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The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series, Vol 4) מאת Samuel P. Huntington

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Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 Vernon Louis Parrington

Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 מאת Vernon Louis Parrington

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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius: Intermediate Reader and Grammar Review (Latin Edition) מאת Peggy L. Chambers The second year of Latin instruction can be the most difficult for student and teacher alike. Students must remember a seemingly endless array of grammatical rules and vocabulary, and often the material to be translated seems dull and lengthy beyond endurance. These problems have been overcome by

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Trills in the Bach Cello Suites: A Handbook for Performers מאת Jerome Carrington The Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach contain some one hundred trills, many open to diverse execution and more than half sparking controversy among musicians. Now accomplished cellist Jerome Carrington brings together and examines historically informed interpretations of the trills and co...

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon (Campaigns and Commanders) מאת Jeremy Black The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international perspective on the conflict to bette...

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William Wayne Red Hat, Jr.: Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows מאת William Wayne, Jr. Red Hat Red Hat conveys an oral tradition that preserves stories and memories of his people as well as accounts of historical events passed down within his family....

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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto מאת Jr. Vine Deloria

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Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend מאת Linda A. Fisher The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok--a mere five months before he was killed. While books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes's life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend. ...

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TO CHANGE THEM FOREVER: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 מאת Clyde Ellis Reservation boarding schools represented an important component in the U.S. government's campaign in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to "civilize" American Indians according to Anglo-American standards. The history of the Rainy Mountain School in southwestern Oklahoma reveals much ab...

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Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic מאת Michael F. Steltenkamp Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt's popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides t...

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On the Western Front With the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary מאת Vernon E. Kniptash Vernon E. Kniptash, an Indiana national guardsman who served in the Rainbow Division during World War I, observed firsthand some of the Great War's fiercest fighting. As a radio operator with the Headquarters Company of the 150th Field Artillery, he was in constant contact with French and Bri...

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Battleship Oklahoma BB-37 מאת Jeff Phister The comprehensive history of the USS Oklahoma from its christening in 1914 to its final loss in 1947. The authors tell how the Oklahoma served in World War I, participated in the Great Cruise of 1925, and evacuated refugees from Spain in 1936. But the most memorable event of the ship...

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Once Upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II (Campaigns and Commanders) מאת Robert E. Humphrey For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic...

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Magnificent Failure: A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era מאת John Martin Campbell Vivid recreation of the life and times of the western homestead era, the period from about 1885 when the prairie lands lying west of the longitude of the western Dakotas became avialable to pioneering farmers. More than 70 black-and-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record bleak la...

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Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime: Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future (International and Security Affairs) מאת Max G. Manwaring Translates the cogent lessons of recent events into workable strategies for tomorrow's leaders....

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Art from Fort Marion (Western Legacies) מאת Joyce M. Szabo During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of home. Now a leading authority on American Indian drawings and paintings ex...

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Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions (The American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) מאת James H. Cox Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities...

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Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) מאת Diane Glancy It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. A quarter of the removed Indian population have died along the way, victims of cold, disease, and despair. Now the Cherokee people confront an unknown future. How will they build...

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The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper מאת Charles M., III Robinson Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The taint of racism on th...

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The West of the Imagination מאת William H. Goetzmann For many people, "western art" immediately conjures images by Frederic Remington or Georgia O'Keeffe--but there's so much more. From early explorers' first sketches of the Rockies to the modern earth sculptures of Michael Heizer, images of the American West are as multifaceted as its cultures. This ...

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Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist מאת Darlis A. Miller The first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis A. Miller challenges older interpretations of her subject'...

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Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (Race and Culture in the American West) מאת Robert Bauman President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to...

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Creating Characters: How to Build Story People מאת Dwight V. Swain Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight V. Swain shows how writers can invent interesting characters and improve them so tha...

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Michener: A Writer's Journey מאת Stephen J. May James A. Michener was one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. In this full-length biography of both the private and the public Michener, Stephen J. May draws on Michener's complete papers as well as interviews with his friends and associates to reveal how an aspiring writer became a...

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Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir מאת Teresa Miller For the longest time, Teresa Miller wanted to get as far from Oklahoma as possible--to escape from her distant father and abusive stepmother, from the ache of her mother's death, and from the small-town insularity of Tahlequah. She longed for New York and Hollywood, for all the glamorous settings th...

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Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist מאת Linda M. Waggoner One of the first American Indian artists to be accepted within the mainstream art world, De Cora left her childhood home on the Winnebago reservation to find success in the urban Northeast at the turn of the twentieth century. Despite scant documentary sources that elucidate De Cora's private life...

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On Coon Mountain: Scenes from Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills מאת Glen Ross

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Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians (Civilization of the American Indian Series) מאת Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms....

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Safeguarding Federalism: How States Protect Their Interests in National Policymaking מאת John D. Nugent The checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution are designed to decentralize and thus limit the powers of government. This system works both horizontally--among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches--and vertically--between the federal government and state governments. That vert...

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The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh מאת Donna B. Ernst He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid--whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh--led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his li...

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Let's Speak Chickasaw Chikashshanompa' Kilanompoli' מאת Pamela Munro An important member of the Muskogean language family, Chickasaw is an endangered language spoken today by fewer than two hundred people, primarily in the Chickasaw Nation of south-central Oklahoma. Let's Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa' Kilanompoli' is both the first textbook of the Chickasa...

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Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood מאת Robert Hinkle "Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?" The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along the ...

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Harpsong (Oklahoma Stories and Storytellers Series) מאת Rilla Askew Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family's yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his charm. Soon he and his fourteen-year-old bride, Sharon, are on the road, two more hobos of the Great Depression, hitchhiking and hoppi...

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William S. Hart: Projecting the American West מאת Ronald L. Davis Stage actor turned Hollywood star, William S. Hart (1864-1946) was for movie fans a cherished symbol of the romantic Old West. His silent westerns offered excitement, lessons in righteous behavior, and a nostalgic vision of the American frontier. This intriguing biography explores the personal and p...

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Battleship Oklahoma BB-37 מאת Jeff Phister The comprehensive history of the USS Oklahoma from its christening in 1914 to its final loss in 1947. The authors tell how the Oklahoma served in World War I, participated in the Great Cruise of 1925, and evacuated refugees from Spain in 1936. But the most memorable event of the ship...

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Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939 מאת Douglas R. Littlefield The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century reflects the evolution of water resource management in the West. It was here that the earliest interstate and international water allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico against farmers downstream in El Paso and Jua...

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Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle over Liquor in Early Oklahoma מאת James E. Klein Grappling with Demon Rum identifies who favored and who opposed prohibition, showing that its proponents were largely middle-class citizens who disdained public drinking establishments and who sought respectability for a young state still considered a frontier society. Klein tells how the Ok...

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Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Oklahoma Western Biographies) מאת Kathleen P. Chamberlain A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain e...