University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books
Massacre at Camp Grant
Forgetting and Remembering Apache History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award
On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona....
Desert Landscaping
How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
George Brookbank has distilled nearly twenty years' experience—as an extension agent in urban horticulture with the University of Arizona—into a practical book that tells how to avoid problems with desert landscaping before they occur and how to correct those that do. In the first part, "How...
A Legacy of Change
Historic Human Impact on Vegetation in the Arizona Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The arrival of Anglo settlers in the 1870s marked the beginning of major vegetation changes in southeastern Arizona, including an increase in woody plants in rangelands, the degradation of riparian wetlands, and the spread of non-native plants. While many of these changes have already been linked...
Raza Studies
The Public Option for Educational Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account...
In a Desert Garden
Love and Death among the Insects
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
When John Alcock replaced the Bermuda grass in his suburban Arizona lawn with gravel, cacti, and fairy dusters, he was doing more than creating desert landscaping. He seeded his property with flowers to entice certain insects and even added a few cowpies to attract termites, creating a personal laboratory...
Observatories of the Southwest
A Guide for Curious Skywatchers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
With its clear skies and low humidity, the southwestern United States is an astronomer’s paradise where observatories like Kitt Peak have redefined the art of skywatching. The region is unique in its loose federation of like-minded research outposts and in the quantity and diversity of its observatories—places...
by Jo Jeffers
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Here...
A Frontier Documentary
Sonora and Tucson, 1821–1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, citizens and missionaries in the northwestern reaches of the new nation were without the protection of Spanish military forces for the first time. Beset by hostile Apaches and the uncertainties of life in a desert wilderness, these early Mexican...
by Jefferson Reid, Stephanie Whittlesey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their...
The Politics of Fieldwork
Research in an American Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
During World War II, over thirty American anthropologists participated in empirical and applied research on more than 110,000 Japanese Americans subjected to mass removal and incarceration by the federal government. While that experience has been widely discussed, what has received little critical...
Borderman
Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Born in Sonora in 1868 to a Mexican mother and a German father, Federico Ronstadt was the quintessential borderman. He came to Arizona Territory as a young man to learn a trade and eventually became an American citizen; but with many relatives on both sides of the border, Federico was equally at home...
by John Weston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Mountain lion barbacoa. Margarita's yam soufflé. Pastel de Choclo, a.k.a. Rodeo Pie. And for dessert, perhaps, Miss Ruby Cupcakes. These are but a few of the gustatory memories of John Weston that waft us on a poignant journey into the past in the company of a gifted writer and unabashed bon vivant.
The...
by Richard Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher...
Landscapes of Fraud
Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted...