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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

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.

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Black Hills Forestry

A History

University Press of Colorado

The first study focused on the history of the Black Hills National Forest, its centrality to life in the region, and its preeminence within the National Forest System, Black Hills Forestry is a cultural history of the most commercialized national forest in the nation.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom

The El Cajón Region of Honduras

University Press of Colorado

This volume examines the organization and ritual economy of a pre-Columbian chiefdom that developed in central Honduras over a 1,400-year period from 400 BC–AD 1000. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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PMP Certification

A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Project management is in everything we do, from our personal lives to our professional careers. It is the fastest growing profession in the world and the skills learned in this book can be used for any sort of project, large or small: setting up a small business; planning a wedding, family vacation, company picnic, and major events; and organizing construction or aerospace projects.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East

University Press of Colorado

Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East rethinks the dichotomy between antiquated terms such as “core” and “periphery,” explores lived realities in the margins of central authority, and centers those margins as places of resistance and power in their own right.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Research, Education and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Edited by Susan C. Ryan
University Press of Colorado

This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume celebrates the continuing impact of the most notable contributions from The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization by William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War

University Press of Colorado

Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War interrogates the 1862 alliance forged between the San Pedro Maya and the British during the Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901). 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism

Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Boundaries of Ancient Trade

Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia

University Press of Colorado

Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail—one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Scouting for the Bluecoats

Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2022
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