University Of Utah Press: 82 books
The Guardian Poplar
A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
When Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1983 and Cold Fusion came under fire in 1989, Chase Peterson, as the University of Utah president, was inevitably pulled into these campus events. While these episodes may be the best known in Peterson’s professional history, they are certainly...
by Armando Solórzano
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The history of Mexican Americans in Utah is complex, but it is also a history that is neither well represented in mainstream recounting nor well recognized in the mainstream understanding of Utah’s past. Convoluted interactions among Native Americans, Spaniards, French, Mexicans, Anglos, and others...
Utah and the Great War
The Beehive State and the World War I Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.
In time for the centennial of the United States’s entry into World War I, this collection of seventeen essays explores the war experience in Utah...
Conscience and Community
Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined. All professors at the University of Utah, these three scholars addressed issues and events of their time; each influenced the thought and culture of Mormonism, helping to institute a period of intellectual...
Dance with the Bear
The Joe Rosenblatt Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This carefully researched and illuminating biography recounts a pivotal period in Utah’s history as revealed by the life of businessman, community activist, and statesman Joe Rosenblatt. After successfully building Eimco Corporation, his manufacturing and construction business, into an industry...
War and Diplomacy
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Combining different disciplinary perspectives, War and Diplomacy argues that the key events that portended the beginning of the end of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire were the The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. The essays in this volume analyze how the war and the treaty...
The Women
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. But many family sagas in the right...
Desert Water
The Future of Utah's Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Hal Crimmel has brought the findings of science together with the experienced voices of environmental social scientists, humanists, and activists to provide perspective on Utah water issues. The matters discussed are relevant beyond this one state, as similar conditions and concerns, especially over...
by Chris Ames
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Before a post-divorce road trip Chris Ames had been ensconced in French domesticity, with a wife, two children, and a regular job. Returning to Paris after that trip, he became an American vagabond and seeker who, lacking sufficient means and motivation to pay the rent and invest again in permanence,...
When the White House Calls
From Immigrant Entrepreneur to U.S. Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When the White House Calls tells the life story of John Price, one of Utah’s most prominent citizens, beginning with his birth in Germany through his years as a successful builder and real estate developer—with business interests in broadcasting, manufacturing, distribution, and banking—to his...
Ordinary Trauma
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
As if she could not bear to leave it, Jennifer Sinor came into this spinning world twice, once dead and once alive, the first time born from her mother, the second, from a bucket, its silvery metal sides a poor substitute for the womb, yet enough. Through spare yet lyrical prose, Sinor threads together...
Danish, But Not Lutheran
The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The Danish-Mormon migration to Utah in the nineteenth century was, relative to population size, one of the largest European religious out-migrations in history. Hundreds of thousands of Americans can trace their ancestry to Danish Mormons, but few know about the social and cultural ramifications...
Roads in the Wilderness
Conflict in Canyon Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Winner of the Wallace Stegner Prize in American Environmental or Western History
The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial...
Jumping the Abyss
Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933–1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Mark Wayne Nelson details the efforts of one of America’s most underappreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration. As a Republican businessman, Eccles seemed an unlikely candidate for the role of leading crusader...