University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books

by Will Croft Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Will Croft Barnes (1858–1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. From 1905 to 1935, his travels throughout the state, largely on horseback, enabled him to gather the anecdotes and geographical information that came to constitute...

Arizona

A History, Revised Edition

by Thomas E. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E. Sheridan's thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona has become a standard in the field. Now, just in time for Arizona's centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already...

Winning Their Place

Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950

by Heidi J. Osselaer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

In January 1999, five women were elected to the highest offices in Arizona, including governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. The “Fab Five,” as they were dubbed by the media, were sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,...

Arizona Politicians

The Noble and the Notorious

by James W. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Do you know these famous Arizona politicians?   —A congresswoman who was bridesmaid to Eleanor Roosevelt —A car dealer who propelled himself to the governor's mansion with the help of public recognition of his TV commercials —An Arizonan who served not only as governor and chief justice...

What Has Passed and What Remains

Oral Histories of Northern Arizona's Changing Landscapes

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

Ferrell Secakuku remembers the ancient farming rites of his Hopi people but saw them replaced by a cash economy. Sheep rancher Joe Manterola recalls watching hard scrabble farms on what is now tree-studded grassland on Garland Prairie. Navajo Rose Gishie once saw freshly dug holes fill with clean,...

Chasing Arizona

One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State

by Ken Lamberton
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride...
by Toni McClory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Arizona became the nation’s 48th state in 1912 and since that time the Arizona constitution has served as the template by which the state is governed. Toni McClory’s Understanding the Arizona Constitution has offered insight into the inner workings and interpretations of the document—and the...

Burton Barr

Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona

by Philip VanderMeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Politics, like poker, requires timing and risk, and Burton Barr of Arizona knew it. The deal maker of Arizona politics would say, “You gotta know when to hold them.” For more than two decades, Barr played his political cards with skill as he led Arizona through an era of enormous growth and success. Considered...

Aztlán Arizona

Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978

by Darius V. Echeverría
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements against the backdrop of broad societal shifts that...

Mapping Wonderlands

Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962

by Dori Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Though tourism now plays a recognized role in historical research and regional studies, the study of popular touristic images remains sidelined by chronological histories and objective statistics. Further, Arizona remains underexplored as an early twentieth-century tourism destination when compared...
by John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, Raymond W. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

Long awaited by professional geologists and amateur rockhounds alike, the new Mineralogy of Arizona is a completely revised and greatly expanded edition of a book first published in 1977 and updated in 1982. New material covers 232 minerals discovered in Arizona since the first edition, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

On any given day in Arizona, thousands of Mexican-descent workers labor to make living in urban and rural areas possible. The majority of such workers are largely invisible. Their work as caretakers of children and the elderly, dishwashers or cooks in restaurants, and hotel housekeeping staff, among...
by James E. Officer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

The history of the American West has usually been seen from the perspective of American expansion. Drawing on previously unexplored primary sources, James E. Officer has now produced a major work that traces the Hispanic roots of southern Arizona and northern Sonora—one which presents the Spanish...

Angela Hutchinson Hammer

Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman

by Betty E. Hammer Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

In 1905, with her marriage dissolved and desperate to find a way to feed her children, Angela Hutchinson Hammer bought a handpress, some ink, and a few fonts of type, and began printing a little tabloid called the Wickenburg Miner. In her naïveté, Angela never dreamed this purchase would place her...
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