The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.
Showing 441-480 of 1,702 items.
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
La vida no vale nada
The University of Arizona Press
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The book’s central question is why are migrants dying on our border? The authors constitute a multidisciplinary group reflecting on the issues of death, migration, and policy.
The Last 10,000 Years
A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
The Hohokam
Desert Farmers and Craftsmen, Excavations at Snaketown, 1964–1965
The University of Arizona Press
The Aztec Kings
The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory, The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time and treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan D. Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Once a River
Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila
The University of Arizona Press
Nobody Rich or Famous
A Family Memoir
The University of Arizona Press
Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela’s Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood. In Nobody Rich or Famous, award-winning poet and author Richard Shelton immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and ’40s. This is memoir in its finest tradition, illuminating today’s cultural chasm between the haves and have-nots. It is the true story of a family and how it got that way.
Mexican Melodrama
Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present.
Impounded People
Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
The University of Arizona Press
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Letters from the Field
Edited by Morris E. Opler
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Edited by Edward H. Spicer; By Eleanor Bauwens, Margarita Artschwager Kay, Mary Elizabeth Shutler, and Loudell F. Snow
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Edited by Robert H. Robichaux
The University of Arizona Press
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District
The University of Arizona Press
Celluloid Pueblo
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. The story closely follows the boom and bust arc of this region in the mid-twentieth century and the constantly evolving representations of an exotic—but safe and domesticated—frontier and the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona and the Southwest.
Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California
Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics
The University of Arizona Press
Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4
The Vertebrates of Arizona
With Major Section on Arizona Habitats
Edited by Charles H. Lowe
The University of Arizona Press
The Social Organization of the Western Apache
By Grenville Goodwin; Preface by Keith H. Basso
The University of Arizona Press
The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest
With an Arizona Check List
The University of Arizona Press
The Clifton-Morenci Strike
Labor Difficulty in Arizona, 1915–1916
The University of Arizona Press
People of the Desert and Sea
Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians
The University of Arizona Press
Notes of Travel Through the Territory of Arizona
By J. H. Marion; Edited by Donald M. Powell
The University of Arizona Press
Mission of Sorrows
Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767
By John L. Kessell; Foreword by Ernest J. Burrus
The University of Arizona Press
Life and Labor on the Border
Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886–1986
The University of Arizona Press
This book traces the development of the urban working class in northern Sonora over the period of a century. Drawing on an extensive collection of life histories over several generations, Heyman describes what has happened to families as people have left the countryside to work for American-owned companies in northern Sonora or to cross the border to find other employment.
Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers
Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856
The University of Arizona Press
Forging the Copper Collar
Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921
The University of Arizona Press
An Arizona Chronology
Statehood, 1913–1936
By Douglas D. Martin; Edited by Patricia G. Paylore
The University of Arizona Press
Stay Informed
Subscribe nowRecent News