The University of Arizona Press
March 4, 2021
We are excited to be participating in the first ever virtual Society for California Archaeology meeting! If you are attending the meeting, make sure to visit our virtual booth and visit the book room to see our latest titles. From March 4 to March 15, 2021, use the code AZSCA21 at checkout on our website to receive 40% off all titles, plus free continental U.S. shipping.
The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation.
Read an interview with editors Christine Beaule and John Douglass here, then watch a video of the editors discussing the volume here.
Narratives of Persistence charts the remarkable persistence of California’s Ohlone and Paipai people over the past five centuries. Lee M. Panich draws connections between the events and processes of the deeper past and the way the Ohlone and Paipai today understand their own histories and identities.
Read an interview about the book with Lee Panich here.
The influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists into Alta California between 1769 and 1834 challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors to Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference.
Listen to editors Kathleen Hull and John Douglass talk about the book on the New Books Network Podcast here.
