University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
The Irish General
Thomas Francis Meagher
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor—Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained...
Aztec Thought and Culture
A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems...
Winter Sun
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Shi Zhi has been a major force in Chinese poetry since 1968, when several of his poems were circulated as secret handwritten manuscripts in the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited youth, and although once relegated to obscurity, he is today celebrated...
Religious Freedom in America
Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—these are matters for heated...
Pio Pico
The Last Governor of Mexican California
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks...
Arredondo
Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican...
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now...
by William R. Nester
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only...
by Glenda Riley, Richard W. Etulain
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government’s presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and since 1789 a number of U.S. presidents have had a penetrating and long-lasting impact on the region. In Presidents Who Shaped...
A Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those...
Party Wars
Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Party Wars is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf now separating the two major parties developed and how today’s fierce partisan competition affects the political process and national policy.
Barbara Sinclair traces the current ideological divide to changes in the Republican...
The Taken
True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both....
Our Better Nature
Environment and the Making of San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends....
National Parks beyond the Nation
Global Perspectives on "America's Best Idea"
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
“The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal...