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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.

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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

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Celluloid Pueblo

Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest

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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.

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Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California

Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics

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Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4

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The Vertebrates of Arizona

With Major Section on Arizona Habitats

Edited by Charles H. Lowe
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The Sonoran Desert

Its Geography, Economy, and People

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The Politics of Water in Arizona

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The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest

With an Arizona Check List

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The Clifton-Morenci Strike

Labor Difficulty in Arizona, 1915–1916

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Spanish Colonial Tucson

A Demographic History

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Sonoran Strongman

Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times

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People of the Desert and Sea

Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians

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Northern New Spain

A Research Guide

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Mission of Sorrows

Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767

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Life and Labor on the Border

Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886–1986

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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.

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John Spring's Arizona

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers

Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856

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Forging the Copper Collar

Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921

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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology

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An Arizona Chronology

Statehood, 1913–1936

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An Arizona Chronology

The Territorial Years, 1846–1912

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With the River on Our Face

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Emmy Pérez’s With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands while merging and diverging like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection.

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Ancient Plants and People

Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany

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Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of humans, their culture, and their landscapes.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul

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In Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul Bryan Allen Fierro brings to life the people and places that form the fragile heart of East Los Angeles. Bearing witness to transformation, the Latino boys and men in this collection defy masculine stereotypes, while the girls and women challenge gender roles. Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul is a tour de force—the first collection of an authentic new voice examining community with humor, hope, and brutal honesty.

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Critical Indigenous Studies

Engagements in First World Locations

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson and the contributors to this important volume deploy incisive critique and analytical acumen to propose new directions for critical Indigenous studies in the First World. Leading scholars offer thought-provoking essays on the central epistemological, theoretical, political, and pedagogical questions and debates that constitute the discipline of Indigenous studies, including a brief history of the discipline.

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Stealing the Gila

The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921

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The Southwest

A Fire Survey

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Through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, fire expert Stephen J. Pyne provides a lively survey of what makes this region distinctive, moving us beyond the usual conversations of science and policy. Pyne explores the Southwest’s sacred mountains, including the Jemez, Mogollon, Huachucas, and Kaibab; its sky islands, among them the Chiricahuas, Mount Graham, and Tanque Verde; and its famous rims and borders. Together, the essays provide a cross-section of how landscape fire looks in the early years of the 21st century, what is being done to manage it, and how fire connects with other themes of southwestern life and culture.

The Southwest is part of the multivolume series describing the nation’s fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, Florida, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne’s 50-year career with wildland fire—both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
 

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The Northern Rockies

A Fire Survey

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The Northern Rockies are one of three major hearths for America’s fire culture. They hold a major fire laboratory, an equipment development center, an aerial fire depot, and a social engagement with fire—even a literature. Missoula is to fire in the big backcountry what Tallahassee is to prescribed burning and what Southern California is to urban-wildland hybrids. On its margins, Boise hosts the National Interagency Fire Center. In this structured collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne explores what makes the Northern Rockies distinctive and what sets it apart from other regions of the country. Surprisingly, perhaps, the story is equally one of big bureaucracies and of generations that encounter the region’s majestic landscapes through flame.

The Northern Rockies is part of the multivolume series describing the nation’s fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne’s 50-year career with wildland fire—both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”

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Discovering Paquimé

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Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grades Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen  scholars from the U.S., Mexico , and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquime and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.

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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

Edited by Paul E. Minnis
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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Learning the Possible

Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being

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Learning the Possible chronicles the experiences of five academically underprepared Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a federally funded one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP works, says Reyes, and does so primarily by helping students develop new identities as successful learners.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Archaeological Anthropology

Perspectives on Method and Theory

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In this collection, four generations of Longacre protégés show how they are building upon and developing—but also modifying—the theoretical paradigm that remains at the core of Americanist archaeology. The contributions focus on six themes prominent in Longacre’s career: the intellectual history of the field in the late twentieth century, archaeological methodology, analogical inference, ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and reconstructing ancient society.

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Object and Apparition

Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes

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Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that Andeans were active agents in Catholic image-making and created a particularly Andean version of Catholicism. Object and Apparition describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Beyond Germs

Native Depopulation in North America

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Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors expertly argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.

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Tribal Water Rights

Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics

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The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos

Biodiversity of a Threatened Ecosystem in Mexico

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The Learned Ones

Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

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In The Learned Ones Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period through the present day. This collaborative ethnography shows the heterogeneity of Nahua knowledge and writing, as well as indigenous experiences in Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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