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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma New Mexicos Royal Road Trade and Travel on the
Book SynopsisDescribes the history of the 1600-mile-long Chihuahua Trail, or "King's Highway", that stretched from Santa Fe to Chihuahua and the interior cities of Mexico. The book describes the caravans of the Sante Fe traders who exchanged American goods and hardware for Mexican silver and mules.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons New England Frontier 3rd edition
Book SynopsisThis study argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers in New England were not hostile toward their Indian neighbours but sought peaceful and equitable relations as a first step to moulding the Indians into neo-Englishman.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons The Ioway Indians
Book SynopsisThis text is ethno-history of the Ioway Indians, whose influence stemmed partly from the strategic location of their homeland between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Beginning with archaeological sites in the northeast Iowa, it traces Ioway history from ancient to modern times.
£22.46
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Great American Outlaw
Book SynopsisThis work explores the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and D.B. Cooper. It covers both the folklore and the facts.
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John Wiley & Sons The Black Infantry in the West 18691891
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on the African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana and Arizona. Faced with prejudice, discrimination and lynching at the post and in combat, African-American regiments emerged as tough, committed and disciplined units.
£15.26
University of Oklahoma Press Pioneer Women The Lives of Women on the Frontier
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John Wiley & Sons Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Book SynopsisHistorians of the American west, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research.
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John Wiley & Sons Native American Placenames of the United States
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Stricken Field
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory Nimiipuu
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Coming Down From Above
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John Wiley & Sons Making Peace with Cochise The 1872 Journal of
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John Wiley & Sons Washita Memories Eyewitness Views of Custers
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University of Oklahoma Press A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific
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John Wiley & Sons The Indian Southwest 15801830 Ethnogenesis and Reinvention 232 The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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John Wiley & Sons Wives and Husbands Gender and Age in Southern
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John Wiley & Sons The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLeiker and Powers have written a truly authoritative study of how the Northern Cheyenne trek home in 1878?1879 is remembered and revered today by both Cheyennes and descendants of the Kansas settlers who were in their wake. An excellent balance of narrative and interpretation, Indian and white viewpoints, this work extends the narrative story to memory and celebrations of the odyssey to modern times, filling an important gap in the literature. Extensively researched, handsomely written, and readable for anyone interested in western history."" - John Monnett author of Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes""An exceptionally well-written account of a well-known episode that sheds new light on that episode, and, more significantly, uses it to explore areas of special concern to historians today. Doing so, the authors do not sacrifice the power of the story itself, which is one of the more dramatic, touching, and disturbing of its time. . . . Excellent research and scholarship."" - Elliott West author of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
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John Wiley & Sons Transforming Ethnohistories Narrative Meaning and Community
Book SynopsisDebates over the legitimacy of ethnohistory as a specialization have led some scholars to declare its decline. This volume shows ethnohistory to be alive and well and continuing to attract young scholars.
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John Wiley & Sons Hancocks War Conflict on the Southern Plains
Book SynopsisOffers a detailed narrative covering the entire scope of General Winfield Scott Hancock's ‘Expedition for the Plains’. This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.Trade ReviewOutstanding. . . . Highly recommended for anyone seriously interested in white-Indian relations, the frontier Army, the Indian wars of the post - Civil War era, and the career of Winfield Scott Hancock."" - On Point""An important contribution to the history of the Indian Wars."" - Western Historical Quarterly
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their
Book SynopsisBefore their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland.
£22.61
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Ioway Life
Book SynopsisOffers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency's files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in US colonialism and Indigenous resistance.Trade ReviewIn Ioway Life, Greg Olson does a superb job of filling in important gaps left by previous scholars regarding the outcome of federal paternalistic policy implemented among the Ioways on their reservation from 1837 to 1860."" - William E. Unrau, author of The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825 - 1855""In 130 very readable pages, [Ioway Life] offers a tight examination of the Ioway community between 1837 and 1860. . . . Scholars, tribal members, and even general readers will enjoy [this] insightful contribution."" - Missouri Historical Review
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University of Oklahoma Press Violence and Crime in Latin America
Book SynopsisAccording to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. The authors of this volume contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviours, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Trade ReviewThis book is a must-read for understanding crime and violence in Latin America. It challenges views of Latin American violence that either focus too much on regional particularities or univocally stress the role of the state as the overpowering site of violence and repression. Rather than denying these dimensions, the book recalibrates their significance by placing them in a larger, South-South geopolitical context. It will become a mandatory reference for studies of violence in Latin America and beyond."" - Federico Finchelstein, author of Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919 - 1945
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University of Oklahoma Press Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán
Book SynopsisThis engaging exploration of the life and career of Andrés Canché, and of his fellow Maya caciques, illuminates the realities of politics in Yucatán, revealing that seemingly ordinary political relationships were carefully negotiated by indigenous leaders. Theirs is a story not of failure and decline, but of survival and empowerment.Trade ReviewMaya Caciques in Early National Yucatán provides an updated account of Maya village headmen in the first half-century following Mexican independence in 1821. Rajeshwari Dutt's detailed narrative contributes to our knowledge of how Maya peoples responded to pressures generated by the construction of the modern Mexican state."" - Terry Rugeley, author of Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatán, 1800 - 1880
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Wars for Empire
Book SynopsisBy comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.Trade ReviewThe question Wars for Empire poses is why the United States engaged in a forty-year struggle to suppress fewer than 10,000 Apaches following the U.S.-Mexican War. The answers Janne Lahti provides in this book are thought-provoking and a bit unsettling. Lahti argues that whereas Apaches fought for survival, the United States saw the Apache wars as an expression of national unity based on racial and cultural superiority. This well-written study probes motives at once deeply complex and nuanced."" - Kathleen P. Chamberlain, author of Victorio, Apache Warrior and ChiefThis volume takes the reader into the labyrinth of conflicting interests, failed policies, and ethnocentric drives that characterized the era. With the story covering so large a theatre over so many decades, maps would have made the text more illuminating and easier to follow. Nonetheless, the reader will end up with a good understanding of this sad chapter in American history. - The Journal of America's Military Past""Any reader seeking to learn why the Apaches could outfight, outrun, and outmaneuver the regulars for so long should begin here."" - The Journal of Military History
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University of Oklahoma Press Depredation and Deceit
Book SynopsisThe Trade and Intercourse Acts were manipulated by Anglo-Americans who ensured the continuation of the very conflicts that they claimed to abhor and that the acts were designed to prevent. In bringing these machinations to light, Michno's book deepens - and darkens - our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest.Trade ReviewGregory F. Michno demonstrates in meticulous detail that the scale of attempted fraud associated with the Trade and Intercourse Acts throughout northern New Mexico was even worse than previously assumed. He also reveals the interconnections between depredations claimants, army contractors, and local boosters, as well as the impact that their never-ending allegations had on federal policy with the Jicarillas and Utes.""Robert Wooster, author of The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783 - 1900Gregory Michno has an engaging writing style. His description and analysis of a tragedy that was ultimately the result of a widespread campaign of lies and fraud, pursuant to fleecing the system and ultimately the native population, is clear and compelling…As Michno states, ""Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality."" (p. 245) - The Journal of America's Military Past
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Beyond Bears Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
Book SynopsisThe wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear's Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the US Army and fled into Canada. Beyond Bear's Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians.Trade ReviewWith his characteristically thorough scholarship and perceptive insights, Jerome Greene tells the scarcely known, tragic story of the Canadian exiles from the Nez Perce War of 1877. We are much the better for the telling."" - Elliott West, author of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story""Greene's knowledge and understanding of the Nez Perce flight from Idaho and their pursuit by the U.S. Army in 1877 are undeniable. The story here has long been waiting to be told, and it adds another shade to contemporary understanding of the complexity of Native-white history of the late nineteenth century. - Western Historical Quarterly
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University of Oklahoma Press 1889
Book SynopsisAfter 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.Trade Review1889 is a much-needed contribution to the history of Oklahoma, the American West, and Gilded Age America. Michael J. Hightower offers the best and most complete coverage of the Boomer movement that I have read."" - Sterling Evans, editor of Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West
