The Rise and Decline of Spanish Identity in New Mexico
A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies. Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexico culture, yet many questions remain about how this unique and provocative construction originated and what it has meant to the state's ......
The Rise and Decline of Spanish Identity in New Mexico
A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies. Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexico culture, yet many questions remain about how this unique and provocative construction originated and what it has meant to the state's ......
The Civil War Letters and Recollections of Captain George Henry Pettis
For Civil War enthusiasts, the collected writings of a long-neglected figure who was crucial to the pivotal Civil War years in New Mexico. From Jerry Thompson, the preeminent historian of the Civil War in the American Southwest, "When All Our Troubles Will be Forgotten" presents the collected writings of an important and long-neglected Civil ......
How New Mexico Became the Land of Women's Equality
Readers get a front-row seat to witness history, both before and after the enactment of the New Mexico Equal Rights Amendment, as told by the former executive director of the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women. Part memoir, part history, The Changemakers is the story of the extraordinary changes that took place in New Mexico prior to ......
This lush historical novel is a family saga set against the backdrop of the Spanish colonial world. Beyond the Edge of the Known World is the fictional tale of the four-year journey of Don Pedro Bautista Pino from Santa Fe to Spain and back to represent New Mexico at the 1812 Cortes de Cadiz, as narrated by his Genizaro grandson Juan de los ......
The powerful true story of a parent's unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades. In January 1969, angry after a fight with his father, nineteen-year-old Doug Johnson-in what will be a fateful choice-decides to enlist in the Army. Once in ......
A Guide to the Historic Homes and Everyday Landscapes of the Early TaosArt Colony
An exclusive look at the historic home gardens and vernacular landscapes of the modernist artists who flocked to Taos, New Mexico, during the early-twentieth century. Richly illustrated, architectural historian Audra Bellmore's Gardens of the Taos Artists centers the homes, gardens, and intimate landscapes of the Taos artist colonies and ......
A sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano life in the tiny village of Petaca, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. In the early 1970s there weren't many women photographers, and fewer still who used their camera to make ethnographic studies. Lynn Adler was a self-taught ......
The first book on the groundbreaking 1954 Western by director Nicholas Ray, controversial in its time, now celebrated as a groundbreaking example of high camp, LGBTQ themes, and the outer limits of the Hollywood system. What to make of Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray's high-drama psychological Western from 1954? The film met with a mixed reception ......
