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| 2001 SUPPLEMENT TO VRANESH'S COLORADO WATER LAW, REVISED EDITION [James N Corbridge Jr, Teresa A Rice & Stuart B Corbridge] A comprehensive reference resource for attorneys practicing in the field of water law as well as individuals and institutions interested in the acquisition and distribution of water. This annual supplement will ensure that this volume remains the most current and usable reference work in the field of Colorado water law. { 24pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £7.99, 0870816497:9780870816499 , University Press of Colorado } |
| 2003 SUPPLEMENT TO VRANESH'S COLORADO WATER LAW, REVISED EDITION [James N Corbridge Jr, Teresa A Rice & Stuart B Corbridge] We are pleased to announce the 2003 Supplement to Vranesh's Colorado Water Law, Revised Edition, a comprehensive reference resource for attorneys practicing in the field of water law as well as individuals and institutions interested in the acquisition and distribution of water. This biannual supplement ensures that this volume remains the most current and usable reference work in the field of Colorado water law. { 300pp, March 2004; PB, £11.50, 0870817558:9780870817557 , University Press of Colorado } |
| 2005 SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK, THIRD EDITION THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK, originally published in 1993 and most recently revised in 2004, is a comprehensive treatise providing readers with the necessary historical, factual, and legal framework to understand the complexities that states, Indian tribes, and the federal government face when dealing with Indian lands. The annual supplement, an integral, distinguishing feature of the Deskbook, ensures that the Deskbook remains the most current and useful reference work in American Indian law. The 2005 Supplement reviews all decisions issued prior to July 2005, updates federal statutes and administrative regulations through July 2005, and updates law review articles through spring 2005. { 136pp, 180x260mm, February 2006; PB, £13.50, 0870818368:9780870818363 , University Press of Colorado } |
| 2005 SUPPLEMENT TO VRANESH'S COLORADO WATER LAW, REVISED EDITION [James N Corbridge Jr, Teresa A Rice & Stuart B Corbridge] Originally written by George Vranesh and published in 1987, VRANESH'S COLORADO WATER LAW is an indispensable reference for attorneys practicing in the fields of water law and real estate, for engineers and hydrologists, and for individuals, companies, and public institutions concerned with the distribution of water. It was most recently published in a revised edition by James N Corbridge Jr and Teresa A Rice in 2000. The 2005 Supplement, which includes cases and materials through 2005, ensures that Vranesh's Colorado Water Law remains the most current and comprehensive reference in the field. { 40pp, 180x255mm, September 2006; PB, £17.99, 0870818422:9780870818424 , University Press of Colorado } |
| 2006 SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK : 3rd Edition THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK, originally published in 1993 and most recently revised in 2004, is a comprehensive treatise providing readers with the necessary historical, factual, and legal framework to understand the complexities that states, Indian tribes, and the federal government face when dealing with Indian lands. The annual supplement, an integral, distinguishing feature of the Deskbook, ensures that the Deskbook remains the most current and useful reference work in American Indian law. The 2006 Supplement reviews all decisions issued prior to July 2006, updates federal statutes and administrative regulations through July 2006, and updates law review articles through spring 2006. { 176pp, 180x260mm, January 2006; PB, £19.99, 0870818635:9780870818639 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN WEST : A Century of Short Stories [Laurie Champion & Bruce Glasrud] The distinguished body of short stories depicting African Americans in the western United States has long been overlooked for a number of reasons: black writers were historically denied publication in white journals, American publishers have shown bias towards East Coast fiction, and the short story has frequently been neglected in literary circles. In response to this lack of recognition, Bruce Glasrud and Laurie Champion have compiled THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WEST: A CENTURY OF SHORT STORIES. The beginning of the twentieth century saw western American writers giving new meaning to the literature portraying African Americans. Rather than reproducing the racial stereotypes and condescending dialogue found in past fiction of the eastern United States, these authors portrayed black Americans seeking new lives. Ranging from early twentieth-century writers such as Charles Chesnutt to contemporary authors such as Walter Mosley, the works in The African American West demonstrate how the West, as seen through the eyes of African Americans, has evolved over the last century. { 463pp, January 2000; HB, £19.99, 0870815598:9780870815591 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AFRICAN RENAISSANCE : Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art [Moyo Okediji] This book describes, analyses, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth-and twenty-first century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria's independence and the new nation's subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland. Based upon extensive interviews with the artists and critical readings of the existing literature on contemporary Yoruba art, the book will appeal to the art historian and art collector and serve as a wonderful introduction to the canon of Yoruba art for the general reader. { 202pp, 215x280mm, August 2002; PB, £16.99, 0870816810:9780870816819 / HB, £36.99, 0870816888:9780870816888 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AFTER MONTE ALBÁN : Transformation & Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico [Jeffrey P Blomster (ed)] Reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Post-classic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700CE, including the great Zapotec state centred in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimisation. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. Contributors synthesise these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Post-classic that will be crucial to future investigations. REVIEW: "After Monte Albán truly fills a void in current archaeological perspectives on the development of late pre-Hispanic Oaxacan civilizations, placing them at the forefront of a new synthesis and at the same time highlighting a frontier of exciting research avenues for the future." -- Marilyn Masson, University at Albany (SUNY). "This is without a doubt one of the best volumes ever to be produced on the ancient history of Oaxaca." -- Heather S Orr, Western State College of Colorado. { 438pp, 155x230mm, March 2008; HB, £43.50, 0870818961:9780870818967 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ALEX SWAN & THE SWAN COMPANIES [Lawrence M Woods] The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the American West, and it survived long after it founder’s financial debacle in the great winter of 1886-1887. At one time, the Swan was said to be the largest private landowner in Wyoming, and at its peak it was certainly one of the largest sheep companies in the country. This work for the first time relates the life of Alex Swan, and offers a complete history of the Swan companies. Lawrence M Woods has combed the surviving corporate records and other documents held in the United States and abroad. At the height of his financial life, Swan was said to be the richest man in Wyoming Territory, and his influence extended beyond business affairs to community service, both in Wyoming and in Iowa. Yet, after his dramatic financial collapse, there were many who ridiculed what he had done, and Swan’s silence has left those criticisms on the record, without rebuttal. Swan, a leader in the Wyoming Stock Growers Association from its founding in 1873, served as its second president. Promoting the use of Hereford cattle on the high plains, he was a force in the Wyoming ranching world, especially after his move to Cheyenne in 1874. Woods details Swan’s life in the years after his separation from the Scottish-controlled Swan Land and Cattle Company, especially his activities in Ogden, Utah. The Swan companies continued operation into the mid-twentieth century. John Clay played a major role in their operation, and he figures prominently in their story. Alex Swan and the Swan Companies is an important portrait of the inner workings of the western cattle industry and its leaders. The book has a bibliography, index, and three appendices. { 293pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; HB, £23.50, 087062346X:9780870623462 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ALONG THE RAMPARTS OF THE TETONS : The Saga of Jackson Hole, Wyoming [Robert B Betts] The magnificent valley of Jackson Hole at the base of the soaring Teton Range has long been a stage on which a remarkable series of events has been acted out by an equally remarkable cast of characters. This is that story, told with a verve and excitement which brings the past alive. In these pages, the reader will witness the dramatic creation of the Tetons; the arrival of the first humans, bands of fur-clad Early Hunters who ventured into the valley some 10,000 years ago; the coming and going of the later Indian tribes; and the nearly incredible journey of John Colter, who back in 1807 is said to have been the first white man to have found his way through the wilderness and into Jackson Hole. { 249pp, 200x255mm, January 1978; PB, £17.50, 0870811177:9780870811173 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICA'S SWITZERLAND : Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years [James H Pickering] America’s Switzerland, a companion volume to “This Blue Hollow,” is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources and extensive archival research, James H. Pickering reveals how the evolution of tourism and America’s fascination with the “western experience” shaped the park and town from 1903 to 1945. America’s Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to historical literature, on how Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park—the most visited national park west of the Mississippi —developed to welcome ever-growing crowds. Pickering profiles the individuals behind the development and details the challenges park and town confronted during decades that included two world wars and the Great Depression. { 457pp, 155x230mm, August 2005; HB, £19.99, 0870818066:9780870818066 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICAN COCKERELL : A Naturalist's Life, 1866-1948 [William A Weber (ed)] In The American Cockerell: A Naturalist’s Life, botanist William A. Weber pulls together pieces of the life of T D A 'Theo' Cockerell, a man who was an internationally known scientist, a prolific writer, and a highly regarded teacher at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The elder brother of the noted scholar Sir Sydney Cockerell, Theo laboured in relative obscurity in America while his brothers and their families were basking in the limelight of smart British society. His contribution to the understanding of wild bees is monumental-he catalogued over 900 species in Colorado