University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
The Huasteca
Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements...
by Demetria Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters...
Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious life—and, for the Catholic clergy of New Spain, a new avenue through which they might reach the consciences of Spaniards and improve their treatment...
by Gary Scharnhorst
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching...
Dukes of Duval County
The Parr Family and Texas Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the Parr political machine peaked during the...
by John W. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis’s book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming’s...
Colonial Intimacies
Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
“A gem of historical scholarship!”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
How do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In particular, how did colonial relations...
By the River
Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The novella, as the editors of this volume explain, is in many ways the “native habitat” of modern Chinese literary production—the ideal fictional form for revealing the various facets of contemporary Chinese culture. The seven novellas collected here resoundingly support their claim. Featuring...
Off Trail
Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped at twenty-one: the mountain man who first led her up one peak after another in the Colorado Rockies and who then became her husband. Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family’s history...
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into battle; and as baggage carriers marching in the rear.
Beginning...
A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite...
by Otto Preston Chaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following...
Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums
Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason.
Sound...