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Reconstructing the Dreamlandby Alfred L. Brophy
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 18.95The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was America's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. In this text, Alfred Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. more...
Oklahomaby Inc. Weigl Publishers
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2008; US$ 10.95Oklahoma: The Sooner State, is a part of the Discover America Series. Oklahoma celebrates the people and culture with beautiful images and engaging facts as well as describing the history, industry, environment, and sports that make this state unique. more...
La Harpe's Postby George H. Odell; Frieda Vereecken-Odell; John C. Dixon; Bonnie C. Yates; Eric Menzel; Mary Elizabeth Good; Kenneth L. Shingleton Jr; Isabella Muntz; Marie E. Brown; Lee Anna Schniebs; Joe B. Thompson
The University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 23.96This major contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to open a trading post on the Red River just above a Caddoan village not far from present-day Texarkana. Following the establishment of this post, La Harpe ventured farther north to extend his trade market into... more...
Daily Life in Colonial New Englandby Claudia Durst Johnson
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 81.00Life for the individuals who chose to come to New England during the Colonial Period was anything but easy. This reference resource explores the everyday details of colonial life in New England and exposes as myth much of what we might believe about this era, environment and people. How exactly and why did their religious beliefs help structure their lives? What roles did women play in this society? How were people tried and punished for their crimes? Students can find thoroughly researched answers to these questions and others to help them learn exactly what everyday life was like for New Englanders during the Colonial Period.||Students may be surprised to find what a large role the environment played in these people's lives, from the... more...
Rustic Warriorsby Steven Eames
NYU Press 2011; US$ 65.00The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them "a gathering from the scum of the worst people." Many historians of the period tend to agree, and the story that the New England war effort was not as noble and her soldiers not as heroic as local lore would have us believe is now a familiar one. Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers' battlefield style, strategy,... more...
New England's Generationby Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 26.00This book explores New England's founding, in terms of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired. more...
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