alone, and he assiduously collected them wherever he travelled. By 1938 he had published the names and descriptions of 5,480 new species and subspecies. He was also an early supporter of women’s rights, a Morrisian socialist, an avid reader, and author of almost 4,000 published scientific papers, book reviews, and discussions of social issues. { 360pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; HB, £19.99, 087081544X:9780870815447 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK : 4th Edition [Conference of Western Attorneys] A collaborative effort from attorney general offices faced daily with legal questions involving state and tribal relations, this is an up-to-date, comprehensive treatise on Indian law. The Deskbook provides readers with the necessary historical and legal framework to understand the complexities faced by states, Indian tribes, and the federal government in Indian country. Included are the following: The evolution of federal statutory Indian law and the judicial foundations of federal Indian policy; An extensive compilation and analysis of federal and state court decisions; Reservation and Indian lands ownership and property interests; The parameters of criminal jurisdiction in Indian country; Concepts of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction relating to a number of specific areas, including tribal courts, hunting and fishing, environmental regulation, water rights, gaming, and child welfare; Co-operative approaches used by the states and tribes for resolving jurisdictional disputes and promoting better relations. Thorough, scholarly, and balanced, the Deskbook is an invaluable reference for a wide range of people working with Indian tribes, including attorneys, legal scholars, government officials, social workers, state and tribal jurists, and historians. This revised edition includes information from more recent court decisions, federal statutes, administrative regulations, and law reviews. { February 2009; HB, £56.99, 0870819259:9780870819254 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK, 3RD EDITION : 2007 Supplement: 3rd Edition [Conference of Western Attorneys General] "The American Indian Law Deskbook", originally published in 1993 and most recently revised in 2004, is a comprehensive treatise providing readers with the necessary historical, factual, and legal framework to understand the complexities that states, Indian tribes, and the federal government face when dealing with Indian lands. The annual supplement is an integral, distinguishing feature of the Deskbook. The 2007 Supplement reviews decisions issued prior to July 2007, updates federal statutes and administrative regulations through July 2007, and updates law review articles through spring 2007. { 216pp, 180x260mm, January 2008; PB, £19.99, 0870818929:9780870818929 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICAN INDIAN LAW DESKBOOK, THIRD EDITION : Conference of Western Attorneys General [Clay Smith (ed)] A collaborative effort from Attorney General Offices throughout the country -- faced daily with legal questions involving state and tribal relations -- The American Indian Law Deskbook, Third Edition, is an up-to-date, comprehensive treatise on Indian law. The Deskbook provides readers with the necessary historical and legal framework to understand the complexities faced by states, Indian tribes, and the federal government in Indian country. Included are discussions of: The evolution of federal statutory Indian law and the judicial foundations of federal Indian policy; An extensive compilation and analysis of federal and state court decisions; Reservation and Indian lands ownership and property interests; The parameters of criminal jurisdiction in Indian country; Concepts of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction relating to a number of specific areas including tribal courts, hunting and fishing, environmental regulation, water rights, gaming, and child welfare; and Cooperative approaches used by the states and tribes for resolving jurisdiction disputes and promoting better relations. Thorough, scholarly, and balanced, The American Indian Law Deskbook, Third Edition, is an invaluable reference for a wide range of people working with Indian tribes, including attorneys and legal scholars, government officials, social workers, state and tribal jurists, and historians. This revised edition includes information from court decisions, federal statutes, and administrative regulations through June 2003 as well as law review articles through the Spring of 2003. { 634pp, 180x260mm, March 2004; HB, £56.99, 0870817566:9780870817564 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICAN WOMEN IN WORLD WAR I : They Also Served [Lettie Gavin] Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women’s wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. "American Women in World War I" captures the spirit of these determined patriots and their times for every reader and will be of special interest to military, women’s, and social historians. { 295pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; PB, £15.99, 0870818252:9780870818257 , University Press of Colorado } |
| AMERICANS VIEW THEIR DUST BOWL EXPERIENCE : A Crow Creek Trilogy [Frances W Kaye, Vernon Carstensen & John R Wunder] Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades. { 429pp, 155x230mm, February 2002; PB, £14.99, 0870816489:9780870816482 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ANCIENT PINON-JUNIPER WOODLANDS : A Natural History of Mesa Verde Country [M Lisa Floyd (ed)] This book gathers together noted scientists and historians to celebrate the varied and unique woodland region surrounding Mesa Verde National Park. One of the most widespread habitat types in the West, piñon-juniper woodlands have faced extensive eradication, grazing pressures, and the encroachment of human developments, and, consequently, only a few mature stands have reached their full growth potential. Mesa Verde Country, with its deep canyons and high ridgetops, is the magnificent home of many of these ancient stands. Impressively broad in scope, Floyd's volume thoroughly explores Mesa Verde Country's important and historic ecosystem. Covering such diverse topics as geologic evolution, natural history, human history, bats, and fungi, to name but a few, this volume will appeal to scientists, resource managers, conservationists, and the lay reader with an interest in this most western of ecosystems. { 389pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £19.99, 0870817493:9780870817496 / HB, £46.99, 087081740X:9780870817403 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ANCIENT TRADITIONS : Shamanism in Central Asia & the Americas [Gary Seaman & Jane S Day (eds)] Shamanism is the world’s oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central Asia and the Indian Americas provides sound and engaging scholarship that reflects the great diversity in this fascinating field. First published in 1994, Ancient Traditions has become a vital, frequently cited reference in the ongoing study of ancient religions. Over the centuries, shamanism has endured as an abiding topic of interest not only because of a human concern with the past but also because of a common yearning to acknowledge life lived in closer symbolic relationship to the earth. For readers interested in indigenous cultures and religions, this collection of essays clarifies much of the New Age speculation on universals in shamanism, offering solid research on specific ethnic and historical expressions. { 312pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £19.99, 0870813420:9780870813429 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLORADO VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, 1776-1995 [Linda H Beidleman, Reba R Beidleman & Richard G Beidleman] This compilation catalogues the writings on the diverse vertebrate species within Colorado's boundaries beginning with the Escalante Expedition, which skirted the western slope a century before Colorado's statehood. Because of its geographical location-between East and West, North and Southwest, its altitudinal range of more than 11,000 feet, and its consequent variety of ecosystems from desert shrub to alpine tundra, Colorado ranks high among the fifty states for its variety of vertebrates. With such an abundance of these vertebrates, biologists and observant laypersons have had much to write about. This comprehensive bibliography is divided into major sections: General Natural History, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals. Each taxonomic group has a general section, followed by listings at taxon levels down to alphabetically-arranged species. The bibliography is especially complete with respect to periodical literature through 1995. Colorado Vertebrate Zoology cites resources for studying both well-researched vertebrates and those needing more study. { 447pp, 215x280mm, July 2000; HB, £83.50, 0870815571:9780870815577 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ANTARCTICA UNVEILED : Scott's First Expedition & the Quest for the Unknown Continent [David E Yelverton] Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and An Introduction by Robert Swan, OBE. A three-dimensional account, almost entirely based on original sources, that will ring true to those who have travelled in the footsteps of the pioneers, this book tells the full story of an expedition that has been largely erased from public perception by the drama of Scott's second expedition a decade later. The book's many new insights into an historic British achievement, and its immediate aftermath, should allow an altogether fairer estimation of its ranking in the annals of 20th Century exploration than it has been accorded in the last twenty years. Hampered by an Admiralty, jealous of civilian control of an expedition for which they would have to provide men, and restricted by budgetary restraints unknown to the Germans, whose parallel expedition, funded almost entirely by their government, is recounted in summary form, this was an expedition that: first penetrated the interior of Antarctica, opening the way to a century of research, in the region of its discoveries, that has yielded benefits to everyone on the planet; discovered more about Antarctica than six other expeditions that went south at the dawn of the 20th century; brought back key evidence of the existence of an Antarctic continent rather than a polar archipelago, at that time the greatest prize for geographers and scientists alike; effectively located the 'lost' South Magnetic Pole, so vital to southern hemisphere navigation before the era of satellites; was anything but the prisoner of outdated naval tradition, the methods adopted being almost entirely those expounded by the Norwegian explorer, Nansen, who described its results as 'magnificent' -- even the number of dogs used was based on the famous explorer's North Pole attempt. REVIEW: "A book for aficionados of the Antarctic scene, wonderful detail, first-rate appendices..." -- The Naval Review, Autumn 2001. "The most thoroughly researched polar book of the last forty years..." -- Colin Bull. { 440pp, 155x230mm, December 2000; HB, £23.50, 0870815822:9780870815829 , University Press of Colorado } |
