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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.

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The Boundaries of Ancient Trade

Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia

University Press of Colorado

Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail—one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Scouting for the Bluecoats

Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Transnational Construction of Mayanness

Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives

University Press of Colorado

The Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya

Edited by Debra S. Walker
University Press of Colorado

Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Traditional Navajo Teachings

The Earth Surface People

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2020
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From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

University Press of Colorado

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

University Press of Colorado

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology

Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts

University Press of Colorado

Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Susto

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2023
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