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.
Wisconsin Death Trip
A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback.
- Copyright year: 2000
Madres del Verbo/Mothers of the Word
A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.
- Copyright year: 2000
She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales
These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.
- Copyright year: 2000
Tamarind
Forty Years
An essential addition to the library of anyone concerned with contemporary printmaking.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Navajo Verb System
An Overview
Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.
- Copyright year: 2000
Independence in Spanish America
Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment
This new edition, revised and enlarged to take account of recently published studies as well as a rethinking of certain prevailing views, is a compelling reinterpretation of the independence era. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of underdevelopment left by the wars of independence.
- Copyright year: 2000
That Disturbances Cease
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1697-1700
Volume 5 in The Journals of don Diego de Vargas.
- Copyright year: 2000
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Men, Women, and War
This account of the history of Mexico from Independence to the Revolution traces the struggle of common people to exert control over their everyday lives.
- Copyright year: 2000
American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century
Studies the growth of Indian populations since 1900, showing why and how American Indian populations recovered in the 20th century.
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He Walked In and Sat Down and Other Stories
The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S.
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Fly Patterns of Northern New Mexico
Illustrates fishing flies developed by locally-respected fly tyers, with step-by-step instructions for fly fishing success in northern New Mexico.
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Gatewood and Geronimo
Parallels the lives of Gatewood and Geronimo as events drive them toward their historic meeting in Mexico in 1886--a meeting that marked the beginning of the end of the last Apache war.
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Ten Texas Feuds
Based on painstaking research and interviews, Sonnichsen's tales bring to life the bloody feuds of the young state of Texas, where personal vengeance righted intolerable wrongs and settled unbearable grievances.
- Copyright year: 2000
Romance of a Little Village Girl
This memoir of growing up in northern New Mexico offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
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The Battle of Glorieta Pass
A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862
A highly readable account of this major turning point of the Civil War in the West.
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The Contested Homeland
A Chicano History of New Mexico
Studies territorial and rural New Mexico in the nineteenth century, the struggle for statehood, Nuevomexicano politics, immigration, urban issues in the twentieth century, the role of Spanish in education, ethnic identity, and the Chicano movement.
- Copyright year: 2000
Native Peoples of the Southwest
A comprehensive guide to the historic and contemporary indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, intended for college courses and the general reader.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Far Southwest, 1846-1912
A Territorial History
A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Urban Indian Experience in America
As the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, this perceptive study looks at Indians from many tribes living in cities throughout the United States.
- Copyright year: 2000
Puppet
A Chicano Novella
A Chicana graduate student learns of a cover-up of the police shooting a young Chicano laborer named Puppet. Both a mystery and a call-to-action novel, Puppet is an underground classic. This is a bilingual edition - Spanish and English.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Colorado Plateau
A Geologic History
Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Comida Sabrosa
Home-Style Southwestern Cooking
This bestselling complete cookbook on southwestern cookery is now available with the real cooks' favorite: a spiral binding.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Nature of Native American Poetry
Elucidates the clear mark that Native American literature, culture, and oral-poetic traditions have left on five centuries of British and American literature.
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Dancing on the Stones
This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.
- Copyright year: 2000
Tall Woman
The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977
Translated from her own words, this story of a Navajo woman who lived for more than 102 years is a vivid account of traditional lifeways in a harsh and challenging environment.
- Copyright year: 2001
Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle
A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse
"A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey
- Copyright year: 2001
Changing Plant Life of La Frontera
Observations on Vegetation in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly diverse shrub and grassland ecosystems of the U.S./Mexico border.
- Copyright year: 2001
Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969
A study of the shift in American Indian and white relations as both Presidents favored new policies that would have fostered the survival of American Indian cultures and heritages, yet they faced opposition from western senators who insisted on carrying out the so-called termination policies.
- Copyright year: 2001
Salt Dreams
Land and Water in Low-Down California
A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Beautiful and the Dangerous
Encounters with the Zuni Indians
Takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allows us to witness the world through its members' eyes.
- Copyright year: 2001