| APOTHEOSIS OF JANAAB' PAKAL : Science, History, & Religion at Classic Maya Palenque [Gerardo Aldana] Takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognised by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks these mathematical riddles using an approach grounded in a reading of the texts made possible by recent advances in decipherment. Using a history of science methodology, he expands upon (and sometimes questions) the foundational work of archaeoastronomers. Aldana follows three lines of investigation: a reading of the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classic period (ad250-900), mathematical analysis to recover Classic Maya astronomical practice, and a historiography of Maya astronomy. During troubled times in Palenque, Aldana contends, Kan Balam II devised a means to preserve the legitimacy of his ruling dynasty. He celebrated a re-creation of the city as a contemporary analogue of a mythical Creation on three levels: monumental construction for a public audience, artistic patronage for an elite audience, and a secret mathematical astronomical language only for rulers-elect. Discussing all of these efforts, Aldana focuses on the recovery of the secret language and its historical context. { 230pp, 155x230mm, June 2007; HB, £36.99, 087081866X:9780870818660 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CENTRAL SINAI, EGYPT [Frank W Eddy, Fred Wendorf & Associates] This volume details the findings of a reconnaissance survey of seventy-five archaeological sites and the subsequent excavation of ten representative sites on the Sinai Peninsula. Based on field work conducted in 1996 by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (SPE) in the upper Wadi Grafi Basin, An Archaeological Investigation of the Central Sinai, Egypt, sheds further light on the Timnian Tradition of the southern Levant, one of the earliest (7000-3000 B.P.) nomadic pastoral cultures described to date. This book is divided into two parts, one describing the results of the survey and the other detailing the later excavations in the fall. Complete with 101 line drawings, 60 maps, and 23 black and white photos, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the pre-historic archaeology of the Sinai region. { 368pp, 220x285mm, July 1999; HB, £49.99, 0870815377:9780870815379 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES ON THE HIGH PLAINS [Laura L Scheiber (ed)] This book combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasising hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, the book explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme--that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: Paul Burnett; Oskar Burger; Minette C Church; Philip Duke; Kevin Gilmore; Eileen Johnson; Mark D Mitchell; Michael R Peterson; Lawrence Todd. { February 2009; HB, £36.99, 0870819313:9780870819315 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY OF REGIONAL INTERACTION : Religion, Warfare, & Exchange Across the American Southwest & Beyond [Michelle Hegmon (ed)] This book surpasses most regional studies, which often consider only settlement patterns or exchange, and investigates other forms of interaction such as intermarriage and the spread of religious practices. The authors focus especially on understanding the social processes that underlie archaeological evidence of interaction. The essays in this volume examine what regional systems involve, in terms of political and economic relations, and how they can be identified. { 467pp, 160x2350mm, August 1999; HB, £43.50, 0870815229:9780870815225 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ARCHAEOLOGY WITHOUT BORDERS : Contact, Commerce, & Change in the US Southwest & Northwestern Mexico [Laurie D Webster & Maxine E McBrinn (eds)] Offers a synthesis of early agricultural adaptations in the region, groundbreaking archaeological research on social identity, and data previously not readily available to English-speaking readers. The twenty-four essays discuss early agriculture, social identity, and cultural landscapes, as well as economic and social interactions within the area now encompassed by northern Mexico and the US Southwest. Contributors examining early agricultural adaptations offer models for understanding the transition to agriculture, explore relationships between the spread of agriculture and Uto-Aztecan migrations, and present data from Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua. Contributors focusing on social identity discuss migration, enculturation, social boundaries, and ethnic identities. They draw on case studies that include diverse artefact classes -- rock art, lithics, architecture, murals, ceramics, cordage, sandals, baskets, faunal remains, and oral histories. Mexican scholars present data from Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Michoacan, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. They address topics including Spanish-indigenous conflicts, archaeological history, cultural landscapes, and interactions among Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, and the US Southwest. { 420pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; HB, £43.50, 0870818899:9780870818899 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ARTHUR CARHART : Wilderness Prophet [Tom Wolf] Arthur Carhart (1892-978), America's first champion of wilderness, the first Forest Service landscape architect, and the most popular conservation writer of mid-century America, won none of the titan status of his contemporary Aldo Leopold. A political maverick, he refused to side with any major advocacy group and none has made him its saint. Carhart was a grassroots thinker in a top-down era. This is the first biography of this Republican environmentalist and major American thinker, writer, and activist which reveals the currency of his ideas. Tom Wolf elucidates Carhart 's vision of conservation as "a job for all of us", with citizens, municipal authorities, and national leaders all responsible for the environmental effects of their decisions. Carhart loved the local and decried interest groups -- from stockmens' associations to wilderness lobbies -- as cliques attempting blanket control. He pressured land management agencies to base decisions on local ecology and local partnerships. A lifelong wilderness advocate who proposed the first wilderness preserve at Trappers Lake, Colorado, in 1919, Carhart chose to oppose the Wilderness Act, heartsick at its compromises with lobbies. Because he shifted his stance and changed his views in response to new information, Carhart is not an easy subject for a biography. Wolf traces Carhart's twists and turns to show a man whose voice was distinctive and contrary, who spoke from a passionate concern for the land and couldn't be counted on for anything else. Readers of American history and outdoor writing will enjoy this portrait of a historic era in conservation politics and the man who so often eschewed politics in favour of the land and people he loved. { 294pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; HB, £23.50, 0870819135:9780870819131 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ASPEN : The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893 [Malcolm J Rohrbough] REVIEW: "...fascinating study in the microcosm of the birth, development, and decline of the western mining frontier. ...admirably places the changes within the context of half a century of continuous mining excitement that stretched from Sutter's Mill in California in 1848 to the Klondike in 1898." -- Choice. { 263pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £17.99, 087081592X:9780870815928 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ATOMIC CULTURE : How We Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb [Scott C Zeman & Michael A Amundson (eds)] Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed films such as ‘Dr. Strangelove' and ‘The Atomic Kid'. Despite the growing interest in atomic culture and history, the body of relevant scholarship is relatively sparse. "Atomic Culture" opens new doors into the field by providing a substantive, engaging, and historically based consideration of the topic that will appeal to students and scholars of the Atomic Age as well as general readers. { 187pp, 155x230mm, June 2004; PB, £15.99, 0870817647:9780870817649 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ATTITUDES ON ALTITUDE : Pioneers of Medical Research in Colorado's High Mountains [John T Reeves & Robert F Grover] John T Reeves and Robert F Grover have gathered together seven episodes narrating the exploits of innovative researchers that led to some extraordinary medical findings, altering the course of medicine in Colorado and throughout the world. From the summit of Pikes Peak to the mountains of Leadville and South Park, from the Maroon Bells above Aspen to the beauty of south-western Colorado, each episode is written by experts close to the original experiments. Descendants, medical colleagues, and those who have subsequently taken up the torch of research all provide unique insight into the history of science above the timberline. Perfect for health care professionals interested in the history of research on the human body's response to exposure at higher altitudes, this book will intrigue mountain climbers, doctors, scientists, residents of Colorado, and medical historians. { 214pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; HB, £15.50, 0870816454:9780870816451 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BALLAD OF BABY DOE : "I Shall Walk Beside My Love" [John Moriarty & Duane A Smith] First produced at the Central City Opera House in 1956, 'The Ballad of Baby Doe' is now widely considered a classic and is the second most produced American opera. In THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE, Smith tells the tale of the complicated birth of this most American of operas. Inspired in 1953 by composer Douglas Moore's interest in Horace Tabor's story and funded by the Central City Opera House Association, the opera came together through a unique combination of hard work and serendipity. Smith relates how key people -- including investors and historians in addition to creative talent -- turned Moore's idea into a reality and brought the story of the Tabors to millions of opera fans worldwide. In addition, Smith compares the opera's libretto with historical reality, and the book even includes a chapter on the production written by John Moriarty, who conducted the opera in 1981, 1988, and 1996. { 133pp, 140x215mm, April 2002; HB, £23.50, 0870816586:9780870816581 / PB, £10.99, 0870816594:9780870816598 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BASIC CONCEPTS IN MUSIC EDUCATION II [Richard Colwell] Topics covered include growth processes, learning theory, functional music, the range of musical experience, technology and evaluation. { 291pp, 160x240mm, January 1991; PB, £29.99, 0870812289:9780870812286 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BATS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST : Natural History, Ecology & Conservation [Rick A Adams] Since antiquity, bats have been misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. Given misnomers such as fledermaus (flying mouse) and murciegalo (blind mouse), these nocturnal flying mammals were even classified as primates by the great Carl Linnaeus, based on his knowledge of the anatomy of large Old World fruit bats. In this beautifully illustrated volume, bat specialist Rick A. Adams delves into bats' true nature and the roles these fascinating ledurblaka (leather flutterers) play in the natural history and ecology of the Rocky Mountain West. BATS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST begins with a general discussion of bat biology and evolution as well as regional