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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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Apocalyptic Anxiety

Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Leaders of the Mexican American Generation

Biographical Essays

Edited by Anthony Quiroz; Foreword by Arnoldo De León
University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Exploring Cause and Explanation

Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park

From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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House of Sugar, House of Stone

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Ancient Households of the Americas

Conceptualizing What Households Do

University Press of Colorado

In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.

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Frank Mechau

Artist of Colorado

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Voices from Vilcabamba

Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Herndon Davis

Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Relocating Authority

Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Discover Colorado, Second Edition

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Divided Dominion

Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia

University Press of Colorado

In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for land at the forefront in understanding this pivotal event.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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A Chorus of Cranes

The Cranes of North America and the World

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Epiphany in the Wilderness

Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Taken from the Paradise Isle

The Hoshida Family Story

Edited by Heidi Kim; Foreword by Franklin Odo
University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica

Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands

Integration, Interaction, Dissolution

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  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Myth of Quetzalcoatl

Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

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  • Copyright year: 2015
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Surplus

The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life

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  • Copyright year: 2015
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Memory Traces

Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Heritage Keywords

Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Aztec Philosophy

Understanding a World in Motion

University Press of Colorado

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.

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Kukulcan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

University Press of Colorado

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Transient Landscapes

Insights on a Changing Planet

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Thiefing a Chance

Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Verging Cities

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Ecology of Pastoralism

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Bridging the Gaps

Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies

University Press of Colorado

Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies is the first book to address the development, change, and organizational complexity of ancient markets from a comparative archaeological perspective.

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Ancient Zapotec Religion

An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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In the Realm of Nachan Kan

Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna De On, Belize

University Press of Colorado

i>In the Realm of Nachan Kan</i> opens a window on Postclassic Maya patterns of cultural development and organization through a close examination of the small rural island of Laguna de On, a location that was distant from the governing political centers of the day.

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Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

University Press of Colorado

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Old Blue's Road

A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West

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  • Copyright year: 2014
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Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

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  • Copyright year: 2014
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Ancient Tollan

Tula and the Toltec Heartland

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Wyoming Revisited

Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson

University Press of Colorado

In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view taken by the author in 2007–08—are accompanied by captions explaining the history and importance of each site as well as information on the process of repeat photographic fieldwork.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Sacred Darkness

A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves

Edited by Holley Moyes
University Press of Colorado

. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Gambling Debt

Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2014
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