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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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Becoming Colorado

The Centennial State in 100 Objects

University Press of Colorado

In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Eben Smith

The Dean of Western Mining

University Press of Colorado

David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Remembering Lucile

A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High

University Press of Colorado

Author Polly McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones—CU's true first black graduate—and her family, from slavery in northern Virginia to middle-class life in the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Identity Politics of Difference

The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Navajo Women of Monument Valley

Preservers of the Past

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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A Forest of History

The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship

University Press of Colorado

Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Maya Gods of War

University Press of Colorado

Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Greater Chaco Landscape

Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy

University Press of Colorado

The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Stone Houses and Earth Lords

Maya Religion in the Cave Context

University Press of Colorado

Stone Houses and Earth Lords is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the use of caves in the Maya Lowlands, covering primarily Classic Period archaeology from A.D. 100 through the Spaniards' arrival. Although the caves that riddled the lowlands show no signs of habitation, most contain evidence of human use - evidence that suggests that they functioned as ritual spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Chuj (Mayan) Narratives

Folklore, History, and Ethnography from Northwestern Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

In Chuj (Mayan) Narratives, Nicholas Hopkins analyzes six narratives that illustrate the breadth of the Chuj storytelling tradition, from ancient mythology to current events and from intimate tales of local affairs to borrowed stories, such as an adaptation of Oedipus Rex.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Barbed Voices

Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster

University Press of Colorado

Featuring selected inmates and camp groups, Arthur Hansen reveals why, when, where, and how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority–administered compounds in the United States during World War II.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent

A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor

University Press of Colorado

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent is based on six years of in-depth ethnographic work with current and former site workers at two major Middle Eastern archaeological sites—Petra, Jordan, and Çatalhöyük, Turkey—combined with thorough archival research.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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West : Fire : Archive

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

A poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis.”

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

History, Technical Analysis, and Conservation

University Press of Colorado

The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science provides replicable findings and consistent terminology for institutions performing holistic studies on extant museum collections of a range of material types and will add substantially to what we know about the effective conservation of Egyptian mummies and coffins.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Southeastern Mesoamerica

Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change

University Press of Colorado

Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities

University Press of Colorado

Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities is the first focused book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

University Press of Colorado

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse north coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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