physiography and zoogeography. In addition, Adams describes -- based on the results of extensive research -- the behaviour and ecology of the 31 species of bats found in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Naturalists and biologists alike will benefit from the detailed species descriptions, colour photographs and illustrations, distribution maps, and echolocation sonograms. { 289pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £15.99, 0870817361:9780870817366 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BEST PERENNIALS : For the Rocky Mountains & High Plains [Celia Tannehill & James E Klett PhD] Planning a successful perennial garden in Colorado, the Rocky Mountains and High Plains comes with its share of soil and climate challenges. "Best Perennials for the Rocky Mountain High Plains" is a comprehensive guide to the best performing perennials based on performance results from Colorado State University's W.D. Holley Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC). The 322 plants described in this publication were rated according to landscape use, height, width, foliage colour and fall effect, winter injury, ornamental fruit, disease and insect problems. These top-performing perennials are ideal for xeriscapes, rock gardens, wildflower gardens, and the traditional perennial border. Plants that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are also featured. This book is a necessary tool for the horticulture industry, landscape architects and designers, park personnel, the home gardener, and horticulturists in the Rocky Mountain-High Plains region. { 128pp, 215x280mm, May 2003; PB, £13.50, 188914309X:9781889143095 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BIANCASTELLA : A Jewish Partisan in World War Two [Harry Burger] A fascinating and inspiring account of one man's uncommon journey through the horrors of the Holocaust. { 168pp, 155x235mm, July 1997; HB, £14.99, 0870813978:9780870813979 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BIG WONDERFUL : Notes From Wyoming [Kevin Holdsworth] In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts -- or foolishness -- it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment. Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn’t wait to move away. Once ensconced on the East Coast, however, he found himself writing westerns and dreaming of the mountains he’d skied and climbed. Fed up with city life, he moved to a small Wyoming town. In "Big Wonderful", he writes of a mountaineering companion’s death, the difficult birth of his son, and his father’s terminal illness -- encounters with mortality that sharpened his ideas about risk, care, and commitment. He puts a new spin on mountaineering literature, telling wild tales from his reunion with the mountains but also relating the surprising willpower it took to turn back from risks he would have taken before he became a father. He found he needed courage to protect and engage deeply with his family, his community, and the wild places he loves. Holdsworth's essays and poems are rich with anecdotes, characters, and vivid images. Readers will feel as if they themselves watched a bear destroy an entire expedition’s food, walked with his great-great-grandmother along the icy Mormon Trail, and tried to plant a garden in Wyoming’s infamous wind. Readers who love the outdoors will enjoy this funny and touching take on settling down and adventuring in the West’s most isolated country. { 192pp, 125x205mm, November 2006; HB, £17.99, 0870818465:9780870818462 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BINDING OATH [Sybil Downing] Sybil Downing gives us a fast-paced novel that exposes a little-known part of Colorado history. Out of the ashes of disillusionment following World War I, the Ku Klux Klan rose to new heights, its four million members spreading racial and religious hatred across the nation. Colorado was one of the Klan's strongest enclaves, and Downing perfectly captures the subtle, clandestine terror inspired by its tactics of intimidation and violence as well as the power of the fear felt by the people it menaced. Downing creates in Liz O'Brien an adroit and tenacious sleuth who, with the help of her family's former maid Greta Kuhlmann and airmail pilot Frank Capillupo, unravels a treacherous plot to undermine freedom and cover up bootlegging, blackmail, and murder. Suspenseful and filled with meticulously researched historical detail, "The Binding Oath" is a thrilling tale of mystery and intrigue. { 200pp, 155x230mm, February 2002; HB, £16.99, 0870816071:9780870816079 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BIOLOGY OF DISEASE VECTORS [Barry J Beaty & William C Marquardt] Focuses on the molecular and populational aspects of the insects (mosquitoes, midges, black flies, etc.) and acarines (ticks and mites) that serve as transmitters (vectors) of disease agents and is designed to stimulate further studies worldwide. Vector-borne diseases continue to be among the most intractable infectious diseases for both humans and livestock, despite a hundred years of research and control efforts. Of the six diseases considered by the World Health Organisation to be the greatest threat to human health, only one is not vector-borne. Progress in alleviating their harmful effects is likely to come through fundamental studies utilising molecular techniques and epidemiological methods that have been developed over the past fifteen years. These methods are discussed in the book. The forty contributors to this volume are leading, active investigators in vectors and the disease agents they transmit. { 632pp, April 1996; HB, £56.99, 0870814117:9780870814112 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BISON BONES, GOLD MINES & A MORMON DIVORCE : A New York City Journalist [Amos Jay Cummings] { September 2008; HB, £17.99, 0870819267:9780870819261 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BLUEFEATHER FELLINI IN THE SACRED REALM [Max Evans] Continuing the trail of adventures of Bluefeather Fellini, this new novel powerfully illustrates award-winning writer Max Evans's first-hand knowledge of all the cultures living in the Southwest and the mystical deserts and mountains that shape the region's character. The book also reveals Evans's piercing insight into the creatures, domestic and wild, real and mythical, that this vast, sometimes overwhelming, landscape of the soul possesses. A tender love story with a strong, dedicated woman, plus savage battles with the beasts (the worst being man), the book offers a wondrous, revealing look at what might have created the world and what may bring it to and end. There is also the Underground, which is included in the belief of man Indian nations and pueblos: the power of the stars; and an occasional interference of the gods mixed with a gritty reality salted with humour. The lifetime travels of Bluefeather Fellini give a unique look at the magic of the Southwest and the universality of it all. { 368pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; HB, £16.99, 0870813455:9780870813450 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BOOMTOWN BLUES : Colorado Oil Shale [Andrew Gulliford] First published in 1989, 'Boomtown Blues' examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry’s continual cycles of boom and bust. { 316pp, 155x230mm, May 2003; PB, £17.99, 0870817205:9780870817205 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BOULDER : Evolution of a City, Revised Edition [Silvia Pettem] BOULDER: EVOLUTION OF A CITY has captivated newcomers, tourists, and long time residents for years with its dramatic visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder. In this updated edition, 322 photographs -- more than 90 of them current -- capture landmarks, buildings, major events, and quiet moments from the 1860s to 2006. Photographs showing the same locations at several intervals in history reveal Boulder's continuum from past to present. Pettem devotes the first chapter to an introduction of the early photographers whose work appears throughout the book. Moving outward from the central business district as development did, each subsequent chapter focuses on a particular area in Boulder, with an introductory essay followed by historic and contemporary photographs with detailed captions. { 212pp, 215x280mm, June 2006; PB, £13.50, 0870818317:9780870818318 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BOYHOOD IN THE DUST BOWL, 1926-1934 [Robert Allen Rutland] Okemah, where Woody Guthrie once lived and wrote songs, was fighting for existence in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the oil boom ended, cotton fell to ten cents per pound, and Prohibition was in force. Young Rutland was the product of a "broken" home. After his father died of pneumonia at twenty-six years old, Rutland’s mother, unable to care for her children, sent Robert off to live with his alcoholic but caring grandfather, 'Pop', and his wife, 'Mom'. The boarding house in which they lived had a steady stream of personalities flowing through, both for the food Mom served inside to the oil crews and assorted guests and for the booze Pop served out back. Beyond the boarding house, life was equally rich for young Rutland: talking movies on Saturday for a dime, a library filled with magical titles, medicine shows, school yard bullies, bloody noses, and summer camp. But these simplicities of life were mixed with the often painful lessons of reality in depression-era Oklahoma, with poverty, alcoholism, violence, and racism. Told with caring detail, A BOYHOOD IN THE DUST BOWL will carry readers back to a long-lost place and time. { 133pp, 155x230mm, August 2007; PB, £13.50, 0870814850:9780870814853 , University Press of Colorado } |
| BOYS OF WINTER : Life & Death in the US Ski Troops During the Second World War [Charles J Sanders] This book tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders’s fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis. 2005 winner of the International Ski History Association's Ullr Award. { 256pp, 155x230mm, October 2005; PB, £13.50, 0870818236:9780870818233 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CACHE LA POUDRE : The Natural History of a Rocky Mountain River [Howard Ensign Evans & Mary Alice] The Cache la Poudre River and its tributaries flow through the major cities of north central Colorado. In 1986, a major portion of the pristine Cache la Poudre and its south fork were added to the federal Wild and Scenic River system, the first river in Colorado to be included. With its eloquent and often poetic style, Cache la Poudre explains the natural history of the river basin beginning in the tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park and tracing the river eighty miles through several life zones before joining the South Platte just east of Greeley. Arguing convincingly a philosophy of ecological responsibility, the authors tell this story with superb awareness of the balances in nature and the impact of human intrusion. Exquisite detail is paid to plants and animals: descriptions of the complex meanings of birds' songs, the sexual ritual of insects, and the struggles between predators and prey elicit vivid visualisation and an exhilarating sense of discovery. { 260pp, 155x230mm, January 1993; PB, £9.99, 0870813013:9780870813016 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CALLING [Dick Hyson] A captivating story about a northern New Mexico cattle ranch, the Cross S or Piedra (stone), in the 1950s. The action unfolds through the eyes of a half-breed