
Communities of Ludlow
Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission
- Copyright year: 2021
Bound by Steel and Stone
The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier.
- Copyright year: 2021
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing examines the ways in which the Akimel O’odham (“River People”) and their ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political, and environmental constraints imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population in Arizona’s Gila River Valley.
The Mountaineer Site
A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies
The Mountaineer Site presents over a decade’s worth of archaeological research conducted at Mountaineer, a Paleoindian campsite in Colorado’s Upper Gunnison Basin.
- Copyright year: 2022
Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare
- Copyright year: 2021
Gold Metal Waters
The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill
Gold Metal Waters presents a uniquely inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when more than three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary of the Animas River.
- Copyright year: 2021
Finding Solace in the Soil
An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache
Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2020
Daughters of Harriet
- Copyright year: 2022
Profiting from the Peak
Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs
In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces.
- Copyright year: 2021