University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Texian Iliad
A Military History of the Texas Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque."In this...
by Dorothy Scarborough
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Wind stirred up a fury among Texas readers when it was first published in 1925.This is the story of Letty, a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her nerves....
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
History of a Working-class Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
San Juan Bautista
Gateway to Spanish Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site...
Las Tejanas
300 Years of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen,...
The Dance of Freedom
Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau...
by Michael Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Survey of Organizational Excellence is revolutionizing the operation of Texas state agencies and other governmental and private organizations. Developed and refined over the last twenty years by a team of researchers led by Michael Lauderdale, the survey is a proven tool for improving the effectiveness...
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836
A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Almost a hundred years after the death of Stephen F. Austin this first full-length biography was published. And for almost a quarter of a century—dividing his time between editing, teaching, textbook writing, and serving in various academic capacities—Eugene C. Barker pursued the study which resulted...
Making Plans
How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that...
Highland Park and River Oaks
The Origins of Garden Suburban Community Planning in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, responsibly,...
Acting Up and Getting Down
Plays by African American Texans
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
One of the few books of its kind, Acting Up and Getting Down brings together seven African American literary voices that all have a connection to the Lone Star state. Covering Texas themes and universal ones, this collection showcases often-overlooked literary talents to bring to life inspiring facets...
Freedom Is Not Enough
The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that, just as the civil rights movement and federal law tore down legalized segregation, progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. Yet few...
Land of the Underground Rain
Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution...
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
Folksongs of the Lower Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance,...