Bøger udgivet af University of Oklahoma Press

Part cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics. Under Garrett-Davis's careful observation, cultural objects occupy the terrain of where the West as region meets the Western genre.

Offering an important glimpse of the American Southwest in the mid-1860s, this book opens with a thoughtful foreword by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, who considers the varied and lingering effects that settlement, conquest, and nineteenth-century photography had on the Apaches and Navajos.

Wiles returns to Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation, whose people she so gracefully portrayed in words and photographs in Arapaho Journeys. She continues her journey of discovery here, photographing the lives of contemporary Northern Arapaho people and listening to their stories that map the many roads to being Arapaho.

Whereas other books have emphasized the promotion of Indian art by Euro-Americans, this book is the first to focus on the agency of the Kiowa artists within the context of their collaboration with Jacobson. The volume is further enhanced by colour reproductions of the artists' works and rare historical photographs.

Native Americans long resisted Western medicine - but had less power to resist Western diseases. As the Office of Indian Affairs entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities. This book traces this transition in the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California.

Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power.

The Mexica used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month was significant for the fact that it marked the beginning of the season of warfare. John Schwaller offers a detailed look at how the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli changed over time and what these changes reveal about the history of the Aztecs.

In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, John Benton Hart recreates events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the "ordinary" soldier.

Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War. Huw Davies offers the first full account of the scope, complexity, and importance of Wellington's intelligence department, describing a highly organised, multifaceted network of agents and spies.

Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, F.W. Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts.

Bringing clarity to the remarkably mixed yet poorly understood map of America's red, blue, and purple western half, Color Coded presents the first comprehensive history of political change and stability in the region between 1950 and 2016.

Challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace, Mark Santiago argues it was a period of sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict.

In August 1854, John L. Grattan led a detachment of soldiers to a Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest a man accused of killing a cow. The series of events that followed marked the beginning of a generation of Indian warfare on the Great Plains. This book tells the full story of this seminal event in the history of the American West.

In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. This book explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement.

There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself--and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state's historical imagination. Lone Star Mind takes aim at this traditional narrative, holding both academic and lay historians accountable for the ways in which they craft the state's story. A clear-sighted, far-reaching work of intellectual history, this book marshals a wide array of pertinent scholarship, analysis, and original ideas to point the way toward a new "usable past" that twenty-first-century Texans will find relevant.Ty Cashion fixes T. R. Fehrenbach's Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans in his crosshairs in particular, laying bare the conceptual deficiencies of the romantic and mythic narrative the book has served to codify since its first publication in 1968. At the same time, Cashion explores the reasons why the collective efforts of university-trained scholars have failed to diminish the appeal of the state's iconic popular culture, despite the fuller and more accurate record these historians have produced.Framing the search for a collective Texan identity in the context of a post-Christian age and the end of Anglo-male hegemony, Lone Star Mind illuminates the many historiographical issues besetting the study of American history that will resonate with scholars in other fields as well. Cashion proposes that a cultural history approach focusing on the self-interests of all Texans is capable of telling a more complete story--a story that captures present-day realities.

This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they "discover" New World peoples, this book begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European colonialism.

Captain William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was one of the Old Army's renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. Chronicled here, Clark's life is at once an introduction to a remarkable figure in nineteenth-century US history, and a window on the exploits of the US Army on the western frontier.

This enthralling narrative elevates Pedro Font, Juan Crespi, and Francisco Garces to their rightful place in the chronicle of American exploration. It brings their exploits out of the shadow of the American Revolution and Lewis & Clark expedition while also illuminating encounters between explorers and missionaries and the American Indians.

After years of working with at-risk youth, Chicana social worker Rosa Medina leaves Los Angeles's gang-ridden barrios and street violence to settle in the New Mexican village of Puerto de Luna. Her goal: to write a novel about Bilito - Billy the Kid. It all sounds straightforward enough, but things get more complicated - and a lot more exciting.

After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889, the city's residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home. But the territory's creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889.

The first systematic study of more than 150 painted portable artworks produced in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, this book offers a unique, deeply informed perspective on the cultural practices and artistic techniques of the largest urban community in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica.

One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade.

In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices.

John Joseph Mathews is one of Oklahoma's most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure.

What happened to indigenous life after contact with the Spanish? In the complex interaction of cultures, how and to what degree did traditional ways persist? What role did religion play? Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan addresses these and other questions by focusing on Mexico City in the colonial era.

Offers readers a rare, in-depth look at the nahualtocaitl and the native cosmogonies, beliefs, and medical practices they reveal. Through close reading of four incantations - for safe travel, maguey sap harvesting, bow-and-arrow deer hunting, and divination through maize kernels - Diaz Balsera shows the nuances of a Nahua spiritual world.

Between 1808 and 1813, John Maley covered more than 16,000 miles through thirteen present-day states. Much of that travel took him beyond the fringes of civilization, and his journal offers some of the earliest descriptions of the Ozark Plateau, the Ouachita Mountains, and the upper reaches of the Red River.

In this masterful biography, Robert Dorman traces the career of William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray from his hardscrabble childhood in post-Civil War Texas to his remarkable ascendancy as a nationally known political figure in the mid-twentieth century.