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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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Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa

Anthropology, Literature, and History

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual

University Press of Colorado

This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Becoming Colorado

The Centennial State in 100 Objects

University Press of Colorado

In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Eben Smith

The Dean of Western Mining

University Press of Colorado

David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Remembering Lucile

A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High

University Press of Colorado

Author Polly McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones—CU's true first black graduate—and her family, from slavery in northern Virginia to middle-class life in the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Identity Politics of Difference

The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Navajo Women of Monument Valley

Preservers of the Past

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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