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John Wiley & Sons Cherokee Medicine Colonial Germs An Indigenous
Book SynopsisHow smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story.Trade ReviewHistorians have long written that American Indian populations were helpless before the onslaught of European microbes. In this definitive analysis of early Cherokee history, Paul Kelton lays the simplistic virgin soil theory to rest and shows that epidemics of smallpox and other pathogens were not the inevitable result of European arrival. Instead, they took root amid the devastation unleashed by European colonization. The Cherokees, too, were not hapless victims, but exhibited resilience and creativity by integrating new diseases into their cosmology and medical practices to reduce exposure and control outbreaks. Kelton's meticulously researched account rewrites an important part of the history of early America."" - David S. Jones, author of Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600""This book joins distinguished scholarship on early American Indian history that is centered on the Indian experience and revises historians' knowledge of a time and place they thought they knew well."" - H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences""Cherokee Medicine…will lead scholars to reexamine how they understand and write about epidemic disease."" - Journal of Southern History""He puts colonists' often vague and unsubstantiated references to apocalyptic sickness under a microscope….Kelton demonstrates how close, rigorous analysis proves that Native responses to smallpox were varied, innovative (including the use of quarantine and vaccination), and often effective….Excellent."" - Choice""Of the many new insights that Kelton contributes, none is more important than the Cherokee response to smallpox, which undermines the narrative of Native peoples as passive victims….Kelton's work is a much-needed antidote to prevailing 'narratives of disease'…."" - Ethnohistory
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John Wiley & Sons Powder River Disastrous Opening of the Great
Book SynopsisRecounts the wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along with the stories of the Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source material.Trade ReviewPaul Hedren's study of the Crook-Connor campaign affords compelling new assessments about the Great Sioux War of 1876 - 1877. Teeming with fresh data and analysis, Powder River embodies the most significant contribution on this topic to appear in decades."" - Jerome A. Greene, author of American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890""Paul Hedren's Powder River is the definitive examination of the disastrous battle that opened the Great Sioux War. The research is extraordinarily deep and broad, and the conclusions persuasive. Hedren pronounces judgment on culpable officers, and rightly finds little to praise among anyone else."" - Robert M. Utley""Passages in Powder River ought to show up in anthologies of the best military writing for the next hundred years: beautifully precise accounts of the confusion of battle, the onset of fear and panic, small errors with big consequences - the sort of thing Clausewitz described as the 'friction' of war. From the battle's first shot, things went wrong, and Paul Hedren, a historian at the top of his game, explains why. This is a model of military narrative at its most compelling."" - Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse""With twenty years of research, including new primary sources from the Northern Cheyenne tribe, Powder River will now be considered the definitive work on the subject."" - True West Magazine""Hedren brilliantly resets the framework of Col. Reynolds' attacks on the Northern Cheyenne village and their influence on the short- and long-term consequences of the battle on the Great Sioux War, the Northern Plains tribes, the officer corps of the U.S. Army, and the settlement of the northern tier of Western states and territories."" - True West""With detailed appendixes, a thorough use of sources, and an incisive style, Paul L. Hedren's Powder River succeeds in providing its readers with a provocative rethinking of the Great Sioux War in its earliest months."" - Montana The Magazine of Western History""Readers will be haunted by Hedren's account of the frigidity of the plains in winter, the confusion of the dawn attack, the sense of the futility faced by the soldiers, and the callousness and bickering of the men who led this disaster."" - New Mexico Historical Review""[Powder River] flows like a novel. Details about campaigning in subzero temperatures, with little food and little sleep, enliven the narrative and remind readers of the sacrifices of nineteenth-century soldiers. Hedren strengthens his account by including the Indians' perspective of the battle . . . and historical context."" - On Point: The Journal of Army History
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John Wiley & Sons Pueblo Sovereignty Indian Land and Water in New
Book SynopsisOver five centuries of foreign rule, 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 cultural resilience and tenacity chronicled in Pueblo Sovereignty.Trade ReviewPueblo Sovereignty joins and complements Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks's distinguished body of work on land and water in the Southwest, including their prize-winning Four Square Leagues. Their deep experience in the field; grasp of historical, legal, and related sources; and ability to trace the evolution of themes through the Spanish colonial, Mexican, and U.S. periods set this study of five Pueblo communities apart. Here is yet another outstanding collaboration."" - John L. Kessell, author of Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico""In this exceptionally well researched book, the authors describe in detail how five pueblos have maintained their sovereignty since the late 1500s. Unlike most books on Pueblo history, this one recounts the struggle up to the present day, making Pueblo Sovereignty a requirement for any library on Indian rights."" - Sandra K. Mathews, coauthor of A History of New Mexico since Statehood""Pueblo Sovereignty is an important book for scholars of Native history, especially those working on the Southwest. It is exhaustively researched and balanced in its analysis and interpretation of the material. It would be helpful to see it situated more squarely in the broader scholarship on settler colonialism and Native dispossession, but this aside, it provides an important foundation on which further research on Native land and water issues in the Southwest can be built."" - H-Net
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Fifteenth Month
Book SynopsisThe 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.Trade ReviewIn The Fifteenth Month, distinguished historian of early colonial Mexico and renowned authority on Nahuatl language texts John F. Schwaller turns his sharp ethnohistorian's eye to the most important of the Aztec yearly festivals. His deep analysis of Panquetzaliztli reveals it is an outstanding lens through which to view major developments in Aztec history."" - Elizabeth Hill Boone, author of Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate""With The Fifteenth Month, Aztec studies takes another leap forward. Examining what is arguably the most important of the year's eighteen months, John F. Schwaller brilliantly uses the twenty festive days of Panquetzaliztli as a device with which to explore Mexica daily life, the imperial culture of the Aztecs, and Nahua civilization on the eve of the Spanish invasion."" - Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
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John Wiley & Sons Viewing the Ancestors Perceptions of the Anaasazi
Book SynopsisArchaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.Trade ReviewIn Viewing the Ancestors, Robert McPherson takes on a formidable assignment: ‘To give the Navajo and other Native American tribes' oral traditions a new look,' as he phrases it. McPherson travels to Anaasází country and re-examines Navajo and Hopi teachings concerning this locale. He gives his subject the kind of attention and respect it deserves, ultimately revealing the power of place and the significance of stories."" - Peter Iverson, author of Diné: A History of the Navajos ""Viewing the Ancestors makes an impassioned plea for recognizing oral traditions as vital sources of historical insights, alongside evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and written documents. This is a fascinating, must-read book for scholars and those interested in Native American cultural history in the American Southwest."" - William D. Lipe, coauthor of The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos
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John Wiley & Sons Winning the West with Words Language and
Book SynopsisIn the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. This book explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Massacre in Minnesota The Dakota War of 1862 the
Book SynopsisIn August 1862 the worst massacre in US history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what came to be known as the Dakota War. The wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened. A sweeping work of narrative history, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in US history.Trade ReviewAnderson's account of the Dakota uprising of 1862 is now the definitive one of an event - shamefully corrupt in its origins, horrific in its unfolding, and tragic in its aftermath - that must stand among the most appalling and revealing in the long history of Indian-white relations. ""- Elliott West, author of The Essential West: Collected Essays and The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story|""Exhaustively researched and copiously documented, Anderson's history of the Minnesota-Dakota War of 1862 offers fresh perspectives and a superior understanding of both Dakota culture and federal Indian policy. This will become the standard work on the subject."" - William E. Lass, author of Minnesota: A History and Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway
£28.76
John Wiley & Sons Traders Agents and Weavers Developing the Northern Navajo Region
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John Wiley & Sons Twenty Thousand Mornings An Autobiography
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Crow Is My Boss The Oral Life History of a
Book SynopsisBorn in 1922, Kenny Thomas Sr. has been a trapper, firefighter, road builder, river-freight hauler, and soldier. Today he is a respected elder and member of a northern Athabaskan tribal group. Over a three-year period, Craig Mishler conducted interviews with Thomas about his life experiences. Crow Is My Boss is the result of this collaboration.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Speaking American Language Education and
Book SynopsisExplores how language instruction informed the social construction of American citizenship. Combining the history of language instruction, school desegregation, and civil rights activism as it unfolded in LA, this timely book clarifies the critical and evolving role of language instruction in twentieth-century American politics.Trade ReviewIn this illuminating historical account, Zevi Gutfreund posits that formal language education served as a vector through which Angelinos—those who possessed social capital and those who aspired to it—sought to articulate and shape notions of US citizenship in the twentieth century. Gutfreund uncovers the ways teachers, parents, and students challenged Americanization and English-only campaigns and brought to bear their own aspirations for national belonging. Speaking American proves quite salient and timely as California continues to both reify and undermine national xenophobic currents in American immigration politics." —Clif Stratton, author of Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship"Speaking American asks critical questions about identity, Americanization, education, and young people. In telling this complex and important story—difficult, disappointing, and uplifting at the various twists and turns of Los Angeles history—Zevi Gutfreund explores how and why L.A. was at the epicenter of twentieth-century Americanization debates and struggles. He renders the always-complex social and racial arenas of metropolitan L.A. with clarity and scholarly acuity." —William Deverell, author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past"Our understanding of American identities and educational reform has broadened significantly in recent years, as scholars have increasingly identified schools as sites of ongoing negotiation between students, teachers, diverse communities, and reformers. In telling the multiple ways in which Angelenos understood what it meant to “speak American,” Gutfreund’s book adds important insight regarding how language remained—and remains—a critical part of this negotiation." —Western Historical Quarterly
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John Wiley & Sons Cowboy Presidents
Book SynopsisExplores the deployment and transformation of the frontier myth by four US presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, David Smith finds major events that have made aspects of the ‘Old West’ frontier useful for promoting different political ideologies and agendas.
