University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
by Betsy Fahlman
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Arizona’s art history is emblematic of the story of the modern West, and few periods in that history were more significant than the era of the New Deal. From Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams to painters and muralists including Native American Gerald Nailor, the artists working in Arizona under New...
by Roseann Beggy Hanson, Jonathan Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Southern Arizona is a not only a world-class travel destination, it's also a region with so many natural attractions that even its residents never run out of places to explore. The Southern Arizona Nature Almanac reveals the incredible diversity of the desert Southwest by highlighting its most compelling...
Thirty Years Into Yesterday
A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
For thirty years, the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopper—a 500-room Mogollon pueblo located on what is today the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona—probed the past, taught scholars of international repute, and generated controversy. This book offers an extraordinary...
Forging the Copper Collar
Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m....
Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town to round up members and sympathizers of the radical Industrial Workers of the World. Before the morning was over, nearly twelve hundred alleged...
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
George W. P. Hunt was a highly colorful Arizona politician. A territorial representative and seven-time Arizona state governor, Hunt joined Woodrow Wilson in making the Democratic Party the party of Progressive reform. This political biography follows Hunt through his years in the territorial legislature,...
Gateways to the Southwest
The Story of Arizona State Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Arizona is home to some of the region's most stunning national parks and monuments and has had a long tradition of strong federal agencies—along with effective local governments—developing and managing parklands. Before World War II, protecting sites from development seemed counterproductive to...
Senator Dennis DeConcini
From the Center of the Aisle
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Dennis DeConcini, a contemporary of Arizona greats like Sandra Day O’Connor, Barry Goldwater, and Rose Mofford, is an Arizona icon in his own right. Starting his public career as the Pima County Attorney, DeConcini orchestrated an unprecedented rise to a seat in the U.S. Senate, which he held for...
Isabella Greenway
An Enterprising Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
She was at home on the western range and in New York salons. An energetic entrepreneur who managed a ranch, an airline, and a resort. A politician who became a key player in the New Deal. Isabella Greenway blazed a trail for remarkable women in Arizona politics today, from Janet Napolitano to Sandra...
Colonias in Arizona and New Mexico
Border Poverty and Community Development Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
There are approximately half a million people living in 227 officially designated colonias in southern Arizona and New Mexico. These border communities are characterized by poor-quality housing, a lack of infrastructure (paved roads, water and sewer systems, and electricity), high levels of poverty...
Jim Burns' Arizona Birds
From the Backyard to the Backwoods
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Arizona is renowned as a premier birding state, a place where many species rarely seen anywhere else in the country reach the northern end of their migratory range. Jim Burns’ Arizona Birds is a lively portrayal of the habits and habitats of seventy-five of these unique southwestern species. Burns...
Raising Arizona's Dams
Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the...
Rim Country Exodus
A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Winner Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
For thousands of years, humans have lived on the sprawling escarpment in Arizona known as the Mogollon Rim, a stretch that separates the valleys of central Arizona from the mountains of the north. A vast portion of this dramatic landscape...
Mo
The Life and Times of Morris K. Udall
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Everybody liked Mo. Throughout his political life— and especially during his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976— thousands of people were drawn to Arizona congressman Morris K. Udall by his humor, humanity, and courage. This biography traces the remarkable career of the candidate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
From the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, the world of the ancestral Pueblo people (Anasazi) was in transition, undergoing changes in settlement patterns and community organization that resulted in what scholars now call the Pueblo III period. This book synthesizes the archaeology of the...