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In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.
The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.
The Colorado Trail in Crisis
A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems
- Copyright year: 2024
The Colorado Trail in Crisis
A Naturalist's Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems
- Copyright year: 2024
The Nahua
Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present
- Copyright year: 2024
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico
Livestock, Land, and Dollars
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (1846–1912) when it flourished.
- Copyright year: 2023
Violence and Inequality
An Archaeological History
Violence and Inequality explores the deep-time archaeological relationship between violence and inequality, focusing on prehistoric archaeology’s contribution to the understanding of the human dynamics among coercive force, aggression, and the state.
- Copyright year: 2023
Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies
This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies.
- Copyright year: 2023
Brooke at the Bar
Inside Our Legal System
- Copyright year: 2023
The Friar and the Maya
Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan
The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid.
- Copyright year: 2023
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica
Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica.
- Copyright year: 2023