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.
The Last Stand of the Pack
Critical Edition
- Copyright year: 2017
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison
- Copyright year: 2016
Instead of Dying
- Copyright year: 2017
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
- Copyright year: 2016
The Great Unknown
Japanese American Sketches
- Copyright year: 2016
An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Adaptations, Structures, Meanings
- Copyright year: 2017
Uncertain Times
Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World
- Copyright year: 2017
Navajo Textiles
The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- Copyright year: 2017
Basic K'ichee' Grammar
38 Lessons, Revised Edition
- Copyright year: 2016
Creating Dialogues
Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia
- Copyright year: 2017
These "Thin Partitions"
Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology
- Copyright year: 2016
Beautiful Flesh
A Body of Essays
- Copyright year: 2017
Rituals of the Past
Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology
Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years.
- Copyright year: 2017
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage
Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas
- Copyright year: 2017
Incidence of Travel
Recent Journeys in Ancient South America
- Copyright year: 2017
Ancient Maya Commerce
Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil
- Copyright year: 2017
"The Only True People"
Linking Maya Identities Past and Present
"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers investigate ethnicity and other forms of group identity at a number of Maya sites and places, from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and across different time periods, from the Classic period to the modern day.
- Copyright year: 2017
Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks
(Boulder, Colorado)
- Copyright year: 2017
The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado
- Copyright year: 2017
Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West
In Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, Steven C. Schulte details a political career that encompassed some of the most crucial years in the development of the twentieth-century West. As chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959 to 1973, Aspinall shaped the nation's reclamation, land, wilderness, and natural resource policies. His crusty and dtermined personality was at the enter of some of the key environmental battles of the twentieth century, including the Echo Park Dam fight, the struggle for the Wilderness Act, and the long controversy over the Central Arizona Project.
- Copyright year: 2002
Alternative Pathways to Complexity
A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis
- Copyright year: 2016
Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies
Themes in Southwestern Archaeology
- Copyright year: 2016
How Humans Cooperate
Confronting the Challenges of Collective Action
- Copyright year: 2016
Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies
Archaeological Perspectives on Female and Male Work
- Copyright year: 2016
Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica
- Copyright year: 2016
Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective
- Copyright year: 2016
&luckier
- Copyright year: 2016
Negotiation within Domination
New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
- Copyright year: 2016
Exit Theater
- Copyright year: 2016
Mixtec Evangelicals
Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group
- Copyright year: 2016
A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition
Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry
The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social construction of homelessness. A Roof Over My Head is a ground-breaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective.
- Copyright year: 2016
Risk Communication and Miscommunication
Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations
- Copyright year: 2016
A Land Made from Water
Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
- Copyright year: 2016
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water
On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food
- Copyright year: 2016
Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene
Science, Policy, and Practice
- Copyright year: 2016
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
- Copyright year: 2016
Stories in Stone
The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko
- Copyright year: 2016
Chol (Mayan) Folktales
A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico
- Copyright year: 2016
Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts
- Copyright year: 2016
Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, Third Edition
- Copyright year: 2016
Apocalyptic Anxiety
Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World
- Copyright year: 2016
Leaders of the Mexican American Generation
Biographical Essays
- Copyright year: 2016
Exploring Cause and Explanation
Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest
- Copyright year: 2016
Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park
From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun
- Copyright year: 2016
House of Sugar, House of Stone
- Copyright year: 2016
Ancient Households of the Americas
Conceptualizing What Households Do
Frank Mechau
Artist of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Voices from Vilcabamba
Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire
- Copyright year: 2016
Herndon Davis
Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962
- Copyright year: 2016