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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.

The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.

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Brooke at the Bar

Inside Our Legal System

By Brooke Wunnicke; Compiled by Diane B. Wunnicke; Foreword by Thomas J. Noel
University Press of Colorado
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Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya

Edited by Debra S. Walker
University Press of Colorado

Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands.

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Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East

University Press of Colorado

Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East rethinks the dichotomy between antiquated terms such as “core” and “periphery,” explores lived realities in the margins of central authority, and centers those margins as places of resistance and power in their own right.
 

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The Transnational Construction of Mayanness

Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives

University Press of Colorado

The Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

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From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

University Press of Colorado

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity.

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Manzanar Mosaic

Essays and Oral Histories on America's First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp

University Press of Colorado
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Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology

Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts

University Press of Colorado

Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.

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Susto

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Paul Kontny

A Modern Artist in Europe and America

University Press of Colorado
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The Power of Nature

Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics

Edited by Monica L. Smith
University Press of Colorado

Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human capacities.

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