University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
by Thomas P. Huber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person were to close their eyes, they could not tell if they were in Provence or the North...
High Plains Horticulture
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of...
A History of Mortgage Banking in the West
Financing America's Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Part economic history, part public history, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West is an insider’s account of how the mortgage banking sector worked over the last 150 years, including analysis of the causes of the 2007 mortgage crisis. Beginning with the land and railroad development acts that...
by David M. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Water users of the Platte River Basin have long struggled to share this scarce commodity in the arid high plains, ultimately organizing collectively owned and managed water systems, allocating water along extensive stream systems, and integrating newer groundwater with existing surface-water uses....
Hard as the Rock Itself
Place and Identity in the American Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized...
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920
Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
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...
Histories of Infamy
Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"Roa-de-la-Carrera convincingly shows that Gómara, as well as other historians in the period, cannot easily ignore nor erase the contradictions of the Spanish colonial project."
- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas
“In an eloquent and thorough exegesis, Roa-de-la-Carrera...
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
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...
These "Thin Partitions"
Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
*These “Thin Partitions” *explores the intellectual and methodological differences that separate two of the four subdisciplines within the field of anthropology: archaeology and cultural anthropology. Contributors examine the theoretical underpinnings of this separation and explore what can be...
Chilling Effect
A Lucinda Hayes Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2005
Equal parts courtroom drama, intellectual journey, and character study, Chilling Effect is Marianne Wesson's most provocative Lucinda Hayes mystery to date.
When attorney Lucinda Hayes reluctantly agrees to represent the mother of a brutally slain child, she must convince the court that the...
by David Milofsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
This is a rich, absorbing novel about good, evil, and the inability of the legal system to mediate between the two. Two white Milwaukee motorcycle cops pursue and kill a young black man on a bitterly cold winter night in 1959 and with the help of their su
A Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives,...
Prairie Ghost
Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A Wildlife Management Institute Book
In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...