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.
Hill of Beans
A Novel of War and Celluloid
Leslie Epstein's Hill of Beans is the story of how one nation, one industry, and in particular one man responded to the desperate hope of freedom in the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2021
Words Like Love
Poems
With beauty and ease, Winder explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection.
- Copyright year: 2016
Velroy and the Madischie Mafia
Poems
Hoahwah relays this story with a distinctive narrative flair, honed syntax, wild imagery, and a splash of lyricism.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Definition of Empty
Poems
The Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies.
- Copyright year: 2021
Duende de Burque
Alburquerque Poems and Musings
At its center, Duende de Burque is a love letter to Alburquerque and its surroundings--the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande Bosque, and all the people whose spirits fill these spaces.
- Copyright year: 2021
Bosque
Poems
In her debut poetry collection, Bosque, Otero celebrates the importance of water and the bosque to the people of Albuquerque.
- Copyright year: 2021
Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride
Poems
Fierce, visceral, sometimes funny, and wholly original, Hoahwah's poems will linger in a reader's dreams long after she's closed the book.
- Copyright year: 2021
Momentous Inconclusions
The Life and Work of Larry Eigner
The essays in this collection examine the breadth of Eigner's interests and influence, considering issues pertaining to ecopoetics, race and ethnicity, disability, technology, media, soundscapes, phenomenology, and popular culture.
- Copyright year: 2020
Gangs of the El Paso–Juárez Borderland
A History
This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2019
Colonial Kinship
Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2020
Yours Presently
The Selected Letters of John Wieners
The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by Eileen Myles's preface and Stewart's thorough introduction, notes, and brief bios of the poets, writers, artists, and editors with whom Wieners corresponded.
- Copyright year: 2020
The House of the Cylinder Jars
Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
The House of the Cylinder Jars documents the re-excavation of Room 28, and places it within the context of other rooms at Pueblo Bonito, and describes the ritual termination by fire of the materials stored in the room.
- Copyright year: 2020
Richard S. Buswell
Fifty Years of Photography
The photographs in Richard S. Buswell: Fifty Years of Photography illustrate the range and variety of his work from his earliest days to his most recent projects.
- Copyright year: 2020
Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry
Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism.
- Copyright year: 2020
Joaquín Ortega
Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
In this important work Russ Davidson presents the first biography of Joaquín Ortega, introducing readers to Ortega's life and work at the University of New Mexico as well as his close relationship with then UNM president James Zimmerman and other major figures.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Conquest of the Desert
Argentina’s Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina's most important historical periods.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Whistleblower
Rooting for the Ref in the High-Stakes World of College Basketball
In this vivid portrait of one consummate professional at the top of his game, Katz pulls off an unbelievable feat in The Whistleblower--readers actually come to root for the ref.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Journal of James A. Brush
The Expedition and Military Operations of General Don Francisco Xavier Mina in Mexico, 1816–1817
Editors Karen Racine and Graham Lloyd provide extensive insight into the Mina expedition during the revolution of Mexican independence as captured in the journal of James A. Brush.
- Copyright year: 2020
Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil
Steven Byrd's study provides a comprehensive linguistic description of Calunga based on two years of interviews with speakers of the language. He examines its history and historical context as well as its linguistic context, its sociolinguistic profile, and its lexical and grammatical outlines.
- Copyright year: 2012
Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege
In Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and reproduced violent social and cultural structures.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Shoulders We Stand On
A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico
The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Diné, and Pueblo languages.
- Copyright year: 2020
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage
A Personal History of the Allotment Era
Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.
- Copyright year: 2018
Georgia O'Keeffe
A Life Well Lived
This book is the first collection of photographs to portray O'Keeffe and her surroundings in color.
- Copyright year: 2020
Conflict in Colonial Sonora
Indians, Priests, and Settlers
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups--Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. In this study, Yetman examines seven separate instances of such conflict, each of which reveals a different perspective on this complicated world.
- Copyright year: 2012
Claims and Speculations
Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age
This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.
- Copyright year: 2012
An Imperative to Cure
Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize
James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing."
- Copyright year: 2020
Making History
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers--students, educators, collectors, and the public--in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors.
- Copyright year: 2020
Arizona's Scenic Roads and Hikes
Unforgettable Journeys in the Grand Canyon State
In this captivating new guide Roger Naylor features all twenty-seven of Arizona's state-designated scenic and historic roads, including five National Scenic Byways.
- Copyright year: 2020
Archaeologies of Empire
Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories
This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Unmasking
A Novel
"The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender."--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel
- Copyright year: 2020