University Of New Mexico Press imprint: 489 books
Say the Name
A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the...
Wisdom Sits in Places
Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear...
by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.What they said about the first edition:"[The...
The Shoshoneans
The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before—or since—documented in such striking and memorable fashion. Neither a book of journalism nor a work...
Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients
A Celebration of Five Centuries of Lore and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Modern fly-fishing is only the latest chapter in a two-millennia saga of technological creativity and passionate observation of the natural world. In Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients, historian-naturalist Paul Schullery explores the earlier chapters in that saga and unearths a host of provocative...
Tejano Legacy
Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This is a pathbreaking study of Tejano ranchers and settlers in the Lower Río Grande Valley from their colonial roots to 1900. The first book to delineate and assess the complexity of Mexican-Anglo interaction in south Texas, it also shows how Tejanos continued to play a leading role in the commercialization...
Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo
A Rare Photographic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsIn this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickering’s extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the authors now present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned...
Into the Canyon
Seven Years in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Winner of the 2005 Willa Award for Best Memoir from Women Writing the West A 2004 Southwest Books of the YearIn 1968 newlyweds Lucy Moore and her husband moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Chinle, Arizona, where he had taken a job with the recently created Navajo legal services program....
Xylotheque
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Trees are guiding symbols for Yelizaveta P. Renfro in her life and in her work. Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating,...
The Grandchildren of Solano López
Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904–1936
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Paraguay’s Chaco frontier, one of the least known areas in one of the least known countries in South America, became the unexpected scene of the bloodiest international war in the Americas, the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932–35).A picture postcard from the Chaco War era shows...
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives
Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1987
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers...
The Young Neurosurgeon
Lessons from My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
In the ER, the OR, and in the waiting room where the doctors deliver heart stopping news to the families of their patients, a neurosurgeon’s apprenticeship is arduous. This memoir of the day-to-day experiences of a resident in neurosurgery at one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers provides...
The Morganza, 1967
Life in a Legendary Reform School
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Fresh out of college, David Stuart put off graduate school to take a job close to his West Virginia home as a counselor at the Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Known locally as the Morganza, the facility was founded in the nineteenth century as a farm for orphaned boys. By the...
by Peter V. N. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The only comprehensive history of Andean South America from initial settlement to the present, this useful book focuses on Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the four countries where the Andes have played a major role in shaping history.Although Henderson emphasizes the period since the...