University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.
This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American...
Going for Broke
Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who...
Wyoming Range War
The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of...
Winning the West with Words
Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century...
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen
The Films of William F. Cody
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
For more than thirty years, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody’s fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry—following the dissolution of his...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
The Crime That Should Haunt America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it...
Blücher
Scourge of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Blücher distinguished himself as a bold...
Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword
The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic...
Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth...
by William B. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William B. Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to...
by Gladys Carmen Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Mark Twain has been the subject of violent disagreement among critics. Most of them have believed that he was an “unconscious artist,” working by impulse. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist shows that Mark Twain was much more the conscious craftsman than is generally believed.
Here is revealed...
Somewhere Over There
The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Decades before Americans became familiar with the term “embedded journalist,” a young cartoonist named Francis Webster embodied that role when he served as a volunteer infantryman during World War I. Using his skills as an illustrator, he documented firsthand the harsh realities of combat life...
Never Come to Peace Again
Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account...
Spain in the Southwest
A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American...