University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West.
Gold and silver could...
Making the White Man's West
Whiteness and the Creation of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American...
Words and Worlds Turned Around
Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
A sophisticated, state-of-the-art study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies, Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. The book surveys how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages; explores...
The House on Lemon Street
Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry,...
Carrying the Word
The Concheros Dance in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican...
Fire Management in the American West
Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed...
The End of Time
The Maya Mystery of 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
December 21, 2012. The Internet, bookshelves, and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it. Whether the end will result from the magnentic realignment of the north and south poles, bringing...
Navajo Textiles
The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug...
by Kevin Holdsworth
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here—about the people, the “survivors and casualties” of the small, remote...
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos”...
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing,...
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which...
Soils, Climate and Society
Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by...
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Stones, Bones, and Profiles addresses key and cutting-edge research of three pillars of hunter-gatherer archaeology. Stones and bones—flaked stone tools and the bones of the prey animals—are the objects most commonly recovered from hunter-gatherer archaeological sites, and profiles represent...