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The essays collected in Unknown No More recover and analyse Sanora Babb's previously unrecognised contributions to American letters. Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have assembled a group of distinguished scholars who, for the first time in book-length form, explore the life and work of Sanora Babb.

The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.

James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those essays do not illustrate the full complexity and vigour of Madison's thinking.

A vast number of studies have documented the economic and geological effects of oil production, but the impact of boom-and-bust cycles on individuals and communities has received less attention. Boom or Bust highlights the personal experiences of those directly affected in an economy dominated by oil and natural gas.

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? In a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon Mihesuah offers an accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.

A comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Greco-Roman world that offers new English translations from the works of more than fifty women.

A confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder, George Washington Grayson also served for six decades as a leader of the Creek Nation. His life paralleled the most tumultuous events in Creek Indian and Oklahoma history, from the aftermath of the Trail of Tears through World War I.

The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power.

The so-called Indian wars of the nineteenth century devastated indigenous populations, and some of the conflicts stand out today as massacres. Although historians have written full-length studies about each of these episodes, Massacring Indians is the first to present them as part of a larger pattern of aggression.

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques. But the term's meaning was adapted natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within.

In May 1776 more than 200 Indian warriors attacked Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In three days' fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American fort to surrender. In this book, Mark Anderson focuses on the Native participants - their motivations, conduct, and the impact on their world.

While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention - despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races.

The 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first 'national' regiments in the American army. In this study of the regiment, Holly Mayer marshals personal and official accounts to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution.

Explores the deployment and transformation of the frontier myth by four US presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, David Smith finds major events that have made aspects of the 'Old West' frontier useful for promoting different political ideologies and agendas.

Ideas defer to no border - least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes one's identity? This dilemma, so critical to the ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of Homeland, an intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic Mexican thought.

The first full account of the forgotten soldiers in America's military history, The First Code Talkers covers all known Native American code talkers of World War I - members of the Choctaw, Oklahoma Cherokee, Comanche, Osage, and Sioux nations, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Ho-Chunk.

The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash in June 17, 1876 along Rosebud Creek i Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. This book presents the definitive account of this critical battle.

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. "Strange Lands and Different Peoples" examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it.

If language encapsulates worldview, as the principle of linguistic relativity suggests, then this region's linguistic diversity is puzzling. Analyzing patterns of linguistic accommodation as seen in the semantics of space and time, grammatical classification, and specialized cultural vocabularies, O'Neill resolves the apparent paradox by assessing long-term effects of contact.

The first book-length account of a story too long overlooked