Bøger udgivet af University of Oklahoma Press
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- Impressionism to Modernism, 1900-1930
628,95 kr. The early years of twentieth-century Pacific Northwest painting remain shrouded in mystery. In this groundbreaking work, John Impert introduces readers to the rich and varied array of artists and works of art that defined the region's artistic transition from a nature-bound impressionism to the arrival of modernism.
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- 628,95 kr.
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- J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art
628,95 kr. Louise Siddons fills a curious gap in the history of American art by exploring - and indeed salvaging - J. JayMcVicker's career and contributions to international modernism. Featuring nearly one hundred colour reproductions of McVicker's works, Centering Modernism showcases the extraordinary range of his artistry.
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- 628,95 kr.
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- Selected Works from the Autry Museum
698,95 kr. By addressing such provocative themes, Art of the West, and its namesake gallery, challenges us to look beyond surface appearances, superficial caricatures, and cultural assumptions. The American West emerges as a dynamic place in which memory informs, but does not determine, the present.
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- 698,95 kr.
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- Re-creating the Frontier West
463,95 kr. The Wild West may be long gone, but its legend lives on in Tombstone, Arizona; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas. In Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City, Kevin Britz and Roger Nichols conduct a tour of these iconic towns, revealing how over time they became repositories of western America's defining myth.
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- 463,95 kr.
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- Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
368,95 kr. In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America's Last Great Places, the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- The War for Cochinchina, 1945-1951
488,95 kr. In 1950, France experienced two parallel but different outcomes in its Indochina war. Conflict in the north ended with a disastrous defeat at Dien Bien Phu, but in southern Vietnam, or Cochinchina, France emerged victorious in a series of violent but now largely forgotten actions. This book tells the story of this critical southern campaign.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
463,95 kr. Previous histories have treated the Santa Fe trade, the American occupation under Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, the antebellum Indian Wars, debates over slavery, the Pacific Railway, and the Confederate invasion during the Civil War as separate events in New Mexico. William Kiser demonstrates instead that these developments were interconnected.
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- 463,95 kr.
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- 372,95 kr.
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- Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence
628,95 kr. America is not simply the invention of great men or the outcome of an inevitable political or social movement. The nation was the result of a hard, bloody, and destructive war. Justifying Revolution explores how the American Revolution's opposing sides wrestled with thorny moral and legal questions.
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- 628,95 kr.
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- Art from the Paul Dyck Collection
488,95 - 698,95 kr. From hide clothing, bear claw necklaces, and shields to buffalo robes, tipis, and decorative equipment made for prized horses, the artworks in the Paul Dyck Collection provide a firsthand glimpse into the traditions, adaptations, and innovations of Great Plains Indian cultures.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing
418,95 kr. The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing to the late nineteenth century when three charismatic individuals launched an industry that defines our national culture.
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- 418,95 kr.
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- The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975
558,95 kr. Revealing the unique spatiality of the Vietnam War, The Control War analyzes the ways that both sides of the conflict conceptualized and used geography and the environment to serve strategic, tactical, and political ends.
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- 558,95 kr.
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- Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877
378,95 kr. Retracing a path first opened by historian Walter Prescott Webb, A Crooked River brings a cross-cultural perspective to the role of the Texas Rangers in the continuing strife along the US-Mexican border during the late nineteenth century.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
423,95 - 558,95 kr. By presenting accounts of divergent views among the Lakota people, A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance, encouraging more nuanced interpretations of this significant moment in Lakota and American history.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
423,95 kr. African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the US armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the field, is the subject of Brotherhood in Combat.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- The American West in France
628,95 kr. This lavishly illustrated visual history shows how American artists, writers, and tourists travelling to France exported the dominant frontier narrative that presupposed manifest destiny - and how Native American performers with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and other traveling groups challenged that view.
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- 628,95 kr.
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- A History of Texas Southern University
238,95 - 377,95 kr. Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an "emergency" state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU.
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- 238,95 kr.
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- A Novel
353,95 kr. Dong Xi's Record of Regret, here in its first English translation, introduces readers to a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese literature, and to the unparalleled tragicomic style of one of China's most celebrated writers.
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- 353,95 kr.
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- The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
518,95 kr. Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how individual agents interpreted charge, and how their actions and attitudes affected the lives of the Mission Indians of Southern California.
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- 518,95 kr.
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- Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916
488,95 kr. Illuminates the complexities of federal Indian reform, Catholic mission policy, and pre- and post-reservation Lakota culture. Harvey Markowitz examines the battles waged on a national level between the Catholic Church and the Protestant organisations that often opposed its agenda for American Indian conversion and education.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- Maya Women's Lives in a Changing World
354,95 kr. In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world.
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- 354,95 kr.
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- Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
898,95 kr. Though never widely circulated, the Directorio para confesores contains an encyclopedic description of life in Mexico three generations after the European invasion. In addition to summarizing sixteenth-century Spanish concerns in the provinces, the Directory offers insight into the Church's moral judgments on many aspects of colonial life.
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- 898,95 kr.
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- African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
898,95 kr. Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial Frontier.
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- 898,95 kr.
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- African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
488,95 kr. Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial Frontier.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- The Baker Massacre
238,95 kr. Explores the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, who were members of the Blackfeet Confederacy, and gives the infamous "Baker Massacre" the definitive treatment it deserves.
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- 238,95 kr.
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423,95 kr. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West's most recognised man-hunters, Robert DeArment recounts the remarkable careers of eight men - Pat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse, Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobin - who pursued notorious criminals.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
228,95 - 318,95 kr. Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? In a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon Mihesuah offers an accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.
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- 228,95 kr.
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- William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston-Antagonists in War, Friends in Peace
353,95 kr. Tells the parallel stories of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman. Their armies clashed repeatedly, so it was only natural for these two commanding offers to become adversaries. Yet, as the war continued, Johnston and Sherman came to respect each other, eventually becoming close friends.
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- 353,95 kr.