University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
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"...
Mexico's Indigenous Communities
Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined...
The Science of Synthesis
Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members-Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth...
Nursing
The Philosophy and Science of Caring, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2008
Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives...
Denver
An Archaeological History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
A vivid account of the prehistory and history of Denver as revealed in its archaeological record, Denver: An Archaeological History invites us to imagine Denver as it once was.
Around 12,000 B.C., groups of leather-clad Paleoindians passed through the juncture of the South Platte River and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical,...
Snow Leopard
Stories from the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Just recently, we once again traveled the high roads of snow leopard country, enjoying the beauty of Ladakh's iconic monasteries and watching blue sheep graze steep mountainsides. We saw no snow leopards but sensed their presence, feeling lucky and thrilled to be under the distant gaze of this...
Aztec Philosophy
Understanding a World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie...
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant new...
The Great Unknown
Japanese American Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In The**Great Unknown, award-winning historian and journalist Greg Robinson offers a fascinating and compulsively readable collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history: men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature,...
Negotiation within Domination
New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the consequences of colonial rule. This affected not only the development of legal systems in New Spain and Mexico but...
Texcoco
Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current...