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The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under MexicoThe quarter-century of Mexican sovereignty over the land that is today the American Southwest was a period of turmoil and transition. Between 1821 and 1846, Mexico City's ties to the far northern frontier were steadily weakened by domestic political and social strife as well...
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Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions Among Southern California IndiansNative Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities....
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So Rugged and Mountainous, 1: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848The story of America's westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent--and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long...
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Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Volume 3: Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American LibertyThe modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore's rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing...
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Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and ConquestAs he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples...
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Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941One 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...
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New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public DiplomacyBest known to Americans as the "singing cowboy," beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907-1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry's name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known today, his commitment to political causes...
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Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern PlainsBefore the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts...
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Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown, MontanaNo sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program's National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small...
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Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post-Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a "Victorian class divide" that overshadowed ethnic...
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Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex...
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Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical PracticeThe astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent...
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Californio Portraits: Baja California's Vanishing Culture Volume 4First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios' contact with the outside world and...
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Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde...
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Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869volume 12The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls...
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Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors...
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The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great BasinThe Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple...
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With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. Volume 1Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 1775-76 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at San Francisco Bay. Franciscan missionary Fray Pedro Font accompanied Anza. As chaplain and geographer, Font kept a detailed daily record...
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A Short History of the French RevolutionA Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians' interpretations of these events. The book covers all aspects...
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Converting the Rosebud, Volume 277: Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916When Andrew Jackson's removal policy failed to solve the "Indian problem," the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Nineteenth-century Catholic and Protestant reformers eagerly founded reservation missions and boarding schools, hoping to "civilize and Christianize" their supposedly savage charges. In telling the story...
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