University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Politician in Uniform
General Lew Wallace and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Lew Wallace (1827–1905) won fame for his novel, Ben-Hur, and for his negotiations with William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, during the Lincoln County Wars of 1878–81. He was a successful lawyer, a notable Indiana politician, and a capable military administrator. And yet, as history and his own...
Coast-to-Coast Empire
Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for competing...
A Bad Peace and a Good War
Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This book 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 between the occupying Spaniards and...
Pueblo Sovereignty
Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Over five centuries of foreign rule—by Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of...
Women in Ancient America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America.
Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival...
Flying to Victory
Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893–1976) served in Britain’s air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group...
Still in the Saddle
The Hollywood Western, 1969–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passé—or so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a mythic American West gave way to revisionist films that influential filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah...
The Formation of Latin American Nations
From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
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, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American...
Patriot Priests
French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
After serving two and a half years as a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front, Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote that he would “a thousand times rather be throwing grenades or handling a machine gun than be supernumerary as I am now.” Mobilized by military laws dating to 1889 and...
by Prof. William Heath, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he...
Victory at Peleliu
The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second...
Most Scandalous Woman
Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patriarchal society. Magda Portal, a poet and journalist, would become one of Latin America’s most successful and controversial politicians. In this richly...
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral
Western Cinema and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more...
Frontiers of Evangelization
Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and, to that end, facilitated the establishment of missions by various Catholic orders. Focusing on the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda in Northern New Spain (Mexico) and the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos...