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Gambling Debt

Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

University Press of Colorado
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Elusive Unity

Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico

University Press of Colorado

In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.

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Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East

Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology

University Press of Colorado
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Class Not Dismissed

Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts

University Press of Colorado

In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.

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No One Ailing Except a Physician

Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919

University Press of Colorado

No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.

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Obsidian Reflections

Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.

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Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology

From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

University Press of Colorado

As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado

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The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community

University Press of Colorado

In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul.

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Industrializing the Rockies

Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914

University Press of Colorado

In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.

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A Prehistory of South America

Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

University Press of Colorado
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The Logan Notebooks

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World

From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

University Press of Colorado
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Texcoco

Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives

University Press of Colorado
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Man in the Moon

Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Un cuento de Quetzalcoatl Acerca del Maiz

Acerca del Maiz

University Press of Colorado
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A Quetzalcóatl Tale of Corn

University Press of Colorado
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A Quetzalcóatl Tale of Chocolate

University Press of Colorado
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Wearing Culture

Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America

University Press of Colorado
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The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context

Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability

Edited by Gyles Iannone
University Press of Colorado
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Material Relations

The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras

University Press of Colorado
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The Neo-Indians

A Religion for the Third Millenium

University Press of Colorado
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Intimacy

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Re-Creating Primordial Time

Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices

University Press of Colorado

Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. 

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Mercury and the Making of California

Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890

University Press of Colorado

Mercury and the Making of California  raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West.

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Helen Ring Robinson

Colorado Senator and Suffragist

University Press of Colorado

Helen Ring Robinson is the first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of the Colorado General Assembly.

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Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920

Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies

University Press of Colorado

Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that epitomized its rise and fall. As the frontier industrialized, self-reliant pioneers and prospectors transformed into wage- laborers for major corporations with government, military, and church ties.

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Lousy Sex

University Press of Colorado

 In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I?

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Gambling on Ore

The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910

University Press of Colorado

Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west.

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Wide Rivers Crossed

The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie

University Press of Colorado

 In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories, including their geologic history, physical characteristics, ecological communities, and earliest human impacts, and follows a downstream and historical progression from the use of the rivers’ resources by European immigrants through increasing population density of the twentieth century to the present day.

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Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.

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Early Hominin Paleoecology

University Press of Colorado

 An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas.

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The House on Lemon Street

Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream

University Press of Colorado

Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.

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Maya Daykeeping

Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations. Calendars such as these continue to be the basis for prognostication, determining everything from the time for planting and harvest to foreshadowing illness and death. Good, bad, and mixed fates can all be found in these examples of the solar calendar and the 260-day divinatory calendar.

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Soils, Climate and Society

Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America

University Press of Colorado

Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by extension, of agricultural peoples.

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Santa Rita del Cobre

A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico

University Press of Colorado

Originally known as El Cobre, the mining-military camp of Santa Rita del Cobre ultimately became the company town of Santa Rita, which after World War II evolved into an independent community. From the town's beginnings to its demise, its mixed-heritage inhabitants from Mexico and United States cultivated rich family, educational, religious, social, and labor traditions. Extensive archival photographs, many taken by officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, accompany the text, providing an important visual and historical record of a town swallowed up by the industry that created it.

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