University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Dirty Deeds
Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group...
by Luo Ying
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
At once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in China’s recent past. Luo Ying—the pen name of Huang Nubo, a celebrated poet, Forbes billionaire, and mountain climber—draws readers into the...
The Greatest Show in the Arctic
The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure,...
Daschle vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as “the other big race of 2004.” Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the rival political ideologies that...
The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third...
Three Days in the Shenandoah
Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President...
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico
Defining Racial Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
Color Coded
Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The now–staunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the opposite end of the political spectrum. Texas is one of the most conservative states, while California...
Juan Bautista de Anza
The King's Governor in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain’s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony’s governance that helped...
by Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Andrés Brizuela Casimir
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs...
Verne Sankey
America's First Public Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In late January of 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced, for the first time, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America’s Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger the Justice Department was referring...
by Thomas G. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah’s first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801–77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West. He led the Saints to Utah, guided the establishment of 350 settlements, and inspired the Mormons as they weathered...
The Fifteenth Month
Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated with a different set of rituals. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month, dedicated to the national god Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird on the Left), was significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Mention “American Indian,” and the first image that comes to most people’s minds is likely to be a figment of the American mass media: A war-bonneted chief. The Land O’ Lakes maiden. Most American Indians in the twenty-first century live in urban areas, so why do the mass media still rely...