University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
La Calle
Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical,...
Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace
The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous...
by Bobby Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Bobby Burns arrived in Tucson, Arizona, with a few dollars in his pocket and no place to live. Without family, without a job, he had nowhere to go but a homeless shelter. How did a college graduate find himself so close to life on the streets? In a voice that is startling for its simplicity and utter...
A Sense of Place
The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Forrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded...
by John Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Spring on the Sonoran Desert can be a four-month-long spectacle of life and color. Within these well-written pages, Alcock exposes us to the plant and animal life of a land many regard as desolate. To Alcock, the desert has a constant evolutionary beauty he never seems to tire of. Alcock's approach...
by Anna Moore Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
"In simple, unaffected prose, Mrs. Shaw constructs a moving saga of Native Americans caught between their tribal past and a Europeanized present. . . . Some of the most interesting passages deal with the wrenching realities of Indian life on the reservation in the years around the turn of the...
by John Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
What could seem less inviting than summer in the desert? For most people, this prospect conjures up the image of relentless heat and parched earth; for biologist John Alcock, summer in Arizona's Sonoran Desert represents an opportunity to investigate the wide variety of life that flourishes in one...
Mission of Sorrows
Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima Indians on New Spain's far northwestern frontier.
For three-quarters of a century, from the first visit by the renowned Eusebio Francisco Kino...
Matrons and Maids
Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, “outing matrons” oversaw and managed...
Stealing the Gila
The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western military...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Nearly four million Americans worked on Barry Goldwater’s behalf in the presidential election of 1964. These citizens were as dedicated to their cause as those who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Arguably, the conservative agenda that began with Goldwater has had effects on...
Reclaiming Diné History
The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816–1894), and his nearly unknown...
A Land Apart
The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Winner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America)
A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest—it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century. Historian...
Hopi Basket Weaving
Artistry in Natural Fibers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
"With the inborn wisdom that has guided them for so long through so many obstacles, Hopi men and women perpetuate their proven rituals, strongly encouraging those who attempt to neglect or disrespect their obligations to uphold them. One of these obligations is to respect the flora and fauna...