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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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Return to Ixil

Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town

University Press of Colorado

Return to Ixil is an examination of over 100 colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil, presented together and studied fully for the first time.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language

University Press of Colorado

An examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Yellowstone Cougars

Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration

University Press of Colorado

Yellowstone Cougars examines the effect of wolf restoration on the cougar population in Yellowstone National Park.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

University Press of Colorado

Focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades

Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

University Press of Colorado

Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

University Press of Colorado

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest

New Perspectives and Case Studies

University Press of Colorado

Presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Manufactured Light

Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

University Press of Colorado

Examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Governors and the Progressive Movement

University Press of Colorado

The first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life

Edited by Ian Hodder
University Press of Colorado

This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers

From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea

Edited by A. Asa Eger
University Press of Colorado

The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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La Consentida

Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos

Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time

University Press of Colorado

Explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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
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Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest

University Press of Colorado

This book explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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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
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Distant Islands

The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s

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
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