University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Los Tucsonenses
The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Originally a presidio on the frontier of New Spain, Tucson was a Mexican community before the arrival of Anglo settlers. Unlike most cities in California and Texas, Tucson was not initially overwhelmed by Anglo immigrants, so that even until the early 1900s Mexicans made up a majority of the town's...
The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region
Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region presents advanced anthropological theorizing of culture in an important regional setting. Not a static entity, the transborder region is peopled by ever-changing groups who face the challenges of social inequality: political enforcement of privilege, economic subordination...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a...
The Southwest
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
With its scattered mountains and high rims, its dry air and summer lightning, its rising tier of biomes from desert grasses to alpine conifers, and its aggressive exurban sprawl, something in the Southwest is ready to burn each year and some high-value assets seem ever in their path. But the past...
The Interior West
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways that the region’s various parts show profoundly different...
The Great Plains
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast, grassy expanse that was either burnt or burning. The scene continued to burn until the land was plowed under or grazed away and broken by innumerable roads and towns. Yet, where the original landscape has persisted, so has fire, and where...
Slopovers
Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence.
The Mid-American oak woodlands were...
Here and There
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expression. There is no single way to understand it.
In...
Between Two Fires
A Fire History of Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony,...
Downcanyon
A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with a unique point of view. Ann Zwinger's is that of a naturalist, an "observer at the river's brim."
Teamed with scientists and other volunteer naturalists, Zwinger was part of an ongoing study of change along the Colorado....
Florida
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb. Something can always burn. Fires burn longleaf, slash, and sand pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth, the dry winters, the widely cast sparks—Florida is built to burn.
In this important new collection...
The Northeast
A Fire Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the Northeast has led national developments in fire. Its intellectuals argued for model preserves in the Adirondacks and at Yellowstone, oversaw the first mapping of the American fire scene for the 1880 census, staffed the 1896 National Academy of Sciences forest commission...
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities...
Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Ethnobiology holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many because of its dedication to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultural practices in some of the most distinctive places on Earth. Yet we live in a world of diminishing natural and linguistic diversity....