History: Newest books
Fünfzig Jahre Staatsvert...
Internationales Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, 25.-26. November 2005
by Carr, Gilbert J and Leahy, Caitr...
Diese Beiträge aus einem Dubliner Symposium setzen sich mit dem österreichischen Selbstverständnis im ‚Gedankenjahr‘ 2005 und der noch ,unbewältigten‘ Vergangenheit Österreichs kritisch auseinander und würdigen die politische und kulturelle Unabhängigkeit der Zweiten Republik ...
(2008)
Tales of Canyonlands Cow...
Richard Negri interviews cattlemen and women about ranching in the rugged canyonlands region of southeastern Utah. Personal stories and anecdotes from the colorful characters who ground out a hard living on ranches of the are in the early 20th century.
(2013)
Recollections of Past Days
For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In ...
(2013)
History of Utah's Americ...
The valleys, mountains, and deserts of Utah have been home to native peoples for thousands of years. Like peoples around the word, Utah's native inhabitants organized themselves in family units, groups, bands, clans, and tribes. Today, six Indian tribes in Utah are recognized ...
(2013)
Exploring Desert Stone
_Exploring Desert Stone_ is the first detailed investigation of the 1859 Macomb Expedition into western Colorado and the canyon country of Utah. > The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, stil...
(2013)
Roll Away Saloon
With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life.
(2013)
The River Knows Everything
Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated r...
(2013)
The Mormon Battalion
Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to ...
(2013)
Utah in the Twentieth Ce...
by Brian Q. Cannon and Jessie Embry
The twentieth could easily be Utah's most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus for...
(2013)
Women in Utah History
by Patricia Lyn... and Linda Thatcher
A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of sign...
(2013)
Emma Lee
Now in its eighth printing, _Emma Lee_ is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating firsthand.
(2013)
Uranium Frenzy
Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic w...
(2013)
Came Men on Horses
by Stan Hoig
"Hoig tells this story with a sharp eye for human details--sometimes gruesome but nonetheless compelling details--that bring Coronado, Oñate, and other Spanish soldiers and priests alive in ways that I have never read. After examining Hoig's account, I will never see th...
(2013)
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
"It is rare that an Anglo scholar could understand the in-depth meaning of the Navajo worldview and its implications. It is even rarer for him to interpret it in Western [narrative] form without losing meaning and integrity. . . Robert S. McPherson has done just that."--Harry ...
(2012)
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
by Kristin Kopp
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often ...
(2012)
Billy Durant
Praise for the first edition: "A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America." ---Detroit Free Press "It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is one of ...
(2012)
Industry and the Creativ...
>The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
by Sandra Tomc
Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord B...
(2012)
Japan and China as Charm...
by Jing Sun
In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies. Jing Sun, an expert on international relations and a former jo...
(2012)

