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Books by UNM Faculty

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Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
By Jake Kosek, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Studies
Duke University Press

Jake Kosek offers a thorough examination of the violent fight over forests in northern New Mexico. More than reporting historical facts, Understories is an intriguing account of the very personal political struggles for the forest based on the underlying themes of nature and difference. An engaging narrative on topics from drug use to the National Forest Service to Smokey the Bear reveals the “volatile politics of difference” Kosek argues is central to this battle.


Migrations
New Directions in Native American Art
Edited by Marjorie Devon, Research Professor of Art and Art History/Director, Tamarind Institute
University of New Mexico Press

This book is the accompanying publication to Tamarind Institute of Lithograpy’s project by the same name. The project invited six emerging Native American artists working with a contemporary vocabulary to create prints with collaborating printers at Tamarind and at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in Oregon. Migrations documents the project, showcasing various works of the artists and providing essays and commentary that expands understanding of contemporary Native American art.

Empire and the Literature of Sensation
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Edited and with an Introduction by Jesse Alemán, Associate Professor of English, and Shelley Streeby
Rutgers University Press

In this anthology, Alemán and Streeby provide a collection of mid-nineteenth-century popular and sensational American literature. The writings are representative of the energy and tensions of the time period and contain stories of adventure, conflict, forbidden romance, and frightening encounters. Most of these stories, which originally appeared in pamphlets, dime novels, and newspapers, provide a look at the rhetoric of empire during that time period before the Civil War.

Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
By Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History
Yale University Press

Fugitive Landscapes explores the complex history of the Sonora-Arizona border. Part one, “Frontier Legacies,” focuses on “foundational social relationships” between Spanish settlers, Mexican miners, and Apache struggles with them in the Sonoran desert. Next, “Border Crossings,” reveals how American innovation led entrepreneurs including Phelps Dodge to the area for copper mining, supporting a railroad route there. Here, civilization versus perceived barbarism becomes integral to the borderlands struggle as examined in the third section, “Contested Terrain.