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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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Elusive Unity
Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico
University Press of Colorado
In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.
- Copyright year: 2013
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East
Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology
Edited by Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
- Copyright year: 2014
No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
By Duane A. Smith and Ronald C. Brown
University Press of Colorado
No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.
Obsidian Reflections
Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica
Edited by David M. Carballo and Marc Levine
University Press of Colorado
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.
- Copyright year: 2014
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology
From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
Edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado
The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community
University Press of Colorado
In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul.
- Copyright year: 2014
Industrializing the Rockies
Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
University Press of Colorado
In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
- Copyright year: 2014
A Prehistory of South America
Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
The Logan Notebooks
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2014
Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World
From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
By Justyna Olko
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Texcoco
Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives
Edited by Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Basic Veterinary Immunology
By Gerald N. Callahan and Robin M. Yates
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Man in the Moon
Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood
Edited by Stephanie G'Schwind
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2014
Un cuento de Quetzalcoatl Acerca del Maiz
Acerca del Maiz
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1992
Un cuento de Quetzalcoatl Acerca del Juego de Pelota
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1994
Un cuento de Quetzalcóatl Acerca del Chocolate
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1992
A Teacher's Guide to A Quetzalcoatl Tale of the Ball Game
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 1994
Wearing Culture
Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America
Edited by Heather Orr and Matthew Looper
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context
Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability
Edited by Gyles Iannone
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
Material Relations
The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2014
The Neo-Indians
A Religion for the Third Millenium
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2013
Intimacy
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2013
Starting from Loomis and Other Stories
By Hiroshi Kashiwagi; Edited by Tim Yamamura
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2013
Re-Creating Primordial Time
Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
University Press of Colorado
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period.
- Copyright year: 2013
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
University Press of Colorado
Mercury and the Making of California raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West.
- Copyright year: 2013
Helen Ring Robinson
Colorado Senator and Suffragist
By Pat Pascoe
University Press of Colorado
Helen Ring Robinson is the first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of the Colorado General Assembly.
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920
Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
University Press of Colorado
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that epitomized its rise and fall. As the frontier industrialized, self-reliant pioneers and prospectors transformed into wage- laborers for major corporations with government, military, and church ties.
- Copyright year: 2013
Lousy Sex
University Press of Colorado
In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I?
- Copyright year: 2013
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910
By Kent Curtis
University Press of Colorado
Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west.
- Copyright year: 2013
Wide Rivers Crossed
The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie
University Press of Colorado
In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories, including their geologic history, physical characteristics, ecological communities, and earliest human impacts, and follows a downstream and historical progression from the use of the rivers’ resources by European immigrants through increasing population density of the twentieth century to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2013
Colorado
A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition
University Press of Colorado
Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.
- Copyright year: 2013
Early Hominin Paleoecology
University Press of Colorado
An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas.
- Copyright year: 2013
The House on Lemon Street
Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
University Press of Colorado
Bringing this little-known story to light, The House on Lemon Street details the Haradas' decision to fight for the American dream. Chronicling their experiences from their immigration to the United States through their legal battle over their home, their incarceration during World War II, and their lives after the war, this book tells the story of the family's participation in the struggle for human and civil rights, social justice, property and legal rights, and fair treatment of immigrants in the United States.
- Copyright year: 2013
Maya Daykeeping
Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala
University Press of Colorado
In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations. Calendars such as these continue to be the basis for prognostication, determining everything from the time for planting and harvest to foreshadowing illness and death. Good, bad, and mixed fates can all be found in these examples of the solar calendar and the 260-day divinatory calendar.
Soils, Climate and Society
Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America
Edited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes
University Press of Colorado
Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by extension, of agricultural peoples.
Santa Rita del Cobre
A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico
University Press of Colorado
Originally known as El Cobre, the mining-military camp of Santa Rita del Cobre ultimately became the company town of Santa Rita, which after World War II evolved into an independent community. From the town's beginnings to its demise, its mixed-heritage inhabitants from Mexico and United States cultivated rich family, educational, religious, social, and labor traditions. Extensive archival photographs, many taken by officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, accompany the text, providing an important visual and historical record of a town swallowed up by the industry that created it.
- Copyright year: 2012
Colorado Women
A History
University Press of Colorado
Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals.
- Copyright year: 2012
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