Bøger udgivet af University of New Mexico Press

What happens when two oft-divorced and middle-aged sex friends tie the knot again? Birds do it, bees do it, and Roger and Zelda do it whenever their teenage kids aren't looking. Their ecstasy is boundless. But when the darker side of Paradise rears its comical head, they suddenly find themselves trapped in a Three Stooges movie directed by Freddy Krueger.

New Mexico's twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science - as well as good old-fashioned detective work - Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico's greatest mysteries.

"Since his initial appearance in the press in 1877, Geronimo has seldom been absent from public attention. This book explores the ways in which the famous Chiricahua Apache has been represented in various media, including literature, film, music, and photography. It also examines Geronimo's manipulation of his own image during his time as prisoner of war"--Provided by publisher.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World - not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. This survey of the history of domestic livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used animals and how those uses affected the region's landscapes and cultures.

Scholars have disagreed about Maya participation in Guatemala's civil war, and the development of oppositional activism by Mayas during the war is poorly understood. The author explores this history in detail, examining the roots and diversity of Maya organizing and its place in the unfolding conflict.

Trees are guiding symbols for Yelizaveta P. Renfro in her life and in her work. Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating, section by section, a life.

Offers a compelling examination of how historians in Spain and the Americas have come to understand and write about the Spanish colonial past and its meanings for national presents. The eight essays situate historians' writings within the context of their day, suggesting how "history" has -- perhaps more often than not -- responded to present-day needs, agendas, and expectations.

Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones criss-crossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working conditions. This work recounts her story explaining the dramatic times through which she lived and to which she contributed so much.

'Tai-Me' is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. The author set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. This book gathers these stories.

Connecting the political changes of the Bourbon Reforms (1759-1788) and constitutional monarchy (1808-1821) to those of the independence era (1821-1839), this book shows the nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states with basic governments and articulated national identities.

Examines the sobering realities associated with the participation of ordinary Americans in the development of the US's nuclear weapons arsenal. Len Ackland skilfully weaves together the experiences of individuals with clear explanations of nuclear weapons technology, the dangers posed by plutonium and radiation, and the fight between government agencies over environmental degradation.

Travel, blood, and transgression are the materials that art shapes in these poems. Carole Simmons Oles's work moves among physical, spiritual, and metaphorical frontiers where East meets West, where relationships are forged and broken, and where a woman can now process and reflect on the experiences that have shaped her life.

Largely forgotten today, the National Council on Indian Opportunity (1968-1974) was the US federal government's establishment of self-determination as a way to move Indians into the mainstream of American life. In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people.

In this new book Glenna Luschei's poems take her and her readers around the world, but in the end they return to centre on the American West, where her heart lies. Celebrating life, travel, ageing, and nature, this new book shines with Luschei's view of the world.

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramatically in the twelfth century in a mere forty years. David E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through ground breaking archaeology to explore the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi and how it parallels patterns throughout modern societies.

In this enthralling memoir we follow Max Evans and Sam Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior - sometimes directed at Evans himself. Evans's stories provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends, and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

Describes the injustice and suffering of the Mexican community during the 1930s and focuses on the experiences of individuals forced to undergo betrayal, deprivation, and adjustment. This work addresses the inclusion of the event in educational curriculum, the issuance of a formal apology, and the question of fiscal remuneration.

An anthology composed of poets from around the world who write about the struggles of the world's outcasts, immigrants, and working classes. Although diverse in their ethnicity, experience, and writing styles, the contributing poets are united by a common interest in promoting peace, justice, and human welfare.

Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on army posts in the American West, serving in California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas. Throughout his career he kept a detailed journal and sent long letters home to his sister in upstate New York. This selection of Lauderdale's writings offers an insightful account of army life that will teach readers much about the growth of the West in a time of rapid change.

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial Mexico. The essays collected here chart daily life through the study of sex and marriage, love, lust and jealousy, civic rituals and preaching, gambling and leisure, prayer and penance, and protest and rebellion.

Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world resembling eighteenth-century North America. The original trilogy is available here for the first time as a fully revised one-volume novel.