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In this groundbreaking book, Matthew Klingle explores the environmental history of Seattle and shows how the city’s attempts to reshape nature have often ended in both ecological disaster and economic inequality. Advocating what he describes as “an ethic of place,” Klingle proposes bold new ways of thinking about environmental and urban policy.

This is the story of a groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in 1941 that changed the field of Indian law. Threatened by railroad claims to their lands, Arizona’s Hualapai people engaged in a legal battle, emerged victorious, and along the way introduced revolutionary new ways of thinking about all native peoples, their property, and their past.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, U.S. and Mexican elites sought to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of economic development.  This book explores how efforts to tame this fugitive landscape ran aground, telling a forgotten story of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for contemporary border relations.

A historian and a photographer join efforts to create this lyrical portrait of Roma, Texas, a small town on the Rio Grande. The book explores Roma’s colorful history—from the arrival of Spanish settlers in the eighteenth century to today—and shows how the story of this borderlands town is not just local—it illuminates the larger story of America itself.

This groundbreaking book uncovers the lost story of the Comanche Indians and the vast and powerful empire they built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The volume challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new perspective on the history of the colonization of North America.

In this monumental history, the most respected western scholar of our time draws a nuanced and highly original portrait of the American West in the twentieth century.

This is a concise and freshly updated edition of Hine and Faragher’s acclaimed The American West: A New Interpretive History. The authors provide a grand survey of our colorful frontier history, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

 

In this compelling history of the California Franciscan missions and their impact on the Indians they sought to convert, James A. Sandos offers a balanced assessment of the missions’ tensions, conflicts, accomplishments, and limitations, focusing primarily on the religious conflicts between the two groups.

An eloquent look at prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, which depicts landforms created by railroads built and abandoned in the American and Canadian West since 1869.

This compact synthesis of David J. Weber’s prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America vividly tells the story of Spain’s 300-year tenure on the continent. From the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain’s gradual retreat, Weber offers a balanced assessment of the impact of each civilization upon the other.

In this enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic civilizations, providing rich insights into both while revealing aspects of their dual history that influence the Americas to this day.

This book takes a fresh look at the acquisition of Spanish borderland territories from Florida toTexas. The author reassesses President James Madison’s diplomatic and expansionist policies as well as the roles played by a fascinating cast of local leaders, officials, and other small players in the boundary disputes.

How can environmental problems be solved when they cross boundaries and involve diverse people? What kind of leadership and institutions will bring success? From experience in the greater Yellowstone region, Susan G. Clark looks at leadership and policy in managing natural resources. She assesses accomplishments toward sustainability over the past forty years.

This magnificent collection of photographs by Laura McPhee depicting landscapes and life in the American West also presents the environmental complexities of managing one of the last remote places in the country.

This original book examines Marsden Hartley’s pivotal series of landscape paintings of New Mexico created between 1918 and 1924 in the context of postwar American modernism.

This magisterial biography paints a rich portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat whose voyage to America resulted in one of the most vital texts in the history of democratic thought. Hugh Brogan brings Tocqueville to life and elucidates his thinking on the nature of democracy.