Indian top hand on the ranch, Frank Dalton, as he teaches an enigmatic young would-be cowboy named R C Roth the ways of cowboying, rodeoing, and life itself. As Dalton educates Roth to the ways of 'the calling', both men become embroiled in complicated love affairs -- Dalton falls in love with the daughter of the top hand on a neighbouring ranch, and Roth with Francesca 'Kika' Jaramillo, daughter of a Hispanic rancher-friend of the Cross S's Boss Stone. In addition, both cowboys are confronted with a puzzle begging to be solved -- at the top of the formidable mesa overlooking the Stone ranch is a single, lonely grave marked with a granite headstone bearing the mysterious inscription 'Abajo Verdad-Arriba Cielo' (below is truth, above is sky). { 422pp, December 1998; HB, £16.99, 0870815105:9780870815102 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CANNIBALISM IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE : and Other Notes From Conversations With Anthropologist O C Stewar [Carol L Howell] Omer Stewart is most noted for his career-long study of the Peyote religion. His mentor, A L Kroeber, instilled in him an abiding respect for cultural variation. Applying this fundamental principle to his work in the 1930s, Omer was surprised to find himself at odds with many notable colleagues. With characteristic self-confidence, he was undeterred in his effort to document the religion, defend its practice, and push open the door to applied anthropology. In CANNIBALISM IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE, Carol L Howell weaves together taped interviews with Stewart; excerpts from his letters, notes, and papers; and recollections of family members and others. The result is a fascinating sketch not only of Omer Stewart as a person but also of his contributions to the field of anthropology and the academic and social milieu in which he participated. A must for anthropologists and anyone interested in the art of biography. { June 1998; £19.99, 0870814745:9780870814747 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CARING APPROACH IN NURSING ADMINISTRATION [Jan J Nyberg] This work by Dr Jan Nyberg is guided by a lifelong career of administration and management that is informed by deeper human dimensions of caring, and more lasting approaches to change than quick-fix, economic take overs. Jan Nyberg, an experienced nursing administrator, scholar, and educator, knows another way-from the inside out rather than the outside in. She brings forth her wisdom and knowledge, experiences, and insights so that others may now grasp another way to transform systems for delivery of human caring and healing. This work informs, instructs, and inspires; it invites nurse leaders and other health administrators to reach for what might be, rather than succumbing to what already is. { 265pp, 155x235mm, September 1998; HB, £23.50, 0870814788:9780870814785 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CARNEGIE MAYA -- BOOK & CD-ROM : The Carnegie Institution of Washington Maya Research Program, 1913-1957 [Jane A Hill & John M Weeks] Book and CD-ROM. This complete set of reports from the Carnegie Institution's Maya program collects in one thematically and regionally organised volume hundreds of documents from a foundational New World archaeological project. The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico and northern Central America between 1914 and 1957. Dispersed and out-of-print for fifty years, more than 350 reports from the Maya program are now available in this single volume and accompanying fully searchable CD-ROM. Reports from the institution's annual Year Books and other materials collected here tell the history of Maya research through firsthand accounts by participating scholars and reveal the progression of Mesoamerican archaeology from a vocational interest to scholarly pursuit. Thematic and regional organisation of the reports permits readers to monitor development of research concepts. Appendixes list all Carnegie Maya publications. { 803pp, 215x280mm, May 2006; HB, £183.50, 0870818333:9780870818332 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CARNEGIE MAYA -- CD-ROM : The Carnegie Institution of Washington Maya Research Program, 1913-1957 [Jane A Hill & John M Weeks] This complete set of reports from the Carnegie Institution's Maya program collects in one thematically and regionally organised CD-ROM (also available as a book with CD-ROM) hundreds of documents from a foundational New World archaeological project. The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico and northern Central America between 1914 and 1957. Dispersed and out-of-print for fifty years, more than 350 reports from the Maya program are now available in this fully searchable CD-ROM. Reports from the institution's annual Year Books and other materials collected here tell the history of Maya research through firsthand accounts by participating scholars and reveal the progression of Mesoamerican archaeology from a vocational interest to scholarly pursuit. Thematic and regional organisation of the reports permits readers to monitor development of research concepts. { May 2006; CD, £120.00, 0870818341:9780870818349 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CARRIER WAVE [Jaswinder Bolina] Chicago poet Jaswinder Bolina's first volume of poetry. Winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. { 84pp, 195x200mm, February 2007; PB, £10.99, 1885635095:9781885635099 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CATALOG OF THE COLORADO FLORA : A Biodiversity Baseline [William A Weber & Ronald C Wittmann] Biodiversity, during the past few years, has become a 'buzz' word, as if this were a brand new concept. The word appears in the news, on television, in advertising, in grant proposals, particularly for tropical studies because it is in the tropics that the terrifyingly rapid extinction of plant and animal species and their ecosystems are threatening the earth's ecology. Hundreds of species are being exterminated before they become known to science. The natural history repositories themselves, especially those housing the primary collections of a region or major political unit, have much to answer for in this crisis for not articulating their importance and value to research. It has been our aim at the University of Colorado Museum to provide catalogues and regional taxonomic handbooks in order to develop a literate public and to increase the value of the collections to amateur and professional students of the flora and fauna. { 479pp, January 1992; HB, £33.50, 0870812432:9780870812439 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHEMICAL WEDDING [Robyn Ewing] Winner of the 2002 Colorado Prize for Poetry. { 103pp, 165x235mm, January 2003; PB, £9.99, 1885635044:9781885635044 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHEYENNE DOG SOLDIERS CD-ROM : A Ledgerbook History of Coups & Combat [Jean Afton, David Fridtjof Halaas & Andrew E Masich] Never before have scholars attempted to match Plains ledgerbook drawings with specific events. But in Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, the earliest of the extant Cheyenne ledgerbooks, the authors have painstakingly matched many of the drawings with known events, such as the 1865 sack of Julesburg, Colorado, and the 1865 battles of Rush Creek, Platte River Bridge, and Tongue River in the Dakota and Montana territories. Also identified are such noted Dog Soliders as Tall Bull, Big Crow, Chirlwind, Feathered Bear, White Horse, Lean Bear and Wolf with Plenty of Hair. Using Cheyenne sources -- both past and present -- as well as US military records, legal depositions, diaries, and contemporary newspaper accounts, the author analyse each drawing, identifying the warriors and describing the actions depicted. With more than 100 beautifully reproduced colour drawings, this volume presents not only a groundbreaking departure from standard ledgerbook interpretation but also a riveting story of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers making a last stand for their existence as free people. { 400pp, 275x215mm, August 1998; CR, £33.50, 0965873307:9780965873307 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHICKASAW RANCHER : Revised Edition [Neil R Johnson] First published in 1960, Neil R. Johnson's THE CHICKASAW RANCHER tells the story of Montford T Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. Abandoned by his father after his mother's death and then left on his own following his grandmother's passing in 1868, Johnson became the owner of a piece of land in the northern part of the Chickasaw Nation in what is now Oklahoma. The book follows Montford T Johnson's family and friends for the next thirty-two years. Neil R. Johnson describes the work, the ranch parties, cattle rustling, gun fights, tornadoes, the run of 1889, the hard deaths of many along the way, and the rise, fall, and revival of the Chickasaw Nation. This revised edition of The Chickasaw Rancher edited by C. Neil Kingsley, Neil R. Johnson's grandson, is the perfect addition to any reader's collection of the history of the American West { 317pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £14.99, 0870816357:9780870816352 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHILLING EFFECT : A Lucinda Hayes Mystery [Marianne Wesson] New in paperback, this thriller explores First Amendment issues, as attorney Lucinda Hayes works to convict pornographic filmmakers for a child's murder. { 349pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £7.50, 0870818244:9780870818240 / HB, £15.99, 0870817876:9780870817878 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHINAMAN’S CHANCE : The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier [Liping Zhu] Between 1863 and 1910, a large number of Chinese immigrants resided in the Boise Basin to search for gold. As in many Rocky Mountain mining camps, they comprised a majority of the population. Unlike settlers in many other boom-and-bust western mining towns, the Chinese in the Boise Basin managed to stay there for more than half a century. Thus, the Chinese portrayed all the stereotypical frontier roles-victors, victims, and villains. Their basic material needs were guaranteed, and many individuals were able to climb up the economic ladder. Frontier justice was used to settle disputes; Chinese-Americans frequently challenged white opponents in the various courts as well as in gun battles. Interesting and provocative, A CHINAMAN’S CHANCE not only offers general readers a narrative account of the Rocky Mountain mining frontier, but also introduces a fresh interpretation of the Chinese experience in nineteenth-century America to scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration history, and ethnicity. { 336pp, 140x205mm, January 1998; PB, £14.99, 087081575X:9780870815751 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHINESE AMERICANS, REVISED EDITION [Benson Tong] Originally published in 2000, this fully revised and redesigned edition traces the Chinese experience in the United States from the 1780s to the present, demonstrating that Chinese Americans have played an active role in shaping the history of our nation. This revised edition includes new material on children's history, transnationalism, and health care, and the author has expanded his original text and included more Chinese American voices. { 307pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £17.99, 0870817302:9780870817304 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CHIRICAHUA APACHE PRISONERS