Telling New Mexico: A New History

by Marta Weigle, Levine Frances, Frances Levine

Overview

This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native American studies, and Chicano studies. Contributors include Rick Hendricks, John L. Kessell, Peter Iverson, Rina Swentzell, Sylvia Rodriguez, William deBuys, Robert J. Tórrez, Malcolm Ebright, Herman Agoyo, and Paula Gunn Allen, among many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890135563
Publisher:	Museum of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	02/16/2009
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marta Weigle is a former University Regents Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. In 2005 she received the inaugural State Historian's Award for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. Among her numerous New Mexico books are Alluring New Mexico: Engineered Enchantment, 1821-2001 and Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection (both Museum of New Mexico Press) and the coauthored The Lore of New Mexico (UNM Press).

Frances Levine is the director of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.

Louise Stiver is the former senior curator of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.