University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
The Quiet Extinction
Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In the United States and Canada, thousands of species of native plants are edging toward the brink of extinction, and they are doing so quietly. They are slipping away inconspicuously from settings as diverse as backyards and protected lands. The factors that have contributed to their disappearance...
Ponderosa
Big Pine of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
For hundreds of years, the massive ponderosa pine of the U.S. Southwest has left multitudes in awe. After spending nearly three decades researching among these trees, Sylvester Allred shares his wealth of experience in the southwestern ponderosa pine forests with the world in Ponderosa.
Ponderosa...
Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
"Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview," Enrique Salmón writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the Tohono O’odham of the Sonoran Desert and the Rarámuri of the Sierra Tarahumara,...
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Winner of the John Burroughs Association’s John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries...
Interwoven
Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In the 1600s, Marcos Cunamasi, an indigenous man in Pelileo, Ecuador, hid his child to protect him from officials who would put the boy to work in the textile mill. Cunamasi was forced to turn him over. Because his young son couldn’t keep up with spinning his quota of wool per day, Cunamasi helped...
by Grenville Goodwin, Ronnie Lupe, Philip J. Greenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
“This volume contains translations of Apache stories that reflect our distinct view of the world and our approach to life. These myths and fables have survived through untold generations because the truth contained in them is eternal and the moral lessons that they teach are still valid. . . . You...
Fighting Sprawl and City Hall
Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl. While this conflict is usually considered to have...
by Tracy L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Pueblo people reacted to Spanish colonialism in many different ways. While some resisted change and struggled to keep to their long-standing traditions, others reworked old practices or even adopted Spanish ones. Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico examines...
Native and Spanish New Worlds
Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Spanish-led entradas—expeditions bent on the exploration and control of new territories—took place throughout the sixteenth century in what is now the southern United States. Although their impact was profound, both locally and globally, detailed analyses of these encounters are notably scarce....
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic,...
Medicine Trail
The Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Contrary to the fictional account of James Fenimore Cooper, the Mohegan/Mohican nation did not vanish with the death of Chief Uncas more than three hundred years ago. In the remarkable life story of one of its most beloved matriarchs—100-year-old medicine woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon—Medicine Trail...
Ciudad Juárez
Saga of a Legendary Border City
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Juárez is no ordinary city. Its history is exhilarating and tragic. Part of the state of Chihuahua and located on the border with the United States opposite El Paso, Texas, Juárez has often captured the world’s attention in dramatic fashion.
In Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border...
Prehistory, Personality, and Place
Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
When Emil Haury defined the ancient Mogollon in the 1930s as a culture distinct from their Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam neighbors, he triggered a major intellectual controversy in the history of southwestern archaeology, centering on whether the Mogollon were truly a different culture or merely a...
Writing the Goodlife
Mexican American Literature and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Winner of the Western Literature Association’s 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies
Mexican American literature brings a much-needed approach to the increasingly urgent challenges of climate change and environmental injustice. Although current...