University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness, and commitment to land and community. In writing...
Syntactical Mechanics
A New Approach to English, Latin, and Greek
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Syntax, Bruce McMenomy would like the beleaguered student to know, is not a collection of inconsistent and arbitrary rules, but rather an organic expression of meaning that evolved over time. Aimed at intermediate and advanced students of classical languages, this book shows how understanding grammatical...
Women of Empire
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: “You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.” Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded...
Boneland
Linked Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged, but as she “looks” back on the events of her past, she realizes she may not have seen them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husband’s death . . . was it a suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncle’s...
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to...
Record of Regret
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
“Be careful trying to place blame, or it might come back to you,” Ceng Guangxian’s father warns him after the first time his good intentions end in ruin. Yet time and again as Guangxian comes of age, bad luck and his own desires for a bigger, better future wreak havoc upon his family, fortune,...
This American Autopsy
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2019
In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist José Antonio Rodríguez encapsulates the experiences of an artist and citizen caught between two worlds. At once deeply personal and thematically expansive, these works offer a bracing look at the darker impulses of...
Pre-removal Choctaw History
Exploring New Paths
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.
Distinguished scholars...
The Commanders
Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments....
Wahb
The Biography of a Grizzly
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton’s classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context...
by Catherine Holder Spude
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and...
Emory Upton
Misunderstood Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Emory Upton (1839–1881) is widely recognized as one of America’s most influential military thinkers. His works—The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States—fueled the army’s intellectual ferment in the late nineteenth century and guided Secretary of War Elihu...
Small Boats and Daring Men
Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources...
The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps
The Republic of China Military, 1942–1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The People’s Republic of China is the only large country in the world that does not have a “national” military; its military answers only to a political party, the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military...