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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.
The Boundaries of Ancient Trade
Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia
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
Scouting for the Bluecoats
Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911
- Copyright year: 2022
Manzanar Mosaic
Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp
- Copyright year: 2023
The Transnational Construction of Mayanness
Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives
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
Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya
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
Traditional Navajo Teachings
The Earth Surface People
- Copyright year: 2020
From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico
Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire
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
Forced Out
A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America
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
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology
Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.
- Copyright year: 2022