University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
by Will Croft Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...