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John Wiley & Sons Recuerdos
Book SynopsisA generation after the conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well - a history to dispel the romantic vision overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history, published for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush.Trade Review“These volumes should be widely read by all those interested in the history of California and the American West under Spanish, Mexican, and American rule. Its triumph lies in bringing forth a formerly hidden history that raises important insights for today’s discussions about colonialism and race.”—James Sandos, author of Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions“A significant addition to the rich documentary heritage of California history. Beebe and Senkewicz provide the definitive translation, one that enriches our understanding of Vallejo and his times.”—Albert L. Hurtado, author of John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
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John Wiley & Sons When Cimarron Meant Wild
Book SynopsisJust how wild was the Cimarron country in the late 1800s? And what were the consequences for the region and for those caught up in the conflict? The answers, pursued through this remarkable work, enhance our understanding of cultural and economic struggle in the American West.Trade Review“All the elements of the settlement of the American West are here in David Caffey’s carefully researched story of the Maxwell Land Grant and the various groups and people who sought to make all, or even a small piece, of it their own at the end of the nineteenth century: cattlemen, miners, Mexican settlers who came earlier, American settlers who came later, the Jicarilla Apache and Southern Ute people who had called the region home for hundreds of years, corrupt politicians, the Santa Fe Ring, hired gunmen, and absentee corporate landlords. All of them created a volatile mix that erupted over the largest private landholding in the United States. Caffey elucidates on how the ingenious use of American land laws and policies coalesced with the American dream of land ownership to provide the rationale for settling and “civilizing” the wild territory of Cimarron."—Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, author of The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846–1970"An engaging and readable retelling of the Colfax County War and the troubles over the settling of the Maxwell Land Grant in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Through the lens of extrajudicial violence, David Caffey explores how local ranchers, farmers, and miners took the law into their own hands in order to seek justice and settle old scores."—MarÍa E. Montoya, author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Problem of Land in the American West
£27.50
John Wiley & Sons Show Town Theater and Culture in the Pacific
Book SynopsisLucidly written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of cultural history. By examining one city’s theatrical scene in all its complex dimensions, this book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped the urban American West.
£19.90
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Class and Race in the Frontier Army
Book SynopsisHistorians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post-Civil War America were reflected in the US Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a ‘Victorian class divide’ that overshadowed ethnic prejudices.Trade Review“This well-written and skillfully researched study is a fascinating account of the social history of a significant American institution….[Adams] clearly proves that the frontier army might have been physically isolated from American society, but culturally it was part of the same milieu.” - American Historical Review“Kevin Adams’s fine study of the frontier army in the West ranks among the best books on the subject in decades…..Adams uses the army as a laboratory for a better understanding of American society during the Gilded Age…. [Class and Race in the Frontier Army] is readable, coherent, well organized, meaningful, and enjoyable….Adams should be congratulated for this significant contribution to our understanding of the frontier army in the crucial period from 1870 to 1890.” - Montana: The Magazine of Western History“Based on an impressive array of primary sources and statistical information, this well-argued and well-written book should be read by all students of the frontier army, Gilded Age society, and American labor and immigration history.” - Pacific Historical Review“In this ambitious and provocative blend of social, cultural, and military history, Kevin Adams uses the experiences of the western army to emphasize the importance of class, and to deemphasize the significance of ethnicity, in Gilded Age America. As Adams shows, the egalitarian, often communal worldview of enlisted men contrasted sharply with the elitist attitudes of officers, whose celebration of leisure and habits of conspicuous consumption suggest a distinctly unprofessional attitude toward soldiering.” - Robert Wooster, author of Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West“Here is a history of the nineteenth-century frontier army for the twenty-first century. With graceful prose, Adams presents the military as part of American life, not distinct and isolated from it. This study is smart - and long overdue.” - Sherry L. Smith, author of The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians
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John Wiley & Sons Rivers of Power
Book SynopsisAlthough the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized rivers as the basis of power, leadership, and governance in early America.
£71.10
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Killing over Land Murder and Diplomacy on the
Book SynopsisIn early America, interracial homicide might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time.
£34.16
LSU Press Life Behind a Veil Blacks in Louisville Kentucky 18651930
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Louisiana State University Press Plain Folk of the Old South
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials to reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class.
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