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This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labour across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the US acquisition of Texas originated with planters' need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, Roger Kennedy takes a long view.

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As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. Edward Westermann examines the validity, and value, of this claim in this study.

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Tells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.

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In this collection of six thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence.

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Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world and she describes this world from the perspective of animals. These tales, drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminate the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans.

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Draws on the author’s experience as a tribal attorney to present the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation. The book traces the Seminoles’ story from their removal to Indian Territory from Florida in the late nineteenth century to the new challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional analyses to explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and failed in others.

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Reconstructs the lost world of a sailor's daily life in World War II. This moving work poignantly confronts the horrors of war, giving voice to a young sailor, the country he served, the family and friends he left behind, and the hope that has sustained them.

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Relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primary sources, Brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the Contras, debunking most of what has been written about the movement’s leaders, origins, aims, and foreign support.

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Presents for the first time in English the complete dramatic works of Don Bartolome de Alva, the only known plays from Spain’s Golden Age adapted into the lively world of Nahuatl-language theatre.

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Tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek, a pivotal event in the Apache Wars. Basing his account on extensive primary sources, including testimony from Apaches themselves, Charles Collins describes the events leading up to the incident, recreates the battle, and analyses its aftermath.

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Telling the true stories of famous men who risked their lives to bring western outlaws to justice, Man-Hunters of the Old West dispels long-held myths of their cold-blooded vigilantism and brings fresh nuance to the lives and legends that made the West wild.

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Jim Bridger was a mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, and lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales he himself liked to tell. In a biography that gives Bridger his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time.

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Focusing on the tumultuous years 1885-1892, Robert K. DeArment’s compelling narrative is the first to reveal the complete story of the county seat wars that raged in Kansas - controversial episodes that made national news in the late 1900s but are largely unknown today.

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A thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado

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Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

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Few historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journals written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833-34. In this volume, Maximilian vividly narrates his extended stay at Fort Clark and his return journey eastward across America and on to his home in Germany.

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In 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.

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The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh's diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book.

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In the first detailed military history of the Garza War, Thomas Ty Smith reveals how an armed insurrection against a foreign government, conducted on American soil, drew the US Army into a uniquely complex conflict whose repercussions would be felt on both sides of the US-Mexico border for generations to come.

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Born 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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The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. In this first comprehensive study of the Parr family's political activities, Anthony Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a political machine that drove South Texas politics for more than seventy years.

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Historians have long seen the Battle of Saratoga as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies. But that traditional view of overlooks the complexity of the situation on the ground. Instead, Theodore Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts.

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Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful transcriptions of the Nahuatl as well as new English translations of these remarkable dramas.

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This work provides a comprehensive study of the art of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting and ceramics. Combining the art with those of other ancient civilizations, the author demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals.

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Explores how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges - projecting power, defending the empire - and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent.

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In these short stories, Jack Forbes captures the remarkable breadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholar and native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our sense of how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, field artillery was a small, separate, unsupported branch of the US Army. By the end of World War I, it had become the ‘King of Battle’, a critical component of American military might. Million-Dollar Barrage tracks this transformation.

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Who were the ancient Romans? Views of Rome addresses this question by offering a collection of thirty-five annotated excerpts from Greek prose authors. As Adam Serfass explains in his introduction, these authors' characterizations of the Romans run the gamut from fellow Hellenes, civilizers, and peacemakers to barbarians, boors, and warmongers.

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In this engaging narrative, acclaimed historian R. David Edmunds combines careful research with creative storytelling to give voice to indigenous individuals and families and to illustrate the impact of pivotal events on their lives. A nonfiction account accompanies each narrative to provide necessary historical and cultural context.

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The 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.

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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.

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For more than twenty years after the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British victory. In Titan, William R. Nester offers a deeply informed and thoroughly fascinating narrative of how England accomplished this remarkable feat.

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The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.

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Franklin Henry Little (1878-1917) fought in some of the early twentieth century's most contentious labour and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and secrets. Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle's fascinating life.

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In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyses date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and 1940.

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In 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.

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Whereas early accounts treated the Ghost Dance as a military or political movement, this book stresses its peaceful nature and reveals the breadth of Lakota views on the subject. The more than one hundred accounts compiled here show that the movement caused friction within Lakota society even as it spurred genuine religious belief.

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Vicente Podico Lim was once his country's best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the US Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition is the first in-depth biography of this forgotten figure.

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Describes life during ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, discusses their economy, government, religion, and art, and indicates the reasons for the society's collapse.

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This edition of the "Diario" is the first translation based on the original manuscript, which is an abstraction done in the 1530s by Las Casas from a poor copy of Columbus' journal. The Spanish text is complete with strike-outs, interpolations and corrections.

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In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that has remain

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Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.

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The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques. But the term's meaning was adapted natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within.

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