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Item Restricted Beyond Cortés and Montezuma: the conquest of Mexico revisited(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Huber, Vitus, editor; Schwaller, John F., editor; University Press of Colorado, publisherBeyond Cortés and Montezuma explores the conquest of Mexico from a nuanced perspective that reflects upon prior works in the field. The book analyzes the semantics of conquest, Nahua history keeping, power dynamics, and artistic and narrative representations.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Maya blue: unlocking the mysteries of an ancient pigment(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Arnold, Dean E., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherDiscusses Professor Dean Arnold's scientific journey to further the understanding of the unusual pigment known as Maya Blue.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Temporalities in Mesoamerican ritual practices(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Vapnarsky, Valentina, editor; Michelet, Dominique, editor; Monod-Becquelin, Aurore, editor; Nondédéo, Philippe, editor; University Press of Colorado, publisherA multidisciplinary approach to the temporal ritual activities in prehispanic, colonial, and modern times of Mesoamerican societies. Unfolds an analysis of data relative to the artifactual, gestural, discursive, and scriptural temporal patterns of ritual temporalities.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea: the Palaeolithic seafaring debate(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Cherry, John F., author; Leppard, Thomas P., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherHuman Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea examines the origins and nature of Paleolithic seafaring ventures and interrogates the scholarship that already exists around the genesis of sea travel and the settling of various landmasses by early humans.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Landscapes of warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the ancient Middle East(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany, author; University Press of Colorado, publisherLandscapes of Warfare analyzes the ancient polity of Urartu, linking the development of ideology and technology between Urartu and Assyria to wider historical continuities, particularly related to warfare.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The duplex nature of indigeneity: navigating identity in the Ahuehuepan diaspora(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Schryer, Frans J., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherAn examination of the impact of globalization on both sides of the US-Mexico border, focusing on people connected to the town Ahuehuepan in the state of Guerrero, tracing families, descendants, and people who locate the focus of their identity in a place they may have never seen.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Becoming Colorado: the Centennial State in 100 objects(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Wei, William, author; University Press of Colorado, publisherPaints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 objects selected from the History Colorado collection. These objects reveal how Colorado evolved over time, allowing readers to draw multiple connections between periods, places, and people. Collectively, the essays offer a treasure trove of insight and unforgettable detail.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The boundaries of ancient trade: kings, commoners, and the Aksumite salt trade of Ethiopia(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Solomon-Woldekiros, Helina, author; University Press of Colorado, publisherAn integrated ethnoarchaeological and archaeological investigation of the Afar salt route in and around the early Aksumite State in the Horn of Africa that explores the relationships between the fringes of the Aksumite polity and core power structures.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The general history of Peru. Book 1(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Murúa, Martín de, author; Bauer, Brian S., editor, translator; Gamarra C., Eliana, editor, translator; Lombardi, Andrea Gonzales, editor, translator; University Press of Colorado, publisherHistoria General del Piru is one of the last significant Spanish chronicles of Inca history and Peru's Early Colonial Period yet to be published in English. This translation provides scholarly context and an introduction offers a window into Murúa's life and writing.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The Carey Act and conservation in Colorado(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Morton, Gerald C., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherDetails the history of attempted development and reclamation under the 1894 Carey Act in Colorado. Focuses on the Two Buttes and Muddy Creek settlements in Southeastern Colorado. Details unintended wildlife and land conservation consequences of Carey Act development.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous agricultural landscapes(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Bruno, Maria C., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherExamines the early history of farming (1500 BCE to 1150 CE) on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia drawing upon ethnographic insights from modern-day Indigenous farming practices and archaeological evidence to explore the landscapes and human-plant relationships that were shaped by Indigenous communities and their agricultural practices.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The geysers of Yellowstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Bryan, T. Scott, author; University Press of Colorado, publisherThe newly revised sixth edition of Geysers of Yellowstone describes in detail each of the more than five hundred geysers in Yellowstone National Park, including revisions and updates about new geyser activity and new geyser designations through late 2023.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The Colorado Trail in crisis: a naturalist's field report on climate change in mountain ecosystems(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Ford, Karl, author; University Press of Colorado, publisherThis book uses the author's hike on the Colorado Trail to frame a conservation-themed and scientific synthesis work about the sweeping transformation of Colorado's mountain ecosystems and associated wilderness impacted by climate change.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The sheep industry of territorial New Mexico: livestock, land, and dollars(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Wallace, Jon M., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherAccount of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (1846-1912), including expansion into Southern Colorado and provision of meat and wool to US East and Midwest. Considers consequences of open range grazing and Hispanic, Anglo, Indigenous relationships.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Voices of indigenuity(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Montgomery, Michelle R., editor; University Press of Colorado, publisherA collection of Indigenous authors discuss the ways they have utilized Traditional Ecological Knowledge for inclusive teaching practices and in environmental justice efforts.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Maya-British conflict at the edge of the Yucatecan caste war(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Kray, Christine A., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherAn examination of the land and labor questions at the heart of the Social War of Yucatán, focusing on interactions among Maya groups, Yucatecans of Spanish descent, and British settlers in what is now Belize between 1847-72.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Francisco López de Gómara's General history of the Indies(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Lehmann, Clayton Miles, translator; Helmer, Ángela, translator; University Press of Colorado, publisherThis work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara's The General History of the Indies. This translation expands the archive of texts available to English-speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Birds and beasts of ancient Mesoamerica: animal symbolism in the Postclassic period(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Milbrath, Susan, editor; Baquedano, Elizabeth, editor; University Press of Colorado, publisherBirds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica explores animal symbolism in the Postclassic era, deconstructing the placement and use of animal symbolism in material practices and indigenous cosmology.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Last paper standing: a century of competition between the the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Ward, Ken J., author; University Press of Colorado, publisherHistory of competition between the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, 1859-2009. Details founding of both papers, including key figures and strategies, and their competition for Denver's newspaper market until the News' closing in 2009.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Violence and inequality: an archaeological history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Leppard, Thomas P., editor; Murray, Sarah C., editor; University Press of Colorado, publisherA multi-authored investigation of the relationship between violence and social inequalities in the archaeology of social complexity, exploring how different modes of social violence can militate different types of social constitution.--Provided by publisher.