University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
by Mary S. Melcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Early twentieth-century Arizona was a life-threatening place for new and expectant mothers. Towns were small and very far apart, and the weather and harsh landscape often delayed midwives. It was not uncommon for a woman to give birth without medical care and with the aid of only family members. By...
The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf
Back to the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The return of the Mexican gray wolf to Arizona's Blue Range in 1998 marked more than a victory for an endangered species. Long hated by ranchers, the gray wolf had been hunted to the brink of extinction until one woman took on the challenge of restoring it to its natural habitat.
Inspired by...
Sanctioning Matrimony
Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Marriage, divorce, birth, baptism, and census records are the essential records of a community. Through them we see who marries, who divorces, and how many children are born. Sal Acosta has studied a broad base of these vital records to produce the largest quantitative study of intermarriage of any...
Undermining Race
Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in their relationships with Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish miners (and at times with blacks, Asian Americans, and Native Americans), requiring a...
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
La vida no vale nada
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Winner of the 2017 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction – Multi-Author
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The contributors consist of a multidisciplinary group who are dedicated to the thousands of men, women,...
Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers
Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Franciscan mission San José de Tumacácori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona–Sonora frontier in this colorful documentary history. His fascinating view extends from the Jesuit expulsion to the coming of the U.S. Army.
Kessell...
Reconnaissance in Sonora
Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In 1854, funded by a syndicate of San Francisco businessmen, Charles D. Poston and a party of twenty-five men launched an expedition from San Francisco to Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico, before trekking north into Arizona and returning to California. Reconnaissance in Sonora brings to light Poston’s...
Doing What the Day Brought
An Oral History of Arizona Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
"I've seen many changes during the years," says Irene Bishop, "from horse and buggy to automobiles and planes, from palm leaf fans to refrigeration. . . . They talk about the good old days but I do not want to go back. I'd like to go back about twenty years, but not beyond that. Life...
by Emil W. Haury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“Forestdale did more than any other single area to validate the emerging concept of a separate Mogollon culture, and in this compilation Haury provides the reader with not only the complete archaeological picture of this valley but also the history of the developemtn of the concept. Any Southwestern...
The Painted Desert
Land of Wind and Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Most people who are familiar with the Painted Desert of northeastern Arizona know it only from having pulled off at the Petrified Forest exit on Interstate 40. If they happen to come by it at midday, as most do, they find a landscape drained of color and flattened under the direct sunlight.
But...
The Only One Living to Tell
The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Mike Burns—born Hoomothya—was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was adopted by an army captain and ended up serving...
Barrio Dreams
Selected Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
During the advent of Chicano teatro, dozens of groups sprang up across the country in Chicano/a communities. Since then, teatristas have been leading voices in the creation and production of plays touching minds and hearts that galvanize audiences to action.
Barrio Dreams is the first book...
Celluloid Pueblo
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The five Cs of Arizona—copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate—formed the basis of the state’s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national appetite for all things western, Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features in 1936...
by Patrick D. Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Southwestern archaeologists have long speculated about the scale and impact of ancient population movements. In Ancestral Hopi Migrations, Patrick Lyons infers the movement of large numbers of people from the Kayenta and Tusayan regions of northern Arizona to every major river valley in Arizona, parts...