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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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"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
By Steven Sabol
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2017
The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fifth Edition
University Press of Colorado
The most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- Copyright year: 2018
Unitary Caring Science
Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing
By Jean Watson
University Press of Colorado
Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar.
- Copyright year: 2018
Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past
An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community
By Daniel Bauer
University Press of Colorado
Combining personal narrative and ethnography, Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past examines cultural change in a rural Ecuadorian fishing village where the community has worked to stake claim to an Indigenous identity in the face of economic, social, and political integration.
- Copyright year: 2018
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta
The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
Edited by John G. Douglass and William Graves
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ethnohistorical, historical, and landscape data, contributors examine how the processes of colonialism played out in the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Colorado State Capitol
History, Politics, Preservation
University Press of Colorado
As the representative building of the state, the Capitol has served as a silent witness to the evolving needs and interests of all Colorado citizens. The statehouse provided a proud testament for nineteenth-century Coloradoans who wanted to prove their state's potential through grand architecture and it represents "the heart of Colorado" to this day.
In one comprehensive volume historian Derek Everett traces the establishment, planning, construction, and history of Colorado's state capitol - including a discussion on the importance of restoring and preserving the building for current and future generations of Coloradoans.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán
University Press of Colorado
This book investigates how the elites of the Tarascan kingdom of Central Mexico sought to influence interactions with Spanish colonialism by reworking the past to suit their present circumstances.
- Copyright year: 2018
Making the White Man's West
Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
In The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Gillian Cummings gives voice to her version of Ophelia, a young woman shattered by unbearable losses, and questions what makes a mind unwind till the outcome is deemed a suicide.
- Copyright year: 2018
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past
Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words
University Press of Colorado
A critical, annotated anthology of indigenous-authored texts through which native peoples and Spaniards were able to convey their own perspectives on Spanish colonial order.
- Copyright year: 2018
Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire
University Press of Colorado
Examines the role played by the shifting concept of idolatry in the conquest of the Americas, as well as its relation to the subsequent construction of imperial power and hegemony.
- Copyright year: 2018
Maya Narrative Arts
University Press of Colorado
Authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts.
- Copyright year: 2018
Foraging in the Past
Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
By Lemke
University Press of Colorado
Foraging in the Past takes an explicitly archaeological approach to the potential of the archaeological record to document the variability and time depth of hunter-gatherers.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Nature of Hope
Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane
University Press of Colorado
The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society.
- Copyright year: 2018
Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
Edited by Thomas R. Rocek and Nancy A. Kenmotsu
University Press of Colorado
An up-to-date summary of the major developments in the region and their implications for Southwest archaeology in particular and anthropological archaeological research more generally.
- Copyright year: 2018
Making an American Workforce
The Rockefellers and the Legacy of Ludlow
Edited by Fawn-Amber Montoya
University Press of Colorado
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century
By Christine Bradley and Duane A Smith
University Press of Colorado
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.
- Copyright year: 2018
Distant Islands
The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s
By Daniel H. Inouye; Foreword by David Reimers
University Press of Colorado
A modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- Copyright year: 2018
Contested Waters
An Environmental History of the Colorado River
University Press of Colorado
The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion.
- Copyright year: 2013
Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest
By Karen Harry and Barbara J. Roth
University Press of Colorado
This book explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Archaeology of Wak'as
Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Edited by Tamara L. Bray
University Press of Colorado
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the sacred.
- Copyright year: 2014
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos
Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time
University Press of Colorado
Explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.
- Copyright year: 2019
La Consentida
Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
By Mike White and Douglas Lorain
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Edited by A. Asa Eger
University Press of Colorado
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation.
- Copyright year: 2019
Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica
Edited by Joshua Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco
University Press of Colorado
Explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.
- Copyright year: 2019
Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life
Edited by Ian Hodder
University Press of Colorado
This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East.
- Copyright year: 2018
Governors and the Progressive Movement
University Press of Colorado
The first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors.
- Copyright year: 2019
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
Edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall
University Press of Colorado
Examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America.
- Copyright year: 2019
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
Edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
University Press of Colorado
Presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2019
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
University Press of Colorado
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.
- Copyright year: 2010
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
University Press of Colorado
Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.
- Copyright year: 2019
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Edited by Craig W. Tyson and Virginia R. Herrmann
University Press of Colorado
Focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.
- Copyright year: 2018
Yellowstone Cougars
Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration
University Press of Colorado
Yellowstone Cougars examines the effect of wolf restoration on the cougar population in Yellowstone National Park.
- Copyright year: 2018
Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language
University Press of Colorado
An examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi.
- Copyright year: 2019
Return to Ixil
Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town
University Press of Colorado
Return to Ixil is an examination of over 100 colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil, presented together and studied fully for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2019
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
By Joanne Baron
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger
University Press of Colorado
Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve.
- Copyright year: 2012
Thanks for Watching
An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
University Press of Colorado
In Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on the heavily mediated social environment of YouTube by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them.
- Copyright year: 2019
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
University Press of Colorado
Rejecting the narrative that archival objects preserve dying Native cultures, Objects of Survivance reframes the Bratley Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities.
- Copyright year: 2019
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica
Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches
University Press of Colorado
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns.
- Copyright year: 2019
Magnifier
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
Formally various, balanced on the edge of order and chaos, the poems in Magnifier cry out for “something more” from the “nothing but” even as they zero in on the damage we have done.
- Copyright year: 2019
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain.
- Copyright year: 2017
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
University Press of Colorado
Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between Colorado’s Eastern and Western Slopes and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2016
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
Edited by Katarzyna Mikulksa and Jerome A. Offner
University Press of Colorado
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems reports new results and insights into the meaning of the rich and varied content of indigenous American graphic expression and culture.
- Copyright year: 2019
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
By Amos Megged
University Press of Colorado
Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican urban centers.
- Copyright year: 2019
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
University Press of Colorado
Researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the pre-Columbian communities of the Mexican highlands.
- Copyright year: 2019
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
Edited by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott Macrae
University Press of Colorado
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.
- Copyright year: 2019
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu
University Press of Colorado
A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.
- Copyright year: 2019
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