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OF LOVE AND OTHER PASSIONS: Elites, Politics, and Family in Bogotá, Colombia, 1778-1870
by Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas
In Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogotá from the end of the colonial period to 1870. Read on...
MAYA IMAGERY, ARCHITECTURE, AND ACTIVITY: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History
Edited by Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. Read on...
A VISION OF VOICES: John Crosby and The Santa Fe Opera
by Craig A. Smith
"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--- the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--- and his magnum opus, The Santa Fe Opera."--- Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Read on...
UNRULY WATERS: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River
by Kenna Lang Archer
This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. Read on...
MIZIKER'S COMPLETE EVENT PLANNER'S HANDBOOK: Tips, Terminology, and Techniques for Success
by Ron Miziker
With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook. Read on...
ADVOCATES FOR THE OPPRESSED: Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico
by Malcolm Ebright
Having written about Hispano land grants and Pueblo Indian grants separately, Malcolm Ebright now brings these narratives together for the first time, reconnecting them and resurrecting lost histories. Read on...
WORKERS GO SHOPPING IN ARGENTINA: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture
by Natalia Milanesio
Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence.  Read on...
 UNM Press Books Win Awards at the New Mexico Press Women Annual Conference

Congratulations to UNM Press authors Tanya Ward Goodman and Dede Feldman, whose books won awards at the 2015 NMPW Annual Conference.

 

Tanya Ward Goodman's Leaving Tinkertown was awarded the 2015 Zia Book Award.  

 

Dede Feldman's Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits, and Citizens won first place in the History and General Nonfiction categories for Nonfiction Books for Adult Readers in the 2015 NMPW Communication Contest.  
 
Read the full announcement here.  

 

Congratulations to the authors who took home awards at the Historical Society of New Mexico Awards Banquet this month.  

  

Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico, by David L. Caffey, won the 2015 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for an outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.  

  

Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico, by Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, and Richard W. Hughes, won the 2015 Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award for an outstanding publication or significant contribution to historic survey and research in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.   

  

New Mexican Folk Music: Treasures of a People, by Cipriano Frederico Vigil, won the 2015 Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award for an outstanding publication or significant contribution to the creative arts as related to New Mexico history. 

 


 
by Craig A. Smith
Book Reading and Signing 

Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:00pm
Bookworks
Albuquerque, NM
by Stanley Crawford
Book Reading and Signing 

Friday, May 22, 2015
7:00pm
Green Apple Books
San Francisco, CA
by Nasario García
Book Reading and Signing 

Saturday, May 23, 2015
1:00pm
Bookworks
Albuquerque, NM

Saturday, June 6, 2015
1:00pm
Treasure House Books
Albuquerque, NM
by Barbara Sparks
Book Reading and Signing

Saturday, May 23, 2015
2:00pm
Historic Taos Court House, Mural Room
Taos, NM 
by Sean Prentiss
Book Reading and Signing  

Tuesday, June 2, 2015
7:00pm
Bear Pond Books
Montpelier, VT
by Larry J. Littlefield and Pearl M. Burns
Book Reading and Signing

Tuesday, June 2, 2015
7:00pm
Friends of the Sandia Mountains
Tijeras, NM

Wednesday, June 3, 2015
7:00pm
NM Native Plant Society
Albuquerque, NM

Sunday, June 14, 2015
1:00pm
Treasure House Books
Albuquerque, NM 
by Dede Feldman
Book Reading and Signing

Wednesday, June 17, 2015
11:30am
NM History Museum
Santa Fe, NM 


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