Subjects: History

Arizona Crossroads

Introducing a new book series at the University of Arizona Press, in collaboration with the Arizona Historical Society. Arizona Crossroads explores the history of peoples and cultures, events and struggles, ideas and practices in the place we know today as Arizona.

Throughout its history, Arizona has long served as a crossroads between Native peoples, settler colonists, and immigrants from around the world. It has been a contested site among peoples, nations, and empires; it is also a place where events, decisions, and struggles have had far-reaching consequences beyond its shifting borders. As the series title suggests, we welcome books that deepen our understanding of Arizona as a diverse crossroads and meeting ground within broad national and transnational contexts, whether topical, thematic, or geographic (the region, the nation, the borderlands).

Open to any topic within any time period of Arizona history, the series will publish scholarship that is cutting-edge and innovative, yet generally accessible and readable to an educated general audience. We are open to a variety of book formats: monographs, multi-authored works, and edited collections, as well as broader more synthetic works. Interdisciplinary projects that engage the past are encouraged.

For millennia, the place we know as Arizona has been home to Indigenous groups of widely diverse origins who hunted and farmed, traded with one another, migrated, came into conflict, and interacted in ways that reshaped each other’s cultures. In the sixteenth century, it became contested ground between newly arrived Spaniards who claimed the territory as their own and Indigenous people who always outnumbered them and continued to dominate the region throughout the colonial period. By the early nineteenth century, after Mexico won its independence from Spain, migrants from the still-nascent United States moved to the territory in ever-increasing numbers, until by mid-century, the United States provoked a war that ended with its acquisition of half of Mexico’s territory. Thereafter, growing numbers of migrants from around the world converged in Arizona, settling near and alongside one another in mining towns, farming communities, and emergent cities, influencing one another in countless ways. Over time, Anglo-Americans tried to impose their dominance through discriminatory policies, yet other diverse ethnic groups resisted and asserted their agency in ways that transformed the state in fundamental ways. Though not always acknowledged, these shifts have shaped the Arizona we know today; a diverse and ever-growing sunbelt state.

For questions or to submit a proposal, please contact Kristen Buckles, kbuckles@uapress.arizona.edu.

Women’s Western Voices

This series offers books on the experiences of women in the American West, including their writings, movements, creative work, institutional influence, activism, and labor, between 1700 and 1990. The series includes, but is not limited to, historical monographs, biographies, annotated diaries or memoirs, and women’s narratives. Series books maintain a high level of scholarship and accessibility.

This series features an examination of women in North America west of the Mississippi River, including the borderland regions of Mexico and Canada. The series seeks interdisciplinary, multicultural, and comparative scholarship, and diverse narratives to provide new interpretations of events, personalities, and patterns in western American history. By placing women’s voices at the center of the western experience, the series seeks to challenge the periodization of western history and contribute new insights to a complex and diverse western past.

Modern American West

The goal of the Modern American West series is to advance scholarly and public understanding of the rich history of the twentieth-century American West by publishing creative works of research and synthesis. Volumes in the series are distinguished by both original research and careful analysis of existing secondary literature.

The series editors seek single- or co-authored works that identify new directions for scholarship and develop new interpretive frameworks, while also providing comprehensive introductions to particular topics. Possible subjects include cultural life, economic and social developments, the environment, natural resources, politics, urban development, gender and sexuality, and ethnic and racial groups of the American West in the twentieth century. The series also includes a set of works on western regions. The intended audience includes scholars and students across disciplines, as well as general history readers.

Please contact the series editors for a full description and submission guidelines.

Southwest Center Series

The Southwest Center Series publishes critical new books about the peoples, places, and landscapes of the Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The series comprises exemplary monographs, translations, editions of important documents, reissues of previously published works, and books of general interest in a variety of fields, especially in history, anthropology, geography, natural history, ethnobiology, borderlands studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBTQ studies. The series especially welcomes new voices from indigenous and regional communities of color.

A research unit of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Arizona, the Southwest Center has a threefold mission: to sponsor and facilitate research on the Greater Southwest, to publish exemplary work growing from that research, and to act in service to citizens of the region through programs of teaching and outreach. In all three areas special emphasis is given to strengthening individual and institutional ties to our colleagues at universities and cultural centers in the Republic of Mexico. The Center’s activities are based in three disciplines—ethnoecology, architecture, and folklore—and extend into five broad areas: native peoples of the Mexican northwest; contemporary cultural studies and folklore of the region; ethnobotany, ecology, and rural development of the region; history of anthropology; and architectural cultures of the Southwest.

The Southwest Center Series carries out the mission of the Center by contributing to scholarship and research on diverse cultures native to the Southwest, and offering the larger world the Center’s and University’s regional interest and expertise.

Century Collection

The University of Arizona Press’s Century Collection employs the latest in digital technology to make books from our notable backlist available once again. Enriching historical and cultural experiences for readers, this collection offers these volumes unaltered from their original publication and in affordable digital or paperback formats.

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