University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”
Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”...
by James Franklin Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The ability of human beings to feel compassion or empathy for one another—and express that emotion by offering comfort or assistance—is an important antidote to violence and aggression. In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer and the tragic dramas performed each spring in the Theater of Dionysus...
by Alfredo Véa Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Véa’s daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys.
Abandoned as...
Conversations with Barry Lopez
Walking the Path of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of America’s preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary....
Imagining Sovereignty
Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various—and often competing—claims to authority....
Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
Celebrated California Bandit
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems,...
Nine Days in May
The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come...
The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known...
Views of Rome
A Greek Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
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...
Rhapsody in Black
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
An indigenous poet of the Nuosu (Yi) people of mountainous southwestern China, Jidi Majia is well known and celebrated among the Chinese. But his lyrical and worldly work, though widely published and honored, has not found its voice in English translation in the West. The poems in Rhapsody in Black,...
Grand Avenue
A Novel in Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world.
Bound...
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
How 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. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,”...
The Wister Trace
Assaying Classic Western Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
A master practitioner’s view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout. The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns...
Slaughter at the Chapel
The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed...