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John G. Douglass (Statistical Research, Inc. / University of Arizona), General Editor


Editorial Board

Stephen Acabado (University of California, Los Angeles)

Koh Keng We (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Christine Beaule (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

Laura Matthew (Marquette University)

Martin Gibbs (University of New England, Armidale, Australia)

Sara Gonzalez (University of Washington)

Steven W. Hackel (University of California, Riverside)

Stacie M. King (Indiana University)

Rafael de Bivar Marquese (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Lee Panich (Santa Clara University)

Christopher R. DeCorse (University of Syracuse)

Innocent Pikirayi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Christopher Rodning (Tulane University)

Lynette Russell (Monash University, Australia)

Natalie Swanepoel (University of South Africa)

Juliet Wiersema (University of Texas, San Antonio)


The University Press of Colorado is accepting manuscripts for publication in our Global Colonialism series, a collection of nonfiction books that investigate the effects of colonialism globally on both colonizers and the colonized. Books in the series will be selected from across a variety of fields, including archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and history.

Conquest and colonization have characterized the human experience from the time of the emergence of state-level societies. We invite global case studies, from the earliest known examples in antiquity to the current day, as well as more synthetic works that study the ties between areas connected by colonialism. Books in this series should study colonial processes at a local level, while also examining how these processes connect to larger spheres and themes.

All proposals for the this series should follow the press submission guidelines, and submission will be evaluated by the press acquisitions staff, the series editors and/or editorial board, as well as outside experts.

If you would like to make a donation to support future titles in the Global Colonialism series, please click here.

Mining America

The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980

Mining among the Clouds

The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom

Mining Irish-American Lives

Western Communities from 1849 to 1920

No One Ailing Except a Physician

Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919

North of 53º

The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914

Ores to Metals

The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry

Profiting from the Peak

Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs

Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine

The 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike

Riding the High Wire

Aerial Mine Tramways in the West

Santa Rita del Cobre

A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico

Silver Saga

The Story of Caribou, Colorado

Revised Edition

Song of the Hammer and Drill

The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914

The Archaeology of Class War

The Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources

Second Edition

The Mechanics of Optimism

Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868

The Next Time We Strike

A Labor in Utah's Coal Fields, 1900-1933

The Trail of Gold and Silver

Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009

Thomas F. Walsh

Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon

Three Iron Mining Towns

A Study in Cultural Change

Treadwell Gold

An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin

Uranium Frenzy

Saga of the Nuclear West

Revised and Expanded Edition

Wesley Earl Dunkle

Alaska's Flying Miner

Yellowcake Towns

Uranium Mining Communities in the American West

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