OF WAR : Fort Sill 1894-1914 [John Anthony Turcheneske Jr] The Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War is the first book of its kind to explore in depth this segment of the Chiricahua's history following Geronimo's surrender, including the campaign for their release from military custody, their efforts to retain Fort Sill as their permanent home, and the conflicting interests who competed to resolve the Indians' status. It will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of Native American studies, military studies, and western history. Specializing in the fields of Native American history and history of the American West, John A Turcheneske Jr received his doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 1978. He is also founder of Research Unlimited, and interdisciplinary research and editorial consulting concern. { 243pp, 155x235mm, November 1997; HB, £21.99, 0870814656:9780870814655 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CITY & THE SALOON : Denver, 1858-1916 [Thomas J Noel] During Denver's wild ride from frontier mining town to twentieth-century metropolis, the city's saloons, like those of many other western frontier towns, played a vital role in the development of the city. Now with a new preface, Tom Noel's classic study, The City and the Saloon, is a liquid history of how Denver's bars both shaped and reflected the Mile High city's birth and adolescence. { 148pp, 150x230mm, December 1996; PB, £14.99, 0870814265:9780870814266 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CITY OF LIFE, CITY OF DEATH : Memories of Riga [Max Michelson] A stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia – at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalised, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family. REVIEW: "With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival..." -- Elie Wiesel. "Through the prism of his own experiences, Michelson provides a wonderful glimpse into Eastern European life both before and during the Nazi occupation of Latvia..." -- Julie D Freeman, SUNY-Oneonta. { 171pp, 155x230mm, September 2004; PB, £12.99, 0870817884:9780870817885 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COAL PEOPLE : Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930 [Rick J Clyne] This study takes a fresh look into the lives of families living in the coal camps of southern Colorado between 1890 and the Great Depression. Historian Rick J. Clyne examines the experiences of the men, women, and children who lived and worked in these isolated, company-dominated towns. With the dangerous nature of mining coal a daily reality, the fear of death and injury was pervasive -- not only for the miners venturing into the earth day after day, but for their dependents as well. Clyne reveals that a strong sense of community and tolerance existed in the camps, into which families journeyed from such far-flung locales as eastern and southern Europe to carve out a living. The shared immigrant experience -- and the shared risks of mining -- more often than not strengthened the bonds between both miners and families. This book contains historic images of coal-town life culled from the collections of the Colorado Historical Society, as well as the author's own photographs of how several of these camps appear today. { 122pp, 150x230mm, July 2000; PB, £8.99, 0870815997:9780870815997 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLCHA [Aaron A Abeyta] Abeyta blends the contrasting rhythms of the English and Spanish languages, finding music in a simple yet memorable lyricism without losing the complexity and mystery of personal experience. His forty-two poems take the reader on a journey through a contemplative personal history that explores communal, political and societal issues as well as the individual experiences of family and friends. With his distinctive voice, Abeyta invites people of all cultures to enter his poems by exploring the essence of humanity as expressed by his particular Hispanic culture and heritage. Marked by intimacy and deep sentiment, Colcha not only acquaints us with the land of Abeyta's people, but also reveals the individuals from his life and family history in the most colourful and delicate detail. Abeyta's reflections on the plight, loves, joys, failures, and exploitation of the common person in such poems as 'cuando se secan las acequias', 'untitled (verde)', and 'cinco de mayo' belong to the literary heritage of such poets as Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Wait Whitman. { 98pp, 165x235mm, February 2002; PB, £13.50, 0870816152:9780870816154 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO : The Highest State [Thomas J Noel & Duane A Smith] Colorado's history, like the state itself, has had many ups and downs, booms and busts in farming and ranching, in mining and railroading, in water and oil have made Colorado's past a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. In each chapter of this book, you will find some questions, activities, and suggested reading to help you learn more of Colorado's story than we can present here. We hope you will enjoy these pages. You will discover a high, dry state with rugged natural beauty and an awesome history. { 324pp, October 1995; HB, £21.99, 0870813730:9780870813733 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO : A History in Photographs, Revised Edition [Richard N Ellis & Duane A Smith] Photography in Colorado was encouraged as early as 1861, when newspaper editor William Byers wrote in the Rocky Mountain News, 'Secure the shadow, ere the substance perish', and roused the citizenry to take photographs of their families, friends, landscape, homes, and mills in order to document their lives and share them with others. The revised edition of Colorado: A History in Photographs draws on this rich legacy, portraying Colorado's history in images taken from the frontier era to the present, all accompanied by a vivid, updated narrative. Presenting a broad view of countless aspects of life in Colorado and including 270 black-and-white photographs, this book will inform, entertain, and inspire all those who delight in learning more about the history of the Centennial State. REVIEW: "An evocative story in photographs as well as an energetic mini-history of the Centennial State, both wrapped together neatly in one volume. Altogether an enjoyable book..." -- Western Historical Quarterly. "An outstanding study that combines a fast-paced, highly interpretive narrative and a remarkable collection of photographs that captures scenes seldom seen in print..." -- Journal of the West. "A superb combination of text and photos that makes vivid and personal the history of Colorado. This book should be in every home and library in Colorado..." -- Colorado Libraries. { 296pp, 205x255mm, December 2004; PB, £19.99, 0870817892:9780870817892 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO : A Sports History [James Whiteside] Whiteside uses athletics as a historical lens to view the people, culture, business, and politics of Colorado from its original American Indian occupants to the Broncos' Super Bowl victories. This unique new volume demonstrates how sports history can illuminate the business, politics, class, race, gender, mores, and values of a society. In pre-industrial Colorado, sports and games in Indian villages and early mining towns were shaped by work, community life, and even religion. As leisure time increased for many in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sport evolved into a more popular recreational activity. The progression of the twentieth century has changed many sports from small-town pastimes into profitable businesses, as exemplified by the growth of the recreational industry and by college football's transformation from a young gentleman's game into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. COLORADO: A SPORTS HISTORY is enhanced with a fine selection of historical photographs depicting Colorado sports and their participants. { 494pp, January 2000; HB, £19.99, 0870815504:9780870815508 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO : A History of the Centennial State, 4th Edition [Carl Abbott, Stephen J Leonard & Thomas J Noel] Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J Leonard, and Thomas J Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. Dozens of new illustrations, updated statistics and an extensive bibliography of the most recent research on Colorado history enhance this edition. { 576pp, 155x230,,, August 2005; PB, £19.99, 0870818007:9780870818004 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO -- OUR COLORFUL STATE [Duane A Smith] As Abraham Lincoln observed a year after Colorado gained territorial status: Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. In COLORADO: OUR COLORFUL STate, a fourth grade textbook perfectly adaptable for people of all ages, many of these people take a bow upon the stage. Supplemented by drawings, maps, and photographs, the text transports young and older readers from the appearance of the dinosaurs to the coming of the first hunters and gatherers and on to the late twentieth century. The builders of Mesa Verde and the Spanish explorers cross the pages. So, too, do the Utes, railroad builders, ranchers, miners, and farmers who, each in their own way, left a heritage. The women-who fought to gain the vote, saved Mesa Verde National Park, homesteaded, and 'tamed' the frontier-take their place as well. Finally, the great changes of the twentieth century, and the people who helped bring them about, come into focus as the book closes in on the present. { 415pp, 195x245mm, July 1999; HB, £17.50, 0870815059:9780870815058 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO -- OUR COLORFUL STATE, TEACHER'S SUPPLEMENT [Kate Shuchter] This book is designed to be more like a book of stories than a textbook. Therefore, we have foregone the tradition of placing questions and activity suggestions with the text itself. What you will find here are some basic questions you may want to use to reinforce and check on your students' understanding of what they are reading. They are by no means meant to be absolutely comprehensive in terms of everything mentioned in the text. Please use them as you see fit, adding to or subtracting from them in order to suit the way you are using the text and emphasising particular information and concepts. The answers provided are not necessarily the only correct ones, either, but they do serve as guidelines. In some cases, when the questions asks for an opinion or discussion, no answer is given. Student worksheets with the chapter questions have been included at the end of this supplement for your convenience. { August 1999; PB, £13.50, 0870815369:9780870815362 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO FLORA : Eastern Slope, Third Edition [William A Weber & Ronald C Wittmann] Reflecting the conclusions of current taxonomic research and recognising new species found in the state, these thoroughly updated guides offer the most complete and authoritative reference to the plants of Colorado. Both volumes explain basic terminology; discuss plant geography; and describe special botanical features of the mountain ranges, basins, and plains. Interesting anecdotes and introductions are given for each plant family, and hints on recognising the largest families are provided as well. Each volume includes a complete glossary, indices to common and specific names, and hundreds of illustrations. Ideal both for the student and scientists