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Containing History

Containing History

How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations

by Stephen P. Friot

Amid the wreckage of the high hopes that accompanied the end of the Cold War, and as faith in a rules-based international order wanes, Friot’s work provides a historical, cultural, and political framework for understanding the geopolitics of the moment and, arguably, for navigating a way forward.

Going Back to T-Town

Going Back to T-Town

The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band

by Carmen Fields

In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance, extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s. This is an enlightening account of how this talented musician and businessman navigated the hurdles of racial segregation during the Jim Crow era.

Amon Carter

Amon Carter

A Lone Star Life

by Brian A. Cervantez

Foreword by Bob Ray Sanders

The first in-depth, scholarly biography of this outsize character and civic booster, Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life chronicles a remarkable life and places it in the larger context of state and nation.

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights

by Susan Ford Wiltshire

Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law.

Ballots and Bullets

Ballots and Bullets

The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas

by Robert K. DeArment

Foreword by Richard Maxwell Brown

With a story populated by some of the most notorious characters of the West—including Sam Wood, Theodosius Botkin, Bat Masterson, and Bill Tilghman—Ballots and Bullets relives the violence that only avarice can breed. Ordinary, decent citizens were drawn into bitter conflicts to advance their own communities and block the fortunes of other towns, even if it meant using hired gunmen.

XIT

XIT

A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana

by Michael M. Miller

Describing the Texas capitol project in its full scope and gritty detail, XIT cuts through the popular portrayal of great western ranches to reveal a more nuanced and far-reaching reality in the business and politics of the beef industry at the close of America’s Gilded Age.
 

Californio Portraits

Californio Portraits

Baja California's Vanishing Culture

by Harry W. Crosby

This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes.

North Country

North Country

Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity

Edited by Jon K. Lauck and Gleaves Whitney

From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.
 

When Cimarron Meant Wild

When Cimarron Meant Wild

The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado

by David L. Caffey

When Cimarron Meant Wild presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the region’s resources between 1870 and 1900. Author David L. Caffey describes the epic late-nineteenth-century range war in an account deeply informed by his historical perspective on social, political, and cultural issues that beset the American West to this day.
 

Indigenous Borderlands

Indigenous Borderlands

Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas

Edited by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez

Hemispheric in its scope, unique in its approach, this work significantly recasts our understanding of the important roles played by Native agents in constructing indigenous borderlands in the era of European imperialism.

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