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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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Emiliano Zapata!

Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This clearly written and carefully argued narrative presents a less mythical and more human Zapata against the dramatic and chaotic background of the Mexican Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Literature and Photography

Interactions 1840-1990 : A Critical Anthology

University of New Mexico Press

"Baudelaire Meets Poe," Jane Rabb has gathered the first and last words about photographs and photography.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus

University of New Mexico Press

Robert Levine tells the story of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), Brazilian, Black, illegitimate, extremely poor, and Brazil's best-selling author upon the publication of her journals.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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The Way to the West

Essays on the Central Plains

University of New Mexico Press

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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The Place Names of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A Place in El Paso

A Mexican-American Childhood

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A Rich Land, a Poor People

Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas

University of New Mexico Press

Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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La Mollie and the King of Tears

University of New Mexico Press

A posthumous novel by the pioneering Chicano fiction writer--a tragi-comic tale revealing a new side to Arturo Islas's talent.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Chicana Creativity and Criticism

New Frontiers in American Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Poetry, art, and criticism by major Chicana writers and artists.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Indian Uprising on the Rio Grande

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

By Franklin Folsom; Introduction by Alfonso Ortiz
University of New Mexico Press

A thrilling account of the bloody rebellion forged by the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish invaders.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Andele, The Mexican-Kiowa Captive

A Story of Real Life Among the Indians

University of New Mexico Press

A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization

The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians

University of New Mexico Press

A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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