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 New Mexico Politics and Government

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on New Mexican government and politics. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

UNITED STATES

Encyclopedia of the United States Congress  (REF, 4 v., 1995)
United States Government Manual   (REF)

NEW MEXICO

See also Library Guides in this series on
      New Mexico History    |      Hispanos/Hispanic-Americans   |       Native Americans     |     The West

Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician [1888-1935] (1992)
Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson
Contemporary New Mexico, 1940-1990
Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico (2000)
Elfego Baca in Life and Legend
First Ladies of New Mexico (1982)
George Curry, 1861-1947
The Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West
"Lew Wallace: Hoosier Governor of Territorial New Mexico, 1878-81,"
    (Jones, Oakah L.) New Mexico Historical Review, 60:2 (April 1985)
Navajo Ways in Government: A Study in Political Process (1963)
New Mexico Bluebook, 1598-1998 (REF)
New Mexico Government (1994)
New Mexico’s Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912
Politics in New Mexico (1967)
Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal (1989)
State and Local Government in New Mexico (1979)
Spanish Government in New Mexico
Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake (1991)
"Territorial Politics and Cultural Impact," (Larson, Robert W.), New Mexico
    Historical Review, 60:3  (July 1985)
Water Politics: Continuity and Change (1990)
Zuni and the Courts: A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights (1995)

SOUTHWEST

Ben Nighthorse Campbell: An American Warrior (U.S. Senator from Colorado)
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water  (1993)
Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1990 (Gomez-Quiñones, 1990)
City Bound: Urban Life and Political Attitudes among Chicano Youth (1986)
Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity (1997)
Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest  (1997)
Political History of the Navajo Tribe (1978)
Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West (1991)
Politics in the Postwar American West  (1995)
Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940 (Gomez-Quiñones, 1994)
Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II (1983)
To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law and Public Policy, 1848-1902
Water Politics: Continuity and Change (1990)
 
 

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