University Of New Mexico Press imprint: 489 books
by Robert W. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state?Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory’s extraordinary...
A Garlic Testament
Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it.
"To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world."--Stan Crawford
Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro, Ortiz, and other lower-elevation mountains in central portions of the...
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history than Guadalupe and Marian devotion. In this book a distinguished historian brings together his new...
Enduring Acequias
Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For generations the Río Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique perspective Arellano explores the ways people use water in dry places around the world. Touching on the Middle East, Europe, Mexico, and South America before...
The Ghost Ocean
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
Set in the border area between southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico, The Ghost Ocean is a story of modern-day crime and violence. While tracking a wolf killer, Bureau of Land Management ranger Will Mann is startled by gunfire and then he finds the body of a twelve-year-old girl.In the...
Dancing Gods
Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1988
One of the most remarkable features of life in the Southwest is the presence of Native American religious ceremonies in communities that are driving distance from Sunbelt cities. Many of these ceremonies are open to the public and Dancing Gods is the best single reference for visitors to dances at...
The Blood Contingent
The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals...
Cosas
Folk Art Travels in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman’s experiences in Mexico over a period of twenty years.
What first propels Linda Grant Niemann south are the migrants she encounters in her job as a railroad brakeman in the Southwest....
by A. Gabriel Meléndez, The Paiz Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Once upon a time in the Mora Valley of northern New Mexico there lived a farmer named Ponciano Gutiérrez. On a trip through the mountains he was taken captive by Vicente Silva and his gang of bank robbers. This tale of Ponciano’s quick-witted escape has been a bedtime story for generations in the...
by Larry D. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking...
The Migrant Project
Contemporary California Farm Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women who struggle to exist while literally feeding this country. Countless words and studies over decades bemoan the plight of those who toil in the fields, but Rick Nahmias's pictures bring farm workers to us in an unforgettable way, taking...
by Benjamin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Roots of Conservatism is the first attempt to ask why over the past two centuries so many Mexican peasants have opted to ally with conservative groups rather than their radical counterparts. Blending socioeconomic history, cultural analysis, and political narrative, Smith’s study begins with...
by Tony Hillerman, Don Strel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state’s unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil the life and magic one experiences in the Land of Enchantment.This...