Texas A M University Press: 358 books
War Machines
Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The American military establishment is intimately tied to its technology, although the nature of those ties has varied enormously from service to service. The air force evokes images of pilots operating hightech weapons systems, striking precisely from out of the blue to lay waste to enemy installations....
Bulwark Against the Bay
The People of Corpus Christi and Their Seawall
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
After a devastating hurricane in 1919, the people of Corpus Christi faced the stark reality of their vulnerability. It was clear that something had to be done, but the mere will to take precautionary measures did not necessarily lead the way. Instead, two decades would pass before an effective solution...
Still Turning
A History of Aermotor Windmills
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills...
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
A Deep Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar...
Houston's Hermann Park
A Century of Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston’s Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston’s oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand park celebrates...
Electric City
General Electric in Schenectady
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
For seven decades the General Electric Company maintained its manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Schenectady, New York.
Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady explores the history of General Electric in Schenectady from the company’s creation in 1892 to the present....
by Ben Masters
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
On an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada.
For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the US Bureau...
Horses in the American West
Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’...
Running the River
Secrets of the Sabine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of...
The Atchafalaya River Basin
History and Ecology of an American Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this comprehensive, one-volume reference, Nature Conservancy scientist Bryan P. Piazza poses five key questions:
—What is the Atchafalaya River Basin?
—Why is it important?
—How have its hydrology and natural habitats been managed?
—What is its current state?
—How do we ensure its survival?
For...
Two Armies on the Rio Grande
The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize
The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict.
Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced...
The Ground on Which I Stand
Tamina, a Freedmen's Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, near the rich timber lands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed railroad from Conroe to Houston, the community benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industry...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto...
I Cannot Forget
Imprisoned in Korea, Accused at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the...