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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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Senator Dennis DeConcini

From the Center of the Aisle

The University of Arizona Press

Senator Dennis DeConcini is an Arizona icon. His political memoir provides the reader with penetrating and revealing insights into the inner workings and colorful characters of Arizona politics and the United States Senate. A vigilant centrist who got results by building coalitions on both sides of the aisle, Senator DeConcini was not bound to strict party alliances but was deeply rooted in the independent political environment of Arizona.

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Local Governments and Rural Development

Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru

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The Quiet Extinction

Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants

The University of Arizona Press

The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent’s natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them.

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Shameful Victory

The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine

The University of Arizona Press

Enhancing our understanding of the Mexican American experience and urban renewal in LA, Shameful Victory focuses on Chavez Ravine and the eventual building of Dodger Stadium at the expense of the community. Author John H. M. Laslett shows how urban renewal led to the eviction of Mexican Americans and the introduction of the Dodgers, placing the Chavez Ravine affair into a broader social and historical context.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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For All of Humanity

Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

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For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.

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Earth and Mars

A Reflection

The University of Arizona Press

Earth and Mars relates the life story of two planets, celestial siblings in space. The book is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images and essays celebrating the successful creation of our life-sustaining planet. A collection of simple and profoundly beautiful forms, Earth and Mars provides a context to appreciate the common forces responsible for these haunting shapes as well as the divergent paths that led to an Earth teeming with life-forms, while its sibling, Mars, is seemingly devoid of all life.

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Capturing the Landscape of New Spain

Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition

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Rebecca A. Carte sheds new light on sixteenth-century Spanish exploration and mining expansion in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.

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In the Shadow of Cortés

Conversations Along the Route of Conquest

The University of Arizona Press

In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations of Mexico. Kathleen Ann Myers reveals how the symbolic geography of the conquest fuels a historical memory of colonialism that continues to shape lives today.

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Between Two Fires

A Fire History of Contemporary America

The University of Arizona Press

Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of America’s fire revolution, a reaction to the decades-long policy of fire suppression touched off by the Great Fires of 1910. It is the real history of contemporary America’s management of one billion burnable acres. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of wildland fire management.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Maricopas

An Identification from Documentary Sources

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The House Cross of the Mayo Indians of Sonora, Mexico

The University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 1965
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The Hodges Ruin

A Hohokam Community in the Tucson Basin

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The Chinese of Early Tucson

Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project

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The Asturian of Cantabria

Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain

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The Albuquerque Navajos

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  • Copyright year: 1969
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Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico

Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports

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Papago Indians at Work

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Multidisciplinary Research at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona

The University of Arizona Press

This volume presents the results of research from the University of Arizona’s archaeological field school at Grasshopper Pueblo in Arizona. Contributors consider issues of environmental and climactic change; regional and interregional economics; and subsistence change.

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Mexican Macaws

Comparative Osteology and Survey of Remains from the Southwest

The University of Arizona Press
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