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The Landmark 75

This list of 75 books, all still in print, represents many of the most successful publications in the first 75 years of the University of Wisconsin Press.

Classics in Translation, Volumes III
Edited by Paul L. MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe

Black Moses
The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
E. David Cronon

History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volumes III
Alexander A. Vasiliev

Chemical Demonstrations, Volumes I, II, III,–IV
A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri

Norsk, nordmenn og Norge series
Kathleen Stokker, Odd Haddal, and Louis Janus

Norwegian-English Dictionary
A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary of Modern
Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a Historical and Grammatical Introduction
Editor-in-Chief Einar Haugen

The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
The Significant Chapters and Supporting Selections
Translated by Henry Bertram Hill

The Articles of Confederation
An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781
Merrill Jensen

Dance
A Creative Art Experience
Margaret N. H’Doubler

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
John Muir

Blue Collar Aristocrats
Life-Styles at a Working-Class Tavern
E. E. LeMasters

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades
Edited by Everett W. Hesse and Harry F. Williams

Sickness and Health in America
Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers

Daily Living in the Twelfth Century
Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris
Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr.

A Manual of Aquatic Plants
Norman C. Fassett
With Revision Appendix by Eugene C. Ogden


The Rights of Nature
A History of Environmental Ethics
Roderick Frazier Nash

Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth- Century United States
J. Willard Hurst

La Follette’s Autobiography
A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences
Robert M. La Follette

Latin American History
A Teaching Atlas
Cathryn L. Lombardi and John V. Lombardi with K. Lynn Stone

Cultural Map of Wisconsin
A Cartographic Portrait of the State
David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher, Joshua Hane

Farm Boys
Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Collected and edited by Will Fellows

Death in a Prairie House
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
William R. Drennan

Spring Flora of Wisconsin
A Manual of Plants Growing without Cultivation and Flowering Before June 15
Norman Carter Fassett
Revised and Enlarged by Olive S. Thomson

Stagecraft for Nonprofessionals
F. A. Buerki
Revised by Susan J. Christensen

The Wars of the Iroquois
A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
George T. Hunt

The American Evasion of Philosophy
A Genealogy of Pragmatism
Cornel West

The Education of a WASP
Lois Mark Stalvey

The Vegetation of Wisconsin
An Ordination of Plant Communities
John T. Curtis

Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook
Helen Myhre with Mona Vold

Lincoln and the Radicals
T. Harry Williams

Narration in the Fiction Film
David Bordwell

The Prairie Garden
Seventy Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country
J. Robert Smith with Beatrice S. Smith

Wisconsin’s Past and Present
A Historical Atlas
Wisconsin Cartographers’ Guild

A History of the Crusades, Volumes IVI
Series edited by Kenneth M. Setton
Volumes edited by Marshall W. Baldwin, Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard, and Norman P. Zacour

Neither Black Nor White
Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler

So Ole Says to Lena
Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
Compiled and edited by James P. Leary

A History of Fascism, 1914–1945
Stanley G. Payne

The Limits of Racial Domination
Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720
R. Douglas Cope

The Gardener’s Year
Karel Capek,
Illustrated by Josef Capek

In Praise of Black Women, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Ancient African Queens, Heroines of the Slavery Era, Modern African Women
Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart
Translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis, Stephanie K. Turner,
and Val Vinokurov

The Atlantic Slave Trade
A Census
Philip D. Curtin

Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
Huamanga to 1640
Steve J. Stern

Drift and Mastery
Walter Lippmann

Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake
Sven Olof Swartling and Pete Mayer

The World of Mike Royko
Doug Moe

Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams
The Angler’s Guide
Steve Born, Jeff Mayers, Andy Morton, and Bill Sonzogni

De Rerum Natura
The Latin Text of Lucretius
Edited by William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney Smith

Wisconsin My Home
The Story of Thurine Oleson as Told to Her Daughter
Thurine Oleson with Erna Oleson Xan

Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain
Edited by Michael J. Kiskis

Women and Health in America
Historical Readings
Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt

The American Film Industry
Edited by Tino Balio

American Jeremiad
Sacvan Bercovitch

The Craft of Old-Master Drawings
James Watrous

Climates of Hunger
Mankind and the World’s Changing Weather
Reid A. Bryson and Thomas J. Murray

Daily Life in Johnson’s London
Richard B. Schwartz

Mammals of Wisconsin
Hartley H.T. Jackson

Wombs and Alien Spirits
Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Janice Boddy

Breweries of Wisconsin
Jerry Apps

Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest
An Illustrated Guide to Their Identification and Control
Elizabeth J. Czarapata

Sharing the Dance
Contact Improvisation and American Culture
Cynthia J. Novack

Women, the State, and Welfare
Edited by Linda Gordon

Journeys in New Worlds
Early American Women’s Narratives
Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea

A Woman’s Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald
Edited, with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin

Around the Shores of Lake Michigan
A Guide to Historic Sites
Margaret Beattie Bogue

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Edited with an Introduction by James Naremore

The American Conservation Movement
John Muir and His Legacy
Stephen Fox

Oral Tradition as History
Jan Vansina

Companion to A Sand County Almanac
Interpretive and Critical Essays
Edited by J. Baird Callicott

Fascism
Comparison and Definition
Stanley G. Payne

Game Management
Aldo Leopold

 

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