Bøger udgivet af University of Utah Press,U.S.

Art is politics and politics is art in this study of post-World War I caricature art in Egypt and Egyptian politics. This book explores the complex meaning and significance of caricature art drawn to support the ascendant Egyptian Wafd political party and its push for independence from British colonial control.

During the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, Russian troops, Cossack auxiliaries, and local Bulgarians participated in what today would be called ethnic cleansing. William Holt tells the story of a people and moment in time that has largely been neglected in modern Turkish and Balkan memory.

Although Utah is a land of outdoor wonders, the state has a distressing air pollution problem. Utah's Air Quality Issuesis the first book to tackle the subject. Written by scholars in a variety of fields, the book provides a one-stop resource on the causes, impacts, and possible solutions to the state's air quality dilemma.

Illustrates the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behaviour and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution.

Winner of the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Catechesis combines Grimm fairy tales with horror movies and the Book of Revelation to construct a vision of the dangers and apocalyptic transformations inherent in girlhood.

While Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X led the struggle for civil rights at a national level, Alberta Henry campaigned tirelessly for equality at a local level. Colleen Whitley provides an exceptional first-person account of an African American woman leader and her role in the Civil Rights Movement in Utah.

American Indians have long played a central role in Mormon history and its narratives. Their roles, however, have often been cast in support of traditional Mormon beliefs and as a reaffirmation of colonial discourses. This collection of essays explores the historical and cultural complexities of this narrative from a decolonizing perspective.

Endeavouring to understand the sway of the frontier on religion in the US, this book follows Mormon-American conflicts, from the Utah War and the antipolygamy crusades to the Reed Smoot hearings. The story of Mormonism's move toward American acceptability represents a larger story of the US's transition toward modernity and religious pluralism.

For 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah's Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing.

Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how Cultural Resource Management can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives, covering highway archaeology, inclusion of Native American tribes, and the legacy of the NHPA, among other topics.

Presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaquena and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. The authors place their work in a regional and theoretical context, providing detailed analyses of radiocarbon dates, structures, features, and artifacts.

Harold Leich set out on a westward journey in the summer of 1933. Alone on the Colorado takes readers on the adventure of running rivers and riding the rails, while painting a unique and optimistic portrait of Depression-era America.

Features previously unpublished photographs of Utah's magnificent rock art by long-time rock art researcher Layne Miller and essays by former Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones. Miller's photographs include many rare and relatively unknown panels and represent a lifetime of work by someone intimately familiar with the Colorado Plateau.

Over a 40-year period, Craig Johnson collected data on chipped stone tools from nearly 200 occupations along the Missouri River in the Dakotas. This book integrates those data with central place foraging theory and exchange models to arrive at broad conclusions supporting archaeological theory.

The 220 letters selected for this book offer a fresh and intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks, one of the most influential historians of Utah and the Mormons. Serving as a biography of her interactions with her contemporaries, this selection of letters provides a new perspective on Brooks's personality and growth as a scholar.

The first full account of the journey and discoveries of an archaeological expedition into the American Southwest. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had not previously been attempted - a four-hundred-mile horseback survey of prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain.

Examines Islam and secularism within Turkish nationalist ideology through the lens of commemorated saints. Soileau surveys Anatolian and Turkish religious and political history as the context for his closer attention to the lives and influence of these three Sufi saints.

Debunks the myths that have contributed to the often polarized character of contemporary discussions of the public lands in the United States. Recounting numerous episodes throughout American history, John Leshy demonstrates how public lands have generally served to unify the country, not divide it.

Studies of the interactions between Mormons and the natural environment are few. This volume applies the perspectives of environmental history to Mormonism, providing both a scholarly introduction to Mormon environmental history and a spur for historians to consider the role of nature in the Mormon past.

Chronicles the work of the 10,000 men who served at Utah's 116 Civilian Conservation Corps camps. With facts and anecdotes drawn from camp newspapers, government files, interviews, letters, and other sources, he situates the CCC within the political climate and details not only the projects but also the day-to-day aspects of camp life.

In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer for Native peoples, and her woman's perspective, she draws the reader into an intelligent and intimate conversation.

Presents a diverse collection of personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild creatures of the American West and critical essays that reveal wildlife's essential place in western landscapes. These narratives expose the complex challenges faced by wild animals and those devoted to understanding them.

In this creative memoir, Homer McCarty adopts the voice of seven-year-old Buck to recollect his own life growing up in southern Utah Territory in the late 1800s. Although Buck's reflections are necessarily imprecise - gathered from fragments of memory and then embellished freely - the stories he tells are an honest look at life on the frontier.

Argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, Steve Lekson advocates an entirely new approach - one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking.

Once again cast in the companionable style of journal entries and notes that readers enjoyed in Lueders's 1977 creative nonfiction classic The Clam Lake Papers, this new investigation into language and ways of knowing follows the author's move from the north woods of Wisconsin to the Intermountain West of Utah.

Covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English.

The California coastline has long been of interest to archaeologists. This book directs attention to the largely ignored Pecho Coast, a rugged, 20 km long peninsula between Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Jones and Codding bring together extensive contract work and field school studies, shedding new light on the region's early inhabitants.

Leonard Arrington is considered by many the foremost twentieth-century historian of Mormonism. But Arrington's career was not without controversy. Gregory Prince takes an in-depth look at this respected historian and, in telling his story, gives readers insight into the workings of the LDS Church in the late twentieth century.

In 1935, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah. Intrigued by this unusual string of coincidental disappearances, Scott Thybony set out to learn what happened. His investigations took him from Island in the Sky to Skeleton Mesa, from Texas to Tucson, and from the Green River to the Red.

Draws from public records, private documents and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church's attitudes on homosexuality. Initially that principally involved only its own members, but with its entry into the Hawaiian political arena, the church signaled an intent to shape the outcome of the marriage equality battle.