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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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The Geysers of Yellowstone

Sixth Edition

University Press of Colorado

This new edition of The Geysers of Yellowstone is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park, describing in detail each of the more than five hundred geysers in the park.

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A Face Out of Clay

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico

Livestock, Land, and Dollars

University Press of Colorado

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
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The Nahua

Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present

University Press of Colorado

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have undergone over the centuries, The Nahua demonstrates that Nahuatl remained a vibrant and central language well after European contact and into the twenty-first century, and its characteristic features can provide insight into nuanced aspects of Nahua culture and history.
 
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Colorado Trail in Crisis

A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

University Press of Colorado

The Colorado Trail in Crisis addresses the sweeping transformation of western forests and wilderness ecosystems affected by climate change. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Colorado Trail in Crisis

A Naturalist's Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

University Press of Colorado

The Colorado Trail in Crisis addresses the sweeping transformation of western forests and wilderness ecosystems affected by climate change. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Power, Prayers, and Protection

A Cultural History of the Utah San Juan River Navajo

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Violence and Inequality

An Archaeological History

University Press of Colorado

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
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Brooke at the Bar

Inside Our Legal System

By Brooke Wunnicke; Compiled by Diane B. Wunnicke; Foreword by Thomas J. Noel
University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Stories from the Land

A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies

University Press of Colorado

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
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The Friar and the Maya

Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

University Press of Colorado

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
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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica

Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period

University Press of Colorado

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
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High Plains Horticulture

A History

University Press of Colorado

High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840.

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Voices of Indigenuity

University Press of Colorado

Voices of Indigenuity collects the voices of the Indigenous Speaker Series and multigenerational Indigenous peoples to introduce best practices for traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Mountain Amnesia

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Last Paper Standing

A Century of Competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News

University Press of Colorado

Last Paper Standing chronicles the history of competition between the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News—from both newspapers’ origins to their joint operating agreement in 2001 to the death of the News in 2009—to tell a broader story about the decline of newspaper readership in the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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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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Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Transnational Construction of Mayanness

Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives

University Press of Colorado

The Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya

Edited by Debra S. Walker
University Press of Colorado

Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Traditional Navajo Teachings

The Earth Surface People

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2020
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From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

University Press of Colorado

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Forced Out

A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America

University Press of Colorado

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology

Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts

University Press of Colorado

Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Susto

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Power of Nature

Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics

Edited by Monica L. Smith
University Press of Colorado

Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human capacities.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Paul Kontny

A Modern Artist in Europe and America

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Community in Rural America

University Press of Colorado

The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Food Provisioning in Complex Societies

Zooarchaeological Perspectives

University Press of Colorado

Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Sweeping the Way

Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli

University Press of Colorado

Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or “Sweeping,” has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual ceremonies, Ochpaniztli’s significance has nevertheless been poorly understood. Ochpaniztli is known mainly from early colonial illustrated manuscripts produced in cross-cultural collaboration between Spanish missionary-chroniclers and native Mexican informants and artists.

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