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Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.

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After Party

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

By turns funny and heartbreaking, flirtatious and frank, Blaustein never lets his aggravation or confusion overwhelm his sense of gratitude for the life he leads and those he loves.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico

World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State

University of New Mexico Press

Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Why Should I Write a Poem Now

The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958

Edited by Graziano Krätli; Foreword by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Afterword by Paul Mariani
University of New Mexico Press

Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico’s press.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Tides of Revolution

Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela

University of New Mexico Press

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality

Gendering War and Politics in Cuba

University of New Mexico Press

By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Presences

A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Now in a new edition, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol’s monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley’s prose poems.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Imagine a City That Remembers

The Albuquerque Rephotography Project

University of New Mexico Press

This expanded and updated collection juxtaposes historic and contemporary photographs of Albuquerque to show diverse moments in the city’s history and development.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes

University of New Mexico Press

This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Citizens and Believers

Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930

University of New Mexico Press

This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan

Edited by Paul F. Reed and Gary M. Brown; Foreword by David Grant Noble
University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this book attribute the development of Salmon and Aztec to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon and that the Middle San Juan can be seen as one of the ancient Puebloan heartlands that made important contributions to contemporary Puebloan society.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Exchanging Words

Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park

University of New Mexico Press

This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica

Archaeology as Historical Anthropology

University of New Mexico Press

This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Puebloan Societies

Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space

University of New Mexico Press

Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Esteban

The African Slave Who Explored America

University of New Mexico Press

In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Cutting the Wire

Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border

By (photographer) Bruce Berman; By Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh; Edited by Lisa McNiel; Introduction by David Dorado Romo
University of New Mexico Press

Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Sandia

Seasons of a Mountain

University of New Mexico Press

This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque’s sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Mexico City, 1808

Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution

University of New Mexico Press

Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Writer's Portable Mentor

A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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