and readers interested in Colorado's plant life. { 522pp, 125x195mm, March 2001; PB, £18.50, 0870815520:9780870815522 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY : Second Edition [John A Straayer] This book provides a lively and informative portrayal and analysis of Colorado's state legislature. Based upon documentary materials and more than two decades of direct observation by the author, the book combines treatment of the organisational structure and processes with the politics of the institution. New to this second edition is Straayer's treatment of two recent and highly consequential political developments in Colorado, namely, term limits and the so-called 'taxpayer bill of rights' (TABOR). Term limits have seriously affected both elections and leadership. Meanwhile, TABOR has had an enormous impact upon state policy and the legislature itself, and is discussed in the context of the legislature's Joint Budget Committee which is the General Assembly's most powerful committee. The only book of its kind, this book is sure to be the standard work on the topic for years to come. { 344pp, 150x230mm, December 2000; PB, £16.99, 0870815423:9780870815423 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO GIVERS : A History of Philanthropic Heroes [Thomas J Noel] Colorado Givers looks at expressions of charity from both individuals and large foundations, men and women, and religious and secular groups. The book defines philanthropy in a broad sense to include financial donations made by large foundations and also intangible acts of the heart. These three Colorado historians begin with Native Americans who assisted gold miners flocking to the Pikes Peak gold fields in 1859. Their engaging narrative concludes with the foundations and nonprofits who have blessed the highest state with their millions. This lavishly illustrated book includes a section of colour photographs that showcases Colorado's most memorable givers and their gifts. { 129pp, 160x235mm, December 1998; HB, £16.99, 0870815326:9780870815324 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO MUSEUMS & HISTORIC SITES : A Colorado Guide Book [Victor J Danilov] From the Denver Art Museum to the Colorado Alligator Farm to the Ludlow Massacre Site, this exhaustive guidebook covers every Colorado museum and virtually every historic site, including ghost towns, historic buildings, monuments, visitor centres, aquariums, art galleries, botanical gardens, and historic districts. Representing famous and unusual sites from not just the big cities, but across the entire state, this complete guidebook contains something for both the tourist and the long time Coloradan. Victor J Danilov gives up-to-date information on each place of interest, providing addresses, fax and phone numbers, e-mail and web site addresses, hours, and admission costs. City guides as well as category listings make it easy for readers to find the information they are looking for. Danilov also provides historical information on each site unknown even to many of the state's residents. With Colorado Museums and Historic Sites in hand, there is no excuse for failing to experience all the diverse cultural and historical destinations Colorado has to offer. { 445pp, 155x230mm, June 2000; PB, £4.50, 0870815733:9780870815737 / HB, £9.99, 0870815725:9780870815720 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO PROFILES : Men & Women Who Shaped the Centennial State [John H Monnett & Michael McCarthy] This popular volume, available again in paperback, presents the exciting history of Colorado though the lives of thirty-two of its most noteworthy citizens, both famous and obscure, who helped to shape Colorado as we know it today. Among those featured are: Black Kettle (Cheyenne chief); David Day (outspoken newspaper editor of the San Juans); Anne Bassett (feisty cattle rancher); Lewis Price (real estate entrepreneur); Casimiro Barela (legendary lawmaker from Trinidad); Josephine Roche (social activist and labour organiser); Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith (infamous con-man) and Enos Mills (conservationist and park advocate). { 329pp, 150x230mm, November 1996; PB, £16.99, 0870814397:9780870814396 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO STATE CAPITAL : History, Politics & Preservation [Derek Everett] Everett traces the establishment, planning, construction, and history of Colorado's state capital, including a discussion on the importance of restoring and preserving the building for current and future generations of Coloradoans. { 244pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; HB, £19.99, 0870817906:9780870817908 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO'S JAPANESE AMERICANS : From 1886 to the Present [Bill Hosokawa] Journalist and author Hosokawa offers the first history of Japanese Americans in Colorado, documenting the richly storied heritage of Japanese Americans in the state from 1886 to the present. { 270pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £13.50, 0870818112:9780870818110 / HB, £29.99, 0870818104:9780870818103 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COLORADO'S SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS [Tom Wolf] Draws on the latest scientific findings to show that the battered, beautiful Sangres need us as much as we need them. Focusing on forest ecology, environmental writer Tom Wolf shows how fire, insects, disease, humans, and other disturbances have formed the magnificent, diverse forests we know today. { 339pp, September 1998; PB, £18.50, 0870815148:9780870815140 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COMMON GROUND : The Japanese American National Museum & the Culture of Collaborations [Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane R Hirabayashi & James A Hirabayashi (eds)] Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to sharing the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The National Museum is a unique institution that operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums, researchers, audiences, and funders. In this collection of seventeen essays, anthropologists, art historians, museum curators, writers, designers, and historians provide case studies exploring collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United States. Current scholarship in museum studies is generally limited to interpretations by scholars and curators. Common Ground brings descriptive data to the intellectual canon and illustrates how museum institutions must be transformed and recreated to suit the needs of the twenty-first century. { 227pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £16.99, 0870817795:9780870817793 , University Press of Colorado } |
| COMMONER RITUAL & IDEOLOGY IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA [Nancy Gonlin & Jon C Lohse (eds)] Were most commoners in ancient Mesoamerica poor? In a material sense, yes, probably so. Were they poor in their beliefs and culture? Certainly not, as "Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica" demonstrates. This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica’s common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from Formative through Postclassic periods. Building from the premise that ritual and ideological expression inhered at all levels of society in Mesoamerica, the contributors demonstrate that ideology did not emanate solely from exalted individuals and that commoner ritual expression was not limited to household contexts. Taking an empirical approach to this under-studied and under-theorised area, contributors use material evidence to discover how commoner status conditioned the expression of ideas and values. Revealing complex social hierarchies that varied across time and region, this volume offers theoretical approaches to commoner ideology, religious practice, and socio-political organisation and builds a framework for future study of the correlation of ritual and ideological expression with social position for Mesoamericanists and archaeologists worldwide. { 304pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; HB, £43.50, 0870818457:9780870818455 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CONCORDANCE TO THE LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON [Cynthia MacKenzie (ed)] This book is based on the three-volume Johnson edition of the letters published by Belknap Press in both 1958 and 1965 as well as the 1998 one-volume edition. Eagerly anticipated by Dickinson scholars, it fulfils a significant gap as a valuable resource for Dickinson studies. The primary importance of the concordance pertains to the poetic quality of the letters themselves. { 900pp, 215x280mm, February 2001; HB, £149.99, 0870815687:9780870815683 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CONFRONTING THE 'GOOD DEATH' : Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 [Michael S Bryant] This readable study analyses the post-war attempt to prosecute perpetrators of a Nazi campaign against the mentally ill that facilitated 270,000 murders and set a precedent for Nazi mass murder. { 269pp, 155x230mm, December 2005; HB, £23.50, 0870818090:9780870818097 , University Press of Colorado } |
| CORONADO EXPEDITION TO TIERRA NUEVA : The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest [Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint (eds)] The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organised European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors. { 364pp, 155x230mm, May 2004; PB, £18.99, 0870817663:9780870817663 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DANCING WITH PRINCIPLE : Hanya Holm in Colorado, 1941-1983 [Claudia Gitelman] In 1941, Hanya Holm, a German-American dancer and educator who would later become a celebrated Broadway choreographer, created a sanctuary for dance in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains at Colorado College. In Dancing With Principle, Claudia Gitelman details Holm's work during an amazing span of forty-three years. The Hanya Holm/Colorado College Summer School of the Dance in Colorado Springs educated many thousands on both sides of the footlights in the art of modern dance. With exhortations to understand what they were doing and stick with their principles, Holm helped thousands of students with their craft. As Gitelman notes, many of her students went on to work in regional and national dance companies, and some even achieved international status as choreographers and company directors. Fascinated by her own work with Hanya Holm in Colorado, both as a student and as one of Holm's assistants, Gitelman examined archives held by the Holm family and interviewed more than fifty of Holm's students, associates, and observers of the program. Describing the birth, constant renewal, and lasting legacy of an institution that has been overlooked in studies of American dance culture, Dancing With Principle will appeal to dance lovers and dance specialists, regional historians, and students of American culture and Colorado history. { 190pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £13.50, 0870816519:9780870816512 / HB, £29.99, 0870816446:9780870816444 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DEEP FREEZE : The United States, the International Geophysical Year, & the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science [Dian Olson Belanger] In "Deep Freeze", Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice. In the tense 1950s, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S. scientists, maintained by the Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, came together in Antarctica with counterparts from eleven other countries to participate in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). On July 1, 1957, they began systematic, simultaneous scientific observations of the south-polar ice and atmosphere. Their collaborative success over eighteen months inspired the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which formalised their peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge. Still building on the achievements of the individuals and distrustful nations thrown together by the IGY from mutually wary military, scientific, and political cultures, science prospers today and peace endures. The year 2007 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the IGY and the commencement of a new International Polar Year -- a compelling moment to review what a singular enterprise accomplished in a troubled time. Belanger draws from interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official records to weave together the first thorough study of the dawn of Antarctica’s scientific age. "Deep Freeze" offers absorbing reading for those who have ventured onto Antarctic ice and those who dream of it, as well as historians, scientists, and policy makers. { 494pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; HB, £19.99, 0870818309:9780870818301 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DENVER : Mining Camp to Metropolis [Steve Leonard & Thomas J Noel] This lively best seller by leading Colorado historians Steve Leonard and Tom Noel is the most comprehensive survey ever written of the Mile High metropolis. Informative and richly illustrated, DENVER covers the developing region from the mountain towns of Boulder and Jefferson counties to the High Plains settlements of Adams and Arapahoe counties, with more than two-thirds of the book devoted to the burgeoning five-county region since 1900. In retelling the tale of conquest and city building, the authors explore the role of previously neglected peoples -- notably women, ethnic minorities, and the working class -- while weaving several key themes throughout the book: Denver's persistent reliance on natural resources, the important role of transportation to overcome the city's isolation, and the city's emphasis on privatisation rather than on the public, common good. DENVER: MINING CAMP TO METROPOLIS will fascinate and educated students and scholars, as well as all readers curious about the boom-and-bust metropolis of the Rockies. { January 1990; PB, £23.50, 0870812408:9780870812408 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DENVER : An Archaeological History [Sarah Nelson] A vivid account of the prehistory and history of Denver as revealed in its archaeological record, this book invites us to imagine Denver as it once was. Around 12,000 BC, groups of leather-clad Paleoindians passed through the juncture of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, following the herds of mammoth or buffalo they hunted. In the Archaic period, people rested under the shade of trees along the riverbanks, with baskets full of plums as they waited for rabbits to be caught in their nearby snares. In the early Ceramic period, a group of mourners adorned with yellow pigment on their faces and beads of eagle bone followed Cherry Creek to the South Platte to attend a funeral at a neighbouring village. And in 1858, the area was populated by the crude cottonwood log shacks with dirt floors and glassless windows, the homes of Denver's first inhabitants. For at least 10,000 years, Greater Denver has been a collection of diverse lifeways and survival strategies, a crossroads of interaction, and a locus of cultural coexistence. Setting the scene with detailed descriptions of the natural environment, summaries of prehistoric sites, and archaeologists' knowledge of Denver's early inhabitants, Nelson and her colleagues bring the region's history to life. From prehistory to the present, this is a compelling narrative of Denver's cultural heritage that will fascinate lay readers, amateur archaeologists, professional archaeologists, and academic historians alike. { January 2009; PB, £19.99, 0870819356:9780870819353 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DENVER LANDMARKS & HISTORIC DISTRICTS : A Pictorial Guide [Thomas J Noel] Conceived in gold lust and born in the middle of nowhere on a cold autumn day, Denver grew up on mining booms and busts. Building their city rapidly and recklessly, Denverites tore down 'old-fashioned buildings' to construct their own grand new monuments. Not until the 1960s did the people of Denver, alarmed by wholesale urban-renewal demolitions and a new building boom, convince the mayor and city council to form the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission to identify and preserve the most important landmarks. To date, more than 250 landmarks and 28 historic districts have been preserved. Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts is the only volume of its kind to celebrate Denver's finest antique homes, churches, clubs, saloons, hotels, libraries, schools, restaurants, and banks -- many of which are open to the public. Here is the story of the Daniels and Fisher Tower, Elitch's Theatre, Denver's best city parks, the Denver Press Club, the Denver Athletic Club, notorious houses of ill repute, a tiny Five Points black mortuary that became a Hispanic pool hall, and much more. A brief history of Denver introduces readers to building types, materials, and styles and architects, showing how buildings reflect various ethnic and economic groups. An overview of the preservation movement covers the history of the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission and local preservation battles. { 220x285mm, November 1996; HB, £23.50, 0870814273:9780870814273 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DREAM HOUSE [Barbara Bean] In these nine brilliant stories, love and marriage are examined and re-examined from a variety of perspectives, all provocative, all troubling. A teacher falls in love with her student, a sister dances naked for her brother, a wife loves her husband's mistress, a widow learns the close relationship between love and death, a trilogy explores the course of a marriage shot through with secrets, and the irrationality and mystery of love are discovered over and over again. The dream house of the title story is the one beneath the surface, the private house, where love opens up new avenues of intimacy, news ways of knowing another person. In Barbara Bean's debut collection, we are introduced to a striking new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice at once sexy, funny, wise -- and unforgettable. { 178pp, 145x215mm, February 2002; HB, £14.99, 0870816179:9780870816178 , University Press of Colorado } |
| DRIFTING WEST : The Calamities of James White & Charles Baker [Virginia McConnell Simmons] During westward expansion in the nineteenth century, thousands of anonymous individuals drifted into the American West in search of opportunities in trapping and trading, prospecting and mining, military service, railroad construction, freighting, agriculture, town-building, and adventure. Few of these emigrants achieved sufficient notoriety for their names to be recalled today. Two exceptions are James White, who is said to have accidentally traversed the Grand Canyon on a makeshift raft two years prior to the first expedition of John Wesley Powell, and his erstwhile companion Charles Baker, who played a prominent role in prospecting in Colorado's San Juan Mountains in the 1860s. The exploits of these two drifters and the ongoing debate about the veracity of the Grand Canyon story and other legendary adventures provide the basis for lively narrative history in Virginia McConnell Simmons's "Drifting West." { 210pp, 155x230mm, August 2007; HB, £19.99, 0870818740:9780870818745 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ECOLOGICAL & GENERAL SYSTEMS : An Introduction to Systems Ecology [Howard T Odum] Using an energy systems language that combines energetics, kinetics, information, cybernetics, and simulation, "Ecological and General Systems" compares models of many fields of science, helping to derive general systems principles. First published as Systems Ecology in 1983, "Ecological and General Systems" proposes principles of self-organisation and the designs that prevail by maximising power and efficiency. Comparisons to fifty other systems languages are provided. Innovative presentations are given on earth homeostasis (Gaia); the inadequacy of presenting equations without network relationships and energy constraints; the alternative interpretation of high entropy complexity as adaptive structure; basic equations of ecological economics; and the energy basis of scientific hierarchy. Part I introduces energetics, hierarchy, and systems modelling. Part II features design elements: intersections, autocatalytic modules, loops, series, parallel elements, and webs. Part III includes embodied energy, spectra of energy quality, temperature, complexity, spatial distribution, and diversity. Part IV discusses production, consumption, ecosystems, succession, economic systems, anthropological models, urban and regional models, global biogeochemistry, and the universe. { 644pp, May 1994; PB, £36.99, 087081320X:9780870813207 , University Press of Colorado } |
| ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MOOSE, 2ND EDITION [Albert W Franzmann, Charles C Schwartz & Richard E McCabe (eds)] Now back in print as a University Press of Colorado edition, this abundantly illustrated volume fully explains moose biology and ecology and assesses the increasingly complex enterprise of managing moose. Twenty-one of the world’s authorities on the species discuss its taxonomy, reproduction and growth, feeding habits, behaviour, population dynamics, relationships with predators, incidental mortality, seasonal migration patterns, and habitat and harvest management. REVIEW: "This book should appeal to anyone interested in wildlife management in general and moose in particular. Even the casual reader can spend enjoyable hours browsing through the hundreds of interesting photographs and drawings. Certain to be the standard moose bible for years to come." -- Library Journal. "This massive book about the largest deer in the world is an impressive undertaking... The editors' stated goals were that the book be readable and interesting, and they have succeeded with these expectations -- it is fascinating." -- Booklist. { 733pp, 220x290mm, October 2007; HB, £49.99, 0870818953:9780870818950 , University Press of Colorado } |
| EMBRACING WATERSHED POLITICS [Edella Schlager & William Blornquist] As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In "Embracing Watershed Politics", political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and in some ways even desirable elements of decision making about water and watersheds. With decades of combined study of water management in the United States, they focus on the many contending interests and communities found in America's watersheds, the fundamental dimensions of decision making, and the impacts of science, complexity, and uncertainty on watershed management. Enriched by case studies of the organisations and decision-making processes in several major U.S. watersheds (the Delaware River Basin, San Gabriel River, Platte River, and the Columbia River Basin), "Embracing Watershed Politics" presents a reasoned explanatio |