University Of New Mexico Press imprint: 489 books
Protecting Yellowstone
Science and the Politics of National Park Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park’s profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly...
by Christine Granados
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family—people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy...
You Must Fight Them
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In the novella You Must Fight Them, a short, bookish half-Mexican doctoral student returns to his hometown of Woodland, California, and tries to reconnect with Lupita Valdez, the girl he worshipped in high school. But in order to date Lupita, he must first fight her three hulking brothers. Attempting...
Imagine a City That Remembers
The Albuquerque Rephotography Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Imagine a City That Remembers grew out of a series of articles and photographs published in the Albuquerque Tribune in 1998 and 1999. This expanded and updated collection revisits Albuquerque nearly twenty years after the original articles were written. It juxtaposes historic and contemporary photographs...
A Life on Hold
Living with Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
For more than twenty years Josie Méndez-Negrete has endured the emotional journey of watching her son Tito struggle with schizophrenia. Her powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with this mental illness....
Africans into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in...
by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African...
From Shipmates to Soldiers
Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from...
by George D. Moller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder...
Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways,...
by Tracey E. Hucks, Davíd Carrasco
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced...
Equal under the Sky
Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources such as fan letters, archives of women’s organizations, transcripts of women’s radio shows, and programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions. It is shaped by the bioregional visions of the great explorer John Wesley Powell, who articulated the notion that the arid American West should be seen as a mosaic of watersheds, and the pioneering...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materials in glass studies. The contributors discuss...