University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
by Edward H. Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Mr. Faulkner’s masterpiece is recognized as the most important challenge to agricultural orthodoxy that has been advanced in this century. Its new philosophy of the soil, based on proven principles and completely opposed to age-old concepts, has had a strong impact upon theories of cultivation around...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
With Middle East blow-ups, pipeline politics, wind farm controversies, solar industry scandals, and disputes over fracking, it's natural to think that the energy policy debate is at its most intense ever. But it's easy to forget that energy issues dominated the nation's politics in the 1970s as well....
Blood of the Prophets
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on...
Calamity Jane
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph—and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic...
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Their Traditional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure...
Idea of a New General History of North America
An Account of Colonial Native Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A Spaniard originally from Italy, the polymath Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702–1753), known as Boturini, traveled to New Spain in 1736. Becoming fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures of the New World, he collected and copied native writings—and learned Nahuatl, the language in which most of...
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail
Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China,...
We Know Who We Are
Métis Identity in a Montana Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States....
Wars for Empire
Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended...
Chiefs and Challengers
Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians...
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal,...
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably...
From the Glittering World
A Navajo Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The Diné, or Navajo, creation story says there were four worlds before this, the Glittering World. For the present-day Diné this is a world of glittering technology and influences from outside the sacred land entrusted to them by the Holy People. From the Glittering World conveys in vivid language...
Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built...