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.
Slavery and Politics
Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850
The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English.
- Copyright year: 2016
Kingdom of the Sun
Stories
Set in southwestern New Mexico, the stories in James Terry's stunning debut explore the joys, insecurities, and failures of memorable characters as they attempt to connect with--or disconnect from--others around them.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Woman Who Married a Bear
Poems
The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Tombstone Race
Stories
Set in places as diverse as Fort Sumner, Taos, Chimayó, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Clovis, the fourteen stories in The Tombstone Race explore the surprising connections and disjunctions between rich and poor, urban and rural, old and new, ugly and beautiful.
- Copyright year: 2016
Magpie's Blanket
A Novel
In this thoughtful novel Kimberly D. Schmidt brings to life the history of Plains Indian women and the white invasion--an account not solely of violence and bloodshed but also of healing and forgiveness.
- Copyright year: 2016
Family Resemblances
Poems
The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness.
- Copyright year: 2016
Abandoned in Place
Preserving America’s Space History
Roland Miller's color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race.
- Copyright year: 2016
A Drama of the Southwest
The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play
This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2016
Volunteering for a Cause
Gender, Faith, and Charity in Mexico from the Reform to the Revolution
This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
- Copyright year: 2016
New Mexico
Images of a Land and Its People
Handsome color photographs of the unique landscapes of New Mexico with an essay on the pathways which have drawn people and animal life to its varied surroundings for millennia.
- Copyright year: 2004
Middle of Nowhere
Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain
In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.
- Copyright year: 2016
Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants’ gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.
- Copyright year: 2016
Lo que mi abuela me dijo / What My Grandmother Told Me
Practical Wisdom from Spanish Proverbs and Sayings
Arranged by subjects, the dichos provide wisdom on topics such as childhood, work, strife, and love.
- Copyright year: 2015
Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence
Long overshadowed by Martin Luther King and Gandhi, Cesar Chavez conducted his protests following a strong belief in nonviolent action to achieve the goal of equal opportunity for all.
- Copyright year: 2008
Garo Z. Antreasian
Reflections on Life and Art
Illustrating his drawings, paintings, and prints, this book reveals Antreasian as a major American artist.
- Copyright year: 2015
Autobiography in Black and Brown
Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez
"An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez."—Robert J. Butler, coeditor of TheRichardWrightEncyclopedia
- Copyright year: 2014
Canícula
Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, Updated Edition
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the original publication, this updated edition includes newly written pieces as well as never-before-published images—culled from hundreds of the author’s family photos—adding further depth and insight into this unique contribution to Chicana literature.
- Copyright year: 2015
Cancionero
Songs of Laughter and Faith in New Mexico
Created for musicians and vocalists, Cancionero features arrangements for voice with piano or guitar accompaniments as well as selected concert versions for voice, oboe, harp, and piano.
- Copyright year: 2015
Art, Peace, and Transcendence
Réograms That Elevate and Unite
American artist Paul Ré invites us to join him on his journey for harmony, wisdom, and inner joy with Art, Peace, and Transcendence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
The Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive overview of this dramatic process through profiles of key individuals, organizations, government policies, and events that have defined Native history since 1900.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Oppens Remembered
Poetry, Politics, and Friendship
In this book the poets, editors, writers, composers, and teachers who knew the couple consider their encounters and relationships with George and Mary Oppen.
- Copyright year: 2015
Secret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842-1929
The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.
- Copyright year: 2010
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
"What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
- Copyright year: 2015
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition
Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time—and continues to travel.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Maya of the Cochuah Region
Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Northern Lowlands
This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.
- Copyright year: 2015
Quills
In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills—Mr. Porcupine!
- Copyright year: 1948
Hop-a-long
In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long.
- Copyright year: 1944
Dumbee
“An engaging account of the adventures of a bumblebee.â€�â€"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Copyright year: 1945
Cocky
Cocky, a rollicking little roadrunner, joins baby jack rabbit Hop-a-long and the other creatures of the desert in the fourth book of the Mesaland Series.
- Copyright year: 1946
Big Fat
The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat.
- Copyright year: 1947
Baby Jack and Jumping Jack Rabbit
Join Baby Jack in the first book of the Mesaland Series as he explores the desert and encounters other creatures, including a little bee, a grasshopper, and a pile of big red ants.
- Copyright year: 1943
3 Toes
The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.
- Copyright year: 1949
The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies
Spies, Noirs, and Trust
Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.
- Copyright year: 2015
North American Hummingbirds
An Identification Guide
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.
- Copyright year: 2015
In This Body
Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit
This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.
- Copyright year: 2015
Beyond Geopolitics
New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations
Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.
- Copyright year: 2015
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Schaefer’s book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.
- Copyright year: 2015
Pie Town Revisited
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
- Copyright year: 2015
From Shipmates to Soldiers
Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Just South of Zion
The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands
Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947.
- Copyright year: 2015
Brazil through French Eyes
A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics
In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.
- Copyright year: 2015
You Must Fight Them
A Novella and Stories
In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Quotable Amelia Earhart
This definitive resource provides a concise, documented collection of Earhart’s quotations so that her words, as well as her achievements, may inspire a new generation.
- Copyright year: 2015
Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo
A Rare Photographic History
Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program’s twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
- Copyright year: 2015
¡Corrido!
The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast
The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world’s great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years.
- Copyright year: 2015
A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia
Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work.
- Copyright year: 2015
¡Cancerlandia!
A Memoir
Comic and unsparing, ¡Cancerlandia! chronicles Alvarado Valdivia’s journey as he not only fights to survive his personified adversary, Mr. Hodgkins, but also as he struggles with his own self-destructive spirit.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Haunting of the Mexican Border
A Woman's Journey
"This is an important book at the right time. We need to read this story and understand its vision. Recommended."—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
- Copyright year: 2015
Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur
Poems
Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth.
- Copyright year: 2015
Heresies
Poems
The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling.
- Copyright year: 2015