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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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Stewart L. Udall

Steward of the Land

University of New Mexico Press

This book, the first biography of Udall, introduces his work to a new generation of Americans concerned with the environment.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Kean Land and Other Stories

University of New Mexico Press

The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American West.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Monte Walsh

By Jack Schaefer; Foreword by Marc Simmons
University of New Mexico Press

Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Mavericks

By Jack Schaefer; Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
University of New Mexico Press

"Unabashedly sentimental, this has some stunning scenes and a rhythm as smooth as a slow canter. And Old Jake, symbol of the best of the old West, leaves some indestructible memories."—Kirkus Reviews

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Madcap Masquerade

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Madcap Masquerade builds delightfully on the venerable fiction tradition of romance gone crossways, mistaken identity, gender confusion, elaborate disguises, and meant-to-be lovers who keep missing connections."—Anne Hillerman, author of Rock with Wings

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Company of Cowards

University of New Mexico Press

"An elegiac account of one man who followed “his own peculiar trail' out of the Civil War, and the crippled, unrecorded company that went with him."—Kirkus Reviews

  • Copyright year: 1957
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Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Windmill Tales

Stories from Navajo Country

University of New Mexico Press

"These tales capture the humor and themes of traditional Diné literature.…The collection resonates with deep cultural authenticity."—Enrique Lamadrid, author of Juan the Bear and the Water of Life: La Acequia de Juan del Oso

  • Copyright year: 2017
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To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America

Edited by Mónica Díaz
University of New Mexico Press

Focusing on central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives as "indios" in this new study.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul

Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico/Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México

University of New Mexico Press

Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women—one Spanish, one Puebloan—meeting across space and time.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Pioneers

University of New Mexico Press

Published throughout the early 1950s, these stories have captured our hearts and imaginations as true classics in Western fiction and will continue to do so time and time again.

  • Copyright year: 1954
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The Olson Codex

Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs

University of New Mexico Press

In The Olson Codex, Tedlock describes and examines Olson’s efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson’s work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J. H. Prynne

Edited by Ryan Dobran
University of New Mexico Press

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Big Range

University of New Mexico Press

In these memorable narratives Schaefer depicts the unique conflicts of settler life and captures the spirit of the resolute, willful, determined, and broken characters found on the Western frontier.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Shane

By Jack Schaefer; Introduction by Robert Nott
University of New Mexico Press

In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the overarching themes of virtue, the human condition, and a man’s search for self.

  • Copyright year: 1949
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Latin American Women Filmmakers

Social and Cultural Perspectives

University of New Mexico Press

This book highlights the voices and stories of Latin American women directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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First Blood and Other Stories

University of New Mexico Press

First Blood, Schaefer’s follow-up to Shane, tells the tale of Jess Harker, a young stagecoach driver finding his way in this coming-of-age story.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Corruption in the Iberian Empires

Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Volver

A Persistence of Memory

University of New Mexico Press

In this book Márquez recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball to the turbulent events of his manhood.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Seduced and Betrayed

Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

University of New Mexico Press

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between masquerade and social justice in Latin American fiction.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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How America Got Its Guns

A History of the Gun Violence Crisis

University of New Mexico Press

This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Whither the Waters

Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont

University of New Mexico Press

This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Life of Yellowstone Kelly

University of New Mexico Press

Based on Kelly’s memoirs and correspondence, this is the first full-length biography of an extraordinary man of the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Blood Contingent

The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911

University of New Mexico Press

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Tending the Fire

Native Voices and Portraits

By (photographer) Christopher Felver; Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz; Introduction by Linda Hogan
University of New Mexico Press

Christopher Felver’s Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them

Reminiscences of John P. Meadows

Edited by John P. Wilson
University of New Mexico Press

A collection of John P. Meadows’s interviews originally given to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 movie Billy the Kid. Also includes Meadows’s memories of the Southwest’s frontier days and the characters he knew.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Deep Waters

Frank Waters Remembered in Letters and Commentary

University of New Mexico Press

A lively introduction to the breadth of Waters’s work, Deep Waters touches on themes of ecology, philosophy, pre-Columbiana, Eastern philosophy, Egyptology, American Indians, and a host of other subjects reflecting the great cultural shifts occurring at the time.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Behind the Carbon Curtain

The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech

University of New Mexico Press

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Sarapiquí Chronicle

A Naturalist in Costa Rica, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

The abundant insect life of the rainforests of northeastern Costa Rica is the subject of this engaging book, first published over twenty-five years ago and now including two new chapters on the rise of ecotourism in the region.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Fat Planet

Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital

University of New Mexico Press

Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology

University of New Mexico Press

This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Aztlán

Essays on the Chicano Homeland, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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And Then There Were None

The Demise of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness

University of New Mexico Press

This book uses the story of the desert bighorn sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Account of the Martyrs in the Provinces of La Florida

University of New Mexico Press

This edition of Luis Jerónimo de Oré’s work presents readers with a new introduction and an annotated translation that place the text in the broader context of international politics.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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My Heart Belongs to Nature

A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

University of New Mexico Press

In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Rough Crossing

An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Both an adult coming-of-age tale and a candid look at the Alaskan fishing industry, this is the story of a woman in a man’s world.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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MEAN/TIME

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Grace Bauer’s MEAN/TIME crackles with intelligence and heart. Reading this book is fuel for anyone’s imagination. It does what poetry can do—it takes your mind where it hasn’t gone before."—Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Long Night Moon

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Long Night Moon continues the story of the Vigils and the Silvas, begun in the authors’ first two award-winning novels, Sunlight and Shadow and A Growing Season, depicting a complicated extended family in New Mexico’s beautiful Rio Grande Valley.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Letters Like the Day

On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe

University of New Mexico Press

Taking O’Keeffe’s letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove O’Keeffe’s art.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Ground, Wind, This Body

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"In this book a brilliant new voice commands our attention. Tina Carlson’s poems take us by surprise, root us in their authenticity, and haunt us with their power."—Margaret Randall, author of She Becomes Time

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children

University of New Mexico Press

"Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn’t matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she’s fighting to win."—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

  • Copyright year: 2017
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What They Left Behind

Photographs

By (photographer) Richard S. Buswell; Foreword by George Miles; Introduction by Victoria Rowe Berry
University of New Mexico Press

Although rooted in Buswell’s experience as a lifelong Montanan, the photographs in this book are no more (or less) "about" Montana than James Joyce’s Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist, or Ulysses are "about" Dublin.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Oracles

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

In this futuristic novel, the Yantuck Indians must find a way to preserve the natural environment that survives on their eastern United States reservation and yet participate in a global economy.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art

Edited by Patrick Frank
University of New Mexico Press

Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded Edition.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment

University of New Mexico Press

Examining the career of a largely unstudied eighteenth-century engraver, this book establishes Jerónimo Antonio Gil, a man immersed within the complicated culture and politics of the Spanish empire, as a major figure in the history of both Spanish and Mexican art.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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With a Book in Their Hands

Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries

University of New Mexico Press

In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Give Me Life

Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

University of New Mexico Press

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

A Critical Companion

University of New Mexico Press

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones’s ever-expanding oeuvre.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Birth of the Imagination

William Carlos Williams on Form

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Before Brasília

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

University of New Mexico Press

Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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