Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

Examines the sociological and demographic impact of widespread bomb destruction. This is required reading for all civil defense workers and military personnel, as well as government leaders and civilians who would be informed on the social consequences of bombing - and ways to deal with those consequences.

Richard Harter Fogle's earlier work, Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, has become a standard resource for both scholars and general readers who wish to gain an understanding of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne- a complex and challenging literary figure. This book, designed as a companion volume, concentrates upon Hawthorne's use of imagery, specifically sun imagery, with its contrasting images of moonlight, artificial light, shadow, and blackness, to unify his narratives and illuminate his characters. In tracing Hawthorne's imagic pattern through his major fiction works and critical pieces, Professor Fogle amply reinforces his critical judgment that Hawthorne was not only an artist but also a careful, conscious craftsman. This book, in every sense a work of original and creative scholarship, is destined to join Hawthorne's Fiction as an indispensable guide to one of America's greatest writers. Richard Harter Fogle was professor of English at Tulane University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was the author of Melville's Shorter Tales, Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, and The Imagery of Keats: Selected Poetry and Letters.

Tells the story of the last great Apache through the character of Josanie, Chihuahua's older brother and the established war captain of his Chokonen band. Karl Schlesier carefully interweaves fictional chapters with historical documents - military records, eyewitness accounts, and newspaper reports - and Apache songs and stories.

Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West's wide array of interests, this collection touches on topics ranging from viruses and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry.

This study presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. It begins with the "Aeneid", and includes chapters on the "Bucolics" and the "Georgics".

More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Jeffrey Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology.